Men of the southerly Realm are the most technological and sophisticated of the races. They construct realistic villages and towns, walls, moats, and defences, towering castles and fortresses, dirt and cobblestone roads. They are able to assault the most fortified positions thanks to their ingenious siege weapons such as ballistae that fire gigantic bolts or trebuchets that fling burning rocks several hundred metres. They field well-trained and armoured foot soldiers equipped with pikes, swords and halberds, and longbowmen and arbalestiers that can lose off volley after volley of arrows over great distances. The greatest unit in the human army is probably the Knight. These mounted warriors charge into combat astride specially bred warhorses — their thundering hooves enough to spread terror amongst enemy ranks.

The Wylfings are a feuding band of feral Men (based on medieval “Wild Men” and picts), Eldermen (Neanderthals), and Þorns or Thorns (Giants). This unlikely and tenuous allegiance was forged by necessity to survive the bitter cold of the highlands. Wylfings possess an affinity for nature sharpened through knowledge of the earth and their practice of druidic magic and witchcraft. They field formidable infantrymen who fight with maddening fervor . They are also highly mobile and semi-nomadic — as such they are able to move their settlements quite rapidly and for little cost and able to rapidly settle elsewhere. They move through the world in this manner so as to not over-exploit any resource point but also to befuddle the enemy. The Wylfings are beast tamers of the highest caliber, and being feral and wild themselves, are able to earn the trust of the most temperamental and dangerous of creatures. Their Beastmasters are able to command Daggertooth Cats and Direwolves into combat but even more formidable are the Eldermen who ride astride Horned Behemoths or Giants that sit astride War Mammoths and charge, stomping, and swinging their tusks into the terrified ranks of the enemy.

While the Realm and Wylfings have in-turn skirmished or warred for centuries a new threat has arisen in the East. The Orcs are the third race and are as blood-thirsty as they are savage. They deal in dark magic and worship the beings of the netherworld. Their priestly class are the Warlocks who are able to perform blood rituals and summon mighty demons to fight for them. The Orcs are true children of darkness with an insatiable hunger for the flesh of Man and Giant alike. They raid, plunder and loot for resources, all the while looking to capture some tasty peasants and use them to breed more in their Slave Pens. Any surplus slaves are sent to the butchery like lambs to the slaughter. They fatten and devour their hapless victims much as the Men keep farm animals. The Orcs are also burrowers and builders who corrupt their environment with a toxic miasma. They often attack through dense fog or at night when sight is poor.