Old One

The Old Ones or the creators were an ancient people, said to hail from a time long before the coming of elves and the rise of humans.

Description
Old Ones were reptilian humanoids, similar in appearence to lizardfolk, including a similar head ridge. They also had tails and scaly skin, but their snake-like scales were softer and much finer than lizardfolks' scales, but lacked the natural protection it offered. Old Ones typically stood tall.

Personality
Old Ones were arrogant and craved supremacy over everything and everyone around them.

Abilities
Old Ones had a natural talent for arcane magic, and magical energy always clung to them, causing an effect similar to mage armor to coat them at all times. Additionally, Old Ones could call up a swirling nexus of magic to surround them when they felt like it, creating effects similar to the spells fire shield and negative energy protection.

By drawing upon such a nexus, an Old One could toss rays of cold, fire, or strength-draining necrotic magic at an enemy, or use the nexus magic to empower their spells. All Old Ones were sorcerers of at least moderate ability.

Combat
Old Ones preferred to strike from cover with their spells and nexus rays, and typically attacked enemy spellcasters first. However, they were intelligent to change their tactics on the fly as necessary.

Society
Old Ones valued intellectual pursuits and disdained physical activity; the learned were revered while dimwit warriors were abused. They lived in a mageocratic society where magic held sway over every aspect of their lives. Their pastimes were devoid of physical activity and instead tended to be puzzle and strategy games, often with arcane themes.

Old Ones' disdain of physical labor meant that they preferred to enslave other peoples and have them do menial chores, as servants, laborers, and warriors. They saw slavery as normal and most assumed that it was only a matter of time before they enslaved all other life.

Old Ones were known to live underground and in the mountains in warm and temperate regions.

Old Ones did not worship any deities, believing themselves to be the only things worthy of worship. The rare Old One clerics were outcasts and oddities.

History
Long ago, it was said, the Old Ones sought to rule the world and so challenged the only other dominate people at the time, the dragons. They fought a war whose death toll eventually rose to extrordinary numbers on both sides, and the Old Ones, in desparation, devised a plan to put themselves in magical stasis, letting time defeat what they could not.