The Children of Iagreth
***the children under each god is tied to what kind of magic they can use(Sun elves control Light magic, etc, etc)
Children of Antares(The Father, King of Creation and Knowledge)
Species Name: Sun Elves
Life Span: Age the same as humans until 25. Can live up to 700 years.
General Appearance: Most sun elves have light peach skin to golden skin. They have hair that is white or blonde.
Geographical Location: Sun elves generally live in cities that contain a variety of other humanoid species.
Additional Facts: The first race of elves that were created by the gods. They were granted 100 extra years compared to their lesser cousins of fire and snow elves. They consider themselves rather above most humanoid species(including the fae-though they won't admit that to their faces). A lot of sun elves are encouraged to be scholars and put themselves at the height of whatever occupations they choose. A lot of sun elves are doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc.
Species Name: Ilumen
Life Span: Lesser illumen live 20-25 years while more powerful illumen live up to 50 years.
General Appearance: Lesser Illumen can look like little blobs of light or small animals. Greater Ilumen can take on more human like appearances(have lighter colorings).
Geographical Location: All over the continent.
Additional Facts: N/A right now
Children of Sauda(Great Mother, Queen of the Moon and Illusions, Lady of Identity)
Species Name: Trolls
Life Span: 1-5 childhood. 5-10 teenage hood. 11-50 adulthood. Most trolls tend to die by 60.
General Appearance: Trolls are between 8-9 ft. They are generally muscular and their bodies are covered in thick hides that is various hues of grey. Their hair is usually white, grey, or black.
Geographical Location: They tend to make their villages high in the mountains in secluded areas. Some few live inside noble homes.
Additional Facts: A noble warrior race. They make their homes in seclusion(more to keep from squishing the other humanoids then anything else), but they maintain good relations with other people of Iagreth. They will oft lend themselves out as body guards, prison guards or as muscle in armies.
Species Name: Orcs
Life Span: Considered adults at 14 years of age. Usually live up to age 75 though some manage to live as long as 80.
General Appearance: Orcs have skins in various hues of grey and green. Most tend to be dark haired but a couple blond orcs have crept up. Have tusks growing out of their lower lips. Have pointed ears like the elves but theirs are bigger. Usually between 6-8 ft tall.
Geographical Location: Most orcs tend to make their villages either in the eastern or southern provinces.
Addtional Facts: Orcs tend to have multiple spouses as the more they have the more power they are said to wield. Most known for being expert crafts people.
Species Name: Goblins
Life Span: Adults at 18. Usually live 65 years.
General Appearance: They had flat faces, broad noses, pointed ears, and small, sharp fangs. Their foreheads sloped back, and their eyes varied in color from red to yellow. Their skin color ranged from yellow through any shade of orange to a deep red. Usually stand between 3 ft 4 inches to 4 ft.
Geographical Location: Goblins make their homes all over the five provinces in various caves and hills.
Additional Facts: Most goblins tend to be very quiet and fast. Most goblins choose a life of thievery.
Species Name: Shapeshifters(Animal Forms)
Life Span: They have the same kind of life spans are human beings.
General Appearance: Their exist several types of shifters in Iagreth; cats, wolves, deer, badgers, owls, fish.
Geographical Location: Shapeshifters tend to make their homes all over Iagreth depending on what race they are.
Additional Facts: Some of the more wild of shapeshifters make their homes among the wilds among the normal animals of their species. There are increased shapeshifters that are choosing to make their homes in towns and cities amongst other humanoid species.
Species Name: Shadows and Shades(Dark Elementals)
Life Span: Shadows will typically live up to 25 years. Shades will live up to 50 years.
General Appearance: Shadows are dark masses that typically take the shape of small animals; rats, cats, dogs, etc(they can temporarily appear as normal members of the species). Shades are the greater dark elementals that typically assume human form(tending towards darker colourings).
Geographical Location: Wherever darkness exits.
Additional Facts: Shadows and Shades are created when people or animals die in unexpected or violent ways. What remains are creatures of darkness who can't remember their former lives. Many haunt the dark places of the world but still others look to reimmerse themselves with the world.
Children of Cerulea( Princess of Air )
Species Name: Furies(Air Elementals)
Life Span: Lesser air elementals tend to live between 20-25 years. Superior air elementals tend to live up to 50 years.
General Appearance: Lesser air elementals look like swirling blobs of wind that stand at between 3 ft-4 ft. More powerful air elementals are still made of wind, though they tend to take on a more human like appearance(their various features tend to be ranges of blue, grey, and white). The more human like air elementals are usually between 5 ft-6 ft. Superior air elementals can also temporarily solidify into form.
Geographical Location: Most of Iagreth's air elementals tend to make their homes among the clouds. Their have been some who join fisherman and traders on boats though, lending their powers to give speed to their errands(these ones are looked down upon though for giving aid to "lesser" beings).
Additional Facts: A mostly superior and haughty species who think they are above other species(most particularly any of the humanoid ones).
Species Name: Harpies
Life Span: Harpies are considered children between 1-10 years. Teens are 11-19 years. Adult at 20 years. Harpies can live up to 80 years.
General Appearance: Creatures that are half-bird, half-human. They are extremely varied in skin, hair, feather, and eye colour. Female harpies are between 4 ft-5 ft tall. Male harpies range between 4 1/2 ft-5 1/2 ft.
Geographical Location: A lot of harpies choose to make their homes high in the mountains away from most of the other species of Iagreth. Their is however a large harpy population that live in the capital regions of each of the five provinces that lend themselves out as messengers to the current emperor or empress and the kings and queens.
Additional Facts: Harpies meet up every 3 months for the purposes of repopulating their species; the rest of the time children are raised in bands of females and males.
Children of Terbis(Prince of Earth, Lord of Fertility and Land Animals)
Species Name: Fae
Lifespan: Age like humans until 21. They will live for up to 800 years.
General Appearance: Fae have extremely varying skin tones, hair colour, and eye colour. No wings. Female fae are between 5-5 1/2 ft. Males are usually between 5 1/2-5ft
Geographical Location: Most tend to live in the central province, but cities that include them can be found in the northern, southern, eastern, and western provinces.
Additional Facts: Fae make up the largest percent of the ruling class of Iagreth. Their laws of succession favour the eldest child as heir.
Species Name: Plains People(Human)
Lifespan: Reach the age of majority at 21 years. They can live up to 115 years.
General Appearance: The Plains people have skin that usually light brown to dark brown. Hair is usually dark. Eyes range between greys, browns, and black.
Geographical Location: Live mostly in the grasslands in the western province of Efrad.
Additional Facts: A mostly wandering folk who move around the western plains in bands; usually composed of grandparents, parents, aunt, uncles, cousins. Though they have a lot of fights tend to break out in between bands they usually only marry fellow plains people.
Name: Leafies
Lifespan: About 30 years.
General Appearance: Lesser light earth elementals tend to look like small walking versions of plants or leaves. More powerful earth elementals can take on more human like appearances.
Geographical Locations: They tend to make their homes in farmers fields or in the deep forests of the continent.
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Children of Aquis(Lady of the Waters, River + Sea Creatures, Trade + Safe Sailing)
Species Name: River Folk(Human)
Lifespan: Reach the age of majority at 21 years. They can live up to 115 years.
General Appearance: The river folk of Iagreth have medium peach skin to medium brown skin. They tend to have hair in various shades of blonde and brown. River folk have eyes that are either blue or green. They are usually between 4 1/2 ft-6 ft.
Geographical Location: Though they call themselves river folk not all of them exclusively live by rivers; some choose to make their homes by the sea.
Additional Facts: A lot of river folk choose the life of fishing or trading due to the nature of their powers.
Species Name: Lizardfolk
Life Span: 1-20 hatchling. 21-30-teen. 31-60 middle adulthood. 61-80 old age.
General Appearance: Reptilian humanoids. Skin is covered in scales in hues of green, brown, or grey. Eye colour is always yellow. Hair is usally in shades of blonde, red, and brown.Tails are usually about 3 ft long. Typically between 5ft-7 ft. Have sharp claws on the their hands and feet.
Geographical Location: Lizardfolk live all over the five provinces as long as it's by a body of water. A lot of settles have sprung up near the city but it's not unheard of for settlements to spring up near rivers, marshs, or lakes.
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Species Name: Aquina(Water Elementals)
Lifespan: Lesser Aquina can live 20-25 years. More powerful live about 50 years.
General Appearance: Between 3-4t tall(lesser Aquina), 4 ft-6ft(more powerful Aquina). Smaller aquina look either like huge droplets of water or small animals. More powerful ones can take on more human like appearances.
Geographical Location: Water elementals make their homes in any body of water(whether it be a fountain in a city to the actual sea).
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Children of Novis(Lord of Fire and Combat)
Species Name: Gnome
Lifespan: 1-2 infancy, 2-11 childhood, 12-19 teen, 20 adulthood. Gnomes will typically live to be about 100.
General Appearance: Gnomes are generally between 2 ft-3 1/2 ft tall. They have typically tan or brown skin. Their hair tends to be mostly in shades or blonde though in recent years some are turning out with light brown hair.
Geographical Location: Gnomes make their homes by burrowing into hills are over the continent.
Additional Facts: Gnomes typically live in a home with both of their parents for the first six years of their lives. In is then tradition for gnome families to then separate and each parent raises their opposite gender children until adulthood. After that they are expected to strike out on their own for ten years to learn about the world and find a mate.
Species Name: Fire Elves
Life Span: Age the same as humans until 25. Can live up to 600 years.
General Appearance: Mostly golden skinned or olive toned beings with blonde or red hair. Pointy ears. Are usually between 5ft-6 1/2 ft tall.
Geographical Location: Most fire elves live in the Arid Wastelands on the border between the central province and the southern province.
Additional Facts:
Species Name: Firekin(Fire Elementals)
Life Span: 20-25 years for lesser Firekin. About 50 years for more powerful Firekin.
General Appearance: Beings formed out of living flame. Between 3-4 ft tall.
Geographical Location: The majority of fire elementals make their homes in the volcanoes of the surrounding islands of Iagreth due to the constant presence of lava. There are some who choose to travel though and take their chances finding a next source of fire to eat.
Additional Facts: A mostly chaotic race.
Children of Lutum(Lord of Stone, Craftsmenship, and the Arts)
Species Name: Dwarves
Lifespan: 1-25 childhood. 25-52-teenagehood. 53 age of majority. They can live up to 500 years.
General Appearance: Dwarves are usually between 4 ft-5 ft tall and tend to be stout. Dwarves have varying physical characteristics depending on the clan they belong to. Male dwarves are bearded. All dwarves where different type of jewelry(beads, rings, necklaces, bracelets, etc.) for each and every member of their families.
Geographical Location: There are at least 2 major dwarf cities in the nothern, eastern, southern, and western provinces. Dwarves in the central province lives in towns and village among other humanoid species. Mostly they tend to keep to the city they are born unless they are a trader.
Additional Facts: Most dwarves are naturally gifted in crafting and blacksmithing. In the past two millennium a lot of their kind are leaving their homes to study engineering. They are behind such inventions are glasses, prosthetics, electrical lighting, and airships.
Nothing is more important then family to a dwarf.
Species Name: Gemina(Rock Elementals)
Lifespan: Gemina can live up to 50 years.
General Appearance: Elementals formed with bodies of rocks, precious gems, or metals. Lesser gemina look like either walking rocks or smaller animals. More powerful beings tend to look more humanoid. Lesser gemina are usually under 4ft while the powerful beings can be between 4ft-6ft.
Geographical Location: Depends on the elemental. There are some who choose to live completely in the wilds close to the type of rock they resemble. There are some who choose to live in tandem with the dwarves in their cities giving aid to their projects. There are also those who like to make their homes among the more open cities giving their aid to jewelers, construction workers, etc.
Additional Facts: Gemina are among the most helpful elemental races.
Children of Cyrossa(Lady of Ice/Snow)
Species Name: Ice Humans
Life Span: Reach the age of majority at 21 years. They can live up to 115 years.
General Appearance: The people of this species of human tend to be olive skinned. Nearly all are brown or black haired.
Geographical Location: They mostly live in numerous villages among the northern and southern provinces of Iagreth. Some also choose to make their homes in mountains of other regions though.
Additional Facts:
Species Name: Frost lads and lasses
Life Span: Lesser live 20-25 years. More powerful up to 50 years.
General Appearance: Elemental beings made of snow or ice. Lesser beings stand between 3-4 ft tall. More powerful beings stand between 4 ft-6ft. Lesser beings can take on the appearance of smaller creatures, more powerful beings tend to look more human.
Geographical Location: Most live in the nothern province of Iagreth.
Additional Facts: They have a certain fascination with the the humanoid species of Iagreth. In the past 100 years or so they've started making their own villages with igloos made out of snow or ice. Some of the more mean frost lads and lasses enjoy making living ice sculptures of people who come across their lands.
Species Name: Snow Elves
Life Span: Age the same as humans until 25. Can live up to 600 years.
General Appearance: Mostly white-skinned(as in snow white) or pale beings with shades of white and blonde hair. Pointy ears. Are usually between 5ft-6 1/2 ft tall.
Geographical Location: The snow elves live exclusively at the top of the nothern province of Iagreth.
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