Beast-Folk

For each "normal" animal one can expect to find its upright kin. Though they can mostly be categorized by the larger species grouping i.e. Scrofa, Rattus, Squamata, Felis etc. with one exception. Each has its own name though many will simply call them Beast-Folk as remembering each one is too challenging or too much work for simple folk. The advent of the Beast-Folk is traced back to the sundering and the years following. as wild animal roamed near the impact sight a slow change took hold of them all. After an age the Beast-Folk began to appear more prominently throughout the regions until they formed societies of their own. Some began to learn the ways of the elves and the halflings and became what we would consider more civilized. Because of this many of the larger races of Beast-Folk show incredible similarities to the Elves. Whereas the smaller show many characteristics associated with Halflings.

Beast-folk have been known to enter a heat of sorts. This stage can cause other beast-folk to enter into combative challenges with one another though this is only common in less than civilized locations. In proper towns and cities a mixture of herbs has become popularized to combat these effects and incidents involving these challenges has become nearly a thing of the past. It should be noted that prolonged normalization of this mixture has seemed to remove entirely if not lessened these episodes.

Many questions are raised as toward less common or non existent variances such as those of greater beings like dragons and other magical beasts but to this day there has yet to be a definitive or proven answer.