Ancestries

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All humanoid "races", in fact all plant and animal species, were created by the Fae (other than Elves, who are Fae who got interested in Order instead of Chaos and started Time and separated The Fae from the rest of the world). There has been evolution since, and I think that in this world evolution happens in a more Mendelian way (behavior in one generation alters the next generation), so change is quicker than in IRL Darwinian evolution. Dwarves, Humans, Halflings, Gnomes, Orcs, and Goblins have a common ancestor. The layout of the continents of the world-disc may have changed over the millennia as well, and migrations certainly could have happened. During the era in which Elves actively ruled (the Elvish Dominion, see History), they could have redistributed everyone and even made changes to various groups.

Humanoids
The common ancestor of all humanoids was created by the Fae during the Deep History of the discworld. Mendelian evolution and interference from Fae led to the splitting into various humanoid ancestries.


 * Dwarves


 * Gnomes


 * Goblins


 * Halflings


 * Humans


 * Mongrels


 * Orcs


 * Ogres

Fae

 * Elves


 * Fairies/Fae

Other
It is unclear whether Lizardfolk, Treefolk, and any other rare ancestries are related to humanoids (i.e. the result of matings between humanoids and lizards or somehow between humanoids and trees) or whether they were separately created by Fae or Elves. Many suspect that Treefolk at least were created by Elves, as they seem to originate from the northern reaches of the Methelwere.


 * Lizardfolk


 * Treefolk