Arena of Storms

Races

Cats

A race loyal to humans.

Dogs

A race loyal to humans

Dryads

An all-female race that hails from many of the forests and jungles of the Arena.

Elves

Elves are children of the Gods of Death and Woodlands, and servants of the God of Sickness. They are putrid, hideous creatures who often mask themselves in more humanoid forms. They spread rot and sickness and pervert any area of woodland they stay in.

Insectoids

The Insectoids are a barely sentient race of winged bug-people who have long served the Birdmen as menial labourers. They speak their own language, as well as an Insectoid-Birdman pidgin. They are very simple creatures, unable to comprehend ideas not related to instinct or direct experience. As such, they do not attempt to flee the Wall to escape to Paradise, because they can't understand the possibility of it existing. They have no real desires or ambitions beyond serving the hive, resting, mating, and eating.

They are genetically related to the Devilflies in the Sands.

They are socially organized into hives, each of which is structured around a queen (the only member of the hive who can incubate fertilized eggs). Aside from a queen, there are two other sexes: "X", who supply the eggs and protect the hive (though hostility to their abusive Birdman overlords has been beaten out of their genes), and "Y", who fertilize the eggs and gather food. Shortly before dying, a queen generate a "princess"; a smaller, softer version of a queen who is, of course, tended to with the utmost care. The entrails of princesses are a delicacy among the Birdman elite. Hives are housed in enormous wasp-nest type structures that adhere to the Wall.

Minotaurs

Minotaurs are the most advanced race, having the capacity to build villages, towns and, in some cases, cities. Their open worship of the God of Storms often puts them at odds with other races.

Snakemen

A traveling, merchant race, cunning at many crafts but often seen as untrustworthy.