The oldest records on Tyria date back to approximately 10,000 BE, the estimated date for the Great Giants' extinction at the claws of the Elder Dragons during their last known time of awakening. The only known surviving sentient races of this time are the dwarves, forgotten, jotun, mursaat, and seers. Not much is known about this time, or the following 8,000 years, although it is known that the mursaat had betrayed the other four races and went into hiding from the Elder Dragons.