¶ Humans
Prejudices: there are too many humans to group them all by a single trait. Some peoples consider humans cruel and treacherous. Others see them as resourceful and enterprising.
This race most commonly worships: Magnus, Terra, and Kreza
Languages: Common (understanding and speaking)
Humans are the most widespread race of all despite their relatively short lifespan. For centuries, they developed evenly in every field. Through diplomacy, humanity traded and cooperated with other races such as the dwarves. This approach allowed humans to settle across the entire world, while the advent of heavy cavalry and dwarven crossbows compensated for their shortage of mages.
¶ Ratlings
Prejudices: Most races consider Ratlings to be filthy thieves and scavengers, unworthy of trust. Some merchants and smugglers, however, value them for their cunning and useful connections in dark alleys.
Members of this race most often worship: Zaigo and Morbius
Languages: Common, Goblin (spoken and understood)
Ratlings are a race accustomed to surviving where no one else can: in sewers, slums, and the back alleys of large cities. They rarely hold high positions, but feel right at home in the shadows — as thieves, scouts, and information brokers. Their large numbers and resilience make up for the contempt shown by the island's other peoples.
¶ Advantages
- +25% chance of successful theft.
- Silent walking.
- Resistance to poisoning from raw nutrients and gastrotoxins from rotten food.
- Can see foul-smelling creatures through walls.
- Can see 4 tiles further in the dark.
¶ Disadvantages
- -5% to base health.
- Enter a critical state earlier.
- Take 20% more fire damage.
- No mask slot.
- Become dirty very quickly (permanent stench).
¶ Reptilian
Prejudices: humans consider reptilian an inferior race, while orcs see them as weaklings unable to defend themselves. Other races regard reptilian neutrally.
This race most commonly worships: Terra
Languages: Common, Hissing (understanding and speaking)
Reptilian are the second most populous race. Because of deep disunity and technological backwardness, they were often enslaved in the past. Reptilian can still be found serving as domestic help or cheap labor. Nevertheless, they have become numerous enough to defend themselves.
¶ Wood Elves
Prejudices: every race considers Wood Elves highly talented but prideful archers and healers.
This race most commonly worships: Soma and Magnus
Languages: Common, Elven (understanding and speaking)
Wood Elves are the island's fourth most populous race. Their long lifespan made them conservative. Their technology developed very slowly, causing them to yield their leading positions in the economy and other fields to humans and dwarves. Nevertheless, Wood Elves remain an intelligent and judicious people.
¶ Dark Elves
Prejudices: Wood Elves consider them a degraded version of themselves. Every race except the Wood Elves considers Dark Elves talented mages and assassins.
This race most commonly worships: Zaigo and Magnus
Languages: Common, Elven (understanding and speaking), Ancient (understanding)
A race that split from the Wood Elves long ago. Unlike their predecessors, Dark Elves strive for progress. Wishing to serve Morbius, many members of this race achieved mastery in the study of magic. They once fought the Wood Elves constantly, but time has cooled their fervor.
¶ Orcs
Prejudices: every race considers orcs foolish but also strong and honorable warriors, since they lack the wit to resort to tricks.
This race most commonly worships: Valtor and Nexar
Languages: Common, Orcish (understanding and speaking), Tribal (understanding)
A race that perfectly embodies the saying, "If you have brawn, you don't need brains." They are the least intelligent and physically strongest race, and therefore the least developed. Despite this, their warlike nature and stubbornness spared them from persecution, though they were often exploited as cheap labor for heavy work.
¶ Dwarves
Prejudices: elves consider them noisy and irritable. Every race regards dwarves as the greatest masters of crafts and mining. Most humans are friendly toward dwarves.
This race most commonly worships: Pyrx and Nexar
Languages: Common (understanding and speaking)
The third most populous race. Their short stature made them the subject of mockery by elves. Dwarves, however, turned this disadvantage into an advantage by becoming professional miners, smiths, and artisans. Their race became the most advanced in metalworking. For centuries, dwarves cooperated with humans, exchanging high-quality, advanced goods for food, livestock, and cloth.
¶ Munwulfs
Prejudices: every race considers Munwulfs little more than animals.
This race most commonly worships: Terra
Languages: Common, Growling (understanding and speaking)
The Hellfire Inquisition once tried to wipe this race from the face of the earth. Although the island's inhabitants recognized the race as worthy of existence, persecution continues, if less fiercely than before. The Munwulf population is falling rapidly. Encountering a member of this race on the island is a great rarity.
¶ Pros
- Can eat raw meat.
- +10% mana reserve and mana regeneration.
- Suffocate 30% more slowly and also recover from suffocation 30% faster.
- See 2 tiles farther in the dark.
- Can howl to gain a temporary speed increase at the cost of fatigue.
- Increased chance of a successful theft.
- Withstand 20% more damage before falling into critical condition.
¶ Cons
- Sleep need increased by 30%.
- Hygiene need increased by 35%.
- -5% of the standard health level.
- Take 20% more fire damage.
- Carnivorous.
¶ Skeletons
Prejudices: poorly educated islanders consider skeletons embodiments of evil and servants of Morbius.
This race most commonly worships: Morbius and Nexar
Languages: Common, Cursed (understanding and speaking)
Cursed beings that are not a race in the conventional sense of the word. After death, they managed not only to rise again but also to retain their free will. They can live for centuries, but lose their sanity over time. Eventually, their minds submit to Morbius.
¶ Pros
- Heal from milk.
- Immune to cold, poison, suffocation, cellular, blood-loss, and electrical damage.
- +11% of the standard health reserve.
- Have no need for food, water, or sleep.
- After death, can think and speak while controlling only their head.
¶ Cons
- Have no critical-condition phase (die immediately).
- Take 10% more mechanical and fire damage.
- Cannot smell stench.
- Cannot be resurrected with a resurrection stone.
¶ Nocturnes
Prejudices: every race considers Nocturnes treacherous bloodsuckers. In many cultures, Nocturnes are mythical creatures that punish disobedient children.
This race most commonly worships: Zaigo and Valtor
Languages: Common, Ancient (understanding and speaking)
Long ago, this race carried out a bloody harvest across the entire continent, killing everyone in its path for blood and in an attempt to attain immortality. This brought them into battle with the Hellfire Inquisition in a centuries-long war. After heavy losses on both sides, peace was concluded, and the frenzy that had swept the continent subsided. The Nocturne population fell significantly, and they are now encountered quite rarely.
¶ Pros
- Restore health by consuming blood.
- Have no need for food or water.
- Can change their appearance.
- Increase regeneration and blood consumption depending on damage and blood reserves.
- Sleep need reduced by 35%.
- Take 30% less poison damage.
- See 3.5 tiles farther in the dark.
¶ Cons
- -5% of the standard health level.
- -5% mana reserve.
- -3% mana regeneration.
- Withstand 5% less damage before falling into critical condition.
- Drinking humanoid blood makes their eyes permanently red (until the end of the round).
- Take curse damage if they go too long without drinking blood.
¶ Inferns
Prejudices: every race except Resonats considers Inferns kin to demons.
This race most commonly worships: Pyrx and Kreza
Languages: Common, Ancient (understanding and speaking)
This race was once considered a race of monsters because of its appearance and deeds, and was consequently persecuted by the Hellfire Inquisition. When war began, the Inferns used fire to win their right to exist.
¶ Pros
- 20% resistance to burn damage.
- +7% mana reserve.
- +7% mana regeneration.
- Can carry crates with the help of their tail.
¶ Cons
- Sleep need increased by 28%.
- 10% more vulnerable to mechanical damage.
- Take damage from Ethanol if there are more than 6 ounces in their blood.
- Vulnerable to low temperatures.
¶ Beastfolk
Prejudices: every race considers Beastfolk either half-breeds or the ancestors of races such as humans and Munwulfs.
This race most commonly worships:Terra, Zaigo
Languages: Common (understanding and speaking)
A race that differs little from humans but is not considered human, much like the Munwulfs, with whom they share certain similarities. Some say Beastfolk arose from a union between a human and a Munwulf; others claim that humans and Munwulfs descended from Beastfolk.
¶ Lamians
Prejudices: in many cultures, Lamians are commonly called fishfolk, which is considered an insult. Merchants generally welcome Lamians warmly.
This race most commonly worships: Kreza and Zaigo
Languages: Common, Hissing (understanding and speaking)
Lamians are very distant relatives of reptilian. They lived in the ocean depths for many years, but came ashore to trade with advanced civilizations. Over time, through trade with maritime merchants, the cleverest and most enterprising Lamians made their way onto land.
¶ Resonats
Prejudices: every race except Dark Elves considers Resonats powerful mages. Some believe Resonats suck out brains and rule the entire world from the shadows.
This race most commonly worships: Magnus and Morbius
Languages: Common (understanding)
Resonats arrived from beyond the northern seas. Unlike Munwulfs, they avoided persecution by using their abilities and remaining hidden. Resonats avoid direct contact with one another. For unknown reasons, very many of them hold leadership positions in various guilds, factions, communities, and colleges.
¶ Pros
- +40% resistance to suffocation.
- +10% mana reserve and regeneration.
- Ability to transmit thoughts telepathically to either one humanoid or a crowd.
- Ability to control the speech of other beings.
- Ability to create a flash that blinds nearby beings.
- Ability to communicate telepathically with members of their species over any distance.
¶ Cons
- Hygiene need increased by 15%.
- +10% blunt damage taken.
- -10% of the standard health level.
- No speech organs.
- Limited reserve of Psi energy required to use abilities.