Introducing Demi-humans. Pt. 2 FINAL comprehensive post
They are the result of advanced genetic engineering, born from humanity's pursuit to reshape life for survival, adaptation, and self-expression. Created as sapient beings with human intelligence and altered physiology. Ranging from animal-inspired forms to broadly humanoid, almost alien designs, they challenged ethical boundaries and redefined what it meant to be human even before the apocalypse.
Though once comprising nearly a third of the population, many demi-human species were lost to extinction in the apocalypse, while others were further altered or newly created by the Progenitors in experimental bids for survival.
Demi-humans developed rich cultures, integrated into emerging societies, and helped shape the post-apocalypse world. As of 900 ADF, sixteen surviving demi-human species remain, forming a vital and enduring part of a humanity. These are the 8 total animal-based Demi-humans, in which, humans were not used as the genetic base and instead pre existing animals were altered with advanced adaptations and human-like sapience.
These are the 8 total broadly humanoid, alien based Demi-humans.
This is where they’re distributed across the habitable zone
Frequently asked questions:
Q: are these the only Demi-human species that ever existed?
A: No, there were a lot more than the base 16 before the apocalypse, these are simply the ones who survived and made it past the apocalypse.
Q: were any of the Demi-human species altered for better odds of survival after the apocalypse?
A: Yes, Carapoids, Chiropteroids, Feloids, Lemuroids, Rattusoids, Sciurioids, Suoids, and Ursoids were born from experiments before the apocalypse, there were more experiments that occurred but those were the only successful ones.
Q: How do Demi-humans impact human culture?
A: the species that existed before the apocalypse largely contributed their existing cultures into the nation melting pots when the human re-emergence happened, becoming pivotal foundations of modern cultures following the apocalypse. The species that were born from experiments shortly before the apocalypse had to form their own identities or absorb the identities of the people around them as their recent inception caused them to form their independent cultures later.
