It is here that we find the bitter conflict between the 'lesser races' and the Einheldren unfold. The dwarves hail from deep beneath the Helmhald Mountains, where many of their halls of stone lie quiet and vacant. The men sailed from a distant land some time ago, landing on the plains of Fevole. The halflings, until their enslavement, spent their long, simple lives in the Smaragdine Forest. The gnomes come from the small mountains of the Iridia Range, a quiet, unbecoming folk. The orcs come surging from the south, from the dread plains of Ouestmark. The elves have spent their lives, and the much of Alscium's history before the expansion, dwelling in the fertile plains of Savenole and the Vatern foothills.