Happy World-building Wednesday! Is there a race or species that dominates your world? Tell me all about them and how they came to power!
Hi, thank you for the ask lovely ❤️
Yes, there is. In Metalsea, there are the driadlin, the draar and the shar-dlin. I have a fairly detailed section dedicated to them in the project post. I’ll summarize the driadlin here because they are basically who rule most of the land in Onidia (the world’s name).
The driadlin have an elf-like appearance with pointy ears, tall figures and a physic that clearly was built for finesse. However, they have colourful eyes, and the colour can change. When they learn something, their focus is on that subject, and therefore the colour will change to that “subject’s colour”. For example, the warriors have red eyes, and the more they learn to fight, the deeper red their eyes turn.
Also, we all have these bone bumps in our bodies, at the wrist, the ankle and the knee. Now, the driadlin have the ability to make this bumps into spike-like sharpness. It’s something that will grow out a bit and sharpen, maybe even to the point where they can slice with it but at least pierce something through. It sharpens when they are in a heightened emotional state — overjoyed, raging etc. So to control their spikes, they need to control their emotions. Besides this, even their nails and teeth sharpen too, but that are the less visible part of this — let’s call it: transformation.
Anyway, because of their spikes, they mostly fight with their fists and legs, rarely using any actual weapon. Their fighting technique is basically more like martial art. Or the monks class from D&D lol.
And how they came to power, well. There’s a whole other story for that so I’ll put that under the cut because it’s getting long.