Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Unofotine in detail

The Unofotine were also created after humans had been, with a similar intent from the gods of a race that would not simply develop and expand to infinity within the world. Unlike Torin however, they were given drawbacks to expansion, large eyes to make the sun seem too bright, hands not shaped for holding tools, and a community-minded dispostion. The Unofotine were intended to be a race that expanded slowly, with tight knit villages, undergroud and unable to exploit the resources the humans were so fond of.

The Unofotine, however, did not take this particularly well, and within a half-dozen generations had built massive underground catacombs and structures, learned to use their large clawed hands in place of the tools they were unable to easily use, and developed a strong heirchacal society. The Unofotine were impossibly strong willed, and while they broke out of the mould set for them by the gods almost immediately they were smiled upon for doing so.

Now, the Unofotine still use almost the same ruling structure, although the leader has changed names now to King, rather than Mayor or Lord. They are united, and maintain a strong sense of duty to their people and their culture. They grow their hair long to keep the sun out of their eyes, and suffer none for it, and they are almost as nimble with their hands as humans are, despite their long claws.

Occasonally, Human and Unofotine people will have children, for Unofotine resemble the strongest humans - though also the hairiest. These Half-Unofotine Half-humans are feirce though unweildly, and often find themselves among the outcasts of both races, not feeling the same draw to community that pure Unofotine do where they are shunned as lazy, and seeming monsterous to humans with their large eyes and clawed hands. It is fortunate there are few of these folk, for otherwise there might be a public stand against them ironically banding both races against their own kin.

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