Non-Humans

**Non-Humans** refers to a broad categorization to a vast majority species in the world of *Somali and the Forest Spirit*. Though general refers to intelligent creatures that are not humans. Though humans derogatorily refer all Non-Humans as Grotesques.

## Background

Non-human is a broad term for many intelligent races in the world. In the distant past, the world contained a plethora of races. Though varying in physical appearance, morphology and ability none of the races judged one another out of fear or hatred. All the races accepted and tolerated one another's differences. Thus war between non-human races was rare if not non-existent.

Until a time came when a human traveler came across a non-human village. Both the traveler and the villager were astonished by each other's appearances, but the non-humans gave the human a warm welcome despite his strangeness. The act of friendliness moved the traveler who then spread talk of his encounter with the non-humans all over the land. It was this that caused the two races to gradually become aware of each other.

While non-humans freely mingled with one another and their communities being a diverse melting pot of races, human settlements were largely homogenous. The two camps kept to their own and for a time peace was held between humans and non-humans. However a dissenting voice among the humans began to be heard. These humans began to question as to why the non-humans were so different and hideous. Because of their monstruous appearances and abilities, humans began labeling all non-humans under the term *grotesque*.

The non-human races were taken aback by this categorization, as never before had they questioned the appearances of others, always accepting others as they were. Further more the non-humans found the term to be insulting as from their point of view humans were the truly grotesque ones for conceiving such distorted thoughts.

From then on, humans then began to see the other intelligent non-humans as monsters, judging them looks to be looked on with suspicion and feared. For the first time in history, non-humans learned of the concept of prejudice and faced discrimination by their human neighbors. Despite the relatively majority of non-humans were peaceful, humanity's growing distrust of the non-humans led to widespread paranoia and led to violence due to misunderstandings and always fatal to non-humans. There were stories where Good Samaritan non-humans who went out of their way to save humans, would only be repaid by death from those they put themselves in harms way.

Soon a voice among the non-humans began to form, demanding why humans were so hard to please. The repeated incidents of violence reached a tipping point when the non-humans decided that humans were too much trouble and just simply incompatible for exist. Eventually these two voices from the humans and non-humans clashed led to the Great War. In the end humans lost the war and led to the scattering of humans across the world.

Due to the near-extinction of humanity, the world so far has achieved global peace as war is no longer as a practice and viewed as a senseless venture, which is commonly attributed to humans. Even the past human hunts that were conducted are but a memory, but looked upon fondly by older non-humans as a old timely tradition of not just maintaining peace, but keeping humans as pets and food.

A rare minority exists among non-humans that hold no grudges towards humans, though mainly this is because they lack experience and memories of the past actions of humans and thus a less bias towards them.

## List of Non-Human Species

* Fairies
* Golems
* Minotaurs
* Oni
* Witches
* Woolly Shurigara

## Trivia

* While non-humans are tolerate and accepting of one another, this graciousness is not extended to mix-bloods or hybrids between humans and non-humans.