Species Info

Brief summaries of each species, for those who would rather have the gist than read an entire article about each race.

About

Humans make up most of the sapient population of the planet, and have spread to nearly every corner of it.  They do not so much adapt to their surroundings as they do make their surroundings adapt to them.

Social Aspects

With their being so widespread, there is no one unified human culture and they interact with and view the world differently even among themselves.  Fae tend to view humans as clunky, destructive, ultimately lesser creatures.  Demons tend to do poorly travelling between cultures, especially if the idea they're born of is less prevalent/nonexistent in their new surroundings.

Magical Aspects

Despite not being inherently magical(with few exceptions), humanity has learned how to harness magical energy and use it to their own ends.  They also as a species passively create turmoil in the metaphysical plane, which mostly presents itself in the form of demons.

Physical Aspects

Their most defining physical feature as a sapient species is that they are extremely physical(as compared to the fae, or demons, who are much less so).  For the most part they are restricted by the physical rules of beasts and other materials.  That said they come in many forms, some less classically-humanoid than others.

Monsters

Shapeshifting is not overly uncommon in humans, albeit at a much slower pace and of less-conscious decision than fae or demons.  It is often triggered by puberty, mental trauma, or otherwise in response to large changes.  They always remain recognizably humanoid, no matter what new features they gain.  People who have features that aren't the human standard are called monstrous, or just monster if they're particularly-deformed(monster is more of a reclaimed slur type of term, I just don't have a more polite one made yet,,).  While rarer, human children can also just be born monstrous, and over time either lose their atypical features or gain even more of them.

There is a wide array of superstition surrounding Monstery humans, ranging from benign to fear-mongering mainly.  Many believe monstrous features are a corruption caused by having a rotten soul or making pacts with fae/demons, or being cursed by fae/demons.  Or sometimes parents(especially single parents) of monstrous children will be accused of having copulated with an actual animal to produce their weird-shaped kid.

Relevant Characters
Gale	Yvette	Innit	Xanthi

About

Fae are reclusive, when it comes to humans, and since humanity is so widespread they only inhabit a specific few regions around the globe.  Culture varies in their isolation from each other.  They're made of life?  Or as a byproduct of life happening, just magical masses that can take any form they want.

They take their appearances very seriously, and if two decide that they're too aesthetically similar, they'll p much just fight over who has to go change their outfit/legs/whatever. It's only acceptable for two beings to look the same if they are a part of the same individual.

Faewilds

Faewilds are any region humans recognize as being fae-controlled.  These come in two flavors: either areas that humans have never successfully colonized(generally because the environment there is too harsh to survive in), or areas that the fae have forcefully defended or reclaimed from humanity.

The In-Between is a borderland/overlap between fae and human-controlled land.  In some places these are actively fought over, in others warily shared by the two groups.

Faewilds tend to just look like wilderness, the fae tend not to build physical structures and instead constuct faerealms, which are small pocket dimensions that they essentially use the same way a human would use a building.  Just made with magic instead of physical material.

Trivia

• they don't really understand individuality in flesh creatures.  Generally if they see two creatures of the same species, who also aren't fighting each other, they assume it's the same individual
• similarly, if they actually witness a death but then see another one of that species later, they will assume the first one dying was just a fragment that expired suddenly
• don't really get corpses either, anything without life in it is considered a rock or dirt of some kind
• sustained by proximity to life, generally become stronger the older they get

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Lilypad	Iyako	???	Placeholder