The Concept and races

This is the video game I am coming up with which is an open world RPG with different openings for different races and classes.  Unlike Elder Scrolls the character will have a past that you can fight for or disregard it and become your own person.  Their will be plenty of different races but for the first game you will be restricted to only 5 of them but right now it is a working progress.
 Human, elves and dwarvs are the major races and their true story is very simple.  Long  time ago when the world was young their was a create that walked on 2 legs.  This create covered the whole main continent in a very large trible structure.  Surprisingly this create brook into 3 different sud create because they all wanted to do something different.  One group wanted to live in the woods and be closer to nature, the other wished to live underground to supply rare minerals for people to use and the last one thought their is only one god in the world and temples need to be built.  For millions of generations these 3 sud spicies started to grow further and further apart till they where their own seperate races.  Nothing of this pass actually exits in the world which I want to fix but I do not know how yet
The other races that I am playing with are Lizard-folk, Kolbolt, Giants, Dragons, goblins, Pixies, Treefolk and banches which I plan on working on a little bit more since most these creaters need nixing up.

This game has right now 3 installments, first the battle with nature, next battle with creation and finally battle with Hell.  The first will deal with the world many years after the great war that the humans and a sud race of elves that left the world divided.  You are the hero to save the world and with with your past to help you lead you to victory.  The next one will deal with a powered man mage trying take over the world with a new creation of his.  Finally Hell has reopened and you need to reclose it or the world you know it is gone forever.  These 3 will be in other blogs for the game.

Class are going to play an important piece to the game and it is in a working progress.  I want to do something of my own but I do like the Elder Scrolls 4 class style.  I just right now do not know what I need to do to change it up. These are the skills I wan to have but this can change
Archery One handed fighting Two handed fighting Light/ Heavy armor Heal Unarmed Alchemy  Blacksmith Survival Blocking Traps Stealth  Lockpick  Pickpocket  Element Hex Speech.

With the world being so big their will be many legends and myths to discover.  A few are created but I thinking and trying to create more.  Which will be part of another post.  Hope you like the idea feel free to comment.