The Elven peoples are a very ancient race, possibly even older than dragonkind. They live in bizarre cities called shees, which they share with a wide variety of other faerie creatures. A shee consists of a gate or portal on a hilltop, or under a lake, or inside a stone circle, which leads into a hidden land with an area of several hundred square miles. The elves and other creatures live in villages and castles and towers scattered over this land.
The two main shees in the Young Nations are both located in Kings Wood. Eleturiellebeth has a population of about 4000 elves, plus several thousand other creatures, while Glasuriel has about 2000 elves, plus thousands of other fey.

A dying race, their population decreasing with every year, gnomes are now only found living in Zarn and Dernas, and a few small villages around Seal Bay. Nobody knows why the gnomes are dying, all that is known for certain is that less gnomish children are born each year. Some have speculated that they may be under some sort of curse.
There are about 1000 gnomes at Zarn, and perhaps 700 in Dernas.

It is rumoured that sometimes faeries and elves will replace a human child with one of their own. This child will grow up as a human, but will start to show increasing signs of strangeness as it comes of age. These children are known as half-elves, and they are more common near Kings Wood.
Nobody knows what happens to the human children carried away to live in a shee.
The elves, of course, deny these tales, claiming that half-elves are the children of elves who fall in love with humans.

These savage half-breeds live wherever orcs dwell, notably in the Ice Spires, the High Spurs, and the Ghost Peaks. They are also quite common on the Wild Moor, where some are even raised among the human barbarians, who value them as powerful warriors.
Individuals can sometimes be found in large cities, but they are often mistrusted as many people regard them as possible spies.

Halflings are, like dwarves, slowly increasing in numbers, but nobody knows where they came from originally. Their main settlements are Zarn and Dernas and the smaller settlements to the west of Seal Bay, which the often share with gnomes, but a small population can be found in every human settlement of any reasonable size.

One of the newer races, the oldest human city currently in existence is Shakhan, which is about 1200 years old. There are however legends among humans of even older human cities, although the dwarves deny any knowledge of these places, and the elves will neither confirm nor deny these tales.
Humans breed quickly and spread rapidly across the land. They are an energetic race, who cooperate well with other peoples, and often take the lead in joint ventures between the various races.