Is this old lore you speak of about the Saris, Half-Giants and Elves? I assume so since you mention a timeline which is being reworked. As was said in another thread somewhere (possibly in the Order section, I don't recall where now)...most of what had been previously published in the "beta-version" strategy guide and online pretty much became out of date at the time of release or sometime before.
Perhaps it was their original intent for Saris to have been once sold as slaves and raped by Half-Giants (when this was going to be a PvP game), maybe it's not relevant to the game now and which is why there was no mention of it in the race description.
Furthermore, the timeline is being reworked as it was also said that it is severely out of date. So what you know now of the timeline or knew of lore long ago, is not what it's going to be once everything is rewritten. We'll just have to wait and see.
