Paral Tree of Life

The genealogy of the species of Paral differs significantly from that of otherworlds

Sentient species:
 * Mammalian
 * Southern-originated: descended from the races who made their home in the southern forests, full of plentiful resources and predators. Cannot produce viable offspring.
 * Gnomes: remained in the southern forests and islands.
 * Dwarves: deviated when they moved northeast.
 * Gnoll: moved north into the great flat, deviated significantly, gaining camoflage. Many suspect magical interbreeding or numerous lycanthropes in the population.  The race with the second highest population.
 * Northern-originated: descended from races in the colder, more mountainous north, where the land is more protected from dangerous beasts, but less hospitable. Generally, northern-originated races may interbreed.
 * Landbridge migrants (elves): crossed over to Jasper and Elfheim
 * High elves: remained on Jasper and Elfheim: a relatively recent deviation.
 * Wood elves: migrants from the elven islands: a recent deviation:
 * Non-migrants
 * Human: spread south and colonized heavily. The race with the highest population.
 * Drow: found an enormous cave system with large quantities of edible fungus.
 * Orc: Spread west in numerous tribes, which ultimately conglomerated into the Strom Empire.
 * Avian
 * Aarakocra: descended from far-ranging birds. Numerous distinct breeds exist, though most crossbreeding is successful and their capacity for long flight make the population very mixed.
 * Artificial
 * Warforged
 * Ren Warforged: Built primarily by gnomes and humans. Design varies only slightly between models.  They are generally sleek and intentionally reminiscent of muscular elves.  Made of smooth, woodlike, synthetic muscle with a faint golden sheen. They have bones and muscle reinforcements made of mithirl.  The models range from masculine to androgynous.  Despite their appearances, they were designed to be mass-produced and have noticeably less advanced programming than their elven counterparts and are less capable of understanding organic races.
 * Ascalon Warforged: Built by elves. Design and size varies significantly between models.  their chassis' are made of large polyhedral casings of mithril connected by synthetic muscles.  They are hardier and better-programmed than their Ren counterparts, though they are slower and less flexible, and most of the remaining Ascalon warforged sustained damage during the war.  They rperesent the vast majority of all of the mithril ever mined.