Sqrairriww

Sqrairriww

Origin: Ruotta

Capital/original settlement: Corupus

Natural Lifespan: 35-38 years

Traits:

Avarian Biology; The birdfolk possess an anatomy strangely devoid of mammallian features despite their humanoid appearance. Sporting talons, naturally sported feathers, hollow bones, and sharp talons.

Keen Hunting Instincts; As primarily scavengers and carnivores the Birdfolk prey on fish, other sky-going life and what other food sources they can scrounge off the mountainside and surrounding biomes, and thus have naturally honed hunting instincts and tracking skills from a young age. This hunting instinct makes them keen apex predators in their environment.

Amplified Eyesight; due to their overreliance on visual input in the realms of the clouds and beyond, the eyes of the Birdfolk are hardy and powerful, capable of seeing the tiniest speck in detail along the horizon, or examining almost microscopic detail up close; their eyes are incredibly diverse and versatile in function.

Society:

The Birdfolk are a strangely animalistic culture, relegating their males to ground-based roles and guarding nests whilst the females do the majority of the hunting (a fact exacerbated by their lighter skeleton and physique). In this way the males become the routine parental figures and mainstay workers of society in roles like builder, cook, guard or nurse of the young. Few females except the elderly or infirm spend much time in their places of rest except between hunts.

As scavengers its important to note that the Birdfolk often scavenge all sorts of driftwood, rare stones and various oddities of nature to incorporate into their homes and culture; in this way the primitive society of the Sqrairriww is naturalistic in its appreciation of natural beauty. The Crafting of trinkets, jewellery, and knick-nacks for the young to play with from these scavenged goods its a task relegated to the elderly and infirm whilst they remain at rest in the home-places.

Advancements:

Advanced architecture + Toolmaking; the birdfolk have learnt to scavenge rocks and wood from the environment to form all arrays of tools. This flowon of industrial development has lead to strides in their communal organization; particuarly in the size and quality of their cliff-side homes. Rather than chipped-out cave-sides where family-groups huddle, the Birdfolk now have dedicated homes for each individual family group of notable size and spread, along with various architectural developments like stairs, crude columns, simple masonry, and structural supports.

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