Radyajie
The Radyajie is a race of fox shifters, peaceful people who value the forests and each other greatly. They called the land between the Prowen and Kipales provinces home for the longest time, not officially part of the empire.
Basic Information
Anatomy
The Radyajie are a humanoid race sharing some features with the foxes they can become. This manifests in the ears and tails they have as well as the clawed hands and fanged smiles. Their feet are also pawed like a fox.
Dietary Needs and Habits
The Radyajie require surprisingly little from their surroundings preferring small prey and any edible foliage that they can forage. This is thought to be an adaptation so as to avoid wandering into hostile territory more often than absolutely necessary.
Additional Information
Social Structure
Despite foxes mostly being loners in nature the Radyajie are very social and prefer to stick in groups unless they are out gathering and hunting. They operate on a clan system with the entire people ruled by one clan.
Uses, Products & Exploitation
The Shoqen often hunted them for sport and to used their fox form pelts as courting gifts.
Facial characteristics
The Radyajie often confuse other races as they are incredibly androgynous and pretty. They tend towards soft smooth features and fox like eyes that are often described as hypnotizing.
Geographic Origin and Distribution
They occupied the small chunk of land between the Prowen and Kipales Provinces before their fall.
Average Intelligence
They are crafty and cunning, most don't know much about them except that they have survived for two thousand years outside of the empire with the Shoqen actively hunting them.
Perception and Sensory Capabilities
They are incredibly fast, agile, and have amazing senses that help to keep them out of danger. They are also able to charm their way out of danger in some cases using a unique form of suggestion much like that of the Drinnaren.
Civilization and Culture
Beauty Ideals
The Radyajie embrace their natural androgyny whole heartedly, with it being a point of pride. They take special interest in the length and care of their hair and in the intricacy of it's style. Aside from their hair their other main focus of beauty is on their eyes, doing everything in their power to make them stand out.
Gender Ideals
They see no true separation between male and female instead opting to share every burden they can as a clan.
Courtship Ideals
Small gifts are a commonality in their courtship, quantity and extravagance having no meaning to them in the grand scheme of things. Instead they focus on thoughtfulness. Small acts of service are also common.
Relationship Ideals
They consider relationships to be partnerships in everything, often doing what they can to make the other's life easier and to help ease each other's burden.
Common Dress Code
They tend to dress in robes, loose pants and wrap shirts. They are also fond of wooden beads and polished stone jewelry as well as feathers and other small trinkets found in the forests they call home.
Culture and Cultural Heritage
Family and community are everything to the Radyajie. They are a somewhat simple people steeped in tradition and the stories of their elders. They enjoy music, dance, telling stories, cooking and all forms of art. They celebrate the small things and work together through the tough times. This has seen them through a tumultuous history and their hostile surroundings.
Interspecies Relations and Assumptions
They are mysteries to most as they have mostly stayed self-contained through the ages, they do not however have a good relationship with the Shoqen. This is because the Shoqen have actively hunted them for ages seeing them as nothing more than trophy prey.
Lifespan
400
Average Height
Four and a half to six feet
Average Physique
They are a small and slight people that are rather androgynous in nature.
Body Tint, Colouring and Marking
The coloration among them tends to vary greatly with little in the way of commonality. Their fox forms also vary greatly with some taking more natural colors and others having bioluminescent markings and 'unnatural' coloration.
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