World of Zarrond

Basic information about the world I'm creating known as Zarrond. This blog will feature concepts, ideas, and is open to anything. I will answer any question you have and accept suggestions and ideas for it. A sideblog run by Zannathedragon, cannot follow back.

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Avarians and Avarian variants

Avarians are a mostly humanoid race with skin colors ranging from blues to reds and purples. The most strikingly non-human features are their long ears, four eyes, and tails covered in a soft fuzz ending in a plume of fur. They have three variants.

Zarrin avarians are blue skinned, light haired avarians. They are believed to be the origin of the race by other races, though they tend to think of themselves as the lessers to the zenithians. Zarrin have a natural arcane ability that enabled them to build quickly and efficiently, as they could use this to almost have an extra set of very powerful arms.

Dracon avarians are known for their red skin tones that are usually speckled with small scales, darker hair color, and horns. According to some of the older writings, dracon avarians used to be normal avarians, but were gifted these attributes along with a natural ability to wield fire by an ancient draconic. To most other avarians they are strange looking, and it is believed that in that time the blessing was seen as a curse by the other two races. Dracon avarians may be the sole reason others can wield the element of fire in the first place.

Zenithian avarians are the most vividly different from the other two, featuring large wings on their backs and feathers in place of the plume of fur at the end of other avarian's tails as well as atop their ears. These wings are most commonly half feathered and half skin, but can be fully feathered hiding the bat-like qualities. Very rarely will they have no feathers at all, and those with this are usually outcast by zenithian society. They have blue skin like zarrinian avarians do, and usually lighter hair as well. All records of their strange feathered and winged features origins are either burned or kept hidden by the zenithian capital's government, as they believe they are at the top of the evolutionary tiers. Zenithians also have a natural arcane affinity, though they learn other elements and magics very quickly as well.

Mixes of all kinds exist, usually showing most prominently in skin tones and extra features such as horns, feathers, and wings. Zenithians that mix with dracons for an extreme example can birth children that have dark wings and feathers with a set of horns and dark blue or purple skin. Sometimes the other race won't show very strongly in the child, maybe a zarrin and a dracon will mix to birth a child with no horns and light enough hair that its not too noticeable, but the skin will be a lavender color with a few scales speckled along the shoulders like freckles. There are all sorts of possibilities, and with a few zenithians becoming more progress and less xenophobic, mixes are becoming more common. The biggest issue faced is racism from zenithians, as they believe themselves to be the most perfect and pure form on Zarrond, and they tend to drill this into children and adults alike.

Avarian kind and draconic kind evolved at roughly the same time, helping each other in the early years. This developed into a bitter relation, though at what point has been lost to the ages. Though tensions have since been relieved, neither race like it being known they evolved at the same rate, nonetheless that they may have even helped each other. The zenithians tend to be the most sour about this, and the dracon to be the least bothered. 

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Redesigned Enfields and Zburators, pretty happy with the result too.

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Concepts for a reptillian race, they aren't finished yet, some more body tweaking is needed, but I think they'll look pretty great when they're finished.

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Canid race, still in development. The tails are highly flexible and flat rather than poofy. They can curl up to hold things.

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Rough ideas for the Aeirnaba, a race that would be more closely related to cats than anything else. Though i didn't get a good sketch of this here, they have slightly elongated necks and torsos. I'm making individual races for the anthro beings on Zarrond rather than free reign on any animal. I've got two more ideas that I'm gonna flesh out and we'll see where I go from there.

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An updated design for Arkains! I'm happy with this at last. They are bigender beings with short otter-like fur all over the body except for the fins, which is thicker on the shoulders and upper chest. Markings are very bright and consist of stripes with spots along them. The stripes can be any color, but spots are generally a shade or so darker/muter than the mouth/fin/blood color. The blood comes in three colors: green(shown), blue, and purple, and glows. Eye color can be lilac(shown), yellow, green, and blue. In Albino cases the eyes will be red. Normal fur colors aside from markings are greys, browns(shown), and dark muted greens akin to swamp lichen or moss.

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Borked colors but some critters I’ve been working at. These are the forest subspecies of Vulpae, basically vulpine shaped foot tall dudes that ‘protect’ the land they inhabit. They live in little colonies of up to 70 and can use some magic, usually for playing tricks on larger creatures.

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here too

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Zburator

Some info on the Zburator subspecies.

Zburator are fearsome creatures. They resemble a hybrid of wolf and dragon, and are large and strong. They have a bipedal body that is both furred and scaled, with sharp edged plates on the shoulders, forearms, shins, tail, and from the throat down to the groin. The wings on their backs aren't truly necessary, and are used less for flying and more for short glides or for extra graspers when scaling mountains. They have wolf like snouts with bright orange-yellow faded mouths and innards, as if fire burns within their very bodies. The mouth is armed with large dragon-like fangs and has a forked tongue. The horns are almost always different on every Zburator. Spines run from the forehead down the back and end around the base of the tail. 

Zburator are around 7-8ft tall, with some getting to be almost 9ft. The average weight is around 190-220lbs.

As with their mortal enemy the Enfield, there is little sexual dimorphism in them. Both male and female are dark colored. Females are generally a little smaller than males and are sometimes known to have shorter horns than males. There are few studies about the Zburator as most people are too afraid to approach them for fear of being torn to pieces.

Zburator live in large nomadic tribes on the continent of Xharc. They stop for a month or so then leave, and if villages or cities are nearby they are often attacked and raided for fun. Zburator follow an Alpha that is usually a bit larger than the others, and traditionally wear leather patched pants that are usually ragged from fights.

Culture in the tribes is rather violent, with skirmishes and wrestling being what most do in their free time. Hunting is done in groups of three to four and children are taught to fight and hunt from as early as four years. 

Despite savage behavior Zburator have a sense of kinmanship amongst each other and also a run trade with other tribes when they pass each other. Some dislike the violent ways however and leave for cities, though this is rare. 

The religion they follow is centered on hunting and self-fulfillment. When one comes of age they are taken to the mountains to partake in a sacred hunt of some of the more exotic and large beasts. When one can successfully kill one, they are seen as a strong soul, and are truly welcomed into the 'pack'. They also revere the deserts as well as volcanoes, being entirely fire elemented, they believe that the two harsh climates hold spirits that gift them this power and strength. Those born without the 'desert's flame' have a harder time growing up, and must do more to gain respect in the tribe.

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Enfield

Some info on the Enfield.

Enfield are at best description a sort of avian and mammalian hybrid. They have large feathered wings along their backs and feathers most notably around the base of the tail, edges and tips of the ears, and clumped in with fur around the knees and elbows. Their forearms, hands, and shins down to feet are covered in flexible scales. The hands have five fingers and sharp claws, and the feet resemble a bird's foot. Males are usually dull colors, while females tend to be brighter with glorious plumage. Enfield blood and insides tend to be blue or purple. Their eyes can be brown, yellow, orange, green, and dull blue.

Enfield are generally 6-7ft tall with the exception of a few being close to 8ft, though this is rare. They weigh 170-290lbs on average.

Sexual dimorphism is shown in the color of the fur and feathers between males and females. 

Enfield tend to have towns or villages of their own race, keeping to the forested areas and building so their towns would blend if there weren't roads to them. In many towns Enfield will trade rather than buy from shops, though they do keep the small scale economy afloat.

Though not prevalent through all of the race, a great deal of Enfield follow a religion closely tied to the elemental deities of their continent.

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Concept for another subspecies and the sort of opposites and racial enemies to the Enfield, the Zburator. Basically big wolf dragons that are real mean. 

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Hey updating here again! I've been makin lots of new stuff. This is a little concept for some Enfield guys. They live on Sa'ire and are a subspecies of the normal anthro race. Trying to think up a good name for the race as a whole though hmm hmm.

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The final design of the Arkains. (Pronounced Ar-kay-in)

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Needing ideas for colors!

Ok, so I have this as my current little concepty sketch for that leader dude who still doesn’t have a name because I’m a lamey lame. Anyway, I need an idea for the horns on the mask, the spikes on his face, his hair, suggestions for better clothing, and or ideas for another color scheme on his mask. I really need help with this because I love his design right now, I just can’t color it properly.

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Redesign of this guy. BIG CHANGES HERE. And now he has a purpose, the marking on his shoulder and eye show him as a deity of storm and lightning. His name has been changed from Kumo to Kurail as well.

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Werefolk

Some information on the Were race of Zarrond. Under construction.

Basics: Werefolk are beings that change between three forms without the use of magic. They always have a standard, somewhat avarian form, an anthropomorphic form, and a feral animal form. The main differences from avarians and werefolk are the eyes and tails, avarians have four eyes, werefolk have two. The tails of werefolk vary, and some choose to not even show theirs, while all avarians have long, prehensile tails ending in a plume of fur or feathers.

Origins: Weres have been around Zarrond since the avarians, for quite the strange reason as well. They originated from avarians that had abused a specific old transformation magic, using it far more than what its purpose had been. As generations went by it came to a point were children were able to use this power at very early ages, and would turn into some form of beast without ever having learned. Afraid and outraged over the strange group that had formed, all with this power were exiled. The group took this opportunity and renamed themselves as werefolk or werebeasts. They used a surgical magic to remove the second set of eyes common to avarians as a main differentiation. 

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Basic Information on Deities

The Deities of Zarrond are important due to the fact that each God simply cannot provide for everything. On each continent there are a varying amount of deities, usually between 10-15. The only static deities are the ones of life and death, which do not cause or either, they simply guide spirits and souls ready to depart to afterlife on their way.

All deities are fairly small and in the form of animal that may or may not have some sort of deformity, such as multiple tails, being undead, or simple abilities one in the wild wouldn't have. Each deity also carries some object, usually a crystal, in which they store energy in case of emergency. For example, the lightning deity of Mystic, Faye, carries a large eight beaded necklace about his neck. These items are used in case the deity needs to recover from a fight or general harm.

No deity is immortal. They can live for astounding periods of time, but at some point they must pass on their skill and responsibilities to another. The only deity that has not yet passed its skill on is the androgynous life and death deity of Sa'ire, Cherien. Cherien is estimated to be two trillion years old, and that is only known because it disclosed the information itself.

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Basic Information on Zarrond

Gods & Continents: The continents of Zarrond are named after the Gods or large magical creatures living there. The first intelligent race, the Elves, were the first to speak and create links with these Gods. They learned that their was only one God on each mass of land or continent, and named each continent according to the God living within it.

Roles of the Gods: Gods provide magic on each continent, they insure that the natural change of seasons is not altered and watch over the peoples of Zarrond. They are the reason for Zarrond’s odd assortment of races and beasts, and insure that they stay alive. While it is not known where the Gods came from, or how they became fused to their land, it is known that without them, or if they are disturbed, things go horribly awry.

Races: Zarrond has nine main races; Werebeasts, Intelligent dragons, Elves, Arkains, Humans, Anthromorphs, Giants, Dwarves, and Half-bloods. Half-bloods are considered are race because of their abundance. Each race has a tree of sub-races, for example, a sub-race of Werebeasts could be a werewolf, and a sub-race of an Elf could be a forest Elf.

Languages: While there are many languages throughout Zarrond, there is one main that the Elves developed when they traveled to the other continents. It is called Rythic, and is basically what we would call English. Rythic is taught to everyone so that no matter what continent or region you come from, you can understand anyone speaking it. It is also referred to as Trade Talk, since it is imperative that traders understand one another.