Xi Anu, an Opixian Ryhai Sy'n, stood at her desk, reading over her thesis. Three empty vials of ink lay beside her paper, muddled and dirtied by her frantic refilling of her quill. She had found it, discovered it, experienced it. It was her ancestry, her power, her suffering. Her veins glowed with a dull blue color, pulsating as she patiently read through her paper. She heard voices but did her best to ignore them, refusing to look at the empty room around her. She did not have long: she became frantic, paranoid, manic all at once. She began to tear at her paper, her claws ripping through the aged parchment. She threw off her cloak, the cloth that would dampen her soul and turn her insane. At once, she erupted. The room broke out in flames. Xi Anu and her thesis were burned in entirety.
Basic Information
Biological Traits
Opix are a humanoid species that are often pale, gray, or light blue in skin color and share some physical characteristics with mythological harpies. Rather than hair, their heads are covered in pale feathers that grow in a variety of shapes, patterns, and colors. Opix pride themselves on their feathered crests, maintaining them and styling them in a variety of manners for purely aesthetic or sometimes hierarchical reasons. Their facial features are similar to those of humans, bar their slightly larger and more inset eyes and their sharper and longer faces. Opix also tend to be taller and more slender than the average human, often measuring between 5 feet 10 inches and 6 feet 7 inches, and tend to weigh around the same as humans of average height. They tend to mature at 16 and live until around the age of 220.
An Opix' claws tend to be around 6 inches in length and are often either a pale white or a deep, obsidian black. Their eyes have no pupils and tend to be black or white in color, typically matching their claws. Jewelry and piercings are common among Opix, often choosing to wear ornamental Jade and, if they are rich enough, Xumil stones.
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