Races of the Ring Realms


Elder Race Overview

Common Fantasy Races
General Race Notes Humans in the Realms Elves in the Realms Dwarves in the Realms Other Realms Beings
Ring Realms Unique Races
Elder Race Overview First ones & Descendants The Race of Jyril The Race of Kriar The Race of Eternals
The Race of Numanorians The Pantheon Lords The Race of Savants Abyssal/Planes/Elementals The Cyber Race

Elder Race Overview

The elder races are the oldest and most powerful cultures in the Ring Realms. Some of them have faded into antiquity and have only left a legacy behind. Isolated members of others still exist scattered throughout the cosmos. Many of these creatures were extremely long- lived, measuring their lives in centuries, millennia, and eons.
Some of these cultures, like the Kriar and the Lell, still interact with humanity on a fairly regular basis. Others, like the Tandleau, prefer to remain anonymous and hidden from view. Some of these cultures, like the Jyril, Eternals, and Guardians act as sentinels, safeguarding time, space, and "lesser" races.


Elder Races Grouped By Age
Pre-Eternity Newbirth Eternity Cosmic Super Ancient Ancient Pan-galactic Galactic Pre-Human
Jyril First Ones
{Cura}
Belathi
(First Ones)
Eternals Sidri Dralatha (Lokori) Eddorians Baronians
  Kriar Lokori
(First Ones)
Time Guardians Tandleau [Elysians] Metath (Belathi) Hyssta [Trackazoids] Lell
      Savants   Tharr (Belathi) Numinorians Pantheon lords [gods]
          Toroth (Lokori)   Silcanna [silver elves]
              Territaani
Color
Legend
Names in '(' ')' after a race name indicate the hereditary progenitor from which that race branched off.
Names in '[' ']' after a race indicate a common reference name for that race.
 
These races did not originate within the scope of Eternity's time/space bubble.
 
*Cura is the only known self-reference. "First-ones" is only a convenient name for a race who vanished from the universe long before even the advent of history in many cultures.
 
These are decendant races with a common projenetor.
 
Derivative race that has no decendents. The Eternals and Guardians are essentially synthetic, and there are a very limited number of them. Both races can breed but for many and various reasons do not.
 
The race of savants is persistent but not contiguous. The savants qualify as a race because they have a definite trackable heredity that decends through time, but is manifest within other host races.
Race/Era
Descriptions
 
Pre-Eternity
Pre-Eternity races are races that are unknowably old, whose existence predates the creation of universe of the Realms. The Jyril are in this category alone. It is possible that the Jyril are actually of the same approximate age as the Kriar. However, they are categorized as elder to the Kriar because of their obvious superiority in both technology and the development of magic.
Newbirth Eternity
Newbirth Eternity is a category for races that came into being slightly before, during or slightly after the birth of Eternity. Note when we say "slight", we are speaking in cosmological terms (thousands of millennia or more).
Cosmic
Cosmically old means cultures that have spanned the lifetimes of stars. The Belathi and the Lokori are alone in this category. They are the first inbreeding between the first ones and evolved life in Eternity. These cultures were wild, unrestrained, and brutal. The Kriar who came to Eternity were nearly overwhelmed by these ferocious ancients.
Super Ancient
Super ancient refers to creatures which developed in concert with the growth of eternity. The savants are also in this category as they are genetically derived aberrations of first one heredity. By this point in time, no living first ones exist. Their legacy can only be found in their direct decendants the Belathi and Lokori, who are by this point also on the decline.
Ancient
Ancient cultures which only include the Sidri and the Tandleau are the first super-evolved races of Eternity that do not stem from a root in the first ones or Eternity itself. The Sidri are a technical culture that fades into obscurity prior to the major conflicts with the Kriar. The Tandleau are a pan-magical culture cultivated by the time- guardians that retain a special relationship with the Protectorate.
Pan-galactic
The pan-galactic category includes cultures who are all derivitive of the decendants of the first ones. The Belathi and Lokori no longer exist in pure forms, the powerful blood of the first ones has been diluted by hereditary strains that evolved on new growth worlds. These creatures still walk the stars at will, and enjoy god-like levels of physical and mental power.
Galactic
Galactic civilizations enjoy a level of technology and cultural development millions of years old. These civilizations span thousands if not millions of worlds.
Pre-Human
Pre-human civilizations are ancient cultures with develpment measured in hundreds of thousands of years. Note that the pantheon lords exist in this category, these creatures are actually derivative dilutions of the Dreel, Metath, Tharr, and Toroth hereditary strains. Think of these super-ancient clans as the first "pantheons". It is not until the proliferation of life that these creatures re-emerge to breed, feed off of, and awe the newly developing cultures that are the progenitors of the Ring Realms.