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Name: Hybrid Airships

Homeworld: Earth CH-42

Description: First developed in the year 29 AC by the Anemoi Corporation, hybrid airships combine the aspects of both lighter-than-air airships and heavier-than-air vehicles such as airplanes and hovercraft. Hybrids gain their lift through helium buoyancy as well as rotating blades or repulsion engines. Aeordynamic shaping provides balance, speed, and additional lift. Faster than any airship before them and capable of carrying between 50 to 60,000 tonnes, hybrids also incorporate durable cushions in place of traditional landing gear, allowing them to land and take-off in even the most remote regions, without the need of a landing pad or a ground crew.

Contrary to popular belief, airships are traditionally resistant to attacks. They are almost impervious to bullets, rockets, artillery shells, and missiles, which will pass straight through the fabric of the ship's gas cells with very little helium loss. Even in the event of severe damage, such as the tearing from a monster's claws, the helium is strategically spaced out beneath the cover into nine or more individual cells. In the event all cells are terribly damaged, the hybrid is capable of coasting several dozen kilometers using its repulsion engines and aerodynamic design before making a crash landing. The fabric of the cells and cover themselves are further coated in a thin envelope of fire retardant metal fibers. Since Saberdex Industries absorbed the Anemoi Corporation in 52 AC, the metal frames of the repulsion engines, cargo area, cabin, and corridors have been made of nanosteel for additional protection – though this is not true of civilian craft.

It is this level of durability and safety, beyond their incredible cargo capacity, that has caused hybrid airships to largely replace airplanes on Earth CH-42. In a world where flying terataurs often outpace the fastest jets, the ability to take a beating from a passing terataur has gained priority over speed and maneuverability.

There exist four main types of airships on Lemuria.

Anemoi Civilian-Class Passenger Ships:

        Length: 66-110 meters
        Height: 20-30 meters
        Width: 34-50 meters
        Weight: 80-140 metric tons

        Description: Passenger ships come in two general varieties: common and luxury craft. The former is the most common airship on Lemuria, and has taken the role of a primary transport between distant cities and settlements. Its interior is not unsimilar to that of a navel ship designed for the transportation of civilians: It consists of two to four low-ceiling decks, depending on the size of the ship. Most of the space consists of hallways bordered by doors leading to rooms occupied by the ships passengers. Each room is considerably smaller than the average hotel room, and contains at least two bunk beds, a bathroom, and a small window. The bottom deck contains a dining area for the passengers. Behind locked doors is the main cabin – a more luxurious space with wide windows – which is made up of a single floor. It contains the cockpit, a bathroom, and the flight crew's rooms. From the main cabin, two long maintenance corridors can be traversed the length of the ship. These lead to the turbines or repulsion engines, in the event of damage.

Luxury varieties are far larger than the common passenger ship. At up to 110 meters in length, these ships sacrifice much of their passenger space for larger rooms and entertainment facilities, often including multiple dining areas, a swimming pool, a theater, a pub, and at times even a casino. These are first and foremost pleasure crafts. Only two exist on Lemuria – one is currently stationed in London, the other in Mival City.

Smaller passenger ships can be piloted by a single person. Larger ships and luxury ships require at least two pilots. Luxury ships are considerably slower than their smaller counterparts. Their average cruising speed is 80km/h, with a top speed of 155km/h. Small passenger ships designed to ferry people to different locations as quickly as possible travel at a cruising speed of 150km/h, with a top speed of 305km/h.



Anemoi Industrial-Class Ultra-Heavy Cargo Ships:

        Length: 200 meters
        Height: 49 meters
        Width: 80 meters
        Weight: 980 metric tons

        Description: While they resemble their smaller civilian cousins, the interior of cargo ships is made up in bulk of the cargo hold. The cargo-hold is made up of four payload decks, each of which measure at 91 by 14 meters, with a ceiling height of 5 meters. The flight cabin is much larger, as it contains everything the crew requires for the flight. It is made up of three level. The top level contains the crew's rooms and living area, the center level contains the kitchen, storage, and dining area, and the lower level contains the flight deck. Each level can be accessed by a flight of stairs. Unlike their civilian counterparts, the cargo-hold, main cabin, maintenance corridors, fuel rooms, and repulsion engines are protected by a layer of nanosteel.

Cargoships are heavy and slow craft, cruising only at 150km/h with a top speed of 230km/h. They are rented out to other cities by both London and Saberdex Industries to aid in shipping large loads across the continent. Many who can not afford to pay for a flight ticket often attempt to stow away in the cargo-hold of these behemoths.



Saberdex HDS-62 Colossi Drop Ships:

        Length: 310 meters
        Height: 80 meters
        Width: 140 meters
        Weight: 2600 metric tons

        Description: *pending*


Saberdex HAS-68 Assault Ships:

        Length: 180 meters
        Height: 45 meters
        Width: 70 meters
        Weight: 850 metric tons

        Description: *pending*

Name: Brachypteryx
Alternative Names: Leaf Hopper, Brittox (used by the Va’Gatti)

Homeworld: Earth-CH42
Mundus Range: Tartarus

Height: 7.5 to 9 meters (25 to 30 feet
Length: 9 to 12.5 meters (30 to 41 feet)
Mass: 42 to 54 metric tons
Bioteratic Level: 0.02 TW to 0.03 TW
Top Speed: 36/km per hour

Description: Brachypteryx are small insect-like terataurs that resemble grasshoppers or mantises with tall plate-like wings that rest vertically from their back. These wings look exactly like massive leaves, allowing the brachypteryx to blend into the canopy of Tartarus where it resides. The brachypteryx possesses strong hooked forelimbs, ideal for finding a hold on bark and pulling small leaves towards their jaws. Three smaller legs follow behind it, along with a fifth pair of read hind legs shaped similarly to a grasshopper’s. Two long antenna curl from its head to double its usual body length, and a sharp stinger tips the terataur’s abdomen. The brachypteryx is various colorful shades of green, though it possesses color changing abilities in its wings to blend in with leaves of other colors.


Info: Residing in the canopy of Tartarus, brachypteryx represent one of the largest populations of all terataur species. Countless individuals flood the trees above, serving as a vital component of the canopy’s (and occasionally the understory’s) food chain.


Behavior: Brachypteryx are herbivores that feast on the very leaves they mimic. Tiny for terataur standards and possessing little in the way to defend themselves, brachypteryx will hide from or flee from most conflicts. A predator that sniffs them out are often subjected to hundreds of brachypteryx leaping out from the surrounding trees as they scatter in all directions in a panicked attempt at escape. Only if their larvae are threatened will brachypteryx fight back, using their small size and powerful forelimbs to latch on where a predator can’t reach and using their stingers to drive it off.


Threat Level: Brachypteryx are among the least dangerous of all terataurs. They are too small to cause significant collateral damage, and possess no predatory instincts. Their greatest danger comes from the winds generated by their flapping wings; they are likely to accidently blow a human off the canopy branches if startled.


Abilities:
– Camouflage: The wings of a brachypteryx offer it excellent camouflage in the canopy of Tartarus, allowing the terataur to disguise itself as a leaf.
– Escape: If spotted by a predator, a brachypteryx will use its powerful hind legs to leap away. A brachypteryx can leap over three hundred meters, and its wings allow it to glide across the canopy even further. A brachypteryx can fly at a top speed of 450km/h.
– Stinger: Its only weapon, the stinger of a brachypteryx is about four feet long and as hard and sharp as a nanosteel blade. It is not venomous.
– Chitin: Although not especially armored by terataur standards, the brachypteryx is covered in protective chitin. This offers far more protection than a softer skinned terataur of similar size. A brachypteryx can deflect bullets and light artillery with its armor – even a nanosteel knife will have difficulty breaking through without sufficient force behind it. Its joints and its wings are less protected, however.
– Terataur Traits: As significantly energized bioteratic organisms, the silver blood of a brachypteryx naturally emits an electromagnetic field. Used to prevent the terataur from sinking into soft earth and to allow it to withstand the effects of gravity, the field also acts as a shield from physical projectiles; although it may only deflect objects traveling beyond 900 feet per second. The electromagnetic field of a brachypteryx is extremely weak, completely unable to deflect masses beyond two metric tons or projectiles from any kind of missile or artillery. Like all terataurs, brachypteryx is highly resilient to poisons and diseases, and it lacks an excretory system and respiratory system. Brachypteryx is capable of slow regeneration, repairing minor injuries within hours, and major injuries within days. A terataur’s bioteratic regeneration makes it extraordinarily difficult to permanently kill without the use of aethereal or nethereal force directed into its bioteratic heart. In Lemuria, the energies responsible for the arrival of Tartarus has disrupted this protection: any blow to the bioteratic heart has the potential to kill a terataur, although aethereal and nethereal attacks remain the easiest methods.

Name: Fossegrim

Homeworld: Myytharr
Mundus Range: The Brume

Height: 5'5" to 6'4"
Mass: 120lbs to 210lbs
Top Speed: 16mph

Description: Fossegrim are an entirely male race; although they are capable of assuming the form of a female if they desire. They may appear as any humanoid they have knowledge of, though in their natural form a fossegrim resembles a male elf with pale blue skin and shoulder-length white hair. Fossegrim do not wear clothing, and have the lanky, fit build of a professional swimmer, though they are no stronger than a human of similar size and stature. They are considered highly attractive beings by traditional social standards, with the exception of their knife-like teeth and often unnerving eyes, which are entirely black. The unseelie fossegrim of the Brume may carry more unusual mutations due to their hybrid heritage: unusual teeth, claw-like nails, prehensile hair, tails, wings, fins, or unusual skin tones. These mutations are often hidden through the fossegrim' shapeshifting abilities, however, making determining a fossegrim' seelie or unseelie status a difficult prospect.

Info: Known for their fantastical musical abilities and their love of song and dance, fossegrim are unpredictable water spirits. Found in ponds and behind waterfalls, fossegrim greatly enjoy lively conversations in which they may trade knowledge for knowledge and revel in song and dance and hedonistic celebrations. However, they are also predatory by nature, and a hungry fossegrim will not hesitate to use its charms, its looks, and its music to lure in human victims to drown and feed on. A fossegrim's hunger can be peacefully sated by providing it with a meal; if it deems the offering delicious, a fossegrim will not attack and will even offer its would-be prey a gift in return for its services. Some scholars believe fossegrims are the male equivalent of the all-female nymph race, fellow water spirits, though such claims have not been proven.

Threat Level: A hungry fossegrim is a serious threat to any traveler that happens by their ponds. Even if they aren't looking for a meal, fossegrim are still unpredictable as with many fairies, and thus should be treated with caution even in their friendly moods.

Abilities:
– Enchanting Music: A fossegrim is never seen without its harp or fiddle. Weaving its magic into the notes it creates, the fossegrim can create a hauntingly beautiful harmony capable of enthralling the minds of intelligent creatures. Those affected are often filled with desire or lust for the fossegrim, and are magically compelled to rush towards. As expected, this magic is weakened if the fossegrim's target is not normally attracted to the gender or species of their current form. Once they are within the fossegrim's reach, the fairy will attempt to drown them with a kiss.
– Water Spirit: A fossegrim has minor control over water, using it to buffet and push back attackers. It is also capable of becoming invisible while submerged in water, allowing it to hide itself from threats. The most dangerous use of this ability however, is the fossegrim's ability to fill a victim's lungs with water by touching their lips, usually with a kiss. This is its primary method of drowning and killing its prey.
– Fair Folk Traits: Like most fairies, fossegrim are highly resistant to mind-affecting abilities and enchantments, and move with unnatural fluidity and grace. They are highly resistant to physical damage, though iron burns their skin and cold iron bypasses these defenses entirely. A fossegrim cannot be permanently killed unless it is slain by a cold iron weapon, or else it will return fully formed within a month.

Weakness:
– As dryads are to their trees, a fossegrim is magically bound to its pond or waterfall. It cannot travel more than a mile from its lair, or else it becomes weak and sickly.
– Cold iron is extraordinarily dangerous to a fairy, and even normal iron is capable of bypassing their innate toughness through the sheer severity of the burns alone.

Name: Dryad

Homeworld: Mytharr
Mundus Range: The Brume; sparse populations in the Wolf Woods and the rainforests of Farrago

Height: 4’8” – 6’2”
Mass: 70lbs – 160lbs
Top Speed: 20mph

Description: Dryads are among the most ancient of the fair folk; legends say they are as old as the first tree that sprung up from the earth. A dryad resembles an athletic female humanoid in its basic build and shape, though one that appears to be a plant rather than an animal, with bark and wood in place of skin and branches and leaves growing from their scalps. Their wooden exoskeleton is artificial, however. Dryads are truthfully flesh and blood creatures, much like most other nymphs, who use a combination of sap and magic to ritually glue dead wood, bark, branches, and leaves to their skin, which is then returned to brilliant life by their own fae energy. This ritual offers the dryad a form of natural armor and camouflage, and also serves as an important cultural rite of passage for young dryads.

Each dryad’s coating of wood and leaves has an appearance unique to their tree. The “hair” of a dryad is also vastly different between individuals; most having ropey vine-like dreadlocks, or hair like long waving grass. Some cover their hair in a wooden exoskeleton as well, bearing stiff woody helmets of twigs and branches atop their scalp. Many, depending on their tree, even have blossoms, flowers, and small fruits growing in their branches, due to the life giving energy a dryad carries. The eyes of a dryad are usually entirely black, though variations are known to exist.

There are few dryads without an exoskeleton of wood and plantlife, those that exist are often young dryads that have not yet completed their rite of passage. Through these few individuals it is known that dryads behind their wooden armor resemble lean but muscular humanoid females with pale green skin and dark green hair, both of which grow an earthly brown during the winter season.


Info: Dryads are among one of the many types of nymphs: female nature spirits that manifest to protect and sustain a small piece of the natural world. A dryad manifests when a rare tree (most commonly in highly magical areas, such as the Brume) first sprouts from the soil as a sapling. Unlike other nymphs, dryads do not manifest fully grown, but age alongside their tree, starting life as vulnerable infants. Dryads are thus extremely social fey, and newborn children are communally raised by a dryad community within their groves.

Dryads will remain soul-bound partners and caretakers of their birth tree until the day the tree passes on. Upon the death of their tree, a dryad will also cease to exist, never to return as so many other fey often do. Dryads are therefore extremely protective of their forest homes, which has given the fair folk at large a reputation for being protectors of nature; in truth fairies are quite diverse in their behavior and actions. Indeed, lesser known is the dryad’s skill as hunters. Dryads are carnivorous and cannot subsist on photosynthesis alone. They are swift and silent in their forest home, and make excellent trackers, though they cannot stray far from their tree for longer than a day before their separation weakens and eventually kills the dryad. Dryads place a higher value on plantlife than animal life, and find the idea of building tools and shelter out of wood to be an unsettling and morbid thought. Thus, dryads build their bows and tools out of bone, tendon, stone, and hide. They do not build fires, and eat their kills raw.

Since the Brume's arrival to Lemuria, dryads have started to appear in sparse numbers in both the Wolf Woods and the rainforests of Farrago, bonded to certain trees in those locations.


Threat Level: Although a dryad can be easily offended by something as simple as a mortal with tools made of wood, they understand better than most fairies the value of life. They do not normally kill unless they are hunting or defending their home, and most prefer to simply avoid mortals that draw their ire. A friendly dryad is usually more trustworthy than other fey; their seclusion in dense forests leaves many quite curious about life in cities and mortal cultures. They value sharp senses and grace, and enjoy inviting particularly skilled mortals on hunts. One must take caution, however: a rare few dryads are bonded to carnivorous trees and will not hesitate to lure mortals to offer them as a meal.


Abilities:
– Hunters: Dryads are swift, silent, and elusive. It’s rare to find a dryad that does not wish to be found, and they can be deadly hunters.
– Archery: Dryads have surprising strength and usually wield enchanted great bows crafted out of bone or ivory with strings or dry tendons. These bows are as tall as they are, and their arrows – long pointed shafts of bone – can often punch through steel armor.
– Tree Nymph: As tree nymphs, dryads wield powerful magical abilities. They are capable of speaking to and commanding plantlife, binding enemies in grass, weeds, and bushes; causing trees to uproot and attack their foes; spraying dangerous thorns from their bodies; and even turning into trees as a disguise. They can even manipulate their own skin, growing hard armor-like bark on a whim. This bark is a magical boon gained as the result of completing a coming of age ritual, and it is rare to find a grown dryad without their exoskeleton of bark.
– Fey Traits: Like most fairies, dryads are highly resistant to mind-affecting abilities and enchantments, and move with unnatural fluidity and grace. They are highly resistant to physical damage, though iron burns their skin and cold iron bypasses these defenses entirely. A dryad cannot be permanently killed unless it is slain by a cold iron weapon or its tree is killed, or else it will return fully formed within a month.

Weaknesses:
– A dryad is bound to its tree, and cannot stray more than three hundred meters from its tree for longer than twelve hours. If twelve hours pass, the dryad will fall ill, and in another twelve hours will eventually die.
– Cold iron is extraordinarily dangerous to a fairy, and even normal iron is capable of bypassing their innate toughness through the sheer severity of the burns alone.

Name: Satyr

Homeworld: Mytharr
Mundus Range: The Brume

Height: 5’4” – 8’1”
Mass: 130lbs – 890lbs
Top Speed: 18mph – 24mph

Description: Satyrs, like the fossegrim, are an entirely male race of fae. They are commonly confused with fauns, a smaller and gracile related race not native to the Brume. Below the torso, a satyr has furry, hooved legs akin to that of a large goat or ram. Above the torso, the average satyr resembles a muscular, rugged man, often with a beard and long tangled locks of hair. Long curving horns sprout out from their temples, reaching up to two feet in length, and their ears resemble those of a goats. Although they live deep in the wilds, satyrs are highly concerned with cleanliness, despite what their wild appearance may imply, and spend long hours communally bathing and grooming their hair, skin, and fur. While they lack the grace and almost dainty beauty of the fossegrim, most satyrs are considered highly attractive by those that prefer bulkier and more traditionally masculine bodies.

While rare, a second variant of satyr also exists. Believed to be fathered or mothered by ogres or trolls, these satyrs are enormous, up to eight feet tall, and are far more bestial than their smaller cousins. Bristling with muscle and course hair, and boasting naked ram-like snouts with formidable canines and large claws, these satyrs can be easily mistaken for a particularly monstrous minotaur.
Info: Satyrs are particularly infamous for their lust, but it is perhaps more accurate to say that they are prideful. While not haughty or conceited like many seelie fae, satyrs are deeply in love with their own bodies and take great pride in perfecting it and showing off their physical capabilities. They commonly participate in races and competitive dances and feats of strength, and a dispute will often be solved by competitors literally butting heads until the loser backs down. Most satyrs even place religious importance on their physical bodies; they are known to worship both their own bodies and the bodies of others. This is what drives their hedonistic nature, as satyrs believe that the pursuit of pleasure is the greatest gift one can give to the body. This is also what drives their infamous libido. Satyrs are often crude, but none-the-less think they’re more seductive than they really are. Their confidence in their charm as well as their bodies leads them to long and tireless attempted pursuits of other creatures, hoping to both fill their own ego and share the pleasures of the body.

The giant bestial satyrs are an entirely different matter. As the largest and strongest of satyrs, these rare brutes quickly take command of their tribe at a young age, but they do not share the religious beliefs of their fathers. While they retain the intelligence of a common satyr, these beasts also carry over the feral and often carnivorous nature of their mothers. While they do not prey on fey, these monsters are quick to stalk and snatch away mortal humanoids, carrying them deep into the forest to be consumed. This behavior has given rise to the myth that satyrs are violent rapists that kidnap mortals on a whim, a belief that most satyrs find repugnant and offensive; their pride would never allow them to stoop to such levels.
Threat Level: While satyrs are not an actively aggressive fey, they are rowdy and egotistical, and alcohol can easily goaded them into lethal violence. It is not unheard of for satyr revels to end in bloodshed, particularly if strangers turn down their invitations to join. Even sober, they are unpredictable and driven entirely by their easily triggered emotions, and an angry satyr may often forget in their immortality that mortals do not return from death so easily as the fey. While they can certainly be dangerous, it should be noted that satyrs are one of the fey that can feel love. Indeed, as intense as their emotions are, it is not uncommon for a satyr to fall deeply in love with a mortal. Such a lovestruck individual will tirelessly spend weeks or even months attempting to charm the object of their affection.

The giant bestial satyrs, and the subservient satyrs that live under their rule, are an entirely different matter. These voracious fey are quick to abduct travelers for food, using their incredible strength to simply pin their victims and feast while they are still alive. The satyrs under their watch are also on the menu, and despite the promise of immortality even a fey would prefer to avoid such a horrific event. Smaller satyrs make bargains with these feral giants, capturing mortals and other fey to satisfy their leader’s hunger in return for being spared. This makes satyrs led by such monsters far more dangerous, even going as far as to venture out of the Brume to raid villages and caravans.


Abilities:
– Horny: A satyr’s long, curved horns allow for powerful ramming attacks when no hand-held weapon is available. The horns of the beast satyr are even longer, and their jagged tips can be used to gore smaller opponents.
– Supernatural Strength: Satyr’s have incredible physical strength, usually capable of deadlifting up to 600lbs on average (up to 1000lbs or more for a well-trained satyr). They can easily overpower most humans in an unarmed confrontation, and their frequent competitions with other satyrs keep them well practiced. Their powerful legs, tipped in sharp hooves, can deliver lethal kicks powerful enough to crush bone. The larger beast satyrs are stronger than either of their parents, capable of lifting nearly two tons. They often fight with pair of massive stone or bone hatchets, but it is not uncommon for them to destroy the primitive weapons with their swings.
– Claws and Fangs: The giant bestial satyrs possess thick black claws and protruding snouts armed with sharpened teeth and powerful jaws. These monsters rarely go through the trouble of killing their prey before feasting, using their jaws to tear flesh from their still screaming victims.
– Satyr Senses: The fiery orange eyes of a satyr resemble those of a goat rather than a human, with distinctive rectangular pupils. This gives satyrs a much wider degree of vision than humans, allowing them to spot things from the corner of their eyes easily. Their long ears are highly sensitive: a satyr can pick up footfalls from five hundred feet away.
– Winter’s Touch Despite their rugged and hairy appearance, satyrs radiate a weak aura of fey beauty that can distract those within five feet, similar to the abilities of the fossegrim (though much weaker).
– Pan Pipes Satyrs have a natural talent for music, and through their songs a few rare satyrs may weave potent magic of their own. Though these pipes they may lull an enemy to sleep, or bewitch their mind into believing them to be a trusted friend. In pitched battles however, most satyrs opt to use their pipes to create a supernaturally chilling sound that can strike fear into men’s hearts and drive lesser enemies away.
– Fey Traits Though satyrs are often too brutish to have the same measure of grace and mental strength as other fey, they share the same resistance to physical damage. Iron can burn their bare skin, and cold iron bypasses these defenses entirely. A satyr’s skin and muscles are also much harder than a humans, allowing them to take more punishment than normal. A satyr cannot be permanently killed unless it is slain by a cold iron weapon, or else it will return fully formed within a month.

Weaknesses:
– A satyr lacks the mental fortitude of other fey, leaving them far more vulnerable to mind effecting magic, particularly when drunken.

Name: Animated Trees

Homeworld: Mytharr
Mundus Range: The Brume


Info: The Brume is an ancient forest, which has stood on the planet for longer than most mountains. The soil is rich in the magic of the World Roots, and has been tainted by the corruptive essence of the Black Pond. It is common for that corrupted magic to seep into the roots of trees and other plants. Gaining movement and a mind like an animal, these animated roots flail madly beneath the earth, usually breaking free from their host trees to seek out a life of their own. These living roots are dangerous ambush predators, asphyxiating or crushing their prey so they may drink the rich nutrients of their blood. A few varieties of these dangerous plants exist, depending on how much of the original tree has been brought to life by magic before their roots break off.



Name: Serpent Root

Length: Up to 20 feet
Mass: Up to 230lbs
Top Speed: 1 mile per hour (One and a half feet per second)

Description:
Found on the forest floor of the Brume, camouflaged against the foliage or the surface roots of nearby trees, serpent roots are brown, long roots reaching up to twenty feet in length. Branching off from the primary serpent root are smaller roots up to five feet in length that bear wide leaves, and in spring time produce small berries. Serpent roots are thick and powerful, capable of subduing human sized creatures. Serpent roots can only crawl at a snail's pace; they are ambush predators that utilize their camouflage to lie in wait for prey.


Abilities:

Name: Ansyral

Homeworld: Mytharr
Mundus Range: The Brume

Height: 4’6” – 5’10”
Mass: 70lbs – 140lbs
Top Speed: 20mph (flight)

Description: Ansyral are stunningly beautiful beings in the eyes of most human-related species. Appearing as haunting humanoids with long pointed ears and thin builds, ansyral appear nearly identical to elves to the untrained eye – only in the darkness of night will the distinctive red glow of their eyes reveal themselves. Ansyral take full advantage of their similarities to elves, donning elven clothing and infiltrating elven societies to study their behaviors and mannerisms. Without the aid of darkness it can be difficult to separate an ansyral from an elf, apart from their distinctly androgynous features that often attract mortals of either sex. Ansyral themselves have no set sex, possessing adaptive organs that can change freely. The Kuu’Vari of the Brume harbour a deep mistrust of any elf with androgynous features, and have attempted several methods to separate an ansyral from a true elf, such as clasping them in irons. Ansyral are incorporeal by nature, perfectly silent as they walk and capable of floating into the air like a phantom. They have the ability to touch and interact with the material world, which is how many done their clothes, but they must concentrate to do so.


Info: Ansyral are believed by some scholars to be the direct ancestors of elves. They were not always incorporeal predators, but elf-like fey that held the unique power to manipulate the emotions of others. Their powers attracted the attention of a dangerous, ethereal horror: an emotionless, cold, and rational force from another plane of existence that demonized emotion and sought nothing less than the subjection and purification of the lesser, emotional material beings. Knowing the ansyral had the ability to drain the emotions of other creatures, the ethereal force sought them out as slaves for their invasion. Capturing the entire race and forcing them to “purify” of each other, their ethereal masters bred and changed them forever, transforming the ansyral into the ethereal predators they are today, forced to drain the emotions of others for sustenance.

The creation of the Starlight Stones sealed off Rostelda from the rest of the planes, halting the invasion plan of the ethereal masters and freeing the ansyral from their servitude. But they were now forever changed.

Ansyral, once highly emotional creatures, are now beings that can no longer even mourn for their loss, though it’s a loss they recognize. They no longer know fear, sorrow, joy, hope, and love, and must feed on the emotions of mortals to gain sustenance. Ansyral rationalize their behavior in different ways: some have adopted the view of their old masters and see emotion as a sin that has only brought pain to the world, believing they are doing what’s right by purifying others. A few choose to selectively limit their targets to creatures suffering from depression, anxiety, and other negative energies. They are usually allies with the shadow fey, a doomed race who suffer at the hands of a curse and are often willing to be freed of their pain.

Most ansyral however simply wish to feel once again. The act of feeding draws the emotions out from their prey and into the ansyral, providing a powerful empathetic link to their prey that allow them to briefly experience emotion once again. Many ansyral have become addicted to positive emotions such as joy, lust, and hope, but face the difficult challenge of inspiring these emotions into their would-be meal. These ansyral are manipulators that take on the guise of elves to mislead other creatures, presenting themselves as friends, allies, or even lovers, using any means at their disposal to inspire positive emotions they can feast from. These facades may last for days in an ansyral’s attempt to earn the trust of their prey.

Anysral are known to prey upon other fey, using their mortal appearance and the libido of most fey to seduce and drain satyrs, fossegrim, anthousai, and dryads. They are feared and hated among most fey, though a few, such as pixies and unicorns develop symbiotic relationships with them, working together to capture mortal prey. Many anysral also have good relationships with the shadow fey, many of who are glad to have their fears and despair drained away and provide the ansyral with joy at the prospect of losing such a burden to their lives.

Not all ansyral are cursed without emotions. Though they reproduce rarely, those born after the ansyral escaped from their former masters are born with their emotions intact, though they must be cautious to avoid being drained by other ansyral – even their own parents, who are incapable of feeling love. Those that avoid such a fate must still rely on feeding on emotions for sustenance, but they do not do so for their own pleasure, and many can be reasoned with by mortals.


Threat Level: Ansyral are among the most dangerous fey in the Brume, even feared by other fey. They are cunning predators, sensing and preying on their victims emotional weaknesses and often presenting themselves as nothing more than elves, until such a time that they can bring joy, love, contentment, or pleasure to their prey which they may then feed upon. While they do not kill their prey, the act of completely draining their victim leaves them unconscious for up to a day, during which they can be easily picked off by predators or other fey, such as pixies, who are eager to enslave being that can’t muster the drive to fight back.


Abilities:
– Incorporeal: Ansyral are ethereal beings, capable of passing through air, water, stone, and even living creatures as though they weren’t there. Ansyral are among the most dangerous creatures in the Brume as they are usually nearly impossible to fight off. They are immune to physical attack and energy from the material plane such as fire or electricity, as it simply passes right through them. Only magically enhanced attacks, such as the flames of spellcasters, enchanted weapons, or creatures under the effect of certain offensive magical enchantments may harm an ansyral. Attacks enhanced by aether, nether, esh, spirit swaying, greshlynk’s flame, or other forces similar to magic can also harm them. With focus, ansyral can interact with and touch objects and creatures of the material world. This is how they are capable of wearing clothing, though in time exposure to their energies renders these clothes incorporeal themselves. An ansyral focused into materializing can be taken by surprise and injured with a non-magic weapon, provided the blow is delivered with a cold iron weapon or powerful enough to bypasses their resistances.
– Kiss of the Ansyral: Though physical contact with their lips, an ansyral can drain the emotions of a living creature. They cannot completely drain their prey in one kiss, except perhaps only against simpleminded animals. Instead, they must wear down their prey by draining them multiple times, just as a material creature may need several bites to devour its food. Those with strong will can resist and attempt to tear their emotions back, providing the ansyral with only a faction of what it might otherwise drain. Even still, ansyral can drain the emotions of a sapient creature frighteningly quickly, usually requiring they kiss them three to six times before they are completely drained of all emotion. Ansyral may also attempt to feed from affair with an invisible magical link, allowing them to subtly feed without attracting attention from their victim’s companions, though they drain much more slowly in this manner.

Those who suffer from an ansyral’s kiss or drain briefly forge an empathetic link with the fey, which shares the victim’s current emotions between them. This link magnifies all current emotions sensations of the victim, be it fear, joy, pain, pleasure, despair, or anger, and can leave all but the strongest minds dazed and disoriented from their intensity Ansyral must be careful about when they choose to feed; it is not unheard of for an overeager ansyral to frighten themselves away by kissing and forging a link with a terrified victim. Those partially drained by an ansyral can make a full recovery in a few day’s time.

Those unfortunate to be completely drained on the other hand are reduced to unconsciousness for up to a day. If no predators pick them off, they awake left as emotionless, soulless husks of their former selves. Known as “empty ones”, these poor people or fey can no longer feel happiness, sorrow, fear, anger, pain, pleasure, lust, love, empathy, hatred or hope. They are robotic in behavior, operating only on logic and reasoning, and lack drive and in the most extreme cases even the will to live. Only extremely powerful healing magic, such as those provided by powerful beings or artifacts, may restore such a victim.
– Sense Emotions: The ansyral can sense the emotions of other creatures. As predators, this allows them to locate hidden prey, though it can also allow them to sense the motivations and bluffs of other beings.
– Manipulate Emotions To entice positive feelings in their prey that they can feed on, some ansyral opt to manipulate a creature’s emotions, such as embedding a deep seated trust or nearly uncontrollable lust for the fey. Most prefer not to fight their prey, as such only leads to feeding off unpleasant emotions such as desperation, fear, or anger. If they are in danger, ansyral may also use this power to provoke intense fear in their enemies in an effort to drive them off.
– Surging Euphoria: An ansyral that has recently fed on positive emotions can empower itself with pure euphoria, increasing the potency of its attacks.
– Winters Chill: Ansyral are hauntingly beautiful, and their androgynous features and ability to change sex attracts both genders. Like the fossegrim, their chilling presence clouds the minds of non-fey within five feet, leaving all but the most strong willed creatures easy prey for the ansyral.
– Fey Traits: Like most fairies, ansyral are highly resistant to mind-affecting abilities and enchantments, and move with unnatural fluidity and grace. They are highly resistant to physical damage, and even an enchanted weapon or magically enhanced individual that bypasses their incorporeality must land a powerful blow to injure an ansyral. Iron burns their skin and cold iron bypasses these defenses entirely. An ansyral cannot be permanently killed unless it is slain by a cold iron weapon, or else it will return fully formed within a month.


Weaknesses:
– Ansyral form an empathetic connection with their prey as they feed, allowing them to share their prey’s current emotions. This magnifies the emotions and less experienced ansyral have been known to frighten themselves away by feeding off a terrified individual.
– Ansyral are powerless against machines, certain undead, plants, and other creatures that have no emotions they can drain or manipulate. They may still, however, pass through the hulls of vehicles and mechs to attack the people within.
– Cold iron is extraordinarily dangerous to a fairy, and even normal iron is capable of bypassing their innate toughness through the sheer severity of the burns alone.

Name: Harpy

Average Height: 5’9”
Average Wingspan: 11’0”
Weight: 88-110lbs
Top Speed: 46mph (flight)

Info:
Harpies are one of the many types of Lamias.


Description:
(Warning: There are still boobies.)

(These are not exact designs. Just the closest I could find to what I was imagining.)

Most commoners are unaware that the Lamias are a highly varied group, and many Lamias that live beyond Etu-Esharra are known by different names. The most common of these Lamias are often called “harpies” by commoners. Fathered or mothered by fierce, vulture-like demons, harpies are bitter creatures neither accepted in conventional society due to their monstrous appearance, or by the Lamias, for their ugliness. Only a few female harpies serve at Etu-Esharra – the rest of the population is made up of enslaved males. Appearing as thin, gaunt humanoids with black feathered wings sprouting from their backs, harpies have sickly, pale purple skin, long digitigrade legs, and bird-like talons. Long claws sprout from the tips of their fingers, and purple scales cover their hands and feet, blending into their skin near the knees and elbows. The face of a harpy is often wrinkled, and a large black beak exists where their nose and mouth would be. Their sunken eyes are milky white. Long, thin hair trails down the back of their heads.

Powers and Abilities:

Demon Claws: Harpies wield small but sharp claws on the ends of their bony fingers and talons. They make poor weapons, however, and these Lamias will only resort to them if cornered and out of options.

Flight: Harpies are the fastest of the Lamias thanks to their ability to fly. They can reach speeds of up to 46mph, and are quite agile in the air.

Archery: The few harpies at Etu-Esharra have learned to become capable archers to compensate for their lack of power. Using their large wings, harpies are capable of staying well out of reach of melee weapons, firing at their enemies with enchanted arrows from above.

Captivating Song: Though their parents are known for their tremendous screech, harpies have undergone a strange mutation. Their voices are quite entrancing, thick with magical power, and much like merfolk they have the ability to captivate and lure mortals towards them. Their song can be resisted by those of strong will, but those that succumb to the song may follow the harpy even through dangerous terrain. Victims have been known to be so captivated that not even pain or physical damage may bring them to their senses, leaving them helpless against other Lamias that may be nearby. The magic will end as soon as the harpy stops singing. The song has no effect on those with demonic blood.

Half-Demon: Lamias are especially resilient due to their demonic blood. They are highly resistant to electricity, shrugging off weaker hits completely and somewhat capable of weathering stronger ones. Like fey, Lamias are also highly resistant to physical damage, requiring cold iron or hard blows to breach their skin and hide. Harpies, however, are more frail than other Lamias, and even a solid stroke of a sword can injure them. Unlike fey, Lamias are highly vulnerable to holy/white magics and weapons, as well as aethereal attacks. Lamias are immune to the effects of poisons and venoms, and has some resistance to magic. A harpy’s magic resistance is minor, and most casters can breach their defenses more often than not.

The Immortal Flame:
Some Lamias, blessed by Iza Dythun and Va’ggoru, have been blessed with the brand of a Phoenix, which the Lamias have been tricked into believing to be the new symbol of their Dark Prince. Those few Lamias branded with the symbol gain an immunity to extreme heat, and have some small measure of control over it – though they cannot easily wield it in combat.



Weaknesses:
– Lamias can be easily damage by cold iron. They are also highly vulnerable to white/holy magic and aethereal attacks.
– Harpies are quite frail despite their demonic blood, and are not particularly strong.

Name: Cambion

Height: 5’2”– 6’2”
Weight: 100lbs – 200lbs
Top Speed: 25mph (flight)

Info:
Most Cambions are one of the many types of Lamias.


Description:
(Warning: You guessed it. Boobies.)

(These are not exact designs. Just the closest I could find to what I was imagining.)

Cambions are the most common of all half-demons, as they are the offspring between a mortal and an incubus or succubus. They exist all across Myythar, well beyond the Lamia cult. In Lemuria, however, they are quite rare. Only those within the Lamia cult are confirmed to exist.

Cambions greatly resemble their demonic mothers or fathers, and it is common to mistake them for actual incubi or succubi. They appear, for the most part, as almost supernaturally attractive humanoids of the race of their mortal parent. They are recognizably demonic in appearance, however, often featuring large, crimson bat-like wings, a thin whip-like tail, and a pair of short, but sharp horns curbing up from their brow. Their eyes seem without pupils or whites, entirely red and seemingly glowing with an internal fire. Like their parents, cambions are able to change their form to resemble all manner of humanoids – this is a physical transformation, unlike the mere illusions that other Lamias use. This ability, along with their supernatural charms, grace, and stealth, make them excellent in the arts of espionage and assassination. Female cambions serve as spies and scouts for the Lamias, luring travelers and caravans towards their sisters, or gathering useful information in towns and cities. They are rarely seen at the temple of Etu-Esharra itself, for their own protection: many Lamias are dangerously envious of their beauty, particularly the girtablilu. Male cambions, as with most male Lamias, are little more than slaves, and are regarded as highly prized playthings among the higher ranking Lamias.

Powers and Abilities:

Alternate Form: Like their mothers and fathers, cambions are able to assume the form of other humanoid creatures of similar size and mass. They use this ability to blend in, some in an effort to life a normal life free of contempt and fear, others for more sinister purposes. The cambions of Etu-Esharra act as spies, messengers, and scouts for the Lamias.

Weaponry: While most cambions are supernaturally strong, capable of lifting 800lbs on average, they primarily fight as humans do: with weapons. The cambions of Etu-Esharra often carry enchanted longbows and swords, but the bow is their preferred weapon. They are accomplished snipers and assassins, able to strike distant foes from cover.

Flight: Although not as fast or as agile as harpies, cambions can still fly at a respectable 25mph in their natural form.

Stealth: Cambions inherit the grace and stealth of incubi and succubi, allowing them to sneak up on unsuspecting creatures. They also possess the inborn magical ability to become invisible to the naked eye, making them valued spies and assassins for the Lamias. This magic ends abruptly the minute they make contact with another living creature, including making an attack.

Demonic Magic: Cambions are no master of illusions or warmages, but they still possess a variety of useful magic thanks to their demonic heritage. Apart from their ability to become invisible, cambions also have the ability to swallow small areas in magical darkness (which they can perfectly see through), drug unconscious or paralyzed enemies for easy capture, and use the supernatural charms given to them by their parents to seduce creatures into believing them an ally. Like the enchantments of other Lamias, they cannot directly control other creatures or force them to do anything against their beliefs. Cambions may also communicate telepathically with other creatures, though only in the languages they know.

Poison: Cambion Lamias usually apply poison to their blades and arrowheads before a fight. This poison is collected from the girtablilu, and has the same paralyzing properties.

Half-Demon: Lamias are especially resilient due to their demonic blood. They are highly resistant to electricity, shrugging off weaker hits completely and somewhat capable of weathering stronger ones. Like fey, Lamias are also highly resistant to physical damage, requiring cold iron or exceptionally hard blows to breach their carapace. Cambions, born from (usually) weaker demons, are not quite as resilient as other Lamias, however. Unlike fey, Lamias are highly vulnerable to holy/white magics and weapons, as well as aethereal attacks. Lamias are immune to the effects of poisons and venoms, and has some resistance to magic, though not as great as Iza Dython’s. A caster of reasonable talent can breach their anti-magic defenses.

The Immortal Flame:
Some Lamias, blessed by Iza Dythun and Va’ggoru, have been blessed with the brand of a Phoenix, which the Lamias have been tricked into believing to be the new symbol of their Dark Prince. Those few Lamias branded with the symbol gain an immunity to extreme heat, and have some small measure of control over it – though they cannot easily wield it in combat.


Weaknesses:
– Lamias and other half-demons can be easily damage by cold iron. They are also highly vulnerable to white/holy magic and aethereal attacks.