Human

Humans are the oldest of all the sentient races and the progenitor of all the other ones. They evolved around 2 million years earlier from apes on the African continent from where they spread all across the planet. It didn't take long for them to become the dominant species on earth and create gradually more powerful and useful tools. First they created their own tools. Then their own lairs, a.k.a. houses. Then they went further and created essentially their own biomes in the form of cities. Their inventions continued to increase in effectiveness and power, but around the Day of Fate it reached the point where they became humanitys downfall. A group of scientists in what was the US had made a connection with the elemental plane of magic, a parallell dimension with its own forces and laws of nature. It didn't take long for them to harness the magic as an immensely powerful energy source, and for about a year the world prospered like never before. But eventually someone in the US military had managed to weaponize the magic in the form of nuclear bombs, and since large quantities of raw magic has similar properties to radiation it was incredibly lethal. The first batch of missiles were launched on July 13th the year 2054 of the old calendar or the year 0 in the new one. The affected regions answered in kind and World War 4 had begun. But it did not last long. The magic radiation spread quickly from the several bomb sites and soon the earth was covered in radioactive magic. Humanity had no choice but to evacuate into underground cave systems, where they have remained since. The surface was lost, and humanity was entirely to blame.

Nowadays there are less than 2 million people left alive, about 600.000 of them humans. This makes humans the most numerous race despite being almost 3900 times lesser in number compared to before the Day of Fate. Over the millennia humanity has changed a lot. The base human is generally shorter, stouter and paler compared to before they moved underground due to less sunlight and different diets. But due to irradiated genes and therefore mutations humanity as a whole has diverged wildly. They live among their own descendants. Other races born from humans include elves, gnomes, dwarves, tieflings, orcs, dragonborn, halflings and many others, along with half-human hybrids of several above races. But as mentioned humans are still the most numerous race, and one of the most creative and organized. For better or for worse.

Genetic Descendants

• Tiefling