Decided I needed a guide regarding pre-dragon endermen in the AEAU, since they are the single biggest change in the entire AU.
Also: yes, I know, my yogscast fan is showing... this au was built around a fanfic, so shush 😜
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Endermen are the primary population of the lesser-known third dimension, the End.
Unlike Piglins, they are very similar to humans in shape, though of course not identical.
Their skin tones are consistently a very dark shade with either a purple or blue hue, and their hair and eye colours can vary between green and warm purple.
Endermen have long pointed ears, and their eyes have slit pupils and coloured sclera. Their teeth are white, but their enamel has a pearlescent sheen.
Behind the ears and along the jawline, endermen have a set of transparent fronds. These fronds are specialised magic-sensing organs.
(To the left of this text is a drawing of an enderman as described, with his mouth open to show off his teeth. His hair is a consistent indigo colour and his fronds and eyes are turquoise.)
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Endermen have a unique secondary pigment in their bodies named vis pigment - usually invisible, vis pigment can develop a colour when consistently exposed to elemental magic for a period of time. It exists alongside a more traditional pigment, and as a result can cause interesting bichromatic effects in the eyes, hair and fronds (the parts of the body that vis pigment can be found in).
Colours such as red, yellow, and warmer hues of greens cannot be found in endermen unless their vis pigment has developed a colour - hues such as those are a sign that the enderman regularly practices elemental magic.
(To the left of this text is a drawing of another enderman, this one having yellow in her purple hair and fronds, and yellow dots in her eyes.)
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The respawn tell on an enderman is the same as for a human - square irises.
Respawn is oddly uncommon among endermen, for their population density, but there are still a sizeable number of those who have it.
Endermen are rumoured to take longer to respawn than humans; this rumour is false and due to poor statistical analysis. The small number of endermen that take hours to respawn because they get caught up in conversations with Death are outliers and should be considered as such.
(To the left of this text is a drawing of another enderman, smiling at the screen. She has square irises, and the fringe of her blue hair has been dyed rainbow.)
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'Enderborn' is a name given to humans spawned in the End, an uncommon occurrence but not unheard of.
Enderborn humans are always partially enderman themselves, and consistently have at least one enderman feature, such as the fronds or pearl teeth.
Endermen are almost always adopted into an enderman family - not officially, given that most spawn as adults- an- d even those that leave the End to live in the overworld tend to have a family back in the End they visit, sometimes even carrying the family name with them.
(To the left of this text is a drawing of Rythian Enderborn, a character from the minecraft series The Blackrock Chronicles. He has square purple irises with blue flecks, and fronds that are a gradient from purple to blue.)
At the bottom of the image is a drawing of an eye with a cyan sclera, and a teal iris with slit pupils that somewhat resembles a square eye of ender. There are cyan dots in a semicircle pattern under the eye.
