Flowerlings

The main healing race of the world. Created from flowers; the first race to have used to Creation Formula. They have healing magic that follows the law of energy (the one that says that energy is neither created nor destroyed, merely moved) to move the hurt to another object. Their goal as a people is to keep and maintain peace and wellness. They have an uncanny ability to speak all languages, including those of the wind, birds, frogs, trees, the old tongue, etc. They do not have the best ability to read and write. Not many know how. That does not stop them from being curious, intelligent, and skilled in their craft.

Basic Information

Anatomy

• bipedal
• they have a humanoidal body structure, with fingers and toes, hands and feet, legs and arms, a torso and a head.
• the physiology of each type of flowerling depends on which plant they were based off of. Although usually, they have green skin (for photosynthesis), and often have blue or yellow/orange eyes.
• flowerlings don't cut or trim their hair, so the length of it depends on their age. Those with the longest hair (the longest recorded being 50 feet) have been alive for the longest. 
• Flowerlings have no visible genitalia, therefore they are not constricted by the same means as other people to have to wear clothes. Since they are photosynthetic, they often don't wear anything at all.
• as a whole, flowerlings have soft, gentle features and have little to no sharp edges about them. Some, of course, were bred for different climate types, so those in the succulent flowerling family (Crassulaceae flor) have different features.
• one of these features is that their hair more resembles succulent leaves rather than flower petals. 
• most flowerlings' hair resembles regular hair, however its color is derived from the plant they were based off of.

Genetics and Reproduction

All flowerlings reproduce asexually. Every spring, just after the last frost, flowerlings will consume large amounts of high energy food, such as sugar or carbs, and will climb to the top of a hill or some tall structure. After this, they enter a sort of dazed period. Their eyes glaze over, and they will stand -with their arms spread out, similar to that of a T-pose- for a week, and will not react to their environment. During this time, their arms and legs develop spores, similar to that of ferns, and when the spores are ready, they will release themselves from the flowerling. They are taken away by the wind, and the spores meet with other flowerling's spores and mix to become fertilized.  After this, they float in the wind until they are caught by a Gardiner's net. That net is a very fine mesh, designed to catch these floating babies. Sometimes they are caught in other things, such as trees, but if they are not tended to right away, they will die and become dust.
Those spore that are caught by the gardiners are collected from the mesh net and planted in special planters -long wooden basins, creating rows, and filled with good soil- and lovingly tended to by their caretakers. They will then sprout, and will develop into the plant they are bred to resemble, and then -after some special care from the gardiners- break off and grow their humanoid body.

Additional Information

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

• Flowerlings have the eight senses. Sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing, aura (or empathic sensitivity), vitality, and magic.
• sight is typically 20/20, however flowerlings have a tendency to become nearsighted after years of working as healers and having to see things very close up.
• their sense of smell is typically heightened enough to smell weather incoming, the flora that they use to heal, and the pheromones of other flowerlings during mating season.
• a flowerling's sense of taste is less acute than an average human, for the reason that they do not use it very often. They don't need to eat constantly, so their taste is attuned to that of the things they do consume; tea, mostly.
• their hearing is adept enough to hear the heartbeats and breathing rhythm of those they are treating. An average flowerling can hear the heartbeat of a bird ten yards away.
• because of their sensitive hearing, their brains have to sort through all the different sounds they hear at one time. They can discern the difference between a heartbeat and a voice, and the brain differentiates between the two. Consciously, flowerlings only hear voices, and outward stimuli-esque sounds. Because of this hearing capability, flowerlings are very hard to sneak up on. Even though they don't consciously process heartbeats or breath, they do it subconciously, therefore giving them a very effective environmental awareness.
• Flowerlings are very sensitive to touch. They can feel the wind brush past them on a windless day. Fabrics are an irritant to their skin, no matter how soft they are, or how carefully they are woven. Most flowerlings don't like the feeling of contantly rubbing up against something.
• they are very sensitive to emotions. If a flowerling walks into a room full of angsty teenagers, they will sense it immediately. That type of emotion will invoke their instinct to help and heal, so they will most likely try to 'cure' the brooding teens of their angst. This will only annoy the teens -or greatly confuse them- which will only muddy up the 'aura' even more for the flowerling. If they are untrained, this will likely cause them to shut down and go within themselves, emotionally. Sometimes, however, flowerlings become hyperactive when this type of confusion happens; speeding up their heart rate, and giving them more energy than before. This energy is very shortlived and will end similar to a sugar crash.
• Flowerlings can sense the health (or vitality) of others around them. This sense is similar to an environmental awareness, in that they can tell if someone is healthy or not when near them. This sense is heightened with touch. When a flowerling touches someone in a certain area (the inner arm, the chest, or back of the neck), they are able to detect what is ailing them. It is not exact, and untrained flowerlings are likely to make mistakes or misdiagnosis. 
• the magic that flowerlings can detect is mostly healing magic. However, when given the proper training, they can detect protection magic, curses, and the presence of most spells. Untrained flowerlings can instinctively sense protection magic and healing spells. Although, they may not be able to pinpoint the exact source or spell used.
• trained flowerlings can cast healing spells and protection magic on things and people. 

Scientific Name

Flora hominum

Origin/Ancestry

medicinal flora

Conservation Status

At the end of the fourth age, the flowerlings were in great danger of going extinct. The Old Ones, and a few others, took measures to ensure that they would thrive in later years. This included rebuilding the gardiner houses, making a national tradition of catching flowerling spores and giving them to the gardiners, and setting up a special organization to protect them against people who would take advantage of them.

Discovered by

The Old Ones

The flowerlings were pulled from the soil, their life intertwined with the earth, and their power taken straight from the world's source. They are a part of the world, just as much as the world is of them.