The Rise of the Nighthumans
In the eves of the Grand Age, a new threat arose within the Ashen Lands - the Nighthumans. A cruel race of hybrid human-horrors, they combined the intelligence of a sentient race with the nightmare-inducing terror of celestial aberrations.
The first sighting within the Dwarven Kingdoms would mark what would eventually become the end of the Grand Age.
In some dark corners of taverns and inns, whispers may speak of the idea that Nighthumans were created, by whom it may be unknown, in an attempt to get revenge on The Dwarves for allowing the Gnomes to pass through their lands unawares. Some believe it was the work of Malice or Dassar, others still believe one it to be work of another deity, unknown in the Ashen Lands.