The elder's, so called because of there long lifespans and for being the first mortals to inhabit the know world. Elf's and Goblins have since time immemorial lived and ruled the northwest and southeast lands of the mainland. The elf's ruled above the earth and the goblins ruled the deep below. There have never been any love lost between the two people and the few times they had any dealings at all it was immemorial combat or enslavement of one another. It was only when humankind fled the ghouls that any evidence of a kinship was found out. Because when a human has a child whit a goblin or elf that child becomes a orc. And as goblin and elven unions never resulted in any offspring the elder's had assumed that no race could create life whit someone of another race. Orc's had the blood of both mortal humans and elder blood of elf or goblin. The fact that this was a way orc's could come into being, perhaps the only way there race did so, shocked the elf's. Side note: Both elf's and goblins are born whit a lesser magical ability. A ability that can grow in to full mastery. The blood of a Elder is a reagent used to gain magical power.