During the dawn of creation the @Dragon Lord first formed on the mortal plane, they ruled the land enslaving the giants, and elves.
The first elves to rebel against the @Dragon Lord masters was quickly squashed, the dragon lords drove them underground and cursed their race to never walk in light again, thus the race of @Goblin was created.
Giants discovered rune magic, and built the great stone golems. The Golems slew the dragon lords, and the giants took their bodies and placed them in urns in the great tomb.
The largest of @Goblin cities fell to the corspe plague when it sweep through the sprawling city, the goblin race barely survived extinction, only saved by the ruler of @Gloomreach ordering the tunnels leading to Gloomdeep destroyed, leaving any survivors left to fall to the plague.
After the fall of the dragon lords, and poisoning of the land the elves left southward, one group decided to stay in the forest and live with verdant heart becoming the @Wood Elf , but the other group of elves rejected the idea of serving another master, and continued further south to the Southern Crags becoming the @Orc .
During the giant rebellion a group of elves fled with the @Twilight Dragon the last dragon lord, being exposed to the magic of the dragon has kept the Twilight Elves sustained in their original forms.