Beeling

=== Beeling atanomy ===
The Beelings have yellow fur, with black stripes on the chest and the ends of their limbs. Upon their head sit two large black eyes and two feelers. They do still somewhat posses a stinger, but it's quite stunned and is more soft than a normal stinger. Similarly their wings have no use in the same way as they did as normal bees. They are very small and cannot propel them. However, the wings are used for mating and ceremonial songs, during which they create buzzy melodies, Beelings are usually not as strong as normal humans and are more slim, but are more nimble and dexterous.
=== Beeling subspecies ===
==== Avakai ====
Avakai walked the foothills of Rathnir thousands of years before men, but we never got to meet them, due to their departure to venture the stars. Most of their buildings are lost to time, but lucky adventurers still have the slim chance of stumbling upon one. They were not a democratic people, but from what we know they weren’t absolutist either. They developed a clan system and most of them traveled in these clans in a nomad like fashion amongst the stars. Some did settle down in small settlements or farmsteads and some in giant space cities. They weren’t a hostile people and would co-operate more then wage war.
===== Space vessels =====
Avakai traveled the stars with vessels ranging from small scout ones to whole city sized ones. They are usually painted white with yellow, orange or golden. Vessels’ structure is very naturally shaped, and seldom will have no honeycomb shapes or patterns.We suspect they move with their translucent wing like objects. They have three main parts: The personal spaces, mechanical spaces and working spaces. Each one is outfitted with the exact things the crew would need, and designed to impose a home-like feeling. How they are created is for now unknown, as is with their houses.
Many of them also contain little boxes with flashing colours that bleed out into space and different ones return. Out of the box (inside the vessel) appears a paper-like sheet with Avakai glyphs. Avakai don’t have a naturally high affinity for magic, but they use them in their contraptions very often.
==== Navokai ====
Navokai are all other beelings, that aren’t Avokai. For that it is a very broad spectrum, and makes beeling bartenders of large cities and tribal steppe beelings a same people. They originated around the same time as men, yet we still cannot find the reason they are here. Most Navokai assimilated to human cultures, and the most others, like tribal beelings, died out. Zvaka magics are magics that were used by Navokai, and are described as ‘unlike any other magic’ and ‘extremely natural’.
We searched far and wide, yet it seems like they had no large religions, and didn’t seem to trust or interact with others as much as the Avakai. There are a plenty of old ruined temples around Rathnir that seems to be of beeling culture, yet due to the previous fact we cannot really be sure. Buildings of assured beeling construction have a few similar elements: Hexagon and swirly patterns, Simple materials (mostly sandstone, mud or wood), very asymmetric and natural shapes and strange fabrics called Ebsso.
===== Strange Farbics, Ebsso =====
Weaved by the beelings’ skilled hands, a silk-like fabric made from a Ebsso mixture, sticky until laid for a fortnight. It is quite soft yet it won’t tear, thin as a man’s greavers, yet warm as a arctic coat and beautiful like a sunset over the sea. This is a treasure the Navokai hold for themselves, to the extend to not writing it down, only known by those with beeling parents. 
Ebsso is mainly used for clothing and decorative work, but has been found to be used as armor too. A thick almost uncuttable plate, that itself can be even bent by hands with not much effort. That made most armorers to use it has an overlay to thin iron sheets or scales, unlike most Navokai who used it by itself. The explanation is that because there are none created anymore, the Ebbso plates may have been hard at first, but softened as they aged.
===== Navokai weapons =====
Navokai weapons are a tricky subject. The few records of them are the tribe’s collection with little to no connection with other Navokai. For example the spear and warpick are a favourite weapon among beelings, with no discernible reason. Beeling weapons don’t seem to have a large meaning within their culture, and as such their creation seem undeveloped. They used mainly bronze and flints for blades, and coated and decorated the handles with Ebsso and shiny gems.
===== Navokai clothing =====
Unlike Navokai weapons, clothing is a very important thing for them. Built were large looms that whole buildings were dedicated to. You might think Ebssos were made here, however that is not true. Those were mainly made in barrels and hanged. These houses were made for normal fabrics from silk, cotton and flax. These made up most of the space on the clothing, with Ebsso layered on top, usually with honeycomb patterns. At the ends were fuzzy furs sowed in, similar like bees themselves have.
           
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Category:Traveler's Era