Sky people:
Eventually humans discover a planet that was suitable for human life. A colony ship of people loaded on board and it headed towards the new planet, with an estimated arrival date set for thousands of years in the future. The people who boarded the ships were driven by curiosity, scientific discovery, and exploration. Many referred to them as "people of the sky" because their heads were in the clouds and they reached for the stars.
Space travel was not the only human technological advancement. Over time, mankind developed methods for altering the genome. Genetic Engineering ultimately leads to the inevitable idea of making enhanced life forms-- or E.L.F.s.
It was determined that for purposes of overpopulation that the ideal Elf race would be much smaller, requiring less resources and producing less waste. They would be less prone to disease and age-- and they would have enhanced mental capacities and physical appearance. They would essentially be the best and most efficient version of a human citizen that could exist.
Over time, many people elected to give birth to Elf children.
Wood Elves:
As these people increased in number, they had a natural tendency to grow plants and forests, raise animals and live off of the land. Eventually they turned portions of the earth into a garden-forest paradise. Because of their natural fascination with plants and animal life, they were often called "wood elves". They stood only 3 feet tall and had lifespans that extended many hundreds of years. All of them were musically inclined and spent much of their days singing, playing instruments, and creating beautiful art. Males and females were equal in size and strength. Among the forest elves, violence was nearly non-existent.
Those who refused to participate in genetic engineering to modify their size were considered to be "giants" to the Elves, who viewed "normal humans" as ugly, violent, greedy and selfish. A group of wood elves also boarded a colony ship and headed towards the new planet.
They developed their own technology, mostly oriented around engineering new beautiful and useful plants and animals. Along with their advances in technology, a second colony ship was made and estimated to arrive at the new planet before the first ship, despite its departing earth hundreds of years after it.
Cave Elves:
Many of the "giants", driven by greed, saw the potential in genetic engineering, and created a race of slaves to fuel their own ambitions. These "Thralls" were designed to be the ultimate laborer, requiring little need for food and rest. The thralls were set to mining, digging, crafting and building. They spent so much time deep in the earth, that they were often referred to as "cave elves". They stood at 3 ft tall, (same height as the forest elves), but were much stronger and driven to hard labor with their hands. On the back of their Thralls, the giants created a powerful empire.
Giants:
Over time, being small was associated with being an inferior slave, and so the giants began to genetically engineer their own children to be larger as a sign of status. Soon, true giants were born that stood over 10 feet tall.
With the thought of conquest and riches, many giants also boarded a ship with their Thralls and departed on a third colony ship towards the new planet.
Moon Elves:
Much of Elven scientific advancement was in the field of medicine. But one discovery started a war. This was the discovery of immortality. Originally designed to stop cancer, the nano-medical intra-cellular organelle had the capacity to repair DNA, preventing cancer but also stopping all effects of aging. The first people who had the nano-technology were called Nanite Assistance Recipients, or "NARians". The technology sapped some of their strength and energy, but granted immortality.
This technology was considered a dangerous abomination by many of the elves-- as an affront to the natural way of life and death. Those elves who embraced Narian immortal life were forbidden from living on the earth any longer. Many of these settled on moon colonies and gained the name "Moon elves". Over time the technology advanced to allow other incredible feats that made the Moon Elves rapidly heal and have magic-like abilities involving the biological storage of electricity and the spontaneous generation of endothermic and exothermic reactions, as well as photon and electro-magnetic wave generators. Over time the Moon Elves were nicknamed as "Munar" and the Giants coveted their immortality. The Moon elves refused to share their technology with the giants because they considered the giants as generally evil slavers.
Dark Elves:
A war broke out between the Moon Elves and the Giants. Some of the Moon elves fled towards the new planet on a fourth colony ship, which due to the advancement of the technology in space travel, was estimated to arrive before the second and third ships. Not all of the Moon elves chose to depart. Some of them elected to stay and fight. These Moon elves weaponized their nano-technology and created a new race of elves. The strain of Nar was called "Narshoth" and it had many various capacities for combat. Ultimately, the remaining elves were forced from the moon and lived on ships in dark space and given the name "Dark Elves". Eventually, even the dark elves fled to the new world to escape the scourge of the ghouls and the war with the giants.
Ghouls:
Their technology ultimately allowed them the regenerate their limbs and rapidly adapt to their surrounding, but the Narshoth strain became too powerful, and ultimately malfunctioned upon the event of the host bodies death. The result was a state of undeath in which the Dark Elf's brain became recreated by the Narshoth strain and the result was often a cannibalistic and sadistic monster. Their bodies adapted too rapidly to dying and they would grow hideous extensions to their body to allow them to stay alive by eating flesh. Snouts, long tongues, claws and sharp teeth would often form allowing the host body to adapt to stay "alive". When the giants would destroy an army of dark elves, they would be afflicted with an infestation of nearly unstoppable army of ghouls in its place. Those infected with the blood of ghouls would sometimes turn into these undead monsters themselves. A ghouls starts out very weak, but whenever it can feast on flesh, it grows more powerful and evolves. If a ghoul is permitted to eat enough flesh, it can evolve into a very powerful monster.
Monsters:
Under the threat of extinction at the hand the Dark elves and ghouls, the giants took massive risks to fight back. They genetically engineered monstrous races of their own. All kinds of races resembling goblins, trolls, ogres and demons were genetically engineered to fight against the Dark elves and obtain their ambrosia of immortality. The giants didn't just create new races for war, they also created new races of slaves for pleasure or entertainment. The Wood elves and many liberated Cave elves joined the fight against the Giants and their monsters.
Mythical beasts:
The Wood elves and Moon elves strove to create beautiful and useful animals that they would raise and allow to live in their beautiful forests-- but also with the attack of the monsters sent by the Giants, they began to genetically engineer mythical beasts as guardians of their forests. Giant wolves, Huge eagles, Deadly giant wasps, Dragons, Griffons, Pegasus, Unicorns, and all kinds of creatures roamed the forests to protect them from attacks.
Chimeran (Satyr, Siren, Seraph)
Some elves elected to create new kinds of humanoids that had properties of the animals to allow them to live in different parts of the land and protect it and look after the animals and plants. Three main types of races were engineered: A powerful beast race called Satyrs; an aquatic race called "Sirens", and a winged race called "Seraph". These three races soon occupied many parts of the land and cared for the forests.
Nymphs:
The war between the elves and the giants became very severe and many people died on both sides. But now, the war had gotten out of hand. Monsters and ghouls ran rampant killing both giants and elves. The monsters and ghouls multiplied so quickly that it appeared that both elves and giants risked extinction. To preserve their lives, the giants and elves finally joined forces and worked together. They combined their technologies to make a new kind of primary race which they would call "Nymphs". Not only could Nymphs live for thousands of years, but they also were genetically enhanced or altered in every conceivable way. They were a very diverse group of humanoids. Some of them had 4-6 arms or wings. They had skin, eye, and hair colors of all varieties including blue, green and red. They ranged in size from very small to very large. They were both beautiful and peaceful by nature but also incredibly powerful and they had all kinds of various powerful abilities that resembled magic in many ways. With their help, the ghouls and monsters were beaten back or contained sufficiently to end their their. With relative peace established. A last colony ship left to the new world-- estimated to arrive at the new planet before any of the others, due to the incredible advances in space travel technology.
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