Celestial Deneg

Spirit folk and terata under 4' tall with inherent celestial or popular powers.

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Kortahende

Small folk who share their organs to help others.

• Lifespan : 120 years
• Diet: Energy
• Habitat: Temperate regions
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Kortahendes are 4' tall fey people with removable body parts. They otherwise appear to be fey hominids.

Kortahendes can remove any body part. Arms, legs, internal organs, head, fingers, toes, skin, hair, teeth, anything. They can rearrange them on their own bodies or lend them to someone else. If they permanently give a body part or organ to someone else, willingly and to the benefit of someone else, they cannot regrow that organ or part, but they gain other powers, such as healing, protection, or empowering touch or auras. If someone whom they help makes them an offering or gives them payment, that payment can also be transformed into magical powers.

The kortahende dwell in small communities in mountains and forests near to other communities of common folk, whom they help in secret. They gain power from doing this, which allows them to build protected communities. They attempt to avoid direct contact, due to the horrors inflicted on them by ruling classes and their armies in the past.

In the imperial lands, they exist entirely on the fringes, deeply oppressed, enslaved, and brutalized.

PRO 7 ATH 7 STR 5 AWA 10 WIL 10 PRS 10 STH 10 ESS 9

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Kubbutuka

Small folk who have magical cleaning powers.

• Lifespan : 120 years
• Diet: Common fey fare
• Habitat: Under houses
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

The kubbutukas look like 3' tall, squat, pale, piebald beings with dark hair. They have one hand that is a flipper, one with fingers.

Kubbutukas' flippers can scour clean anything physical that they touch. If they clean enough, they gain enough energy to produce magical bubbles from their mouths / lungs that can cleanse souls. If the target of their bubble is infernal, they can trap them in the bubble instead.

Kubbutukas live under houses and buildings and sneak out at night to clean them, but only if the owners or inhabitants are kind and deseving (or if they are enslaved and forced to do so). They prefer a symbiotic life, giving their services in exchange for goods and services, rigidly equal (if even a slightly unequal exhange is had, they leave), but they are often enslaved magically.

PRO 7 ATH 8 STR 5 AWA 9 WIL 10 PRS 9 STH 10 ESS 9

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Kukkun

Humble folk.

• Lifespan: 60-80 years
• Diet: Humble mortal fare
• Habitat: Anywhere
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Kukkun are 4’ tall beings with disproportionately large, round noses, big eyes, and big ears. They have slight hunches in their backs, and their feet are larger than proportional. They tend to have big bellies. About half of them wear beards, and culturally, they tend to wear rags, homespun, tatters, and rucksacks, roughspun clothing.

Kukkun are small folk who find it hard to look people in the eyes. A kukkun who looks someone in the eyes must roll WIL or suffer physical pain and panic. If someone compliments them, they get embarrassed and vanish before their eyes.

They are capable of incredible feats, such as lifting boulders, planting entire fields, repairing ruins, putting out massive fires, moving roads, and other wondrous actions if and only if no one is looking at them. They can do this at least once a year on their own, but if they work as a community, they can do it once a week.

All kukkun have beautiful voices, but they speak in whispers.

Kukkun live in small communities near larger mortals, whom they help out with their magical feats, but if the mortals seek them out or try to look at them, the kukkun move on. They accept payment in the form of a fair amount of money, food, drink, or clothing. If they are given something they think is too much, they will take only what they think is fair and leave the rest. If someone praises them, they flee. If someone seeks them out or praises them to intentionally avoid paying, however, the kukkun use their power of great feats to wreak absolute horror upon them.

Imperials hate them.

PRO 7 ATH 9 STR 6 AWA 9 WIL 9 PRS 9 STH 9 ESS 9

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Lapina

Kindly rabbit-eared people.

• Lifespan: 120 years
• Diet: Vegetarian
• Habitat: Grasslands
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Rabbit-eared, friendly folk. They stand about 4' tall, not counting their ears, which are usually between 3" and 12" more. They have buck teeth, rabbit's feet, and bushy tails. Their eyes glow blue, and they have two hearts.

Lapinas can magically bond with anyone who is a friend. They cannot do this without consent, but they can do it even if the friendship is unequal or one-way. However, it may be more difficult if the other person is insincere in their friendship. The bond allows them to know when their friend is in danger, wounded, sick, or lonely, and to gain bonuses to speed to go to them in these situations.

Lapinas have sensitive hearing. One in seven have supernatural good luck.

Local lapians are embedded in the native nations.

Lapinas live in small communities in wide grasslands. Their communities are tight-knit and bonded, and they use their bonds to keep the whole community safe and close together. They are friends to any who come to them, and they are known for being helpful to travelers. However, they are also easily tricked and exploited, and thus, they are often targets for enslavement and conquest.

In imperial regions, their undefeatable good spirits are taken advantage of. They are deeply oppressed.

PRO 7 ATH 14 STR 6 AWA 9 WIL 8 PRS 10 STH 9 ESS 9

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Nosengabi

Mouse-tailed small folk who preserve foods.

• Lifespan : 200 years
• Diet: Common fey fare
• Habitat: Storage places
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

The nosengabi are 2' tall fey folk with red or blue skin, snouts, and bulging eyes. They have mouse tails and sharp claws.

Nosengabis have the ability to preserve food with their tails, multiply supplies with their blood, and protect a place with magical markings they engrave with their claws.

Blue nosengabi can call large ungulids with their songs. Red nosengabis can call large birds with their songs.

Those local to the region are embedded in the native nations.

Nosengabi dwell in storehouses and warehouses, using their powers to preserve what is there in exchange for food, shelter, and money. They are often enslaved in the city-states, but they have found a way to get by symbiotically with working class and oppressed people.

PRO 7 ATH 9 STR 5 AWA 9 WIL 8 PRS 8 STH 10 ESS 8

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Nunphung

Hidden folk who attract celestial microbes.

• Lifespan : 200 years

• Diet: Insect-heavy mortal fare

• Habitat: Tropical rain forests

• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Nunphungs appear to be 4’ tall beings with pointed ears, dark brown, straight hair, glowing blue eyes, and greenish skin. They have frog-like tongues.

Nunphungs have an aura that attracts microbes, specifically helpful ones, such as ones that live symbiotically with other living things, ones that aid in digestion or other processes, ones that protect from harmful microbes. This often causes them to appear to be covered in a blue slime, but this “slime” is potent for healing and protecting against infernal powers or curses.

Their tongues are sticky like a frog’s and can capture bugs for them to eat.

Those who are in the city-states are usually enslaved or refugees from other imperial or colonial lands. Their original culture is one of living in deep forests and providing healing for other peoples and beings, held in awe and reverence by those who do not understand them. Many are captured and exploited for their powers.

PRO 7 ATH 9 STR 7 AWA 8 WIL 8 PRS 8 STH 9 ESS 8

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Phusomson

Small, brightly shining beings who are empowered by admiration.

• Lifespan : 200 years

• Diet: Light mortal fare

• Habitat: Anywhere

• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Phusomsons appear to be 4’ tall beings with bright blue hair and glowing green eyes. They shine brightly with blue light the more admiration they feel for others.

Phusomsons are said to be descended from angels, though this is considered a myth. They are empowered when they feel admiration for others. Phusomsons gain different powers the more people they admire:

• Clear sight: they can see the person they admire clearly, knowing their faults and motivations. This protects them from admiring exploiters and deceivers.

• Uplifting voice: they can speak with a magical voice that uplifts anyone they admire or respect.

• Shimmering heart: their hearts beat faster and glow with blue light that shimmers through their skin. The light gives them bonuses to PRS.

Other powers may be possible.

Phusomsons dwell on the fringes of other cultures, living secret villages. They seek out individuals of other cultures to admire, gaining power from doing so, then using these powers to protect and support their own culture. They form symbiotic relationships with these people, often bringing them presents and tokens of support.

They are accused by imperial powers of being thieves and parasites, and they are scorned by many cultures because of these lies.

PRO 7 ATH 8 STR 6 AWA 8 WIL 8 PRS 10 STH 7 ESS 9

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Sgadugi

Small hidden folk in the forests who live in tight-knit communities.

• Lifespan : 200 years

• Diet: Common mortal fare

• Habitat: Temperate forests and hills

• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Sgadugis appear to be 4’ tall figures with skin that blends with the forests around them. They have dark, straight, auburn hair, and they have pointed ears and big eyes.

All sgadugis can form magical bonds with others in their community. These bonds can be permanent or temporary, as they please, and they can switch to new communities by spending at least a year and a day with them. They start by bonding at an early age with the community they grow up in, assuming the community loves and cares for them. These bonds allow them to share abilities, skills, lores, and stats with one another, as well as to silently communicate.

Sgadugis are native to nearby regions and form their own tight-knit communities with their own stories, crafts, arts, and traditions, but they work closely with the wider native community. They are oppressed and targeted for conquest by colonizers.

PRO 8 ATH 8 STR 7 AWA 8 WIL 9 PRS 9 STH 9 ESS 9

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Suilcroi

Small folk who are empowered by romantic love.

• Lifespan : 200 years

• Diet: Common mortal fare

• Habitat: Temperate regions

• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Suilcroi are 4’ tall fey beings with pointed ears. They have golden skin and bright blue-glowing eyes. Their hair is usually pink or violet.

All suilcroi have inherent ability in poetry, music, dance, or prose (but never more than one), though they may learn the others. They have empathic senses, and they can sense in people they feel romantic love for what they like in terms of food or common objects. Their first romantic love grants them the power to protect that person with a whispered word, granting them bonuses to STR or WIL.

The more romantic connections they have, the more powers they gain in terms of senses, insights, and protective magic.

Suilcroi usually live among the fey and act as storytellers, performers, and weavers of romantic visions, and amongst their own people, they have extensive romantic networks that make them very powerful and protected. The imperial powers denounce them as perverse and dangerous figures, breakers of hearts, and thieves and predators.

PRO 8 ATH 9 STR 7 AWA 9 WIL 8 PRS 10 STH 7 ESS 8

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Tarangah

Fabric “monsters” that lurk in laundry rooms.

• Lifespan: 60-90 years
• Diet: Left socks
• Habitat: Laundry rooms
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Tarangahs are sentient piles of laundry, about 4’ tall. They form in laundry rooms with massive piles of clothing and fabric, forming out of discarded, lost, or forgotten pieces of fabric, coming to life in order to help the oppressed and exploited finish the laundry. They are akin to brownies and other household spirits. They are born when someone is given an impossible amount of laundry to finish in an impossible amount of time. They take on a vaguely hominid form, as best as can be shaped from the various cloths they take on, but always have a hooded part that forms their head, and two eyes within it that are the core of their being, not being made of cloth, but instead celestial energy.

Tarangahs have four charms: one to instantly clean the dirtiest piece of clothing or cloth in a room, one to mend clothing or cloth, one to instantly fold a single pile (no more than 20 pieces or 30 lbs, whichever is higher), and one to iron out wrinkles from the most expensive pieces in a room. They can use their charms once per day, except the mending one, which they can use thrice a day.

Their eyes are their weakpoints.

As they are made of fabric, tarangahs may have other powers based on what pieces of clothing or cloth they are made of. Most are weak to fire, immune to cold, resistant to electricity, immune to disease, and either smell foul or like detergent. Some may have poisonous effects if they are made of gross enough materials, but most are simply a little musty.

Tarangahs eat the left sock out of a pair of socks every week for sustenance. They prefer those with holes in them, the dirtier the better. They lurk in laundry rooms and help sort, fold, clean, and mend, hidden away from imperials or other powerful figures, but showing themselves to the downtrodden forced to do all the work. If they are taken from their laundry rooms, they panic at first, but they can adjust and live in society outside. Many are taken in by the oppressed whom they originally helped, hidden from imperials (who enslave them if they find them), and kept as an equal part of the family. If they are ever used or exploited by those they formed to help, they will wreak terrible vengeance by eating every stitch of fabric in their home, then vanishing into the world.

PRO 8 ATH 8 STR 7 AWA 8 WIL 8 PRS 7 STH 9 ESS 9

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Umurinzi

Shelled home-building small folk. Plural form is “abarinzi”, which means “guardians”.

• Lifespan : 200 years
• Diet: Common mortal fare
• Habitat: Houses
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Abarinzi stand about 2’ tall at the highest, usually closer to 15”. They have hair over every inch of their bodies and large shells of various kinds on their backs.

Abarinzi’s shells are nearly impossible to break. If an umurinzi hides within their shell, they also become camouflaged with the area around them if they are within a few miles of their home (how many varies by individual, but the maximum is 10 miles and the lowest is a single mile). They can store up to 50 lbs. of materials within their shells and not feel encumbered.

If they lose their shells, they must replace it within eight days or they will grow sick and die.

When an umurinzi takes up dwelling in someone’s abode, they automatically bring certain protections to it. Infernal energies are blocked if the umurinzi is welcomed into the home, and tasks and chores around the house become easier to complete if the umurinzi is given food and drink regularly.

If someone asks umurinzi to build their home with the intention of having them live there with them (and with fair compensation for the work), the house will be even more powerfully protected.

There is but one nation of abarinzi, synonymous with their species name.

The abarinzi live in a region clustered around a massive lake. Abarinzi families are large. They form complex communities living amongst other nations, though without assimilating into them. Because of their powers to protect homes, abarinzi are welcomed by most, and their powers and pride keep them from entering into exploitative relationships with other nations or individuals for the most part. Their large families live in special rooms or spaces within the homes of others, or in special housing structures designed just for them.

Each family is its own community. They have their own traditions and stories, and the family structure varies from family to family. Most commonly, the eldest of them are de facto leaders, and everyone raises the children together. “Family” is defined as “a group of abarinzi who take care of one another”, so blood-ties are not necessary. However, most often, they are blood-related.

Once they have their adult-sized shell (though not their adult shell), they do not have to change shells as often. They end up keeping their shells for about a decade. Every new shell is still celebrated, however, though the parties change as they age, shifting from colorful celebrations of the community to more personalized parties. Abarinzi do not celebrate birthdays, as their shell-days have replaced them.

The shape and form of an umurinzi’s shell has social significance. Once an umurinzi is an adult, they often seek out new designs or new shells. Larger shells are considered ostentatious and inconvenient, but shells that are too small are dangerous. Colorful shells are associated with those who do not need to hunt or fight to survive, thus celebrated and honored, whereas spikes on shells are reserved for those who hunt or fight. A shell that is both colorful and spiked is seen as confusing or impractical or even insulting to the warriors of the community. A shell with spirals is often used by those who engage regularly in dance or performance, and shells with pentagonal patterns are seen as much more practical and common.

Almost all of them in the empires are slaves or former slaves.

Abarinzi consider all children “girls” until they decide their own gender after the age of 12. Once they choose a gender, they are allowed to change it after their next shell change. Gender is indicated by how they choose to decorate their shells, though there are no hard and fast rules. Abarinzi select the decorations that represent their gender and place them in the spot where their shell meets their neck. This spot is helpful because they can hide it when they please. There are nine recognized common genders among the abarinzi, but these can be mixed and matched or discarded entirely for unique genders.

PRO 8 ATH 8 STR 4 Shell 30 AWA 8 WIL 8 PRS 8 STH 12 ESS 9

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Yaobi

Stone-covered fey folk.

• Lifespan : 500 years
• Diet: Stone
• Habitat: Mountains and hills
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Yaobis are 4' tall fey folk covered in small stones. They have glowing eyes made of gems and pebbled flesh.

All yaobis have a dominant stone on their flesh - usually chalcedony, chrysoprase, jade, sardonyx, amethyst, jasper, sard, jacinth, beryl, emerald, chrysolite, topaz, sapphire, or magical jieshi stones. Their stone determines their powers:

• Chalcedony: empathic senses
• Chrysoprase: protection from evil
• Jade: speak to plants
• Sardonyx: control earth
• Amethyst: good fortune
• Jasper: good dreams
• Sard: absorb celestial energies
• Jacinth: restorative voice
• Beryl: sense precious stones
• Emerald: beautiful voice
• Chrysolite: speak to animals
• Topaz: repel infernal winds
• Sapphire: beautiful aura
• Jieshi: control stones

All yaobis can sense when cave-ins, earthquakes, or avallanches are about to occur. They can also curl up and hide as a stone.

Yaobis are from the far south and east, where they live in rocky regions like mountains and hills, and they work to protect nature and the people of the region. They dwell where they can warn others of coming disasters.

Those in the empires are either immigrants who face severe discrimination or slaves or former slaves who face the same.

PRO 8 ATH 5 STR 8 Toughness 16 AWA 8 WIL 9 PRS 8 STH 9 ESS 8