Oh. [she blushes, feeling slightly foolish, then tries to recover]

The darkspawn are. . . according to Chantry legend, the darkspawn are descended from magisters of the Tevinter Imperium who gained enough power and enough hubris to think that they could unseat the Maker of all.

They breached the Fade and stormed the Golden City, the seat of the Maker. But the Golden City was blackened by their sin and the magisters were cast back down to Thedas as the first darkspawn. But not the last.

But, yes. We have elves and dwarves and the Qunari.