Some questions about the setting - mostly about the specifics of what happened to people during the Shattering.
1. How long ago was the Shattering?
2. When the Mortal People were split into the Races, what actually happened? Did an individual mortal person split into multiple people of each race? Did some mortals become elves, some dwarves, etc? Or was it a vague thing where all the previous mortal people ceased to exist and new people of different races came into existence, but there was no connection between specific mortals and specific races?
3. Depending on the answers to the above questions, are there people alive that were alive immediately after the Shattering, and if so, do they have memories of being alive before the Shattering?
Since I get the impression that the Shattering is supposed to be something that isn't "long ago", I'm just wondering what different people know and remember.