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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 3949089" data-attributes="member: 8863">I take a partial approach in my campaign background.  Humans and very similar humanoids (elves, dwarves, halflings, orcs and the golblinoids), all came from the same basic genetic stock.  Over a million years ago in the past, the ancient races like illithids, beholders and the like enslaved the proto-humans, and performed all sorts of genetic experiments on them, invoving both magic and alien sciences.  The races of the current world eventually evolved into their seperate forms.  I use a timeline of about a million years given the timespan involved in evolution in the real world.  All the warm-blooded humanoids originated from genetic experimentation from sapient cold-blooded and invertebrate species in the past, although they all have creation myths that tell how the were created by their gods.  As for the ancient races, they were created by their gods, though their histories are very very vague.  For a scientific origin, the idea is that they were bio-engineered by the Elder Gods.  The Elder Gods themselves are from the Far Realm, and shaped the known universe.  For a scientific explanation of that, I kind of dip into (what little I know of) string theory and figure that they're very powerful extra terrestrial beings from another dimension, and I'm not even going to bother trying to explain their origin.  Just thinking about stuff like 11 dimensions and superstrings and branes makes my head hurt.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  In any case, the Far Realm in this conception is a vast reality beyond the known universe, and the universe is only a small part of its entire reality.Besides, in a world that has clearly supernatural elements, I'm a bit inclined to do a bit of hand having anyway.</blockquote>

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