Parahuman

Parahumans are a group physically indistinguishable from Azerothian Humans, found on. They are the dominant and singular official race of the Imperium and are descendants of Azotha who crashed there in millenia past interbred with other Dwarven and Gnomish settlers who were likewise unable to leave. After many centuries of war, genocide and constant interbreeding where Humans consistently had a huge numerical advantage, both Dwarves and Gnomes have effectively disappeared, to the point they were widely believed to be myths spawned from folk tales of early mutants up until the Imperial Scouting Legion discovered both species to be proliferous and common in the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor. While the Human genes are primarily dominant, Parahumans have a predisposition to be quite intelligent and are nominally more likely to be naturally physically strong and have a relatively easy time building and keeping muscle mass. This also amounts to a mild genetic instability that the forces of Chaos can and do exploit to cause mutation.

The term Parahuman was coined by  and its use is extremely taboo in the Imperium, as they officially consider themselves to be the "true," Human race, making the pseudo-primitive but more considerably more powerful Human nations of Stormwind, Arathor and so on mere demi-Humans in their eyes. However, the fact mutation is much less common among these peoples despite their affable mingling with Xenos and large number of sorcerers poses questions of validity nobody in the Imperium seems to have a meaningful answer to.