Halfwing
The Halfwing are a subspecies of Myacoris who inhabit the rolling valleys and mountains of Kargast and Karkebi, the largest concentration of Milenakos (indigenous) species who came before the Coriniaid.
Who are they and what do they look like?
- They differ depending on whether they are rural or communal tribes
- Rural (cicada) Halfwings tend to live longer (150-160 years, with 80 being mid-age)
- They tend to be bulkier and muscular but are typically on the shorter side
- They often have argyria or skin painted with red or blue dye (ochre and woad)
- Completely different reproductive cycle than modern humans but similar anatomy
- Communal (aphid) Halfwings only live till about 60, sometimes a little longer if they are hybrids but 50 is considered a long life.
- They do not get saggy skin because of the chiten in their organs, but they definitely start looking frightening and ghastly when close to death, mostly because of their death rattles and plaque psoriasis or fungal bacteria which tends to get them
- They also paint their skin with red or blue dye
- Their reproductive cycle remains similar to modern humans
- They are mostly farmers, agriculturalists, and struggle with hunting
What are their senses or perceptions?
- Some are able to fly for short distances but they need to have a genetic condition called "hollow bones" that is often inherited as a recessive gene from Nycteria suffers
- These tend to appear when the colony is either doing really well or really badly and is seen as a sign from the Gods. They are known as the "Alatae"
- Matriarchal society who can use asexual reproduction and relies on mutations to thrive, needing a lot of atrategy but very densely populated citadels where people of very slightly different heights or builds are judged - high use of "homo sapiens phrenology"
- A lot of them are midwives
Where are they in your setting?
- Kargast and Karkebi, but also in Cadmia, Pestilentia, and one of the few thriving species in the Krummholz. They are being desperately held off in Helbnos.
- There are scatterings in Sinderfall but they do not get treated well there
How do they survive in their environment?
- Much faster rate of reproduction due to being able to clone themselves
- Basically can form their own armies and create their own food
- They have the protection of a Godsibb named ________, who is constantly giving birth to Nymphs so there's a fertility cult there too. Many communities will rally around a Godsibb and basically help it survive in exchange for protection
- Completely able to metabolize anything by converting it to sugar, indestructible stomachs
- They can survive off of almost anything that can be converted into sugar
- Mature much faster due to low life span. They are middle aged by 20 years, making them intellectually and physically about 80 years old in a Vespula lifespan.
What is their general attitude?
- They defend their living space at all costs but will listen to their allies
- They are often hunted en masse and are honestly kind of disorganized despite being a colony culture
- the queen makes the warbands/workers pay taxes to use her resources in exchange for protection from her nymph praetorian guard,
- a priest keeps a godsibb captive in a prison full of carnivoros plants that some of the nutcases out there breed.
- the godsibb will kill and eat the queen or priest if she deems they have failed the colony, and appoint a new leader after enough of the current priesthood has been sacrificed (eaten)
- new recruits are expected to join in the eating alongside the Godsibb
How do they feel about the other peoples?
- Untrustworthy of everyone but the ant people and the Glendatis, sometimes Polotesk (the ones that like seaweed)
- They have everyone else . Though sometimes if they find a dead wrakka, like a Yew, they'll build a colony on it called a "Wicker Town" which is another major point of contention between tribes
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