Dryfolk

The Dryfolk are the closest thing that Deinne has to Humanity. As they can not and do not live in the water, and as their numbers dwindle ever fewer, their status as a member of the High Races is often questioned. Despite this, they have a disproportionate impact on the societies beneath the waves. They command the most advanced technology of all the races, which more than makes up for their lack of ability to make use of Aura or other ocean magicks. They are also slowly being irradiated into extinction, however, due to some long since forgotten global calamity that polluted the entire atmosphere.

There are only a few tens of thousands of Dryfolk still alive, today. Many cling to small settlements on what few tidbits of land still rise above the water, mining the natural resources out of their surroundings and trading it to the other races. Others are pressed into service by the hundreds on gigantic and ancient city-barges, captained by the relatively wealthy few, and which troll the waters of the world seeking to somehow indebt the High Races to them or to otherwise lift up their people as a whole from the doom they seem ever fixed to drift toward.