>>43293859>>43293924/tg/ once created a setting of this sort.
some sort of super plague exterminated pure humanity.
The elves, seeing that without the humans to soak up the problems, saw that the world was going to go to shit and left to set up a magi-tech civilization on the moon.
The dorfs fortified the shit out of their strongholds and enclaves and refuse to come out. It was known that they could get the plague but the motality rate was lover than the human's 100% but knowbody knows by how much. Nobody knows how many of them there are left. They survive by trade. They still make the best shit. YOu leave materials and food and such by the door and look away. A few days later it will have been replaced with high quality enchanted goods.
Orcs, ogres, goblins, hob-goblins and such inherited the empty world.
Half-orcs are all that remain of humanity. weedier, less aggressive but much better at magic, they are the settings high-elves equivalent. There had been attempts to try and breed humanity back into existence using human blooded orcs. It never worked. Once you get past 3/4 human they die of plague.
The big devision was between the Traditionalists who wanted to carry on being retards throwing shit at each other and chimping out and the Inheritors who wanted to build a new civilization like the old ones but better.
Traditionalists were primarily pure orc supremacists, ogres and bugbears.
Inheritors were mostly half-orcs, goblins and hob-goblins.
Kobolds were found in both camps and sold cheap weapons to both sides. Kobold weapons compared to the dorf ones were shit but they made up for it with more powerful enchantments. Form this we can assume that the kobolds were making them and giving them to their draconic masters to enchant.
Lizard people took over the seas and coasts because they could go without fresh water for way longer. Not really a civilization as they just set up a lot of fiercely independent sea side towns.
