Tree-Huggers

In Ronar, Torin fill the place that Elves fill in most fanasy worlds. That is, they are more magical than humans, taller, have pointier ears and are more in touch with nature. However, that's about where the similarities end.

Torin are tall and lanky, with large catlike ears extending out the side of their head and a thin layer of usually tan fur covering their entire body from their ears to the tip of their tail. Well, of course they have a tail, why wouldn't they? They are based after jungle cats, afterall. Males tails are thicker and typically used for balance when climbing through the trees, while females tails are more dextrous and can even be used to hold more delicate objects like a quill or a sword.

Unlike Human villages which sprawl out over a countryside, Torin villages are built much more vertically around large trees, and occasionally lack many walkways between the structures at all, the Torin leaping from branch to branch with ease. While the cities of all the other races are accessable to most of the other races, most of the Torin cities are inaccessable, merely due to their design, adding to the race's desire to be left alone by the other, more destructive races.

There are a lot of paralells obvious between elves and the Torin, but the idea was to make them familliar enough to the player that they would be comfortable with them, yet different enough that they would be curious about them. I may still have some aspects of Torin society that need to change to make them interesting enough, but I think this is a fairly good start.