Meant to post last night, but ended up too tired to do anything meaningful.

Just to break with tradition, humans are not the dominant race on the continent. They are still around and common, but are in the minority. They have their own Kingdom, but it is fairly small due to several factors. Biggest factor, is the reason for the dominant race on the continent.

The Orthuria (Orthurian) are the dominant race due to one distinctive factor. They have extremely long lifespans and remain active and healthy for the significant portion of that life. With an average life span of about 1000 years and regularly having upwards of 20 or more children. They are the largest population simply due to them surviving for long periods of times and having massive families on top of that. The only thing that has kept their population from not completely exploding is their frequent wars.

There are several main clans and sub-clans within each held together by the ties of family. Each clan controls a different Kingdom and will regularly fall into war. The split that continues to cause wars traces back to a difference in religious beliefs. They all have a similar core religion, but have taken to vastly different interpretations of their religion that cause an irreparable schism between the clans. The religious differences have become core to each of the clans and Kingdoms making them all very religious centric and family oriented people. Though due to their considerable over-population issues, wars tend to break out over land and supplies just as often as they are religious crusades.

The Orthuria are a shorter than average human and thin stock people usually averaging in at about 5 foot even. They are humanoid overall, but with a noticeable more angular face with pointed ears and bone growths along their face. Most bone growths usually appear as small bumps and knots along the forehead or sides of the head, but as they age these bones continue to grow. An ancient Orthuria can end having something similar to antlers as the bones become increasingly complex. While most other races can't tell the difference, each clan's bones have distinctive differences that any other Orthurian will know just at a glance which clan they come from. On their back they have bone growths that serve no purpose, but certain clans believe these vestigial bones used to be wings a hint to their origin and a very religious distinction for some clans. Other clans it has become point of attractiveness and has turned into a cultural focus in their societies.

Due to their frequent wars and internal fighting between clans, they don't have as much of a vested interested in other races or affairs. They will hire mercenaries at times for their wars making them very popular for those looking for glory or coin. Many of the surrounding Kingdoms and races fear them ever settling their differences as they would become the single most powerful standing military force on the continent containing the most war hardened warriors anyone's ever faced. Much politically has gone in behind the scenes by other Kingdoms to try to maintain the consistent warring among the clans.

In short terms, they're an extremely passionate bird/angel elf-like race with fanatical religious zealots.

The Curoths are the humans of the continent. They are not native to the region in with the Orthurians live or 3674 appeared in. In historical terms, they are like the Mongols or Goths. They were a large band of barbarians from the northlands that came through pillaging and burning whatever they didn't steal or kill. The raids they made hit the impossible to crack wall of the Orthurian Kingdoms. The extremely well trained and war experienced military easily repelled the barbarian hordes as they tried to raid their frontier villages.

Unable to advance further and losing a significant portion of their band of men, they halted their path of destruction and founded the Kingdom of Curo, after their God of War. As most of the Curoths were male, female warriors were present just not in great numbers, many of their early families were multi-racial, though not necessary willingly. As a result of their cross species marriages, they could never return to the northlands of their people and have become something slightly different.

In present times, the Kingdom of Curoth is a very open and welcoming nation to all races. Most of their uncivilized ways have chipped away from centuries of establishments. They boast a strong, but small military that tends to act as mercenaries in other wars to support their economy. The land settled by Curoth was undesirable by the other Kingdoms for being extremely mountainous with swamps covering everything else.

Former Kingdom of Byrox, small and more like a city-state, the people of Byrox were mostly a rat-like race known as the Floci. However, the reason for it being former is because the city of 3674 wiped them out when appeared in the world. The location or fate of Byrox is unknown and one of the mysteries the Floci survivors want to uncover.

Here are a few of the races. Hyz has a couple as well. I'll continue to expand on things if there is nothing else people would like to add.