Twelve peoples.
A thousand rivalries.

People & culture

Outsiders to both parent cultures, they find refuge among some woodland orders, religious communities, and Amazons. Later stories describe independent communities and the Briar King; older accounts emphasize isolation.

Recognize the race

Pale golden skin, prominent pointed ears, varied hair, and a build between Human and Elf. Tattoos may cover a shaved scalp as well as the body.

Character choices

Creation cost: 5 · Base: Fighter · Healer · Mage · Rogue

Classes: Assassin · Barbarian · Bard · Channeler · Crusader · Doomsayer · Druid · Fury · Huntress · Necromancer · Nightstalker · Prelate · Priest · Ranger · Scout · Sentinel · Thief · Warlock · Warrior

Racial disciplines: None listed on the race page.

Gender restriction: No restriction listed

Starting attributes

Traits & abilities

• Granted: Wildkin's Chase

Wildkin’s Chase clears snares and grants 60 seconds of snare immunity; 180-second reuse.

People & culture

Aeries favor towers, landing platforms, and gate-less compounds. Imperial duty and coordinated warfare dominate traditional society, while younger exiles reject the Law and live among other peoples.

Recognize the race

Beak and large raptor eyes; feathered shoulders, chest, limbs, and wings. Plumage includes brown, scarlet, and black. Preserve two arms as well as the wing pair.

Character choices

Creation cost: 15 · Base: Fighter · Healer · Rogue

Classes: Assassin · Barbarian · Bard · Huntress · Priest · Ranger · Scout · Thief · Warlock · Warrior

Racial disciplines: Savant · Skydancer

Gender restriction: No restriction listed

Starting attributes

Traits & abilities

• Natural Flight
• Mental Resistance: +15%
• Lightning Resistance: -15%
• Limited Racial Helmets Only

Natural flight; Savant and Skydancer are listed racial disciplines.

People & culture

Cohorts bind warriors to a leader through oaths. Racing, martial contests, storytelling, and priestly counsel are central traditions. Their longstanding conflict with Elves remains part of the setting.

Recognize the race

Four equine legs and a human torso; bay, dapple, and black coats. Groomed hair and tailored barding suit their culture; ordinary human boots and trousers do not.

Character choices

Creation cost: 10 · Base: Fighter · Healer

Classes: Barbarian · Crusader · Druid · Huntress · Prelate · Priest · Ranger · Sentinel · Warrior

Racial disciplines: None listed on the race page.

Gender restriction: No restriction listed

Starting attributes

Traits & abilities

• Advanced Natural Movement Speed
• Unholy Resistance -15%
• Granted Skill: Spear
• Spear Skill +10
• Cannot Wear Boots
• May Only Equip Centaur Greaves

Spear is granted with a +10 bonus. Boots are unavailable, and leg armor must fit Centaurs.

People & culture

Dwarfholds choose Thanes by merit and debate in a Hall of Voices. Forgecraft, mining, masonry, symmetry, and song link their communities. Their lore treats all Dwarves as members of one ancient brotherhood.

Recognize the race

Short, extremely broad, bearded forms made from shale, granite, or marble. Stone fissures are worn like scars; eyes have a gemstone quality.

Character choices

Creation cost: 15 · Base: Fighter · Healer

Classes: Crusader · Prelate · Priest · Sentinel · Warrior

Racial disciplines: Clanwarden · Forge Master · Giant Killer

Gender restriction: Male

Starting attributes

Traits & abilities

• Piercing Resistance: +10%
• Slashing Resistance: +10%
• Lightning Resistance: +15%
• Crushing Resistance: -10%
• Magic Resistance: -15%
• Unholy Resistance: -15%
• Granted Skill: Axe
• Granted Skill: Toughness
• Axe & Hammer Skill: +10

Axe and Toughness are granted; Axe and Hammer receive +10. Clanwarden, Forge Master, and Giant Killer are racial disciplines.

People & culture

Art, music, magic, and imperial pride coexist with exile and resentment. Accounts of the Deathless Empire explain their conflicts with Humans, Centaurs, and the creatures once held in bondage.

Recognize the race

Long pointed ears, large eyes, delicate hands, and a slight frame. Dar Khelegur are very pale, Gwaridorn green-tinged, and Twathedilion brown-toned.

Character choices

Creation cost: 15 · Base: Fighter · Healer · Mage · Rogue

Classes: Assassin · Bard · Channeler · Crusader · Doomsayer · Druid · Fury · Huntress · Necromancer · Prelate · Priest · Ranger · Scout · Sentinel · Thief · Warrior · Wizard

Racial disciplines: Archmage · Blade Weaver

Gender restriction: No restriction listed

Starting attributes

Traits & abilities

• Heal Receptivity: +15%
• Holy Resistance: +15%
• Magic Resistance: +15%
• Poison Resistance: -15%
• Granted Skill: Sword
• Sword Skill: +10

Optional Scion runes cost 10: Dar Khelegur adds INT +5/max +10 and mana recovery +10%; Gwaridorn adds CON +5/max +10 and health recovery +10%; Twathedilion adds DEX +5/max +10 and stamina recovery +10%. Only one subrace rune.

People & culture

They generally adopt their human community’s customs rather than one shared Half Giant culture. Northern clans often prize their strength; stories include champions, ambitious warlords, and loyal companions.

Recognize the race

Nearly nine feet tall in the People account, heavily muscled, with broad brows and strong jaws. Skin and hair vary with human ancestry.

Character choices

Creation cost: 10 · Base: Fighter

Classes: Barbarian · Crusader · Huntress · Ranger · Sentinel · Templar · Warrior

Racial disciplines: None listed on the race page.

Gender restriction: No restriction listed

Starting attributes

Traits & abilities

• Cold Resistance: +15%
• Fire Resistance: -15%
• Granted Skill: Athletics
• Granted Skill: Toughness
• Axe & Hammer Skill: +10
• Great Axe Skill:+10
• Great Sword Skill: +10
• Great Hammer Skill: +10

Violent Rage grants 60 seconds of stun and powerblock immunity, with a 600-second reuse.

People & culture

The People article names Ethyreans, Invorr, Irydnu, Horwathi, Gwendannen, and Taripontor, plus the legendary lost Anomani. These are cultural histories, not seven additional playable races.

Recognize the race

Use varied complexions, hair, builds, and regional clothing. Northern, southern, steppe, woodland, royal, and maritime traditions give different starting points for equipment and heraldry.

Character choices

Creation cost: 0 · Base: Fighter · Healer · Mage · Rogue

Classes: Assassin · Barbarian · Bard · Channeler · Confessor · Crusader · Doomsayer · Druid · Fury · Huntress · Necromancer · Nightstalker · Prelate · Priest · Ranger · Scout · Sentinel · Templar · Thief · Warlock · Warrior · Wizard

Racial disciplines: None listed on the race page.

Gender restriction: No restriction listed

Starting attributes

Traits & abilities

• Granted: 1 bonus Training point per level up to level 59
• Granted: +20 bonus Ability points after creation

Extra training point each level through 59; +20 post-creation ability points. Optional 10-point bloodlines add +5/max +10 to one stat: Ethyri SPR, Gwendannen CON, Invorri STR, Irydnu INT, Taripontor DEX, with a corresponding recovery bonus.

People & culture

Virakt tribes join allied families through strict loyalty and etiquette. Their traditions include knife fighting, poetry, storytelling, and ritual conflict. Sandstone buildings, awnings, and ancient desert ruins inform their settlements.

Recognize the race

Taut muscles, angular features, pointed ears, and skin ranging from blood red through crimson to black. Hair may be white, gold, or dark. Battle scars are accepted; deliberate tattoos are rejected in the People account.

Character choices

Creation cost: 15 · Base: Fighter · Healer · Mage · Rogue

Classes: Assassin · Bard · Channeler · Fury · Huntress · Nightstalker · Priest · Ranger · Scout · Thief · Warrior · Wizard

Racial disciplines: Blood Prophet · Sun Dancer

Gender restriction: No restriction listed

Starting attributes

Traits & abilities

• Fire Resistance: +15%
• Cold Resistance: -15%
• Granted Unarmed Combat Skill
• Dagger & Unarmed Combat Skill: +10

Optional Blood of the Dragon costs 8: +10 fire resistance and +5% movement speed.

People & culture

Clans and tribes follow leaders whose strength they respect. The Ways account emphasizes that followers may leave: allegiance is framed as a choice, in opposition to their history of magical enslavement.

Recognize the race

Massive upper body, a true bovine head, large horns, furred bovine legs, cloven hooves, and a short tail. Northern climate and heavy weapons reinforce the silhouette.

Character choices

Creation cost: 15 · Base: Fighter · Healer

Classes: Barbarian · Doomsayer · Warrior

Racial disciplines: Blood Horn · Thrall

Gender restriction: Male

Starting attributes

Traits & abilities

• Immunity to Stuns
• Physical Resistances: +5%
• Cold Resistance: +15%
• Mental Resistance: -15%
• Poison Resistance: -15%
• Granted Toughness Skill
• Pole Arm Skill: +10
• Movement Speed: +10%
• Cannot Equip Boots
• Cannot Equip Helmets

Passive stun immunity, Toughness, +10 Pole Arm, and +10% movement. No normal boots or helmets; Bull’s Crown is separately listed as racial equipment.

People & culture

The Ways account connects their emergence to Maelstrom and the Rise of Chaos. Devotion to the Dark Lords, deception, and cult leadership recur, while their ultimate origins remain disputed.

Recognize the race

Graceful humanlike proportions, serpentlike scales on portions of the body, horns rising from the brow, and membranous wings from the shoulders. Keep the face recognizably humanoid.

Character choices

Creation cost: 15 · Base: Fighter · Healer · Mage · Rogue

Classes: Assassin · Barbarian · Bard · Channeler · Doomsayer · Fury · Scout · Thief · Warlock · Warrior · Wizard

Racial disciplines: None listed on the race page.

Gender restriction: No restriction listed

Starting attributes

Traits & abilities

• Natural Flight
• Granted: Mundane Eidolon
• Granted: Aspect Revelation
• 150% Health Regeneration
• Fire Resistance: +15%
• Lightning Resistance: +15%
• Magic Resistance: -15%
• Holy Resistance: -15%
• Limited Racial Helmets Only

Mundane Eidolon: rank 40, 60 mana, 5-second cast, 300-second reuse; human illusion, grounded and track-immune for 180 seconds. Aspect Revelation: rank 40, 200 health, 5-second cast, removes Transform. Taint of Chaos costs 10 for +20% health/stamina/mana recovery.

People & culture

Most retain human customs despite persecution. Some use their unsettling reputation in covert professions; stories of older Shadow Lords connect them to forgotten memories and the darkness beyond ordinary life.

Recognize the race

Hairless head and body, cold corpse-grey skin, sunken features, and black pupil-less eyes. Keep their living humanlike form separate from a skeleton or a Vampire.

Character choices

Creation cost: 10 · Base: Fighter · Mage · Rogue

Classes: Assassin · Channeler · Necromancer · Ranger · Scout · Thief · Warlock · Warrior · Wizard

Racial disciplines: Shroudborne

Gender restriction: No restriction listed

Starting attributes

Traits & abilities

• Granted: Hide
• Immune to Blind
• Immune to Deathshroud
• Afflicts slain players with enhanced Deathshroud
• Can See Invisible (power rank 15 and below)
• Poison Resistance: +15%
• Unholy Resistance: +15%
• Holy Resistance: -15%

Hide is granted at level 2. The race page lists blind and Deathshroud immunity, enhanced Deathshroud on slain players, and detection of invisibility at rank 15 or below.

People & culture

Their histories connect them to the Void and the first necromantic heretics. Shroud cults, undead hosts, and ambitions of Oblivion distinguish their allegiance from the Nephilim’s Chaos worship.

Recognize the race

Pale sculptural flesh, glowing red eyes, pointed batlike ears, and an imposing humanoid form. Both male and female presentations appear in the reference models.

Character choices

Creation cost: 25 · Base: Fighter · Rogue · Mage

Classes: Assassin · Necromancer · Scout · Thief · Warlock · Warrior · Wizard

Racial disciplines: Belgosch · Drannok · Gorgoi · Strigoi

Gender restriction: No restriction listed

Starting attributes

Traits & abilities

• Granted: Dark Fortitude
• Granted: The Lesser Kiss
• Granted: Vampire's Kiss
• All powers cost Health
• Bloodcraft Skill: +10
• Healing Resistance: +20%
• Bleed Resistance: +20%
• Cold Resistance: +20%
• Unholy Resistance: +20%
• Holy Resistance: -20%
• Fire Resistance: -20%
• Health Regeneration: -35%

Powers consume health. Dark Fortitude limits large physical hits; Lesser Kiss drains monsters, while Vampire’s Kiss targets players. Belgosch, Drannok, Gorgoi, and Strigoi are listed racial disciplines.