Nyane

Nyane are a race that appears like furry human children. Their bodies have a very thin layer of hair, exactly like humans, but as an extremity moves away from their bodies, the hair gets progressively thicker. Their hands and feet on their own are hairless, but their lower leg hair forms something like a brush with their toes sticking out. Their hands are also hidden in this long, very soft, hair. Other than this distinguishing feature, the only other thing that separates them from humans is their ears, which are nearly invisible under their hair; their ears are very furry mixed-breed dog ears ("floppy ears") covered with so much hair they blend. Nyane have white body hair and blue, green, or white head hair that they keep immaculately clean. The irises of their eyes are so far back that the white doesn't show, even when looking around or when they're scared. This allows their pupils to open all the way, making their eyes solid black at night and giving them the ability to see if any light at all is present, including infrared and ultraviolet; however, they are far more likely to be blinded by a sudden light change.

They live in small communes attached to, but not officially part of, human towns. Humans don't often interact with them and when they do, they often treat them as children, even though the average Nyane lives twice as long as a human. Other races think of them as nothing but furry humans and treat them the same. If the Nyane were to start a war, the humans would be attacked as well by most races (other than the Voshi and the Dar Mien, who can easily distinguish them).

Nyane hand fur doesn't allow them to use bows or guns or even wear long gloves. The same applies to their feet, which cannot fit in human-sized shoes. Nyane feet have higher arches than human feet, as well, and they tend to walk on just the balls of their feet, making them excellent at moving silently.

Nyane have no distinguishable history as the two races known for keeping histories (humans and consati) don't distinguish them from humans or take credit for their work (thinking it's cute that the little children came up with an idea for them). They don't really care much, as their names are attached, they're just identified as humans.

The average intelligence of a nyane is about the same as humans, but they choose to focus it on practical pursuits. Their homes are tiny and nearly empty (The average single-nyane home being 6' wide by 6' long by 5' tall), and what is present in the homes is either edible or used very often. What they don't use, they leave in the center of town for others to use or recycle.

Nyane reproduce like humans and are capable of producing half-nyane children with humans, but the majority of humans consider relations with nyane to be taboo, and the humans who do so are branded as paedophiles and are legally treated as such. Nyane babies are half the size of human ones, with no significant size difference between pure nyane and half-nyane. Half-nyane children have human life expectancies, but are immune to human- and nyane-specific diseases (but they can still get diseases that aren't exclusive to either race).

Nyane clothing is always very loose everywhere but their chests due to the fur concentrations. Their leg fur makes wearing normal pants difficult and uncomfortable, so it is not uncommon to see clothes that tie on the sides or even nyane men in skirts. Nyane don't discriminate based on clothing, but they do have traditional human gender roles, with men working and women staying home. Nyane women also grow their head and arm hair to nearly twice the length as the men and the men doing the same for their leg hair. A nyane is never bald and they do not lose hair with age. If a nyane were to be shaved, their head hair would grow to a foot long within the day and arm hair half that.

Nyane technology is exactly the same as that of humans, though tools made for nyane use are child-sized.

Nyane eat the same foods as humans, but prefer to eat the meat more rare. They enjoy the flavors of blood and have twice as many canine teeth as humans, giving them a preference for a more carnivorous diet.

Nyane voices are higher pitched than even most human children and do not change when they reach puberty (which most races don't even know they reach anyway; this happens between 18 and 30). There is very little noticeable change in nyane during puberty, but other nyane can see it as obviously as a human can see another human change during puberty.

The Nyane language sounds like English, but is written differently, consisting of only nineteen letters (a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, l, m, n, o, p, t, u, w, y, z) an average of two sounds per letter (M and P both only have one sound each while A, C, and O have four or more each) made from either the letter alone (except i, which is only used as a modifier) or a combination of two letters.

A Nyane's name, due to the alphabet, is almost never pronounced how a non-nyane reader would pronounce it. For example, C'ieta is pronounced like the human name Kita. There are near-English equivalents like Adam, Ebelyn (Evelyn), Cetela (Stella), Ab'igeil (Abigail), Fyl (Phil), Dion (John), and Eloiece (Eloise), as well, but they are less common than names like Pleiile (Prier), Aiely (Hayley), G'ilblet (Gilbert), Dioce (Josh) and Sobliena (Sabrina).

Classes

Nyane can be any class they want to be, but are genetically unable to be Revenants. They would be best as assassins, though most nyane societies find being an assassin morally wrong (though this isn't to say they don't do it occasionally).