What Are the Intelligent Races?

Written by orphidor

There are no humans in Athanya. Instead, the Realms are populated by a variety of other types of people. Each race has its own unique strengths and visual characteristics. Regardless of their differences, all intelligent races hold a few traits in common.

Mental Qualifications

In order to be considered an intelligent race, a species must be capable of self-awareness, understanding of others' views, the application of prior experience and knowledge in new situations, the creation of art, and complex communication through a form of language. The spontaneous creation of or engagement within one or more cultural groups is also a necessity.

Physical Qualifications

Most known intelligent races are bipedal, aside from the Camua, and all have at least one set of arms with digits capable of fine motor skills and opposable thumbs. One being by themselves cannot constitute an intelligent race, there must be others of their kind and they must be capable of producing new members of their species in some way.

Locations

On rare occasions, a race can be found in more than one plane, but they are usually confined to one. Most races originate from the Middle Realm.