Fangren
Heritage
Regardless of an individual’s Culture, their ancestors likely come from one of the following groups which determines a few of their notable physical characteristics.
For Fangren, this mainly affects their skin tone, hair colors, and body types. Fangren have also developed unique postures based on their bestial natures conducive to certain environments that can affect how they appear to others.
Note: Your Heritage choice is purely for storytelling and may have narrative implications, but will not affect your characters stats, attributes, skills, or abilities.
The features listed below are the most common for each specific Heritage group, but features that are not mentioned will default to the typical physicality found on the Biology page. You can find the general physical traits on the main Species page.
Legend
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Some features are marked with a clover to indicate a unique trait exclusive to that Heritage group.
rare [
Luck test: 8]
Some features may show a test associated with them. These are optional dice rolls, for those who are interested in leaving any features up to chance.
Lilia
[LIL•ee•uh]
“of the Lakeland”
Location of origin: Lili Baguli, Elderwood Deep and the surrounding valley area
The people of the idyllic flowering woodlands, glimmering glades, and shining lake valley have evolved to exhibit more bright and colorful hair tones to match their fantastical environment. Thanks to their stronger populations and less threatening environment, these people have traditionally been able to express themselves more vibrantly without the risk of becoming a beast’s next meal, but they still retain the traditional, muted skin tones.
Lilia Fangren are natives of the southeastern portion of the Nettle Forest, and their cultures reflect that. Since this is the most common area for outsiders to travel to in their homeland, they are slightly more likely to be influenced by the ideals and values of the travelers from the outside world.
Common Features
BODY
Midweight
Soft, Medium, Brawny
Upright, humanoid posture
HAIR
✤ Brighter, more colorful
FACE
Large front teeth
common [ Luck test: 4]
Reki
[RECK•ee]
“of the Ridgecrest”
Location of origin: Reki Baguli, Rekano Ridge and the Gilded Crescent mountain range
In the shadow of the great cliffs of the Gilded Crescent, the people who hail from Rekano Ridge often spend much time in caverns, holes, and canopied forest lands heavily obscured by the sunlight. The cultural ties to some of the less desirable creatures of the world has also given them more threatening features, such as higher eyebrows, more pronounced and pale eye colors, and they have lost more of the Sylvan vibrancy, often appearing even more muted in complexion and hair colors.
Reki are overwhelmingly traditional Tangleroot people, but a few have expanded to retain more of the northern Ghostoak cultures’ values, which have been influenced by the Lovalians of the mountains.
Common Features
BODY
Forward-leaning, hunched shoulders and bent arms
SKIN
Less colorful
HAIR
Less colorful
EYES
✤ Pale white, grey, and light colors, or pure black and beady-eyes
Duunsaph
[DOON•saff]
“Darkwood” or “Woodlings”
Location of origin: Independent Baguli, anywhere in the Nettle Forest wilderness below the Frostfoot valley
Often referred to by outsiders as “Woodlings”, the Darkwood Fangren have lived cleverly, high in the lofty boughs of the treees, or else nestled away in hollowed logs, and hidey-holes spread around all areas of the Nettle Forest. The most diverse and infinitely unique group, it’s suspected that the numbers of Darkwood people makes up most of the Fangren population in the world, but as each individual takes on their own lifestyle, creature characteristics, and ideals, it is difficult to categorize their heritage in any unique features other than their distinctly exaggerated Fangren characteristics: very large eyes, small faces, small, pointed noses and ears, and creature-like movements.
Contrary to their name, the Darkwood Fangren are often considered whimsical in appearance with complexions leaning toward warmer neutral hues of trees and woodland creatures, which are more familiar to people of the outside world. They have larger eyes, and darker iris colors than other Fangren, often lending them a more innocent, doe-eyed appearance. Their ears are commonly shorter as well. Most Darkwood Fangren are naturally inclined toward shorter and lighter body types, due to their historically nimble lifestyles.
Considering they are estimated to be localized in the central and southern Nettle Forest, the Darkwood Fangren are mostly of the Tangleroot culture. As the presence of the Torgali people in Upland Reach has existed for many generations, their values have caught on with some of the local Fangren as well.
Common Features
BODY
Shorter heights
Lightweight
Thin, Athletic, Super
Combination bipedal and quadrupedal, depending on personal taste
SKIN
Warmer tones
EYES
✤ Dark, larger
EARS
✤ Smallest of all Fangren
Saurschni
[SOAR•sh’nee]
“Frostfoot”
Location of origin: Southern Brittle Bog, warm and tropical, freshwater swamps and wetlands
While the Fangren who hail from north of the Frostfoot River may distinguish themselves from each other by their unique regions, ecosystems, and communities, most of them exhibit very similar characteristics that make them very difficult to tell apart to any but themselves. Permanent winter has sapped these Fangren of much of their ability to take on warmer tones of skin and hair, so those who have more colorful and vibrant appearances exhibit cooler hues like blues, purples, and greens. Those who do have warmer complexions and hair are intensely muted or pale pastels.
Most Frostfoot Fangren are naturally inclined toward stockier or heavier body types, as insulation from the chilling cold.
Whether it’s because of the ethereal Sylvan grace and expressive nature, or the survivalist need to keep warm, the Saurschni people often appear to outsiders as if they are constantly dancing, moving on the tips of their toes with their arms held close, swaying back and forth, an instinctual fidgeting that some find endearing and other find frustrating.
As they interact fairly commonly with the Norloval people of the north, the Frostfoot groups have become strangely more social than the other, southern Fangren people. While some have split off to join the Norloval culture’s way of life, most of them still maintain Fangren culture, particularly the Ghostoak.
Common Features
BODY
Heavyweight
Rotund, Thicc
Hunched, hands held close to body, constant movement
SKIN
✤ Cool tones are more vibrant
Ehlwonhí
[ell•WON•hee]
“Everhollow”
Location of origin: The Heartlands, Brittle Bog, and anywhere else in the world, as well as those of mixed-Sylvan parentage
While few Fangren are seen outside the central, lush environments that they are best suited for, the Fangren who have made their way out in the world are just as vibrant and bright as the Faekin and Bodren people who live more connected lives. These Everhollow Fangren, named for the first major settlement known to be created by Fangren people in the Heartlands, have been known to spread their tenets of naturalism and unfettered self-assurance to any who will listen.
Most Everhollow people still maintain Fangren cultural ideals, but fewer of them exist in the Nettle Forest proper, instead opting for smaller woodland or other, safer lush environments. The most common non-native culture for these people is Hydren, as it retains a similar naturalistic lifestyle without being too drastic a shift for Fangren.
Common Features
BODY
Upright, classic Sylvan grace and poise
SKIN
✤ More colorful, similar to Faekin complexions
FACE
Softened, more classically humanoid features, smaller eyes
OTHER
✤ Face and body features may be influenced by any Fangren Heritage, or even other Sylvan species parentage, if applicable
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