Humans

The humans of Aerit are similar to Earth humans. In the cases of northern humans dwelling on Nowelt, the last 6000 years of living near the Netherwhere portal have influenced development of a solic core similar to that of the jinn. Unlike the jinn, however, these humans have not developed a natural resistance to nether energy, making their exposure to it essentially deadly.

Humans of Aerit are relatively isolated to the continents of Nowelt and Kosmor, and each continent is significantly isolated from the other. The other two continents of Aerit, as well as the archipelagos between, have some human populations but these are few and far between - not to mention less developed in civilization and technology. Because of the events of the Cataclysm and the fell infestations since, most of the surviving human civilizations live under the influence of fey political power - like the Elinnic Empire and the Svartali Confederacy.

Humans emerged on Aerit long after the coming of jinn and svartali. The majority of their population from about 50,000 Re until the Cataclysm were nomadic and possessed the modern human understandings of tools and craft. They spread across Kosmor and steadily grew in population until about 12,000 Re when they began the first agrarian settlements. Between 3,000 and 1,349 Re several major civilizations grew, with cities on the island of Kher Mar and a few others on western and southeast Kosmor.   During the Great Cataclysm, many fell monsters under the influence of Fosrin retreated into the sea to escape Zakhara's Anidion warriors. These landed on the shores of Kosmor and, sensing life in favor of the gods, swarmed upon the unsuspecting humans. Because humans are so much shorter lived than jinn or svartali, the 1300 years of cataclysm took a much heavier cultural toll, such that the human civilizations fundamentally altered their outlook on survival and enlightenment.   Recorded history was all but destroyed for humans during the Great Cataclysm, and few managed to revive after the landing of Zakhara on Kher Mar and the svartali on eastern Kosmor.

By the year 6,800 Dre, several relationships across Aerit existed for humans and fey. In the Elinnic Empire and Svartali Confederacy, fey power kept its thumb on human populations, to the point that population superiority for humans meant little to the power dynamic. In isolated city-states like Falea, humans held out in defense of their ethnic and cultural identity, wary of the powerful fey nations bordering them and barely keeping them at bay several times. On Nowelt, the humans descended from the Norns of old had established a cooperative relationship with the svartali who lingered after the Great Cataclysm, a dynamic vital to their survival due to the growing problem of hypersolia among the humans.