Creator race

The five creator races (or Iqua-Tel'Quessir in the language of the Fair Folk) dominated Faerûn during the Days of Thunder. All are considered native to Abeir-Toril, as are their descendants and creations. Most historians agree that the creator races were the sarrukh (creators of the yuan-ti, naga, lizarfolk, and scalykind), the batrachi (known as amphibioids, or creators of the bullywugs, dopplegangers, kopru, kuo-toa, locothah, sivs, tako and other shapeshifting, amphibious, or piscine races), the aearee (known as avians, or creators of the aaracokra, kenku other birdlike humanoids), the fey (known as sylvans, or creators of korreds, sprites, and pixies and humans. Other sages incorrectly leave out the aearee but include dragons in the list. Elves, dwarves, and some human ethnic groups were immingrants to Abeir-Toril from other worlds.

Although five creator races existed in Faerûn, only four forged empres in the earliest days of recorded history (known today as the Days of Thunder), and only three contributed to the creation of the items known as the Nether Scrolls.

The sarrukh, batrachi, and aearee each dominated Faerûn in turn, creating or producing as offspring a of lesser races and recording the magic of more primitive races. The fey have never dominated the continent; they chose instead to rule Faerie, an otherworldly realm loosely connected to Faerûn. Humans, the last of the Iqua-Tel'Quessir, did not rise to rule Faerûn until after the Time of Dragons and the elven and dwarven empires.

Except for the humans, the fate of the creator races is largely unrecorded. A few sarrukh lurk in ancient ruins and southern jungles, but most of their kindred departed for other planes millennia ago. The batrachi may be extinct, although a few scholars believe they fled to Limbo, where they became known as slaadi. The aearee flew westward to the great continent north of Maztica, and nothing is known of their fate. The fey still rule Faerie, although the ties between their realm and Faerûn are growing faint. Humans continue to thrive as do crossbreeds with partial ancestry, such as the yuan-ti.