Ainu
Ilvir decided to create one last race of truly sentient beings in the hopes that they would serve him. He took one of Agrik severed claws and pieced his own hand. He then dripped the blood on the stones found in the northern mountains of Nyonia. Ilvir brought forth the first Ainu. Ilvir then taught them as much as he could about mining, crafting, and how to fashion weapons and armor. At first, the Ainu worshiped Ilvir as their god. But over time, the Ainu learned about the other Nyonian gods, most especially Save-K'nor and Siem. Ilvir felt rejected by another one of his creations. He retreated to his home on Nyonia. The Elioud and the Ainu at one time considered each other spiritual children of Ilvir. But when the Ainu stopped worshiping Ilvir exclusively, the Elioud felt personally betrayed. There have been numerous skirmishes, battles, and wars between the two races over the millennia.
Koori
We have been told, as our fathers were before us, that there was land, but it was a bare, flat, barren plain. No animals ran there. No birds sang overhead, no trees or bushes grew. No sound of water could be heard. There were no Koori or others. The Maker of Many Things, as some called him, brought the Dreamtime ancestors from under the ground and over the seas. With them, life came to the barren, flat plain. Some of the Dreamtime ancestors looked like Koori. Others looked like the animals or creatures that descended from them. But often the Dreamtime ancestors could change their shape. So the fish ancestor could look like a fish or a Koori. As the Dreamtime ancestors wandered over the land, many adventures befell them. They met with other ancestors. Arguments often arose, and the ancestors would set out on their travels again. They met strange creatures and fought battles. Each time there was a battle or great event, the very shape of the land changed. Hills arose, plants grew. Where the fish ancestor swam, rivers appeared. When a wrong thing was done, when Koori, ancestors, or animals did what they should not, the Rainbow snake would rush down upon them. He would either drown them, making bays and rivers, or swallow them. Then he would spit out their bones to form rocks and hills. From the Dreamtime, the feared ngaljod snake, still deadly and dangerous to those who are careless, emerged. But the Rainbow Snake is not just vengeful. To some people, the rainbow Snake is an Old Koori female, who in the Dreamtime taught her children, Koori, to talk and understand. She taught them to hunt for food and what to eat. The Dreamtime Rainbow Snake carried the Koori through Dreamtime so they could live on Nyonia. And the sun, moon, and stars? These also came to be in the Dreamtime. For one day, the Emu ancestor and the Eagle ancestor were fighting. Eagle took one of Emu's eggs and threw it into the air. Soaring up, it burst into flames. Baiame fed the flame with wood. So the sun was made, and is made anew each day with fresh wood. Everything that was made in the Dreamtime, how animals and Koori should look and behave, was fixed forever. The Dreamtime ancestors taught their tribes, animal and human, how to perform secret ceremonies. Then the ancestors disappeared into caves or waterholes - to remain underground, but ever present. But Dreamtime is not over. For when ceremonies are performed, Dream time comes to those who celebrate, and they learn to see this land as Dream time sees it - alive.
Wangai
Peoni traveled across Nyonia, planting seeds and tending to the plants that grew from the seeds she sowed. Peoni, Siem, and Ilvir brought forth all of the life that originated on Nyonia. Peoni saw the creatures that Siem and Ilvir had created and decided to make a people of her own. She carefully collected seeds from her most productive and beautiful plants. She then mixed her own essence with the seeds before planting them. From those seeds, the Wangai were born.