Novus Fae

To the either side of Materia, where astral meets odium, lay the bisected isles of Eden. Connected by the roots of the great tree Yggdrasil, the isles coil around Materia in tune with her seasons. Ruled by the timeless Drude, ‘faerie’ creatures that mimic and mirror mortals, but never change.

Those who draw power from The Wyld or the Gloom can sire or birth Novus Fae. These mercurial Anima are famous for their duplicity and whimsical nature. Born with Drude blood flowing through their veins, Fae inherent the ability to beguile and captivate by instinct. Their bodies manipulate their internal mana in small and subtle ways altering their hair color to match their outfit, or eyes that sparkle whenever they are paid a compliment. This means that Fae are often far more dangerous than other variations of the species

Novus Fiend

To the either side of Materia, where astral meets odium, lay the bisected isles of Eden. Connected by the roots of the great tree Yggdrasil, the isles coil around Materia in tune with her seasons. Ruled by the timeless Drude, ‘faerie’ creatures that mimic and mirror mortals, but never change.

Those who draw power from The Wyld or the Gloom can sire or birth Novus Fae. These mercurial Anima are famous for their duplicity and whimsical nature. Born with Drude blood flowing through their veins, Fae inherent the ability to beguile and captivate by instinct. Their bodies manipulate their internal mana in small and subtle ways altering their hair color to match their outfit, or eyes that sparkle whenever they are paid a compliment. This means that Fae are often far more dangerous than other variations of the species

Novus Nephilim

Atop ten thousand and one stairs, known as ‘The Climb of the Virtuous’ lay the world of Celestia. There among the clouds and stars of the Astral Sea, rests the pantheon of gods. From inside the towering, pristine structure, cylindrical in design, the gods view the ever-shifting cosmos under their coffered dome, with a central opening called ‘the oculus’. Through the oculus, the heavens guide and watch over all Eternity, ensuring that no individual, guild, kingdom, or world is allowed to break Universal Law.

Nephilim are Anima with the radiance of heavens Seraphim flowing through their veins. Born only to extremely devout mortal parents, children touched by the divine are often swept up and spirited away by the Church of Light. They are then raised without ever meeting their own parents and indoctrinated at a young age into the religious dogma of the Inquisition. Often growing into zealots and true believers in their own 'natural' superiority of others.

Dusk

Commonly called ‘dryads’ for hair that grows in leaf-like patterns that they fashion with flowers, and color with berries. And for their skin, which resembles the texture and pattern of tree bark. The Aos’si of Dusk are closer to nature than any of their other fair folk brethren. Hunting game, gathering food, and gardening vegetables, allow them to support themselves without ever leaving the safety of their forests. Their tree-top homes remove the need for clearing and plowing land, and they take extreme efforts to never take what they cannot replace, always acting in the best interest of the land and creatures that cannot speak for themselves.

Dusk Aos’si encountered outside their own lands are commonly traveling minstrels, sages, or accomplished scouts and caravan guides. Often seen covered in the majik tattoos made famous by the Guild of Rune-Knights, which originated from the Dusk style of warfare.7

Starlight

These Aos’si once thrived upon Materia living in honeycomb cities built into and on top of the floating isles of Mahn. The Starlight Aos’si lost far more than any other species when Juria’rauul was slain. Their homelands fell from the skies as miasma tore through the majik that held them aloft. After centuries without a kingdom to call their own, their wings metaphorically and physically have been clipped- and lost the ability to climb the sky on a whim.

The loss of their wings caused such a fundamental shift in Slyph biology and mindset that they have become all but unrecognizable as Aos’si when compared to their cousins. But despite their hard lives, Slyph tend to make the most of their situation by ‘roosting’ on top of the tallest buildings, preforming death-defying acrobatics in an effort to preserve their dying heritage.

Starlight Aos’si look somewhere between a short human and an unnaturally tall Gnome with a set of atrophied wings that protrude out of their back between their shoulder blades. Their skin tends to be pale and course, however, like all avian creatures, feather plumage pulls from a massive pallet of colors and patterns.

Twilight

As their name suggests, Twilight Aos’si, commonly known as ‘Tritons’, have lived in the shadows for thousands of years. After millennium of darkness beneath the waves, the Twilight Kingdom of Umo began experiencing extreme episodes of melancholy and dreariness that nearly destroyed their culture, and them as a species. Eventually, this ‘call of the void’ was so prolific across their variant that it became a rite of passage and those who live through it learn to accept that death exists so that their finite time on Materia has meaning. That it is the personal responsibility of every living soul to not only find their own purpose in life, but to record it as well.

Webbed hands and feet give them superior swimming speed and agility, a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth not unlike a shark, and the ability to smell blood from over a thousand feet, combine to make them the perfect predators, at least in terms of costal or aquatic settings. Do not confuse them with merfolk however, for as much as they resemble sharks, they are bipedal and freely move between the surface and their the deep.