"Betrayal, it was we who were betrayed. Exile was their jugement, and they dare name us the decievers. So faar away they cast us, bound to this accursed mountain our souls were, never to be free until death laid his claim upon our souls. As the icy grip of our doom crept upon us, the song came before us and gave new life, a new purpose. For Five hundred years we survived in this land of death, and so our Black Forge burns and bleed black smoke, our hearts just as dark. We still hunger for justice, for revenge. "

The Rakan are a dark people, driven from their ancient homeland, and then exiled from the new home they had been given, darkness broods easily in their hearts and minds. When they were cast into the cursed grounds of the Binding Mountains, their forms twisted by the winds, they grew disfigured and weak. When death?s grasp was near the Song came before them and granted them new strength, the will to survive, and a divine task. They were told that if they gained the wisdom to release the mountain of its curse, they will have the strength to take back the home that was once theirs, and be healed of their cursed forms, to live in peace for all time.

And so they carved their Black Forge from the heart of the mountain and for five hundred years, their home has been the Binding Mountains, where they have been preparing for their war of glory to come. They seek with the winds, knowlegde that could break them free from their bind to to this mountain

Rashkm

"The moon beckons, and we can no longer let its call go unheard. So long did we sleep, so much has been forgotten, and so few rose from their slumber. Our ancient lands, swallowed by sea and shadow, so very little remains. Beneath the starry sky, atop our ruin the young lay claim to what was once ours. We are the last of our kin, no longer shall our lands remain in the grasp of those unworthy. We are the Rashkm, and we slumber no more."

The Rashkm are a amphibious people whom live in the marshes and bogs of western Velherak, in the Ancient marshes. They recently awoke their age old slumber and came to the surface, only to find it populated with the young people of men. With almost to no memory of the ages past, the Rashkm slowly begin to rebuild their society and retaking their ancient lands.