Hello creature,you can be anything but sentient enough to build civilization, butterfly?Sure, make flower huts,bear?Yeah go hard.But most common races is Humans,Elves,Orcs,Dwarfs,Demons,Cold people,Skeletons.Someone who is smart enough,can start religion,and got himself will praise your civilization with magical abilities You yourself is first creature that god gave intelligence and spawned in world, your point is to explore world,build civilization and die surrounded by results of your own work