The Hierarchy

All its members now extinct, enslaved or endangered, the Hierarchy of Forruin was the structured system of races and civilizations in place during the reign of the Nine Kings; however, since the Ruining and the chaos that followed in its wake, the cultures of the Hierarchy have been all but wiped from the planet.

The six races who once comprised the Hierarchy were:
 * The humans, who have since been corrupted into the mutants known as hexborn;


 * The dwarves, now a slave-race subservient to the drow;


 * The elves, sacrificed to their self-appointed demon king, Ignater, father of the tieflings;


 * The halflings, driven from their lands by invading dryads;


 * The orcs, who made the fatal error of hunting yeti, becoming hunted themselves;


 * And gnomes, whose use of terrasaurs as beasts of burden incited the kobolds to holy war.