THE OLD ONES (Nasenna)
The Old Ones, or Nasenna, sprung from the same stock as humanity and the Neanderthals, but in the darkest mists of time swore allegiance to Chaos. Once they ruled the earth, but were overthrown and driven underground by mankind. This was accomplished when certain pagan gods showed mankind the secret of iron to give them the edge over the Old Ones. Two-Hundred years ago, the Old Ones struck back, overthrowing the once great Ardean Empire and plunging the world into anarchy.
Today, they have returned to the surface and live in city-states spread across the world. They are violently hostile to humanity, halflings and dwarves and intend complete genocide of these three races from the world. They will never take females of these species prisoners, but will slay them immediately. They sometimes will take males prisoner (after castrating them) for slaves or sacrifice. The numbers of Old Ones are still rather small, so they depend on Orcs and Cavemen for most of their physical labor and soldiery needs, seeing themselves as the elite nobility of their new order.
The Old Ones are the same size and shape as humans, but have gray skin and their eyes are solid black. The Old Ones are allergic to iron, and suffer 1 additional point of damage from any hit by an iron weapon. They use bronze weapons made to a high quality and functionally equivalent to iron weapons. Their bronze armor is equivalent to iron chain mail.