There are god like spiritual beings, which have a more humanoid type characteristics, and there are spirits of the land, which are less godlike, but still spiritual and magical beings, or presences. Each region has their own folk stories and traditions of how the world came to be. Each people, an explanation for the power of magic evident to all. The land around Dragon Claw Sea is an area long populated by the ancient High Elves. Considered by many to be the wisest of their race, most of the religious texts have inevitably been at the very least influenced by the beliefs of this race.