Humanity

Humans are the most prominent race of sapient beings in Vildrel. They make up a majority in every polity except for Edruva and The Enclave of the Free Peoples.

Changing Lifespan

Humans currently live to be upwards of two hundred years old. This wasn't always the case. For the majority of human history, the average healthy human wouldn't live any longer than eighty to a hundred years at the upper extreme. Most humans were lucky to live past sixty for a majority of their history. However, this all began to change in the mid eighteenth century (More than three hundred years ago), when humans started observing an increased lifespan in people born in the late seventeenth century living an average of a decade longer despite no major advancements in medical techology.

This trend continued where by the turn of the nineteenth century, it was not too uncommon to see humans a hundred and twenty years of age. By the turn of the twentieth century, the upper range of human lifespans had reached one hundred and fifty. Today, the oldest humans alive were born over two centuries ago. Seemingly, every fifty years, the rate of physical decay on the human body would decrease to where humans lived an average of nine to eleven years older. The body of a hundred-year-old human born in 2067 would look today like the body of a fifty-year-old human born five hundred years ago.

Declining Fertility

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, human birthrates have been on a slow decline while miscarrages and deaths from the Final Wail have increased. This has reached a crisis point where by the current year, death rates have exceeded birth rates despite the increased human lifespan. The average adult couple living in Vildrel will successfully birth 1.5 children in their lifetime, less than forty percent of previous birth rates.

Variation

Human ancestry goes back to their creation long before the current era. Because of this, biological differences in human appearance such as eye profile, skin pigmentation, and face structure rarely, if ever, correlate to the ethnic groups that are relevant today. Instead, the current ethnic variation in Vildrel is largely cultural and religious, with some small biological trends. The number of ethnic groups in Vildrel depends on how much specificity one uses when drawing the lines between different groups. The largest and most widely distinguished ethnic groups are:

• The Auklan of central Vildrel, Estaria and Prekha
• The Lorvi of eastern Vildrel, northern Narr
• The Zeeci of southeast Vildrel, southern Narr and eastern T'Ched
• The Mynuk of southern Vildrel, central T'Ched, and Keth
• The Landi of north-western Vildrel, Landren and Sadrove

Species Name:

Human

Height:

1.5 - 2 meters

Weight:

60 - 80 Kg

Population:

400 Million

Distribution:

WiP

Natural Attunement:

Vitethus