#leveans

[the-last-living-ocs]

Quick! Tell me some fun facts about Leveans!!

HELL YEAH OKAY!!

Fun fact! Leveans are never assigned a gender at birth and are referred to by the neutral name for "young child" until they are given an assessment at 4/5 which indicates their gender. Their physical sex is seen as an entirely separate concept and is generally not revealed in any casual language.

Fun fact! Leveans have four toes - this is mainly because I take inspiration from cats a lot for them and cats have four toes so Leveans have four toes XD - but they do have a ridge on the ball of their foot which historically would help with climbing and grip on snowy ground.

Fun fact! Leveans emote with their ears as much as with their faces! Their ears will droop when unhappy and stick out rigidly when happy or excited! They also fold back further when angry!

Fun fact! There's an ancient instinct which all Leveans posses, which causes their vision to change while hunting. It rarely activates in modern Leveans, but when it does it shuts down the "blue" colour receptors and puts extra effort into the red ones and into their resolution, depth perception and movement detection.

Thank you for asking!!! :D hope you enjoy the fun facts :)

[the-last-living-ocs]

A small bit of actual story for once:

Accalyns eyes focused on the horizon. "There are mountains in the distance. Why are there mountains? There are none in the stories."

Aferyn blinked slowly at him, "Stories can be wrong. But in this case, there are mountains because you are not where you think you are."

His laugh was humourless. "Well? There's not a chance I'd see Gadtyn."

Aferyn smiled softly, almost sadly, and confirmed. "No. Not Gadtyn, but not Fjeryn either."

"There is another?"

"Of a kind." They raised their head a little, gazing beyond Accalyn and into the distance behind him. Then turned to face the mountains, then back to him. "Come, let me lead you to where you are supposed to be. Where you are needed most."

"Needed?" He exclaimed, "Have I not done enough?"

"Don't fear, the road you have travelled is in the past, and you can make, still, a kinder future."

They lifted their head and looked over towards the mountains, then closed their eyes. A soft and perfect harmony of song seemed to ring from them, clearer and more beautiful than anything he had heard before, and Accalyn found tears welling in his eyes. He looked up at them, and found himself staring only into a night sky, dark and smeared with clouds. A light rain was falling. The first pink strokes of a sunrise glowed softly behind the mountains in the distance.

"Earth." He whispered to himself, and smiled. For the first time in 20 years, he found he was at peace.

Context:

Aferyn is the eternal guardian of the Levean concept of an afterlife (Gadtyn, realm of creation; Fjeryn, realm of destruction). Neither is inherently good or bad, it just sort of depends on the kind of people you want to be around. Gadtyn is often home to artists, musicians, writers, those with great visions of kindness, the loving, the giving, the selfless, the ones that long to explore, the ones that search for knowledge, who seek to better themselves for others. Fjeryn is home to fighters, warriors, those that incited or died in battle, great leaders, the vengeful, the selfish, the ones that destroy, the ones that better themselves only. The original names "Alvea Fjeryn" and "Alvea Gadtyn" translate roughly to "Land of that which has lost (in the context of destruction)" and "Land of that which has created" respectively.

[the-last-living-ocs]

Fun fact!

Accalyn's War is noted to have begun with the murder of several important diplomats meeting in council with Levean representatives, but if you ask Accalyn the war began a few months earlier when some of the aforementioned diplomats made an offhanded threat to Levea which brought to light several underhanded attempts to destabilise the Vynnkri government and allow a 'peaceful' invasion disguised as aid. The first outward act of war, however, would be the murder of Weapons and Communications specialists' Katherina and Georg Nikola.

[the-last-living-ocs]

Fun fact!

Leveans require considerably more meat-based protein than the average human, and are closer to being carnivorous in their adaptations, including long and sharp lateral incisor, canine and premolar teeth and higher jaw strength. Historically, they are also fantastically efficient hunters.