Beastmen , also known as the masters of the battlefield. Any army that ever fought the unified army of the beastmen clans would tell one the same thing, be it the arrogant elves or the fearless and merciless orcs,it was fallacy to fight the beastmen in frontal battles.
Such was their strength that most of the great races banded together and attacked the beastmen territory almost crippling the beastmen tribe which led to the deaths of many on both sides .
In that battle they not only held their own against the various races but also managed to repel them . this cemented them as the masters of the battlefield.
It was around this time that some races took this opportunity to take a bite of the pie . most of the suppressed or weaker races took this opportunity to rebel against their oppressors. Races such as the naga that had been suppressed by the orc tribe rebelled to the point of resorting to self mutilation .
Funnily enough, the smaller or weaker races were the ones that initiated the race wars with the weaker races calling it the war of liberation.
What surprised most was the fact that the races under the beastmen never once rebelled and even protected the weakened leaders of their race.
While all this was happening , many ignored the burgeoning new race that had started making great strides in developing themselves and researching magic.
They picked no sides , traded with all races and never antagonized any race without cause.
They lacked claws , had no scales for protection and had a lower affinity to mama than other races. This along with the fact that they usually tended to avoid conflicts helped plant the notion of the weakest race.
It was at the end of the first phase of the war that alliances had been forged that the neutral forces were forced to pick a side, to either pick the lesser races or the higher races.
When given the option , the humans chose non of the sides . taking this as a great offense, the elves dispatched the strongest battalion of their army to wipeout their kingdoms.
The thirteen kingdoms of man were severely damaged and served as a warning yet this also marked the end of the higher race's status.
The humans who many thought would capitulate banded together in a few months after the attack pooling the resources and knowledge they were hoarding for themselves to makeup an army of five hundred thousand soldiers.
Their training, unknown ,the source of their strength unknown but their will and determination, the eradication of the enemy races.
The deployment of these soldiers marked the beginning of the second phase of the war as well as the end.
They showed no mercy , burning down everything in sight. They did not loot nor did they r*pe .
From torture to blackmail, even using family members to control key figures, everything was used to the shock and horror of the other races.
The destruction of the thirteen kingdoms that should have been seen as a light warning compared to the amount of blood being spilled on the battlefield turned out to be the last chain on these mad men. And indeed, unlike the beastmen respected as the masters of the battlefield, the humans were viewed as the' mad men' of the battlefield.
They seemed to advance faster in their magic and weaponry during the war than whan they were in peaceful times.
From just barely managing to defend themselves to making even the top races tremble at the mention of them .
This would still all be tolerable if not for the fact that their rate of reproduction was equal to that of the orcs .
From the weakest race to having their tactics copied by all races .the war devolved into to something that even the most cold blooded of generals would retch at the sight of.
It was at such a time that even the warlike beastmen stepped in suing for peace and treaty.
Just as the human emperor was about to accept the terms of the treaty , the avian races attacked killing many humans in the process. A month later an epidemic spread among the avian races at an unbelievable rate that many predicted the erasure of the avian races in but a year.
It was then that the aloof dragons appeared..