Ancients

The Mysterious "Empire"
The "Ancients" is a name used all over Ghelspad for a race (or possibly races) that left similar artifacts (often inscrutable in purpose) scattered broadly across the continent, with evidence they existed over a very long time. In fact, though texts frequently speak of the Ancients as an empire, such a regime would have coexisted with several other known historical empires and even "ruled" over some of the same areas at the same time.The Ancients are actually two races: the slarecians and their even more mysterious masters, the uthriach. They have existed on Scarn for time unknown. Only the greatest scholars or academic institutions have any information about either of these races, and even they have no insight into their motivations.