Drahkin

The Drahkin, a race of demi-humans that has existed for many centuries even before the Humans or Elves, are renowned for their great abilities in battle as well as their variety of unique horns and appearances.

There are two sub-species in the Drahkin, and as such both are constantly at odds and conflicting with one another. The earlier days of their civilization were plagued by violence and uneasy alliances broken by their claws.

While they look quite Human, they have no relation to the species and are born from the blood of ancient Dragons that once ruled the world (or so they believe). Many of them don't hold any trust for the other races, as they believe any interaction would lead to more bloodshed and deaths of their dwindling species.

While the Drahkin are very antisocial, they often trade with small bands of travelers from the Human and Elven races. This is only for their own interest of course, as those two races possess something they do not, strong intellect and willpower. The Drahkin are instead very brute-like with rather low intelligence and no real ideals to follow or keep their race in check with. They are ruled by minor warlords and communicate with a complex language created from the sounds they heard in their earlier days.

With the interaction of others, came the threat of invasion. And the distrust between the other races grew even more with the Great calamity and the birth of the Lumminai. The Drahkin were among the first races to meet the Lumminai, and the first race to communicate with them. Being similar in the idea of not knowing much about the world outside of their own communities, they were able to reach an understanding of the Lumminai rather quickly. "To fight or to die" was what they believed was the code of Lumminai life, similar to their own warlord-esque style of living.

As a result of such beliefs they openly waged war on any Lumminai that entered their region of the world, often resulting in their own deaths with very little success against the Lumminai. To the point of their race being dwindled to the thousands, they dropped the idea that it was what the Lumminai wanted and tried to commune with them again on more peaceful terms.

The Lumminai refused to interact with them at first, later meeting them in battle again until they submitted to the Lumminai's pure force. The Drahkin would then become the forerunners of Lumminai Pacts and be used as hosts to contain the destructive power a Lumminai possessed. This led to them becoming a great force in battle and they used this to their advantage, conquering the lands of the Quarakin and Syrencii in order to bring more life into their dying race. Eventually they would see peace and return to their hidden way of life under minor ruling warlords and small mountain villages.