Judging from their role in the colonization of Aramia, they seem to be more or less human servants.
Not exactly. Humans are certainly the most significant race here, but that's largely because of sheer weight of numbers. Gnomes and ogres got the short end of the stick; dwarves aren't much liked or trusted, but nobody dares treat them as servants either (and past the Stonemouth, they do pretty much as they please).
Elves have roughly the same sort of status as humans, on average, although they aren't seen much in the big cities (a bit more now in the wake of the plague). Most of the Aramian elves came over as mercenary archers hired for forest warfare - in some cases, "you can have that forest if you can take it from the barbarians". The average halfling is actually wealthier and more influential than the average human.
Independent communities: before the plague, the whole continent was a kingdom, and the royal family was human, but some of the higher ranks of nobility were elves and halflings were very influential in the priesthood. There were quite a few religious communities dominated by halflings, who paid taxes to the Crown and were otherwise left to their own devices, and similarly there were a lot of elvish communities in the woodlands who paid their dues and were otherwise left alone.
Since the plague, the Crown's hold over some of those areas has broken down, so some of those communities would now be effectively independent, although I haven't fleshed out those regions too much yet.
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Not exactly. Humans are certainly the most significant race here, but that's largely because of sheer weight of numbers. Gnomes and ogres got the short end of the stick; dwarves aren't much liked or trusted, but nobody dares treat them as servants either (and past the Stonemouth, they do pretty much as they please).
Elves have roughly the same sort of status as humans, on average, although they aren't seen much in the big cities (a bit more now in the wake of the plague). Most of the Aramian elves came over as mercenary archers hired for forest warfare - in some cases, "you can have that forest if you can take it from the barbarians". The average halfling is actually wealthier and more influential than the average human.
Independent communities: before the plague, the whole continent was a kingdom, and the royal family was human, but some of the higher ranks of nobility were elves and halflings were very influential in the priesthood. There were quite a few religious communities dominated by halflings, who paid taxes to the Crown and were otherwise left to their own devices, and similarly there were a lot of elvish communities in the woodlands who paid their dues and were otherwise left alone.
Since the plague, the Crown's hold over some of those areas has broken down, so some of those communities would now be effectively independent, although I haven't fleshed out those regions too much yet.