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Race Name: Alanian (“Winged Children” is the name spread most everywhere.)

Average age upon death: 80

Description: A winged race that lives in the low to mid mountains and occasionally a few villages just out past. Their wings let them glide, hover and fly however, long distance travel is out of the question. Their wings allow them to move from place to place in the mountains fairly easily though they can be a hinderance otherwise. The only upside to moving around inside a building with the wings is that they can fold up rather nicely though still slightly bulky. In an open plains setting, their movement speed is sometimes slowed by the wind drag and other times sped up depending on the direction of the wind.

Besides the wings, Alanians look completely human and most are fair skinned.

They also run into issues where they are confused with Angels at times should they have feathered wings. It should be advised that the Alanians are not Angels. . . Period.

Wing Appearance: The appearance of ones wings depends mostly on heritage and often luck. No one knows why, but wings will sometimes change between family members. If the mother and father have feathered wings, sometimes the child is born with Leather wings like that of a bat. Overall, the wings can look like any type of wing from Feather to Leather or even a hybrid.

Location: Between the mountains of Eania and Ghannos, Featherfall and surrounding areas.

Culture: Traditionally, Alanians formed tribal communities in the mountains separate from each other, wage small scale battles for the sake of food. This was before they understood farming, agriculture. While, water was a somewhat issue, that didn’t stop them all too much. Sometime later, after the formation of Featherfall, there was a Mountain Spring that was found that gave them easy access to water. There was much rejoicing when the bucket system, a long line of buckets were attached to wire and brought up to the city from a water source off the mountain, was then brought to an end. Many workers lost their job but found their place elsewhere.

Clothing wise, they wear colorful robes. Robes that slit near the legs to provide less air drag when they fly. Generally they don’t wear jewelry either and if they do it would tend to be elders, too old to fly well.

There are bi-yearly competitions held for sewing and flying. The Cloth-Heart Competition and the Winged Relay as well as the Mountain Marathon. They a great competitions and the Marathon mostly relies honor as there is no way to truly judge where and how some is or got to be there.

History: At first a mess of different clans that fought over food, they eventually got over their differences with the learning of Agriculture. Upon figuring out the ways that allow them to farm on the cliffs and rock that took years to start, they could survive easier. From there, the separate Alanian villages spread as their population grew. This however, lead to more conflict as the tribes were stressed for the interior, more resource heavy areas. While little more than border skirmishes the elders of each village decide to hold the first Council of the Feather. As a people, they were more worthwhile to each other together than against each other, making the building grounds for themselves as a people.

Two years later, with a little bit of tension, there was the official naming. Featherfall. Even with the name, they still accept those without feathered wings. Bit by bit they improved the massive city by digging into the mountain for space and resources. While the city itself was big, just about of it could be seen as much of it was built into the mountain face. Elaborate statues of some of the greatest leaders where carved. Sadly, the peoples were not miners. They, as people, are not the most stout, and it took many years to carve out the mountain to live on. Wood was, for the longest time, possibly the most sought after building material as, compared to the plentiful stone, was less common and looked generally better.

Today the live just as they had thirty years ago, sending elders of each tribe to act as a representative in the Council and govern the city and it’s outlying farming villages. The mountains are a decent place to grow when properly renovated, but out on the fields is better. The maintain little contact with the other races and most Alanians found outside Featherfall and it’s outer villages are those adventurous enough to see the rest of the world. Typically, outside Featherfall they are called Winged Children, on account of their wings.

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