Proto-Humanoid

The proto-humanoids were the first humanoid creatures to appear in Ha'ther. Created in the Middle Crystalline Horizon of the Celestial Age, the proto-humanoids began as a small population on the Elemental Plane of Earth, where their APM was invented.

By the height of the Middle Crystalline Horizon, groups of proto-humanoids had spread across the Elemental Plane of Earth and had travelled to the Elemental Plane of Air, Bek-Ten-Hak, the Abyss, and throughout the Aether. By the Late Crystalline Horizon, several groups of proto-humanoids had begun to evolve into separate species, such as the proto-humans, proto-dwarves, several archaic giantoids and the early aetherborne.

In general, proto-humanoids were shorter in stature than the average human (though somewhat taller than their dwarvish descendants). The majority of the proto-humanoids were of a relatively dark complexion, with the exeption of the light-deprived, pale humanoids remaining on Djot-ten.

Some evidence has surfaced suggesting that the proto-humanoids had begun to form complex societies before the Late Crystalline Horizon and the divergence of the species; however, this time was many hundreds of thousands of years ago, making the archaeological record slim.