Humans

In the reckonings of most worlds, humans are the youngest of the common races, late to arrive on the world scene and short-lived in comparison to dwarves, elves, and dragons. Perhaps it is because of their shorter lives that they strive to achieve as much as they can in the years they are given. Or maybe they feel they have something to prove to the elder races, and that's why they build their mighty empires on the foundation of conquest and trade. Whatever drives them, humans are the innovators, the achievers, and the pioneers of the worlds.
With their penchant for migration and conquest, humans are more physically diverse than other common races. There is no typical human. An individual can stand from 5 feet to a little over 6 feet tall and weigh from 125 to 250 pounds. Human skin shades range from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight males might sport facial hair that is sparse or thick. A lot of humans have a dash of nonhuman blood, revealing hints of elf, orc, or other lineages. Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and rarely live even a single century.
Humans are the most adaptable and ambitious people among the common races. They have widely varying tastes, morals, and customs in the many different lands where they have settled. When they settle, though, they stay: they build cities to last for the ages, and great kingdoms that can persist for long centuries. An individual human might have a relatively short life span, but a human nation or culture preserves traditions with origins far beyond the reach of any single human's memory. They live fully in the present-making them well suited to the adventuring life-but also plan for the future, striving to leave a lasting legacy. Individually and as a group, humans are adaptable opportunists, and they stay alert to changing political and social dynamics.
Where a single elf or dwarf might take on the responsibility of guarding a special location or a powerful secret, humans found sacred orders and institutions for such purposes. While dwarf clans and halfling elders pass on the ancient traditions to each new generation, human temples, governments, libraries, and codes of law fix their traditions in the bedrock of history. Humans dream of immortality, but (except for those few who seek undeath or divine ascension to escape death's clutches) they achieve it by ensuring that they will be remembered when they are gone. Although some humans can be xenophobic, in general their societies are inclusive. Human lands welcome large numbers of nonhumans compared to the proportion of humans who live in nonhuman lands.
Humans who seek adventure are the most daring and ambitious members of a daring and ambitious race. They seek to earn glory in the eyes of their fellows by amassing power, wealth, and fame. More than other people, humans champion causes rather than territories or groups.

On Tethys

The Fifth Age, Current Age Humans descent from one common ancestor - Olympians, ancient humans made by the Titan Elohim, said to be the most powerful of the Titan race. Elohim sought to create great civilizations and his children were to be the those that seed the world. The first humans were strong, fit, and more resilient than any intelligent race of that time. Some compared them to less powerful Demigods. The Olympians created the first nation - Olympia that tried to spread civilization, community, trade and the arts with other races. Legends have it that in time, the great nation would fall due to the constant strife with the Gods and Olympia would be destroyed before the Titan War ended. The race was spread on almost every part of the world in the Second Age, Godswar. Humans of the Godforge Lands would become Dragonblooded (drinking diluted blood from a dragon god) or the commonly referred to as Planetouched, the Aasimar, and Tieflings. In the Old World, the Genasi would form during the War of the Elements and many other offspring. Over millennia, more human subraces would come about while most of humanity would stay the same.

First World

Humans in the First World came from another world and their grand ship crash-landed. In time, they decided to save the dwarves and gnomes from their tyrants, the giants. They would populate the First World, becoming the most numerous race there. Before their world ended, there was another great war, where the humans, once again, led the other races to victory against an empire of monsters, only to be betrayed by them. It is said the leader of the heroes that saved them one last time was a human, who became the Divine King and his mortal son, Luigi de Capodimonte, leads the Alliance of Northern Kingdoms.

Genetic Descendants

• Humans: First Worlder
• Mixed Race: Goliaths
• Mixed Race: Half-Elves
• Mixed Race: Half-Orcs
• Planartouched: Aasimar
• Planartouched: Genasi
• Planartouched: Tiefling