Explicit Races and Description Thread (Rules Updated on 13th November)

NAME: Lightbringers
TYPE: Traditionally humanoid

ORGIN: Much like a werewolf, they're an aquired race instead of a born race with specific requirements for achieving thier unique abilities. They appear to have existed throughout human history, but records indicate them existing before mankind. Their form seems to be bestowed upon humans directly by the gods of magic. However, in some cases, the gods don't appear to be necessary. Ultimately, like a style of fighting, they're formed by people who know the legend rather than those who have no knolage of it. Legend says that a Lightbringer is a high-powered mage (traditionally alligned with Light magic) that fuses with thier own mana. Thier magic will, in response, shape thier body into a suitable form. A compromise between thier original form and what thier magic wants them to be like.

APPEARENCE: Lightbringers can be formed with any race of creature, but always have specific features. Thier skin almost glows with magic, yet turns a grey-ish pale when drained of energy or on the verge of death. All Lightbringers have a pair of simple swept-back wings that are too small for natural flight. Instead, the wings are simply a symbol of flight and the user will fly with thier own magic. A more practical feature of the Lightbringers is thier eyes. Lightbringers almost always have large insect-like shiny eyes that dictate thier face. Much like a fly has. Although they lack the expressions of normal eyes, they are thich enough to keep a person's sight clear through even the most dangerous wind storms. A usefull trait when a Lightbringer is flying around at high speeds. In extreme cases, the transformation will sharpen a person's features and force thier hair back. It's unknown exactly why this happens, but it seems to have something to do with the level of mana that takes over the person's body.

REQUIREMENTS:
-1- You must be a mage. Only light magic has been known to turn a person into a Lightbringer, however other types of magic is theoretically possible.

-2- You must be increadibly physically and mentally strong and unwavering. Otherwise, an attempted transformation will result in you losing control of your own magic. Effects of a failed transformation range from being blown to bits, to becomming a mindless magical beast, to even mental instability or worse!

-3- Only through raw emotion can an accomplished mage become a Lightbringer. An existing Lightbringer can help induce the initial transformation. However, if the non-Lightbringer does not wish to transform, he can stop it easilly.

-4- If you do not know the legend, then you can't become one with your mana to use thier abilities. Why, you may ask? Because if you don't wish to become a Lightbringer then it cannot happen. If you don't know Lightbringers exist, how can you wish to become one?

-5- You must be familiar with dark or evil forces. Otherwise you won't be able to honestly justify to yourself the need for such power. So if you're a mage that wants to become a Lightbringer to impress a girl, then raw love cannot induce a transformation.

POWERS:
1. High-speed flight
2. Increased physical abilities
3. Drastically more powerfull magic
4. Higher resistance to almost every type of mental control of illusions
5. Skilled Lightbringers can turn into a form made of pure mana for a short ammount of time at the cost of thier own life force
-5A. Mana form allows regeneration of most wounds
-5B. Travel and movement at unbelievably high speeds. Extrodinarely powerfull Lightbringers can literally rip enemies in two by flying fast enough through them... but at a high rish of perminately damaging thier internal organs

NAME: Archerons
TYPE: Astral shapeshifting birds

ORGIN: Archerons are said to come from a mystical artifect known as the Chaos Orb. An orb made to hold the potential destruction of the universe to keep it stable. The chaos energy, by it's verry nature, formed these things from a random nightmare simply because they had yet to exist. Normally, they live inside the pocket wasteland of the orb and feed off the will of anyone unfortunate enough to touch thier home. When there are no people to feed on, they instead feed directly off the power that created them. It is because of this that it is believed the Archerons feed on human minds not because they hunger, but just for the satysfaction of driving them mad. However, occasionally an Archeron will utalize the energy of the Chaos Orb to appear in a random reality. They then must feed on a person's mind otherwise they will starve to death. Although rare, it is entirely possible for the escaped Archeron to kidnap someone and bring them back to thier home.

They are, and have always been, nightmare beings. Even when well fed and taken care of, an Archeron was never ment for the mortal world. They will eventually dissapear after 7 years under the best conditions. Nearly all Archeron's are completely silent unless they have a person's mind so far under thier control that they can use them like a puppet.

APPEARENCE: Generally, Archerons are red vulture-like birds. In thier bird form, an Archeron is coated in red feathers with black legs. The Archerons always have four eyes. Each one, completely white and appears like it was painted on. Thier head is usually a long narrow solid beak with yellow hair coming out the back. The lower-beak, by contrast, is pitch black.

When an Archeron is strong enough, it can turn into a humanoid form. Without much effort, they shift the feathers aside like a cloak that then drags along the ground. They also have a change in posture and suddenly have arms. In later stages, some Archeron have been known to force thier cloak into a slimer form that doesn't get in thier way yet retain flight. And even more uncommon Archeron can summon a black twisted spear at will.

Always, an Archeron will fly better in thier bird form than thier human form. No other forms of Archeron have been discovered thus far. But when a race is living off of chaos energy, you can never know what to expect.

NIGHTMARE AURA: A special ability of an Archeron. They can invade a person's mind through physical contact. A quick scratch will give them mild sleeping problems or nightmares. However, prolonged contact can cause serious psychological issues. An infected person will imagine seeing lesser Archerons flying around and stalking them. Grow paranoid, even trecherous and violent twords anyone near them. When thier mind is finally no more, they will become nothing more than a puppet for the Archeron to control until the body stops functioning a week later.

Long enough contact with an Archeron can force a person into a deep eternal sleep. Supprisingly, they will not age or starve to death as long as the Archeron holds power over them. As soon as the Archeron dissapears, if the person still has a functioning mind, they will wake up. If not, they will stay asleep and be plagued by nightmares until the body eventually decays or someone puts them out of thier memory.

While it's possible for a person to wake up from a deep Archeron-induced sleep, they will be heavilly psychologically disturbed. At that point, it's best to put them out of thier misery while you can.

Name: Tresh'Clima
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Type: Humanoid, believed Vampiric
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General Description: Tresh'Clima are, for all intensive purposes, suckers. However due to their strange nature they're actually poisoned by blood. They preproduce in a mammalian way and it is considered divine blessing to have twins or more if at least one parent is a Tresh'Clima. Their food of choice is magic.
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Origin: Unknown. Believed to be wrought from a combination of Mana Spirit and Vampire, but no traces of the fomer are visible.
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Alignment: Varies, although they are comonly either Chaotic Good or Lawful Evil.
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Home Lands: Unknown. They cannot survive in a magicless world, however.
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Language: All tongue are known to then, it is unknown why.
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Personality: They always seem to carry and aura of mystery around them. Most of them, however, are stalwart and protective of their beloved.
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Physical Description: Pale skinned they always carry the racial traits of whatever their Tresh'Clima parent got with. it is known for these to carrry down through up to 40 generations.
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Life-Span: Unknown.
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Name: Always One syllable, an apostraphe then two syllables.
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Relations: Other than the Jager they get on well with most races. They despise all Jagar.
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Natural Power Set: Insane amount of magical power they ahve to be careful how much they use. They healed by anything that would be detrimental to vampires, Crusniks or Sin Eaters. Their weakness, however, is bronze. Oddly Bronze weapons will prevent them from using any magic should they connect.

Big thanks to Dark Knight Darvello and Dethhollow for helping me with the name!
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Name: The Severed
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Type: Invisible/Humanoid
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General Description: The Severed are a predator race, existing alongside humankind despite the latter having next to no idea of their existence. They feed on meat, finding humans the easiest to take seeing as they are usually close together in urban areas. They are loners, and each have their own territory. They usually need to eat at least once a month to remain healthy. They see cities as little more than farms, where their food is born, their food matures, and their food is harvested. The glimpses that have been seen of them over the millennia have put them into myth as the boogeymen.
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Origin: Unknown. Believed to have been an evolutionary offshoot of humanity.
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Alignment: Whatever gets them their lunch.
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Home Lands: The Severed exist in any environment, although they prefer places with a lot of food in a packed space, such as urban areas.
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Language: They can speak any language they like. They communicate with simple telepathic messages when in hiding.
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Personality: The severed are extremely intelligent, but their hunter instincts take over their minds when they need food.
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Physical Description: Their physical description varys greatly, as their camouflage still obscures the mind of even those who can see them, therefore resulting in the brain coming up with any number of different forms. It is thought that their true form is humanoid, with snow white skin and limbs that are directly out of proportion with the rest of the body. The arms have no hands, just several claws, each about 10 inches long. However, this is just a form that has been seen more than once, so it is not certain that it is their true form, or even if they have a true form at all.
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Life-Span: Thought to be around 80-200 years
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Name: They call each other by normal human names, in a mockery of their prey.
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Relations: They are thought to be related to humanity.
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Natural Power Set: The main power of the The Severed, is that they have adapted over the centuries to be completely invisible to the standard human brain. This makes them the perfect predator with the perfect camouflage. However, people with mental illnesses, or people under the influence of mind-altering substances, their brains sight is changed in the slightest, allowing them to perceive The Severed in front of them. They cannot see them perfectly, and their brain fills in the information with a "guess", allowing them to appear as just about anything, being a random selection of things from the mind of those witnessing it. The upside to this, is that seeing as the only humans capable of witnessing them are either mentally ill or under the influence of drugs, the Severed are dismissed by those witnessing them as hallucinations. It is unlikely the authorities will dismiss the claims as anything more than ravings. Some of the severed have been killed this way, although the culprits are quickly hunted down and silenced by the dead creature's kin. They also have extreme speed and reflexes, and can somehow devour a whole corpse, bones and all, in less than a minute.

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Im quite proud of this race, so please PM me if you want to RP as one of them. I should say yes though. :)

Name: Steam-Born
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Type: Construct
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General Description: A race created in the minds of the Sparks
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Origin: The furnaces of the Sparks
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Alignment: Any
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Home Lands: None
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Language: None (unless specifically given)
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Personality: None
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Physical Description: Made of metal and occasionally emit steam.
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Life-Span: Until they rust or are abandoned
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Name: Whatever their Creators decide
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Relations: None
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Natural Power Set: Depends on the creature but usually has to do with claws, fangs, and nasty projectiles.
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This race isn't very specific for a reason. See Sparks for more detail.

Name: Sparks
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Type: Humanoid
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General Description: A race born of humans but is not human itself. They have regular minds until they get an idea, they will then become impatient, foul tempered, and extremely brilliant. If you help a Spark during these times you won't regret it. These periods of brilliance are brought on by something specific for each spark (this doesn't strike them every time they partake in this activity). For some it is music , for others it is sewing, etc.
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Origin: Unknown
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Alignment: Any
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Home Lands: With humans
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Language: Common
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Personality: As versatile as humans until they have a strike of brilliance.
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Physical Description: Humans their head aren't even bigger or anything. Some even argue that these are just SMART humans, but they just don't seem to fit that category. Some have mechanical replacements for accidents that occur when they are inventing.
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Life-Span: That of a human but they sometimes expand their life with various creations.
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Name: Human names
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Relations: Humans
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Natural Power Set: They are very deadly when surrounded by their creations. They are also very good with guns. They are also very good at making those guns deadlier then they were originally.
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This race is for use in a steampunk enviornment. Feel free to use it in appropriate situations

Name: The Rune elves
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Type: humanoid
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General Description: The rune elves, are a type of elve that is, more linked and attuned and able to sense, the magical side of the world. They have a tad more manna, and stamina then most other races, and have many important, large and complex tribal customs, and have made many advances in technology that they use In there hidden cities.
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Origin: They just came from evolution as the other elves evolved and became who they are today the rune elves evolved along with them.
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Alignment: Most of there governments are of lawful good andthey try to raise there children in that lght but alignments may vary upon person.
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Home Lands: They can live anywhere but they mainly live in there hidden utopias deep underground or in the mountains. .
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Language: they speak the common langue but have there own hieroglyphic system,
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Personality: varies, but most are strong, inventive and prideful of there cutrraul.
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Physical Description: The males normally, have a tall and bulky and muscular build. The girls are more leaiish, both genders have leaner arms used for spell casting.
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Life-Span: Thought to be around 200-1000 years, they rarely die of natural causes, but can live to 1000.
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Relations: They are at peace with all races
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Oh cool. I forgot this existed. Might as well share the one from my Space RP here. It looks like there was a template at some point but I'm not reformatting this. Feel free to use this race anywhere on the site.

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The Dundee's home planet is Space Australia (not to be confused with the home of Genocidal maniacs and deaf composures, Space Austria. Millions of years ago, before settling the planet Space Austraila the Dundee were a nomadic tribe, who had developed a revolutionary form of travel that involved detecting and traveling through wormholes, wrinkles in space time.  The ancient Dundee visited modern day Earth and were fascinated by Australia, the climate, the culture, the wildlife, just everything really. At that time the Dundee were a relatively peaceful race and settled an sneakily taking some sample with them, before returning to a time before Earth was even formed and eventually settling another planet they dubbed Space Australia.

Dundees are visually similar to humans in many ways. They have a similar bipedal form but are on average about a foot taller and have a much more muscular physique. Their quads and glutes are particularly hypertrophic.  Their eyes are noticeably larger than those of homo sapiens and the eyes, are slanted and look similar to the serpents of Earth. Their teeth are similar to those of humans except they have large lion like fangs as well.  Their hair grows much faster and bushier than that of most humans. Their skin varies widely in shades of tones, and include bright colors such as red, green, blue, and violet.

The Dundee have several unique race adaptations that allowed them to be successful as interplanetary nomads and eventually become the dominant species on what would many would consider the inhospitable planet of Space Australia. They are resistant to almost all drugs and poisons, which makes surgery a pain because anesthesia does nothing for them.  They are able to breathe in most atmospheric conditions and are naturally stronger than humans, being able to forgo the surgery most recruits undertake when joining the Intergalactic legion. They are well suited for space travel as they can withstand extreme temperatures and high doses of radiation. They have a prolonged lifespan. They age similarly to humans for about twenty years, but then the aging process grinds to a halt leaving them physically and emotionally unchanged for another 80 years before resuming as normal. In addition to this they are able to enter an extreme state of hibernation similar to tardigrades. This made them capable of long distance space travel long before faster than light travel was discovered. They have greatly enhanced senses including night vision and the ability the sense heat that make them some of the most gifted trackers and hunters around. They have too other unique traits pertaining to animals as well. Their hands are able to generate and manipulate a weak electrical current. By touching the head of a wild beast a Dundee can temporarily take control of their mind and bend them to their will. Their final ability is probably the most terrifying however. By eating part of an animal (usually the heart or similar organ) they are able to duplicate it's abilities by incorporating their DNA into their own.

Quick description is quick.

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Slesaven; A humanoid form of serpent, caused by an ancient curse of benevolent gods for turning away from them. They're haughty and reclusive, proud of themselves and a bit arrogant. Their skin is pale, and scale coverage can range from full covering, to patchy spots. Slesaven only possess two pointed teeth that jut out from under their lips act as a dispenser of a deadly poison. Unable to chew their food, they swallow it whole, often using tools to soften it so that they don't choke. Their tongue is forked and they are able to pick up different scents with it, just as a normal snake does. They can filter their vision between infrared and full color, depending on the light level. Their eyes are like that of a snake, slits of iris and pupil. They have upturned noses, nostrils apparent, whose only function if to draw in air. They tend to be a bit taller than their human brethren, as well as slimmer and more agile. Their bones are more flexible and flimsy than a normal humans, allowing them to be much more flexible and slip into places most can't. Slesaven etiquette requires the warning of innamite death if someone plans to get in your way in a bid for more power. Their society thrives on assassination, vengeance, a cruel sense of justice, and cold, unrelenting ambition.

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Wolvenier (Humanoids created by the gods to dwell in the northern mountains and to guard the demons sealed in the Great Divide, lined on each side by the tall sentinels within Aor’s Belt, many of these bipedal wolves have wandered into hominid settlements, bringing their language and ways with them. Common traits include increased hair growth, a larger amount of muscle mass, a wolf like facial structure, with pointed nose and ears on top of the head, a tail sprouting from the hindquarters, enhanced senses, the ability to see in the dark, claws in the hands, abnormal leg design, making it nearly impossible for them to where footwear, and abnormal tallness. Wolvenier are abnormally gifted warriors, though most lack the social skills possessed by the more civil hominid races.)

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Nesterel.(One of the nomadic cat people of the south deserts and northern plains. The Nesterel Stand a few inches taller than most humans, and all share the same similar aspects of fur, toe walking, tails, elongated pointed ears, more canine teeth than any other humanoids, claws, whiskers, a snub nose, cat-like pupils, pads on their feet resulting in reduced noise when moving, and the ability to see in the dark. They also possess heightened senses, being able to smell odors and hear things a normal human could not.

The Nesterel are a fierce people, with traditions in both hunting and war. Their warriors, called Braves, are some of the most feared forces in the land. The nesterel of the northern plains fully embrace the hominids who chose to settle near them, and are on good relations as long as the colonists respect their land and traditions. The nomadic tribes of the desert, however, are more conservative, keeping to the old ways and being indifferent to outsiders, and hostile to colonists who try to settle on their territory. The tribes are mostly independent, sometimes uniting under a War Lord in times of war or when faced with an uncertain future. The north has a system of organized government, with towns, cities, and villages being represented by a village elder, mystic, and Savage, each representing the three pillars of life. The Elder the commoner, the Mystic practitioners of the mystic arts, and the Savage the braves and hunters. These three representatives meet in the capital city of Mel-dren, located in the central, land locked planes. The language spoken by all nesterel is Al’Sharin, with the dialect differing from the two nations in small aspects. When speaking common(English), the northerners have a slight lilt, like the scottish people, while the southerners tend to have more of a russian accent.