These creatures have dark purple skin, with black tribal-like designs that resemble more like a tattoo than natural markings, but don't be deceived their markings are natural. They have horns that come from their head each demon has their own shape but typically they protrude from above and slightly behind the ear. Demons are a hunted species, because their horns when chopped off, contain massive amounts of the magic that powers every race and so typically their horns are used in potions and various magical pendants. Demons tend to die if their horns are removed, very few live through it. Those who do may face a diminished power.

This race is not the stereotypical demon, they are generally not evil, however, there is a bandit group of rebel demons who wreak havoc. Demons tend to remain in hiding because they are hunted and going extinct compared to the other races. When they are caught each race tends to beat them and have a public shaming and ritual before killing them and chopping off their horns.

They have a few powers, such as a poison touch which they control, immense strength, the power of possession (which works to persuade, implant thoughts, sometimes read thoughts) their possession does not last long. They also can preform various spells.

Humans do not have magic, rather they use science fiction weapons to fight in the war. They have equipped themselves well and are a formidable target.

The humans are known for experimenting on various races. They once held the location of the pariahs secret, in exchange for 'volunteers' to 'work' at the human base. These volunteers were never seen again and an escapee warned the pariahs, this treaty is now broken.

Their bodies resemble that of a human, but they have the power to shape shift, and how they shift is dependent upon the type of shifter they are.
The Empathetic, called, “Felos” shifters can embody emotions, this is really left to the imagination and is quite subjective to the person. To be an active fighter they have to typically embody anger a lot, or if they are protective they channel the energy into a protective emotion to fight. The anger could make them shift into a bomb (of course their particles would reassembly themselves, but this would be very painful.
The Animals shifters are referred to as the “Masco”. These people can turn into any animal imaginable, or simply transform their hand into a paw, or however they deem fit.
The Weaponry shifters are called “Atikone”. These shifters can transform their body parts into weapons, or their whole being. They make a perfect match with the empathetic shifters who can channel their energy to embody a swordsman, while the Atikone shifts into a sword.

The shifters cannot stay shifted for extended periods of time, (a full day perhaps) depending on their strength, would be too much and they would retain characteristics of their transformation. For instance a Masco who remained a snake too long may make a hissing sound when speaking.

One of the main shifter cities have been destroyed by the war and they were forced to create a small town miles away.

These small creatures have wings, and are typically a shade or light blue or light green. They are no more than 2 feet tall, and are completely nature based. They have growth capabilities (plants, flowers, etc), winter grants them ice abilities, and they are either attuned to the water element or to the earth element. They can also cast spells and write magically inscriptions. Rarely the nymphs can have the power of healing. It is the most draining of their abilities and they prefer to attune to nature and let nature do the healing in recovery pods.

This race is essential for the balance of the world. And they are inherently good, however they have been drug into the war as well. Though they are far more concerned with undoing the damage of the others than actually fighting and killing – but they do so when necessary.

Elves are pale creatures that have either red, blue or white markings, these markings typically coincide with their power. They resemble the typical elf, and stand taller than humans on average. They can attune to fire, lightning, or air, they are the most mage-like of all the races.. Their magic allows them to cast spells and write inscriptions.

Elves are one of the strictest races on the “No Mix” policy in which they will send all mixes into war as soldiers, and after extensive measures to make sure they fight (spells, cursed pendants, etc that ensure they fight against the enemy and not kill their own kind, basically giving them no will in battle), if they refuse they are killed, typically in a public execution.

They are short, the tallest they can grow is 4 feet, their skin pigment varies, taking almost any color in a light shade, their markings glow at night. They are an extremely knowledgeable race and they tend to keep records of everything but their data storage is extremely advanced, and they fit all of their records on a strand of DNA, there are multiple copies and these DNA strands are connected to the computer system, updated constantly. These records include everything that has been collected on all of the races. (It is rumored that the Nazuras have an invisibility technology that they use to station themselves with each race to collect data). It is also said that humans are only alive because the Nazuras helped them technologically. This is the only race not actually participant in the war, and their only power is telekinesis and none possess telepathy.

This is the only race that is inherently evil. Any person from any race (not nymphs) can turn into a dementor. To become a dementor it simply takes drinking their black blood, or eating their flesh. Drinking small amounts of dementor blood provides a temporary increase in power. It starts as a fiery sensation in the body, that unleashes massive amounts of power, after the power subsides the fiery sensation returns with excruciating pain – then the person is left practically drained of all power and energy until recovery. The dementors are relatively new to the world, and not much is known about them – not all the races know about the effects of dementor blood, and no one has actually seen a dementor, except maybe the Nazuras.

How the dementor looks is up to the race it came from, but all races experience a darkening of the skin, black veins, blackening around the eyes, and cheeks.

Turning into a dementor is a process that takes a single day in which the person “loses” themselves, acting solely as an inherently evil entity with little resemblance to their old selves. Though, they still are aware of who they are. All dementors want to make more dementors - turn more people shift the balance so that the dementors are in control.

Almost forgot to mention the typical powers for the dementors:
Shift into worst fears (Shifters)
Suggestion/Persuasion (Demons)
Telepathy/Telekinesis (Nazuras)
Shadow control/teleportation (Elves)
Humans typically get one of the above set of powers, sometimes dementors develop powers from other races as well.