Rito

The Rito are a recurring race in Two-Tone series. Their look and abilities change based on the region they're from, but they are either humanoid or fully feral avian creatures. In Esenia, they are fully feral birds with the ability to speak human languages and change sizes. In Aeten, ritos are more humanoid birds, having wings for hands, giving them the ability to fly.

Ritos evolved from the ancient Rito, based on the living conditions of their continent.

## Characteristics

The Rito are primarily avian in appearance, possessing wings, a beak and talons. The range of their avian and humanoid characteristics varies between Esenia and Aeten, with the continents featuring a stark difference in appearance and living conditions. In Esenia, Rito are much more feral and look like normal wild birds, living in wilderness, far away from people, whereas in Aeten, the Rito are more anthropomorphic birds that look more like parrots and have their own kingdom and society. Both of the Rito are the evolved form of the ancient Rito, which adapted to living in wilderness in Esenia and living in pre-made jungle for them in Aeten.

The Rito reside in the forest near the bordering river between Entania and republic of Fial in Esenia. There they live freely with close to no society at all. Rito in Esenia appear feral with close to no humanoid traits. Their look is most commonly small wild birds such as blue jays, sparrows, sunbirds or crows. Rito are initially unable to change size and, while able to understand, speak human languages. When they come of age during summer, they start flying around the area of their home wildly, taking down leaves and creating a lot of wind, making so called "leafstorms" and after few weeks they get the ability to change sizes and speak human languages. Most Rito change their size and speak rarely, mainly when under attack to confuse and scare the attacker. While Rito have mainly neutral relations with humans, they have a friendly relationship with the Flock family, having once in a century a leader with pure and good intentions for the Rito and all birds from the Flock family called "Master of birds".

The Rito have adopted a much more humanoid-like appearance in Aeten. They have almost no feral traits whatsoever. In addition, they have much more humanoid posture and there is no sign of a human leader to fill a similar role to Flock family's in Esenia. They are also shown to be smarter, faster and more agile than humans. These Rito live in Rito Kingdom in the Rito Jungle, which is located next to the Stilian River, which leads to Portlin. While Rito can fly forward, they cannot ascend on their own and rely on the wind to lift them upwards, thus having stairs and ladders in towns. The art of flying upwards, which Revian, a hero of the Rito from two centuries ago, could do, is considered to be a masterpiece of aerial techniques even among the Rito and Rito with the power to do it are called "chosen ones by Revian".

While there isn't much infromation on the ancient Rito, from what is shown they look like Rito from Aeten with few feral traits.

Rito struggle to see in dimly-lit places, thus having lanterns everywhere in the kingdom. They prefer to eat meat or fish, causing the Aeten Rito to make grilled fish with grilled vegetables as their national food. Their feathers retain heat and coldness, helpful for both the warm climate they live in Aeten and for when they fly at high altitudes. Rito's feathers molt once per year, and the feathers have formed a thriving industry for the Rito who use them to craft clothes, blankets and accessories for Aeten. Known for their artistic abilities, the Rito pass down legends in the form of paintings, songs or pottery. The Rito have a strong dislike for biomes with different weather than the one they come from, thus living mainly in one area and rarely moving away from it, exception being Rito Kingdom after the arrival of Sterk. Esenian Rito are quite long-lived, being able to live up to 90 years, and Aeten Rito live little longer than humans.

## Trivia

* The Rito are heavily based off Rito from Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
* Grilled fish and grilled vegetables being the national food of Rito Kingdom is a reference to one of Gotyx's favourite foods.
* During Gotyx's streams, where he played Legend of Zelda: Tears of Kingdom, he mentioned that he wasn't sure if he should make the Rito have wings for arms, talons for both arms and legs and still have wings or the same but without wings. He also said that after seeing the design of Rito and Kass, he decided to make them have wings for arms.