#cosmosbestiary

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Centaurs

Centaurs are a race of folklore mystics with geomancy (earth magic) powers, not to be confuse with beastmen of similar build. From the waist up their bodies are humanoid normally looking the nearest other humanoid race while from the waist down their body is that of an equidae, looking like they have replace the creature neck with their humanoid half, the equidae half normally looks like whatever equidaes live in the area. Centaur Biology Centaur biology is mix of equidae and humanoid biology in a that seems to combine the best of both for the most part. Centaurs have greater stamina then equidae allowing them to run much longer and then durable too, easily being able to do things that would kill a humanoid or equidae, and of course they have the power of a horse in every punch. Also a centauride(female centaur) only has a gestation period about nine months like a human, the males are call centaurus while we on the subject. Now with that said there really isn’t much else to say about centaur biology with the except that some centaurs have equidae ears instead humanoid ears and that centaurs are can’t handier alcohol. For the ixionidae or base centaur anyway, you see centaurs come in five strains and the one we been talking about is the ixionidae the most common strain of centaur. Now before we start on the others it needs to be said that the reasons the different kind of centaurs are call strains is because any centaur parents can have any strain of centaur as a child. Ipotane. Ipotane are the next most common strain of centaur despite not looking like one. While they do have equidae legs and tail, as well ears, they aren’t quadrupeds they are bipeds and often confuse for satyrs. Of course, being smaller does mean they are physically weaker than other centaurs but they are still stronger than humans, however because of their weakness they are often giving the lowest jobs in centaur society. Onocentaur Onocentaurs are a little less common then ipotanes and are almost the same as ixionidaes in every way, but one that is. They have no front legs at all despite having the lower half of a horse, yet this doesn’t seem to affect them much as they move just the same as ixionidaes. However, does make them a little slower and weaker than the ixionidaes which is why they get jobs that requires less physical strength and more intellect in centaur society. Magnesia Mare Magnesia mares are different from other centaurs in many ways, first they are all females, and second they look like equidae made from unworked rock, even their manes look like this! In fact they are so different from the others they are listed as epic mystics because of their magical abilities. Abilities which in centaur society make them seen as holy figures that reach the highest levels of respect in their cultures, and if you were wondering they can speak just fine. Long Live: While other centaurs live about as long as humans, magnesia mares have a life span about 700 years long. Breeding Mare: One of the reasons magnesia mares are so respected in centaur society is because amazing breeding ability. Their gestation period is half as long as that of other centaurides with a much higher odds of having multiple births at once, and on top of that they seem to have no trouble at all with pregnancy or child birth, long term or short term. Because of this once a magnesia mare becomes an adult it is rare to see them not pregnant, as number of adult offspring they have raises their rank in almost other magnesia mares. They rarely raise the offspring themselves normally giving them over to other centaurides, normally the wife of the child’s father. Magnesia mares rarely take husbands instead choosing the sire of their children from any of the herds centaurus that meets their standers, this is seen as a high honor for both the centaurus and their wife, and if they aren’t it is rare that stays the same for long after being pick. Rock Biology: Strangely magnesia mares aren’t organic at all and can’t be affected by anything that can only effect organic beings, but because they are living things they are effected by things that effected living things in general. Rocky Hide: Despite whatever kind of rock they look like they are made of all magnesia mares are as touch as bedrock. Hippocentaur Hippocentaur rarest and strongest of all centaurs, they are mythical mystics. When it comes to looks it isn’t hard to tell them apart for other centaurs as they are almost twice as big as ixionidaes, have set of horns on their heads, always have equidae ears, a mouth full of lion like fangs, retracting claws on their hands, and despite their humanoid halves being no more hairier then a human there facial features are like those of a cercopithecidae. They also come in dark pastel colors. Needless to say, wherever hippocentaurs are found they are the leaders of their herds at least, and if they are centaurus then they alone can breed any magnesia mares the herd has. Manna Drain: Hippocentaur can suck the manna right of any other form of mystic to fuel their own magic. This is very painful to mystics and if use to much can kill them. Long Live: Hippocentaur can live up to 700 years. Manna Armor: Hippocentaur generate a form of force field around their bodies that absorb most damage that is throw them, giving a form of damage reduction. However, it can only absorb so much damage at one time. 12 Horsepower: Hippocentaur have the combine strength and speed of one dozen horses. Centaur Culture Centaurs live in tribal groups that they call herds that are an equalarchy in almost all aspects for the sexes. Strangely however centaurs will never work together in mix sex groups if they can help it, why this is no one can say not even the centaurs. Other parts of their culture largely depend on what kind of neighbors they have. When they have no neighbors, centaurs are largely hunter gathers with very simple agriculture and stone age tools. Centaurs have never advance past this on their own for unknown reasons. But when they have neighbors that are weaker than them centaurs become deadly raiders that attack other societies, carrying off any humanoid or equidae that they find useful or attractive, which is part why centaurs are so diverse. However, if their neighbors prove to be as strong as them then the centaurs become powerful allies, often becoming warriors for hire to the other society. If the society is even stronger than them than the centaurs will join them willingly, often taking jobs where their great strength and geomancy magic comes in handy, like farming or military work.

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Gargoyle

A bizarre group of mythical mystics that are so diverse that if it wasn’t for them having the same abilities and cultures many wouldn’t even count them as the same race. In fact, most still don’t since besides their abilities the only other thing they have in come is their body shapes, and even that is up to debate. Gargoyle Biology Gargoyles come in three base humanoid body types, the first and best known being gargouille who have wings, and yes they can fly, legs that end in semi-prehensile feet and a tail weapon, the second are the grotesque who have no wings, and the third is the babewyn who have neither wings or a tail, but beyond that gargoyles look very different from one another. Their arms can be in the same proportion of humans or could be as long as their legs, their hands while always ending in claws come in many different kinds of claws that deal different damage and they can have three to eight digits on them. They can one eye to ten, their skin could be like that of any living mundane lifeform or look it is made of metal or rock, and the same is truth for their hair or feathers if they have them. Then there their heads, some have human looking heads, some more animal like heads, while other have heads that can only be called monstrous. Even their wings don’t match up as they can any kind of wings known to exist, even ones that look mechanical in nature. And they can all kinds of extra bits like horns, antlers, spikes, spines, quills, fins, antenna, tentacles, and many, many other things. And while most are about 2.1336m(7ft) tall, they can and often do come smaller and bigger types. Yet despite they do have the same development and live cycle, the females lay a stone like egg that takes about two years to hatch, they reach adult hood at about 90 and can live to be about 200 or more depending on the medical care they can get. They are nocturnal and while they are lithovore omnivores they prefer meat and rocks over plants. They also have the following abilities: Petrification Venom: All gargoyles have a venom that when injected will turn its victims in to some kind of rock, the kind of rock as well as the time it takes varies per gargoyle. Immune: Gargoyles are immune to anything that cause petrification, and electric damage. Stone Breaking Bite: No matter the shape of their mouth or head for that matter, gargoyles bite is strong enough to bite though stone. Strone Sleep: When gargoyles sleep their bodies change to look like then are made of work rock like the kind around them, if for whatever reason there is no kind of rock around them then they look like work rock from the last time they were around any rocks. During this sleep gargoyles bodies become as hard as bed rock, they also healing at a much faster rate and it isn’t uncommon for a gargoyle to be completely recover from all wounds, poisons, and illnesses after one morning sleep. However, they can’t regrow body parts this way, but if there is no food, water, or even air around them they can stay in this state for years. How long is unknown but that can’t stay like this forever and will die in their sleep if they try. Rocky Hide: Gargoyles bodies as tough as stone. Inorganic biology: Gargoyles are almost completely inorganic making them immune to most poisons, toxics, pathogens, and parasites as well as making them resistance to biomancy. Echolocation: Gargoyles can get around by echolocation. Night vision: Gargoyles can see in the dark Scent: Gargoyles can track and recognize beings by their scent. Element Type: Unlike most mystics gargoyles don’t come in one type of magic but ten. Each type gives them a different breath weapon as well as allowing them to learn different spells. 1. Pyromancy: The magic of fire, gargoyles of this type can breathe a line of fire 2. Geomancy: The magic of earth, gargoyles of this type have sonic scream cone. 3. Aquamancy: The magic of water, gargoyles of this type have line of water at high speeds. 4. Aeromancy: The magic of wind and air, gargoyles of this type have a high power wind breath as their breath weapon. 5. Metalmancy: The magic of metal, gargoyles of this type have a cone of neurotoxic gas a breath weapon. 6. Electromancy: The magic of electricity, gargoyles of type have a line of lighting as a breath weapon. 7. Cryomancy: The magic of ice, gargoyles of this type have a line of frost breath. 8. Biomancy: The magic of life, gargoyles of this type can spit a line of acid strong enough leather armor. 9. Umbramancy: The magic of darkness, gargoyles of this type have a line of shadow that drains health and energy of those that touch it. 10. Luxomancy: The magic of light, gargoyles of this type have a laser beam as a breath weapon. Tail Weapons: Gargoyles have many types of tail weapons each with their own way to deal death. 1. Blade tail: This tail has a strong blade at the end that can cut like a sword. 2. Spike tail: A set of strong spikes on this one will make quick work of those it hit. 3. Strong tail: A muscular tail that can break bones with a hit. 4. Stinger: A venomous stinger is on the end of this tail. 5. Quill thrower: Lines of quills waiting to be throw are found on this tail. 6. Mace tail: Ending in a round spike cover bone this tail weapon often kills easily. 7. Tentacle tail: A long prehensile tail that can stretch to tire up enemies. 8. Claw tail: Ending in a claw hand this tail is as good as another arm. 9. Head tail: An extra head on this tail adds another and breath weapon use. 10. Eye tail: This tail ends with a large eye that can shoot beam of force. 11. Whip tail: A prehensile tail that can cut through the air like a whip. 12. Constrictor tail: Long and muscular this prehensile tail can squeeze the life out of you. 13. Fan tail: With the fan shape fin at the end of this a strong gust of wing by cause with one swing. 14. Element tail: The tip if this tail ends in the same type of energy that powers the creatures, allowing it to throw balls of this energy from its tail 15. Quake tail: A beaver like tail that causes small quakes in what it hits. 16. Sucker tail: A powerful sucker ends this tail allowing its owner to stand on it or hold to others. 17. Ax tail: With ax like bone on the end of this it ready to give the chop. 18. Hammer tail: Its always hammer time thanks to the bone that ends this tail. 19. Tuft tail: This tail may not look like much with the tuft of fur that ends, but thanks to the pheromone making glands under the fur it can send you running from the smell or to it. 20. Pincer tail: A powerful pincer waits to grab prey on this tail. Claws: Gargoyles have a many types of claws, each dealing a different type of damage. 1. Barb claws: These hook shape claws pull into flesh to take some with it. 2. Blade claws: Like knives these claws deal slashing damage 3. Needle claws: These thin claws inject venom when use. 4. Ripping claws: With one strikes limbs and flesh comes right off but not cleanly. Gargoyle Culture If you were to find gargoyles own their own you may have a hard time realizing they were sapient beings. This because gargoyles rarely build anything at all including tools, mostly because they have little need to thanks their naturel abilities. However gargoyles are rarely found on their own, they are almost always found living in towns and cities of other races. Either as secret inhabitants that take what or need while trying to remain unknown, or as guardians living in small tribes protecting important areas for food, board, and luxury goods. There are some cases where gargoyles do live just like any other citizen but these are rare. When ask why these they prefer to live like this gargoyles tale story about how they believe there kind were made and for what reason. According to this tale a powerful mage wanted to increase the defense of their castle hired countless dwarf artisan to carve statues from special stone from Tartarus. The mage then bath the statues with dragon blood and demon ichor while chanting words of power from they learn from celestials, and from the statues the first gargoyles were born. Whether this story is true is unknown but the gargoyles seem to think which why their religions teach it is their purpose to guard.

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Griffons

Griffons are a specie of mystic with the head of an Ave and the body of a Felidae that comes in so many subspecies, breeds, and strains, both wild and domestic, that trying to talk about each and every one would take many different books. Something that is made even harder thanks to the fact griffons of all types have no problem living together and inbreeding. Lucky however all griffons share certain traits in common with one another and can easily be categorization into one of six and half classes that share even more of those traits. So, it will those traits that we will talk about. Share Traits Most of all griffon types are omnivore folklore mystics with general magic, this means they can do any kind of magic but being animals on higher level of dog intelligence this greatly limits the spells they know. All griffons also eat to some degree and love equidae meat above all else, they will ignore easier to get food for a chance at equidae meat. This is why equidae races hate and fear griffons and go out of their way to kill them at all costs. Griffons love shiny things, especially things that shine like gold, and collect them to line the burrows they lay their eggs in. Which brings us to griffon flocks, griffons live in flocks that normally number about a dozen or adults and few eggs and hatchlings, while free to mate which any of the adults in the flock most griffons normally only pair off with into couples to help take care of the eggs and hatchling. When it is time to hunt the females with eggs and young stays behind with a few of the stronger adults with offspring to guard the nesting grounds as well as the any sick, injure, or elderly griffons, the others will bring them back food. The hatchlings will often leave the flock when they become adults to either join another flock or found a new one, in other join a flock a griffon must get another griffon in one to let him into the nesting grounds normally by bringing them shiny things and equidae meat. Finely the last thing all griffons have in common is that they are surprisingly easy to tame for predators which has led them to be very common domestic mystics, as to the best way to tame them varies per type of griffon but normally involves equidae meat and things that look like gold. Gryphus The most common class of griffons they have the body of a large Felidae and have the head, wings, and talons on their front legs of a Ave. They are normally about 210cm (6.8ft) and the domestic ones normally serve as mounts/hunting animals. Lion Roar: Gryphus can let loose a strong sonic blast that stun creatures. Eagle Eye: Gryphus has eye sight that is about 8 times stronger then human. Flight: Gryphus can fly. Fire Breath: Gryphus has a line of fire as a breath weapon. Keythong With the head of an Ave as well as the talons of one on its front legs and a body of a Felidae a keythong looks a lot like a gryphus without wings, except they are cover with spikes, spines, bards, quills, and often have horns as well. They are also normally about 3.33 yd (10ft) in size, and the domestic ones are used for war beasts and guard animals sense their many pointy parts makes them impossible to ride. In mix flocks keythong are left at the nesting grounds as guards while the griffons do the hunting. Fire Breath: Keythongs can breathe a line of fire. Throwing Quills: Keythongs can throw venomous quills at prey and attackers. Venom: Keythongs’ spikes, spines, barbs, quills, talons, claws, horns, and beaks are all venomous. Lion Strength: Keythongs can lift three times their own body weight. Heart Of The Lion: It takes a lot to scare a keythong, they have been known to fight on even after taking wounds that would send any other animal running. They are also highly resistance to fear effects. Alce An alce looks just like a gryphus except they don’t have wings and are normally about 111.8cm (44in) tall. Because they are too small to ride for most races the domestic ones are normally use for hunting, familiars, guard beasts, and treasure hunters. In mix flocks alces normally go out and gather the plants griffons eat, as well as help find any gold around. Treasure Sense: Alces can smell metals and minerals as easily as they can smell animals. They mostly use this to find gold and gems but can be train to find any kind of metal and mineral. Nose Of A Buzzard: Alces can smell prey up to 1.6 km (1 mile) away. Eagle Eye: Alce has eye sight that is about 8 times stronger then human. Fire Breath: Alce has a line of fire as a breath weapon. Sharp Hearing: Alces can hear in the 64 kilohertz range. Axex Axexs look just like gryphus but they have paws instead of talons on their front legs and Felidae ears on the side of their heads, they are also around 90cm (35in) in height. Domestic ones are normally use as hunting beasts, familiars, and sometimes by smaller beings as mounts. Cheetah Speed: Axexs can run at speeds about 120.7kmh (75mph). Night Vision: All types of axexs can see in the dark as easily as they can see in the light. Cat Grace: Axexs are very graceful creatures, with sharp reflexes, and great sense of balance. Falcon Speed: Axexs can fly about 386.2kmh (240mph). Flight: Axexs can fly. Fire Breath: Axexs has a line of fire as a breath weapon. Opinicus In many ways an opinicus looks like an axex, except that they have a tail like a Camelus, a long neck like one to no matter what their head is, they don’t have ears like an axexs, and they are 2.72 m (8ft) tall. Because opinicus normally live in hostile environments in the wild they make great mounts and beasts of burden in the same areas. Iron Stomach: Opinicus can eat almost any form of organic matter with not trouble. Wasteland Survivor: Opinicus can go about seven months without food and water, of course they will eat and drink there whole body weight afterwards and they don’t like going that long without food and water. Heat And Cold Resistance: Opinicus can easily hander extremes in temperatures and the sudden chances in it. Strong Immune System: Opinicus are resistance to all forms of pestilences and toxics. Flight: Opinicus can fly. Fire Breath: Opinicus has a line of fire as a breath weapon Demigryh Demigryhs look like brightly color gryphus but smaller as they are normally about 123.19cm (48.5 in). Because of how small they are, as well as their great singing voices domestic ones are kept as house pets and familiars. Flight: Demigryhs can fly. Fire Breath: Demigryhs have a line of fire as a breath weapon Hover: Demigryhs can hover in place while flying. Singing Trance: Demigryths can at will do a magical song that can put creatures that hear it into a trance, making them want to do nothing but stop and listen. As soon as the song stops or the creature gets injure the trance ends, and any being with a strong enough will can easily fight it off, in fact most sapient beings are immune to it. Mocking: Demigryths can mimic almost any sound they hear and repent it back, and sometimes can even learn what certain words and sounds even mean. Glow: Demigryhs can produce a glow at will, it normally used to find mates. Hippogriff The biggest problem with griffons is there hunger for equidae meat, so in the hopes of having griffons and equidae living together in the same farm breeders develop the crossbreed known as the hippogriff. And it work, for hippogriffs don’t eat equidae meat and others griffons treat them like any other griffon type. From the waist up, they can look like any kind of griffon and from the waist below they can look like any kind of equidae, but as a purely domestic class of creature they normally only look like domestic equidae and griffons. They also normally have different fur types for the different parts of their bodies but some type of hippogriffs that are many generations remove from their griffon and equidae ancestors don’t have this trait. Hippogriffs have all of the abilities of the griffon types they look like and are uses in the same ways, excerpt they can be used to guard herds of equidae which is something no griffon could ever be used for.

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Unicorns

The wild unicorn this epic mystic equidae with strong horse body, cloven goat like hooves and lion like tail, a curved spiral horn in the middle of its head, its sparkling ethereal mane, tail, and if it is an older stallion the strange mane like bread they grow flowing in some unknown wind, as well as the four-small cat like fangs that can be see when it ups it mouth all combine to make beast a beautiful creature. Combine this with the fact that they are as flexible of cat and strong of a horse while being more durable with luxmancy (light magic) abilities would make them perfect mounts, if it wasn’t for the fact that they are smaller than a human. Wild Unicorn Behavior There isn’t much different from wild unicorn behavior and wild horse behavior, and what little there is mostly unicorns acting strangely like cats, like sleeping in sunlight, and eating small animals. Another big different in their behavior from horses is that when a predator shows up a few older unicorns well stay and fight while the rest of the herd runs off. Unicorn Magic As said earlier unicorns have luxmancy but as mere animals they are limited in what spells they can learn and most unicorns never learn any spells outside the few they are born knowing. Also, oddly they seem to channel their spells thought their horns meaning that when their horns are damage or broken they have trouble casting spells till it heals. Something they normally means death to an unicorn as predators normally gets them it can heal. Now here a list of the spells unicorns are born knowing. Limited Teleportation: Unicorns can teleport up to a mile away and carry someone riding on the as well as anything they are wearing but can’t teleport though solid objects, even a net is enough to block their teleporting. Minor Heal: With a touch of its horn an unicorn can repair flesh wounds and minor damage to bones. Minor Cure: Any touch from an unicorn horn can remove many different types of poisons and pathogens, but not all. This can also work on water making places unicorns regularly from very clean. Force Field: Unicorns can form a sphere shape force field around them allowing them to both protect themselves and a few others, normally foals. Energy Beam: All unicorns can shoot a beam of energy from the tip of their horns as a form of attack. Energy Sphere: Like their beam unicorns can also shoot an explosive sphere of energy from the tip of their horns. Telekinesis: Unicorns have a form of telekinesis that forms an aura of around something they wish to move. They can be seen as it also causes an aura to form around their horns. Mate Finder: Better known by its misleading and inaccurate other name ‘virgin finder’ this is a spell use by young stallions to help find young mares to start a herd with. However, since this spell will lead the young stallion to any young sexually active female between the size of the caster and that of a large horse many people have come up with the mistaking idea that this spell somehow allows unicorns to know if a woman is or isn’t a virgin. This has cause hunters trying to use young women to try and catch an unicorn as well as some men using unicorns as way to check for virginity. Domestic Unicorns Because of their magical abilities wild unicorns are very hard to catch and tame, but clever ranchers have found a way around that. By leaving out mares and jennies in heat where stallion unicorns can get to them ranchers have been able to get crossbreeds unicorns and breed them to be as domestic as any horse or mule. There are many different breeds of domestic unicorns but they all fall under three classes that can be told apart normally by looks alone, but do keep in mind there are some domestic breeds that do look more like their wild cousins. Horse: The horse class unicorns came from breeding horses with wild unicorns and were bred to be mounts, making them same size of domestic horses. They look mostly like horses excerpt they can come in colors not found in horses or most mundane animals at all and they a horn. Unlike wild unicorns curve spiral horn, horse unicorns had a straight ring horn which they often use as weapon. Pony: This breed came from the union of wild unicorns and ponies, looking like ponies they were bred to serve as pets and familiars these unicorns can found in sizes ranging from that of a mundane pony to that for a small dog. They’re often more colorful and playful than any other unicorn class and their horn is also very different from other classes. Instead of being solid bone like other classes their straight ring horns are mostly cartilage with only a small bit of bone in the middle and the outer covering coming in the same color as their coats. Mule: Bred to be both a beast of burden and a poor man unicorn mount this unicorn class came from the union of wild unicorns and donkeys. Sense they aren’t sterile like mundane mules they have sense bred true, and they look a lot like mules and donkeys with a straight ring horn in the middle of their head.

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Magical Mutants

With mystic life and spirits seemingly able to breed with any other form of life freely, widely known spells that cause transmutation, and free-floating manna that can cause all kind of effects it should come with no surprise that magically cause mutations are far from rare. And while more common in mystics then mundanes it is hard to find any world that doesn’t have a few mutants on it. Now of course there really no way to possibly categorize every single magical mutation for every single specie however there is a category system that is use to classify how mutation a creature is from a normal member of it species, and it is this system we will be talking about.

 Metas

                       Often the most widely accepted class of mutants, these mutants have no external and instead have purely power base mutations. Powers can be almost anything, from shooting fire to turning into a monster but they still leave the meta with a form that looks like a normal member of their specie. It should also be said that while powers may look like spells they aren’t, powers don’t drain the user of mana the same way spells do.

Sorcerers

           Counted as both a path of the mage and a class of mutant sorcerers are mundanes that can generate and absorb manna like they were a mystic of general magic, allowing them to learn and cast almost any kind of spell.  This normally means they have mystic ancestor in their family line but there are other ways to become one as well, like being exposed in utero to high levels of manna. Sorcerers are usual either treated as the elites of their society, the lowest of the low, or even sometime form secret shadow societies to keep hidden by from their normal kind.

Changelings

           Changelings are mutants with external mutations but can still be recognize as being a mutant of their species. Changelings are often heavily discriminated against to the point that they are often lucky if they are counted as second class citizens. There are cases of changelings mutations breeding true and becoming a new specie over time.

Abominations

           Abominations are mutants so mutation that it is nearly impossible, or is impossible, to tell what specie the belong to, assuming they are a mutant of a specie and not some unique creature. Naturally abominations are look upon by many as nothing more than mindless monsters no matter how intellect they made or made not be. Because of this abominations normally group together to survive no matter how sapient they are or aren’t as they somehow are able to sense that they are similar in their mutant status. Resulting in them interbreeding making ever more bizarre abominations, and sometimes creating a new specie.

Half-Breeds

While not true mutants in of themselves half-breed are often view by many as such. Half-breeds are what hybrids of mystic and mundane lifeforms are called as a whole. What their parents are really effects how they are treated but generally they are normally treated a little better then changelings. It should be noted that half-breeds do have a righter rate of mutation then either of their parents’ species.

Spirit-Touch

           Spirit-touch much like half-breeds are not mutants but are hybrids that are counted as mutants, partly due to their higher rate of mutation. In their case spirit-touch are hybrids of a spirit and living thing, however despite they are treated better then half-breeds. Because of they are part spirit many religions and cults view them as holy beings, in fact this belief that probably resulted in spirit-touch coming to be in the first place.

 Rursus

           Mystics come in all forms of live, including virus, and there is one very specialized class of mystic virous all mundanes should know of, transformation virus. Transformations have the ability to turn one species of mundane they infect into a kind of mystic, this of course varies per virus. These beings created this way are call rursus as a whole and are counted as mutants by all.

 Mutation Classification  

           There are many different kinds of magical mutations for every species making it impossible to talk about every kind of mutation as new ones are discover daily. But there is a system to classify mutations and powers, it is made in the terms on how the mutations aids the creature in surviving.

Pox

           A pox mutation is one that harms the chances of the creature with it to survive and reproduce, the key word there being harmful. If the mutation is fatal by itself then the mutant wouldn’t live long enough for it to harm their chances of living. This is the kind of mutation most beings think about when they hear the term mutant as they are sadly common. Example of a pox would be a mutation that removes the bones from one arm.

Alter

           An alter is mutation that chances the mutant looks or gives a truly useless power. These mutations have zero effect on a creature ability to live by themselves even if others may target them just for having them. They are without a doubt the most common kind of magical mutation and example of this would be a mutation that turns a creature eyes purple.

Grift

           Uncommon mutations that increases the chances of a creature ability to survive in small nut useful ways. A good example of this would be having an extra pair of fully working arms.

Blessing

           The rarest of all forms of magical mutation a blessing goes beyond helping a creature to survive by giving great powers and abilities. Being able to turn your limbs into blade weapons, a third eye that shoots lasers, and the power of a quantum computer for a brain are all great examples of a blessing.

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Drow

The brutal, sadistic, and what most would call kinky drow are epic biomancy humanoids and one of the elfin races. Biology By elfin low standers the drow are fairly diverse thanks to their sexual dimorphism and the fact that they come in two types, the baseline drow and the less common drider. They have all the elfin traits as well traits their own. Drow The female stand at about 1.524m (5ft), have solid black skin (not the human skin color), pure white hair and eyes, and have red hourglass like marks on their backs and on the backs of their hands. While the males on the other hand stand around 0.9144m(3ft) tall, has light brown skin (not the human color), pure white eyes, and have dark brown (not the human color) hourglass like marks on their back and the back of their hands, they also have dark brown hair (not the human color). Spider Climb: Drow are able to climb surfaces in much of the same way spiders can. Venomous Bite: Drow have a venomous bite that strangely seems to be the same venom use by black widow spiders but just in a larger dose.   Web: The hourglasses on the back of drow hands are in fact special glands that can produce silk much like that of a spider silk. They can use this web for all kind of things, from lines that can be used for ropes to tire up or to swing on, to nets, or even as small quick shots. Speak To Spiders: Drow can speak to and understand all forms of spider lifeforms. Sadomasochism:  Drow are sadomasochists by nature meaning that they both have a high pain tolerance and that pain can’t harm their morale, but it can improve it. Night Vision: Drow can see in the dark as well as in light. Toxic Resistance: Drow are resistance to all forms of organic toxics, poisons, and venoms. Drider From the waist up drider look like drow, but from the waist down they look as if they are a giant black widow. Driders come about from either being born drider, which is rare, or even rarer being transforming from a normal drow into a drider, though a form of poorly understood metamorphosis. Driders are stronger and faster than normal drow and more importantly don’t have the low fertility other elfin do, making drider both the leaders of drow society as well the parents of a good deal of drow. For once a drider is able to have children they spend a good deal of their pregnant if they are female or impregnating females if they are male. Driders can be born to both normal drow parents and drider parents, they have all of the traits of the drow plus the following. Electrical Blast: Driders can fire blasts of electricity from their hands at will. Electrical Resistance: Driders are resistance to electrical damage. Acid Spit: Driders can spit a line of acid as breath weapon, the acid is strong enough to eat though leather. Drow Society The drow civilizations are known by all for their cruel, and fetish, nature. In other to understand there brutal mind set not only must you know the culture traits all elfin societies share but you must know the following as well. Underground: Drow normally build their cities in giant underground networks, this means that their food supply is mostly what they can grow underground and a few things they trade from the few that willingly deals with them. Matriarchy: Drow believe that the strongest should rule and sense drow females are larger and stronger then drow males this means their civilizations are highly matriarchal. Of course sense driders are stronger than normal drow this means that the male driders are higher rank than normal female drow. Slavery:  It well know that drow love to enslave other sapient races, especially other elfin and spider races. They believe it is their right as the one true elfin race to rule over all others, and this belief combine with their sadomasochism nature means that slaves rarely last long. So they are almost constantly raiding other races to get new slaves, making them highly dislike by others. BDSM Culture: Due to drow sadomasochism nature their culture looks to be highly BDSM in nature to the extent that many wonder if the BDSM subculture was in fact base on their culture. This can be seen every with in drow society, from their clothes, to their architecture, and of course with the way they act to one another. Obsessed With Spiders: Besides BDSM and slavery the other thing that is a chief characteristic is their love of spiders, all their mascots are spiders, most of their children cartoons are based on spiders, they have spiders ranging from normal spider size to the size of an elephant filling the role of every type of domesticated animals including livestock, they even have species of spider that they breed for sole purpose of using their venom to make alcohol. And of course, their gods are even said to take the form of spiders. Relations With Elves: Like all elfin the drow for the longest time have believe they were the most like the true elves of old. In fact they claim that they were once the rulers of the elf empire before the ancestors of the other elfin overthrew them and destroy their empire by pure incompetent, so when the elves return they were very surprise to say the least. After the meeting between them the elves came away believing that the drow came from clone elves that were created to be prostitutes or assassins, or both. Sense then the drow leaders have done their best to hide the truth of the elves return from the rest of their people out of fear of what would happen if they learn the truth. So far thanks to the elves wanting little to do with them and most other elfin this has been successful but it as the elves keep explaining their influence it is only matter of time till the truth is out.

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Epona

The many tribes of the pastel colored eponas are widely known as peaceful races in the known cosmos, combine this with the facts that they are small humanoid equine beings come in almost every color combination, style, and pattern anyone can think of, they have large eyes and small muzzles, and they are very open about their feelings, they aren’t what anyone would call intimidating. Which have made many beings wonder why no one has conquer them yet, a question with the simple answer being that many have try to, but only once. Epona Biology Eponas are all mythical mystics standing on average of 1.2192m(4ft) tall with a rare few being much taller, and they are dual magic with one magic being phonomancy (The magic of music) and other depending on which of the eleven tribes of epona they belong to. Each tribe has different powers as well some differences in looks but they all are part of the same race, it should also be noted that while most eponas are the same tribe of one of their parents it is possible of an epona to be completely different from any of their parents. Because of that all tribes do share similar traits, like the fact they have the gestation period of humans or the fact that despite their small size they are as strong as seven horses combine and about as fast. Another being that despite being equine like they are in fact omnivores, but they do greatly prefer plants over meat to the extent that eggs and cheese is the closes most come to eating meat. Also, all eponas can look like humanoid versions of any specie, subspecies, hybrid, breed, strain, or variant both living and extinct known. This also have the following traits: Rhythm: Eponas are very skill at singing, dancing, and rhyming, so good in fact they can and do literally break out in song and dance numbers like some kind of musical. This also makes it fairly easy for them to learn musical instruments and most eponas do know how to play many different instruments. Now the reason they can do this isn’t fully understood but eponas do have a form of synesthesia that allows them to see music as colors and many believe this at least part of the reason for it. Long Live: Eponas live for about 1000 years, they reach adult around 120 years old. Creature Traming: All eponas have a nature skill in traming non-sapient creatures of any kind. Rubber Body: Eponas bodies reacted a like they are made of rubber allow the bend, stretch, and bounce in ways impossible for other beings. This gives them resistance to falling, constricting, and bludgeoning damage and immunity to electro damage, it also allows them to fit into spaces much smaller than them. Semi-Prehensile Mane: Epona manes and tails’ hair are semi-prehensile, allowing them to grab and hold things. Powers Combine: While two or more eponas are in physical contact that can share manna with one another, as well as spell effects. Expressive Eyes: The pupils of eponas large eyes can change into simple shapes when an epona feels an emotion very strongly or are under a spell effect, eponas can learn to do this at will or stop it but it takes some training. Also, they can see up to four times the distance of a human. Hoof Hands: Instead of hands like most humanoids eponas arms end hooves that first like the same kind they have instead of feet, but if one takes a closer look or watch as eponas picks things up with them you can see that not the chase. While they have an outer hoof wall like most equine’s hooves on the front and sides, the inter part as well as well the back is flash cover in the same color fur as the rest of their bodies. This inter skin covers highly specialized muscles that when combine with the highly specialized hair growing on them gives eponas the same level of dexterity that a human hand in a mitten would have. Magical Tattoos: Not truly a biological feature but a cultural one that almost all eponas follow. Almost all eponas has at least one magical tattoo, what age they get their first one depends on their culture but it is almost unheard for an epona to reach adulthood before getting their first. Each tattoo has the magical ability to cause the fur that grows on to grow color and design as the tattoo itself so everyone can see without having to shave the fur off, as well as at least one other magical ability. The common being an enchantment that increase a skill or talent the epona alright has but other enchantments are not unknow. Eponas take these tattoos very serious, and one of the most insulting things you can do to an epona is make fun of their tattoos. Tribe Talamh Members of this tribe are called talamhs and are geomancy(earth magic) as well phonomancy mystics. They normally grow a little taller of then other tribes and are widely look on to be the default eponas sense they don’t have the extra features seen in other tribes. Great Stamina: Talamhs have high levels of stamina, so great in fact they can run for three days without getting tired. However this doesn’t stop them for getting sleepy. Super Strength: At will talamhs can increase their strength to sure a degree that can lift up to 50 times their body weight. This lasts as long as the talamhs want it to be on. Vibration Control: Talamhs can control the vibrations they send out when they willy hit something with any parts of their body. For this work the vibrations must be send though a solid object to another part of it, as long as counts as one piece or are held together very closely by solid pieces. They could for example kick a bookshelf and cause only one book of their choice to fall off without bothering the others. Sleepwalking: Talamhs can keep doing very simple tasks in their sleep, like running, in their sleep, but they can speed they are going at or stop, or change what they are doing own their own. Tribe Eoin Members of this tribe are known as eoins as can be quickly identify by their bird like wings, they are meteoromancy (the magic of the weather). Their wings can look like any kind of bird wings and they often have feathers instead of manes and tail feathers instead of the normal tails found on other tribes, they can often have feathers growing in other places as well. With these wings and feathers also come some bird like behavior traits. Cloud Walking: Eoins can treat clouds as well solid enough frogs and mist like they were as solid as a pillow. Flight: Eoins can fly. Cloud Shaping: Eoins can shap and alter clouds by working it like clay, they can even change what kind of cloud it is or cause it to become a storm cloud. Hand Wings: Thanks to specialized muscles and feathers eoins can use their wings like hands. Tribe Uisge The aquamancy (magic of water) uisge are the most different looking of the eponas, this is because instead of being cover in the soft equine fur and having an equine tail like other tribes they are cover in fish like scales and even have fish like tails. They also have wing like fins are their back and can fins on their arms and legs as well sometimes mane like fins on their heads instead of manes. They also have a second form they can take at will. Mer-form: Uisges can at will transform the lower half of their bodies into a giant fish tail that increases their swim speed by times five. Amphibious: Uisges can breathe water as well air. Water Walking: Uisges can stand and move on liquids as it was solid ground at will, they can also turn off this ability at will. Cold Resistance: Uisges are resistance to cold, taking only halve damage from it. Tribe Criostail The semi-transparent criostail look like they are made of cut gemstones and crystals, even their eyes look like gems. So, it should be of little surprise to learn they are crystalmancy (crystal and gem magic) mystics. Hard As Diamonds: At will criostails can make their bodies as hard as diamonds. Manna Storage: Criostails’ bodies can storage double the amount of manna then their bodies can generate. They can’t storage the manna they naturally generate and draw it all the time, they have to draw it in from somewhere is and they can’t go over that limit without harming themselves. They glow when they are storing manna. Manna Transfer: At will criostails can transfer their manna to other beings and things with a tough   Reflection: Criostails’ bodies can reflected ray and beams. Tribe Ialt At first the umbramancy ialts from a distance may look like an eoin but when you get close you can easily tell them apart thanks to the bat-like, wings, ears, and fangs. Ialts have bat-like behavior and out of all eponas are the ones most likely to eat meat. Night Vision: Ialts can see in the dark. Echolocation: Ialts have echolocation giving them blind sight and the ability to notice things around them they can’t see. And of course, very powerful hearing. Sonic Scream: Ialts have a powerful cone of sound as a breath weapon. Wall Climb: Ialts can stand on walls and ceilings like they were walking on the ground Tribe Aisling The oneiromancy aislings with their ethereal flowing manes and tails, sparkling coat, and solid glowing eyes may at first be mistaked for spirits, which only made more likely when one learns of their abilities. Spirt Form: At will aislings can take a form that looks like they are made of the same ethereal hair as their manes. It this form they are incorporeal and can fly as fast as they can walk, they can also morph their form a bit like it is gas. Dream Travel: Aislings can enter one being dreams while they are sleeping and travel to another person dreams and exit to the real world there. As long as both are asleep and are in 8.04km (5miles) of each other. If the person they enter the dreams of wakes up before they can travel to another then they appear right beside that person. Dream Scanner: Aislings can at will do a scan of the area in a 8.04km(5miles) radius to find all dreaming beings in it. They can tell how far away they are from them. Sleep: Aislings can cast a sleep spell on others or themselves at will by touch. Tribe Latha Lathas are often mistaken for centaurs due to them having similar body builds, but on closer inspection it is easy to see that the luxomancy lathas don’t have a divining line of fur where their humanoid and equine like halves meet. Bright Light Vision: Lathas can see just as well in bright light as they can in normal light. Flash: At will lathas can created a flash bright enough to blind normal sight. X-Ray Vision: At will lathas can use x-ray vision to see though things, they can adjust the vision to only see though things they wish. Meaning they could make it that they could only see though walls and not flash and clothes or only see though clothes or flash. 0.6096m(2ft) of solid matter is enough to stop this and they can’t see though lead. Infrared Vision: Lathas can see in infrared red. Tribe Draoidh With the large singular horn on their forehead the general magic draoidhs look somewhat like an anthro unicorn, and the fact that they can have cat like tails or ears instead of equine-like makes it even more so. The draoidhs have some cat-like behavior, and thanks to the fact they are general magic mystics often server as mages in epona’s society. Their horns come in many different shapes and styles with some even being antler like. Limited Teleportation: Draoidhs can teleport up to a mile away and can carry someone as well as anything they are wearing but can’t teleport though solid objects, even a net is enough to block their teleporting. Telekinesis: Draoidhs have a form of telekinesis that forms an aura of around something they wish to move. They can be seen as it also causes an aura to form around their horns. Magic Sense: Draoidhs can sense magic when being use or when an item is magical, they can also tell what kind of magic it is if and its power level. Energy Beam: All draoidhs can shoot a beam of energy from the tip of their horns as a form of attack. Tribe Dealan-de The ecomancy (magic of environment) dealan-des with their lepidopteran-like wings and antenna are view by many to be the most beautiful of all eponas. They are normally a little shorter on average than other epona. Flight: Dealan-des can fly Shrink: At will dealan-des can alter their to as small as 45.72cm(18in). Healing Dust: Dealan-des can create a dust from their wings that heal minor injures. Gift Of Gab: After only hearing a few words from any spoken language dealan-des can speak it, this also works on non-sapient languages.   Tribe Cothrom The biomancy (magic of life) cothroms with their insect like eyes, beetle-like wing case and wings cothroms are easy to tell apart from other eponas. Especially with you take in account they often have other beetle like features, like horns, spikes, antenna, and sometimes even exoskeletons. Shapeshifting: Cothroms can change shape at will. Massshifting: Cothroms can alter their weight and mass anywhere between 11,000kg(24,00lb) to 8.1oz at will. Sizeshifting: Cothroms can alter their size between 3.96m(13ft) to 45.72cm(18in) at will. Flight: Cothroms can fly. Tribe Dia While the others tribes are almost equal in numbers the dias are much rarer, this is partly because they aren’t a true tribe at all. True some dias are rarely born dias but most become dias by not fully understood metamorphosis in which an epona will explosed in a flash of light only to reform as a dia. When they do they become phonomancy general magic mystics no matter what they were before, grow wings and singular horn on their forehead, if they didn’t have them already. Because dias have the powers of all the other tribes combine, including the ability to take a latha like form at will or a normal epona form, and are very rare they automaticity become an epona royal when they ascense (what the eponas call the metamorphosis), normally getting the title of prince or princess. They also often grow features of the other tribes and will always grow larger, in fact dias can be three times as big as a normal epona. Demi-God: Dias are a type of deity, they have quintessence impowering them can learn powers and abilities only deities can learn, are immortal, are immune to the following: Death effects, sleep effects, mind-altering effects, transmutation, pathogens, radiation, toxics, poisons, paralysis, aging, and curses, they can allow themselves to be affected by them if they wish and effects power by other deities will still affect them as normal. Being demi-gods they still need to eat, drink, sleep, and breath. Spell Resistance: Dias have a high spell resistance even by the standers of mythical mystics. Manna Armor: Dias generate a form of force field around their bodies that absorb most damage that is throw at dias, giving a form of damage reduction. However, it can only absorb so much damage at one time. Aura Of Authority: Dias generate an aura that make others feel like this is a being to respect and listen too. While they can’t force other beings to obey or listen to them with this ability it does help get them to. This is a mind-effect. Epona Society Hailing originally from the world of Saoghal and spreading out to many worlds from there, and growing, the epona race is one of the few races in which all of their cultures and societies are under the rule of one civilization. This is no doubt thanks partly to them being fairly new to cosmos travel and mostly due to the fact that their civilization in what most would call an unitopia or at least pretty close to it. Eponas were able to get this way thanks to strong and well-funded social programs and education system, making things like poverty, crime, and famine almost non-existed, and thanks to great diplomacy the eponas haven’t beed to war sense they untied as a people.  Now with say the eponas due have diverse cultures but they all have the following things in common. Violence Past: Eponas many be peaceful now but that wasn’t always the case, Before they united they were in a terrible war so devastated that many thought it was going to be the end of the world. Something that was reinforce by the many villains and monsters that came to Saoghal thinking they could take over what they assume was a weak race. But it was the devastated and outsider attacking them that cause the eponas to see the errors of their ways and start to work together to build a better world for all, funny enough it was after they untied and starting rebuilding that the first dias came to be for reasons no one knows. Matriarchy To Equalarchy: Females eponas, called mares, outnumber male eponas, called stallions, about four to one so for the longest time epona society was heavily matriarchy but they have sense become an equalarchy. At least on paper, truth be mares still have a leg up on stallions in many ways. Herds: Because of the fact that mares outnumber stallions by a fair bit polygamy is the norm almost eponas, with them living in family groups call herds. Normally these herds are about five mares and two stallions with a few children in size, but they can be larger or smaller. Skittish Of Others: Because of them being very new to the larger cosmos at and their past with other races eponas are can be skittish around other races they aren’t use too. In fact it is fairly easy for a weaker but more intimidating race to bully an epona into submissive. This behavior combine with their looks and peaceful culture has led many to believe that the eponas are a weak race, only to learn better when they push an epona too far. Lucky the epona’s civilization is making progress on teaching their people more about other races causing more and more eponas to be more open around other races.

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Nephilim

Nephilim, the very name brings fear to many who hear it, and looking at this race it isn’t hard to see why. As mythical dual pyromancy geomancy heavily muscled humanoid mystic race standing around 4.575m (15ft) with skin that looks to be made of ash and soot and eyes of burning ember look fearsome, and in this case, looks don’t lie. For the nephilim are a created race design to be warriors without equal, their creators and ancestors are nothing less than angels who by experimenting and crossbreeding with humans, however the Nephilim were to aggressive and powerful for the angels to control. They broke free and have been on bloody rampage ever sense. Nephilim Biology Besides their ash and soot color palette and the fact that they have six fingers on their hands instead of five, nephilim biology is very much like that of their human ancestors. High Density: Nephilims bodies are far denser than their bodies should be, this gives great strength and durability. Burning Rage: When in danger nephilims can fall into a state in which they are immune to pain bust into flames, this greatly increases their strength but makes it so they will blindly attack anyone nearby. The flames they make can’t harm them. Manna Armor: Nephilims generate a form of force field around their bodies that absorb most damage that is throw at nephilims, giving a form of damage reduction. However, it can only absorb so much damage at one time. Regeneration: Nephilims are unable to be permanently injure or cripple to do their high-level regeneration, any wound or injury that a dragon survives will fully heal overtime with no long-term problems. Immortality: Nephilims are immortal and aren’t effected by aging effects. Spell Resistance: Nephilims have a high spell resistance even by the standers of mythical mystics. Strong Immunity: Nephilims have strong resistance to all forms of pathogens. High Pain Tolerance: Nephilims have a high tolerance to pain. Sinker: Nephilims have little in the way of buoyancy due to their high density making it so they can’t swim, but they can sink with the best of them. Leaper: Nephilims can jump four times their height straight into the air. Fast: Nephilims can run at about 160.934km (100miles) per hour. Lighting Reflexes: Nephilims are about 20 times faster than that of humans. Nephilim Society Most nephilims hail from a lack of a better word civilization simply call the nephilim raiders. This civilization is not a nation or even a world but a collection of space ships and a few outposts build near powerful gates and stable permanent portals that allow the nephilims to attack other worlds for supplies and slaves. Nephilims raid worlds for most things they need as well as to get slaves but if the world is very weak they will force it into protection racket. Lucky for the cosmos at large these raids and protection rackets are about the best attacks the nephilims can plan and do, as anyone who has survive these attacks can tell you the nephilims have trouble planning and coordinating their attacks with one another and only get by do to the pure brute force they can put into them.