Fantasy Book: Race's Part 1

Dwarves: Dwarves are a proud and stern race and were made to be sturdy to resist the dangers of the world. They were physically much stronger than humans, elves, and many other races and had great endurance, especially in the ability to resist great heat and cold, and they made light of heavy burdens. Dwarves lived up to three hundred years old and had the ability to learn new skills quickly, making them the second longest living race.

Dwarves usually used axes as their weapon of choice because it can be used as a tool or a weapon, but in addition to axes they also used hatchets, mattocks, short swords, war hammers and short bows and arrows. Sometimes the dwarves threw their axes and hammers at the enemy. At the ends of battles dwarves often collected old axes because they didn't have the heart to leave them behind. They have one vast empire and have an impressive military force.

Elves: Elves are very similar to Men. Unlike Men, however, there are several different races of them. The most common being the Darin, who appear almost exactly like man with the exception of being shorter and having the recognisable pointy ears.

Elves are (generally) unusually handsome of face and body, and they have better vision and hearing than Men. They also have skills and abilities, and perception of things the same that of Men. Elves (Depending on race) are usually great tradesmen and warriors but they are famous for their assassins and archers.

Orc’s: While many find Orc’s to be a backward race or primitive, they are one of the best warriors in all of Ardelan and the most feared in battle. Orc’s stand at 7 feet tall and are extremely well built, and are stronger than the dwarves. They only live in a small and mountainous (Currently unnamed empire) north west of the human and dwarves empires, seeing no need to expand. Orc’s only live up to fifty and are the shortest lived races, but are the only race other than the Ryborians to have regeneration ability.

Ryborians: Although being depicted as gods in ancient times, the Ryborians are the most magically gifted race and the longest living with a life span of four thousand. The Ryborians escaped the destruction of their homeland Windaria forty thousand years ago and sailed thousands of miles to start again while Windaria recovers. While being extremely powerful natural mages and warriors, their numbers are always short due to them having a genetic disorder that only allows them to have only one child every ten to twenty years, which also made their retina black while their Isis remains normal. Because of this, wars are devastating to them and try to avoid them if possible.

The Ryborians almost went extinct three hundred years before the events of the book in an event known to them as “The Black War” (Being named due to the colour of their retinas). While having much better combat training and equipment, only several hundred remain instead of the previous fifty thousand. This however caused an enormous price at the cost of having humanity’s numbers being reduced dramatically.

The most famous event from the war was its last day, where a lone Ryborians assassin slaughtered the entire royal family and the war’s starter in revenge for the cold and mindless slaughter of his people. Once done, he simply walked out in the full view of the human army. The army only watched, as if recognizing his rite of passage....or out of fear.

(Expect more soon....)