Cultures of Mikdash

By the year 1000 of the Peace of Sepparation, twelve major cultural groups held sway over the world. Broadly these were the descendant cultures of the historic Melothian Empire: the chaotic dark elves that had ruled the world pre-Cataclysm, the dwarfs, their chief rivals during the Cataclysm, and then the upstart civilizations that had grown up in the vacuum left by the sudden absence of these antithetical cultures.