Editing Arcanis (section)

==Humans & Demihumans==
You gotta have [[human]]s, what you talking about? Ironically, most humans on Arcanis actually began on some other world and were brought to Arcanis by their pantheon of twelve gods. They had an enormous empire called the Imperium, nowadays remembered optimistically as the First Imperium, which spanned multiple worlds, but it was torn apart over a series of catastrophes, including multiple disastrous civil wars and the Time of Terror, when some idiots (human, incidentally) literally tore open the Gates of Hell and allowed [[fiend]]s to flood the planet. Nowadays, they are broken into multiple competing and squabbling civilizations, with the most notable being the Coryani Empire, the Free City-States of Almeric, the Hinterlands, the Kingdom of Milandir, the League of Princes, and the Republic of Altheria.

===Kio===
The mysterious [[kio]] are a human subrace touched by union with some mysterious, mystical race. Tall, graceful and fair-complexioned, kio hold themselves apart from their human cousins, and in particular reject the Gods of Man, revering only their ancestors, the Pure Blood or True Kio. They have their own dedicated [[splatbook]], ''Children of the Sky''.

===Undir===
The [[undir]] are a once-primitive people, a human offshoot touched by the [[elemental]] powers of water - reputedly, they descend from a simple hunter who was taken as a husband by a beautiful [[undine]]. For centuries, they lived a peaceful life on the coast and amongst the rivers of the Western Lands, but the coming of the Coryani has disrupted their traditional way of life. Undir can pass for ruddy-skinned, dark haired, dark-eyed humans, unless one sees the webbing between their toes, the most overt manifestation of their elemental affinities. 

They are actually blood-related to the kio, as the "modern" kio are said to be the product of unions between the original kio, whatever they are, and the ancient undir.

===Val===
The [[aasimar]] of Arcanis, the Val are a collection of human bloodlines who trace their lineage to the twelve gods of man, as their ancestors were chosen as mates by valinor ([[angel]]s) to father a superior race to serve as humanity's leaders and protectors. Of course, given that Arcanis is a [[Dark Fantasy]] setting, a lot of val have fallen... rather short of such lofty ideals, shall we say?

There are multiple distinct Val Bloodlines, representing which god/valinor they descend from.
* val'Abebi: Children of Althares, the God of Knowledge.
* Val'Assante: Children of Illiir, the Ruler of the Gods.
* val'Borda: Children of Cadic, the Lord of Shadows.
* val'Dellenov: Children of Saluwe, the Green Mother. Unique for their matriarchal culture.
* val'Emman: Children of Nier. One of two Nier-descended bloodlines, they've been almost wiped out by the val'Virdan.
* val'Holryn: Nobody knows what god created this bloodline.
* val'Inares: Children of Anshar, the Suffering Goddess.
* val'Ishi: Children of Beltine, the Gray Lady.
* val'Mehan: Children of Sarish, the God of Magic.
* val'Mordane: Children of Neroth, the Lord of Tombs.
* val'Ossan: Children of Yarris, the Lord of Waves.
* val'Sheem: Children of Larissa, the Divine Harlot.
* val'Tensen: Children of Hurrian.
* val'Virdan: Children of Nier.

===val'Sungha===
The val'Sungha are a human offshoot who bear the mingled bloodlines of both the [[val]] and the [[kio]], said to be the result of a True Kio woman who bore children by three val men; a val'Assante, a val'Borda, and a val'Sheem. These three unions all produced children, who have been carefully cultivated into a sprawling family with three distinctive bloodlines, each preserving its own unique meld of kio and val mystical traits. Stats for this race appear in the Children of the Sky splatbook.