Category:Ninefolk

Arvoria is home to the nine mortal races born at the Sundering and descended from the First Folk. These nine races each contain many subcultures and range from isolated settlements to world-spanning empires. Some compete, some trade, others share, and some fight. These relationships vary from region to region and year to year. No society is a monolith, but this summary presents a general view that holds mostly true across Arvoria. Although members of each race might disagree with the pictures these broad strokes paint, it is largely accurate to how the nine races are viewed in the world.

Humans
Humans often act as the default in many fantastic settings. In Arvoria they are the most prodigious and farthest ranging, but equally as strange and exotic as any other race, with the same origins in the Sundering. They appear much like Humans in the Real World, with as much variance from place to place. Humans also carry a certain stigma, as their race is blamed for bringing about the Sundering.

Elves
Taller, leaner, and more angular than humans, elves are a long-lived and long-eared race who enjoy a simple, slow-paced life in harmony with their natural abodes. Elves place great importance on family and heritage, with the highest ranking elven nobles able to trace their lines back to the time of the Sundering.

Hybrids
Hybridization is exceedingly rare, and equally likely between any combination of races. This is not to say that pairings between races are all that uncommon, but that children are far more likely to appear as one parent's race or the other's, than as a mix of both.