Piuvace

Piuvace are a species in the Boundless Fantendoverse, an avian-like species their ancient ancestors were comparable to the terran Pheasant and Peahen as well as being described as Birds of Paradise due to their beautiful plumage. They're considered a rather illustrious but old-fashioned society having many strange customs and mannerisms that have resulted from a complex and sometimes confusing courtship their species created.
==Appearance==
The Piuvace are a humanoid-race with many avian qualities, their bodies have very fine feathers covering their extremities, back and sides, their torsos and heads however are mostly featherless. The species is capable of flight due to large flight feathers located on the backs of each of their four limbs, these flight feathers are controlled by a complex array of muscles that run along pseudo-spines through these limbs and allow them to orientate their feathers to easily form wing-shapes or retract them into a single line of feathers.
While the feathers on the arms are all fairly long, on the legs these feathers start long towards the tail but become incredibly short towards the ankles. Like most birds they have a digitigrade step with two front-facing talons and two back-facing talons, their fifth talon is a small stabilizing claw located between the front facing talons and despite its small size can be very dangerous as it can often provide a quick stabbing strike thanks to its high flexibility.
Although Piuvace lack beaks like their ancestors, a remnant of this does still exist, a bony structure that covers their upper lip is the remnant of their beaks and on the underside appears finned, being the species equivalent of their upper jaw's teeth, it is unknown why the upper beak did not revert to teeth like the lower beak although due to the lack of evolutionary pressure it is unlikely to change as a result.
==Culture==
Piuvace culture is heavily focused around the courtship between mates, much of their art, literature and performances are known as Diarchic in that two individuals are equally responsible for each piece's creation, although there are some pieces of art created by an individual this is usually quite rare and usually only seen in their starlings. Within Piuvace homeworld culture a couple will always be bound in many ways working together in the same occupation as well as generally sharing similar interests, many regard within the culture regard it as an effective system that halves the amount of paperwork for the population as well as makes it considerably easier to ensure different fields are properly staffed.
The Piuvace passage to adulthood is one of the longer ones to exist, generally adulthood is considered reached on the Piuvace homeworld when one finds a mate, as such the age range can vary wildly as there is often many factors that go into selecting a mate for each individual. Although these traditions are still held by many Piuvace some are not practiced outside of their homeworlds and so adulthood for Piuvace is usually based simply on their biological adulthood instead when they dwell in regions of space with relatively low Piuvace populations.
The Piuvace are also known for their extravagance, unlike many species which have focused their architecture and design in tandem with technology, the Piuvace believe that design should contrast against technology and this leads to the mind-boggling cities of the Piuvace homeworld, that create giant spires that can rise several hundred metres into the air with giant smoothed cobblestone roads and buildings made from ancient forms of concrete, brick and mortar as well as parasite-resistant wood. Outsiders sometimes describe the Piuvace architecture as being like a fairy-tale brought to life.
==Abilities==
Although they're not the strongest species, the Piuvace are capable of long distance flight thanks to their powerful flight muscles, this can also in a pinch allow a Piuvace to disorientate their enemies either by rapidly shifting their feathers around which can affect the psyche of some species or by simply striking the target with the broadside of their feathers which can disorientate them through physical trauma, although this can often be disadvantageous to the Piuvace themselves as breaking too many flight feathers will render them grounded. The Piuvace do possess some degree of magic innate to their species although it is fairly limited and for most it goes unused through most of their life, the type of magic itself is often used as part of determining one's mate as it is viewed as a part of the Piuvace's spirit that can be understood.
==History in the Fantendoverse==
The Piuvace are one of the core members of the Neo-Terra Community, their role in this group tends to be that of generating the wind currents and patterns of a new planet, thanks to their understanding of flight and these currents on their own homeworld they're often able to rapidly develop systems that function in tandem with the ideals and goals of other species. In spite of this putting them into conflict with the Orion Trade Federation, the Piuvace rarely get involved in wars, preferring to allow their allies to handle things, although this appears to be more so as the Piuvace have invested more so in defensive technologies as despite the old-style look of their settlements they're described as some of the most difficult people to dislodge from a planet once they settle thanks to their orbital cannons and complex energy shields.
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