The sapien race is every day humans H*** sapiens. The other tribes are pyro, H*** incindium; Aquis, H*** aqua; Klepto, H*** aeris; Emo, H*** terra;and frozo, H*** glacie. Mind, the translations are a bit rough. The language there is the predecessor to latin, it evolved from angelic latin. The tribes are called something different there but all of our memories are translated into the langia franca of the time, in this case English. Sapiens are your average human subspecies. Pyros (for lack of a better term on all of the tribe names) are dedicated to the Great Father, god of fire and the sun, as well as the god of shadows. They spent centuries perfecting their warrior capabilities and the control of fire (through both scientific as well as magical avenues) Aquas are the healers and spies usually (aquas is in fact the actual name of the tribe in honor of thegoddess of the rivers Aquia, the daughter of the Great Mother goddess of the oceans who it is believed created the tribe. We as a people prefer chemicals, herbs, and herbs. We blend in the most with sapiens so our banishment was really effective. Kleptos are named so because they are dedicated to the god of air, who also happens to be the god of stealth and travel. They're normally used to infiltrate, get what you need and get the hell out, no bodies, no evidence. Emos are dedicated to the god of blood, they're a very religious group of people and it translates into emo simply because of their rituals, the god of blood is who created vampires in our lore (mind we also have different vampires than this realm) so they sacrifice blood to his children on a regular basis. They're usually considered assassins, but they can be traded for kleptos or aquas spies. Frozos are named that because they're blood adapts to the cold. They are master trackers and survival experts. When they were banished it was to the frozen tundra of this world.
And as always, they were seen as horrid, lower, inferior, non human, to much of the ru