I'm starting a new campaign set on a "new world" except for the fact the world isn't that new. Its houndreds of thousands years old but never had very many intelligent beings. Even dragons are newly finding this world. The world once was completely ruled by a single race that caught a terrible plague. I need help deciding on the race. I'd prefer a race that easily can be any alignment and can add good and evil elements to the campaign when the beings new to the world encounter them. There is one last hold out of the race from the great plague and they are finally coming out of the Underdark after the last time they saw daylight, 500 years ago. The race cannot be Elves, dwarves, humans, gnomes, halflings, orcs, or any goblinoid. Any ideas?