Ra'Bas

The Ra'Bas are a race of 100% female catgirls, created by the Demi-god Faven. They mostly enjoy hot environments, thus settling in the desert. With her powers, Faven then expanded the natural rivers that ran through the desert, giving room for more life to spring forth while keeping it hot. Because of the abundance of natural predators around these rivers, the Ra'Bas race exceeds in combat, often choosing extremely close range light weapons, such as daggers or swords, but are weaker when given axes or twohanded swords. They Also excel in throwing weapons.

### Biology and Anatomy

Though the Ra'Bas have a normal birth cycle like many other races, this cycle can only produce hybrids. The purebred children come from The River of Life, born from a lotus flower and adopted by a Ra'Bas, or even, very rarely, another race trusted by the Goddess.

Their cat ears are fully functional and are extremely sensitive, being allowed to touch them is known the be the ultimate symbol of trust and love from a Ra'Bas. Their tails, while also sensitive, do not share this symbol of trust, but instead are often are used to help keep their balance when walking on unsteady ground.

The Ra'Bas have an instinctual need to be in some form of light, be it the sun, or a candle. Because of this, they may spend hours a day simply sunbathing. Their skin does not burn from the sun, even when other creatures would be dehydrated and burnt black. But they have the opposite effect in the nighttime. If they do not have some kind of light source nearby, they appear to get visually sick and have trouble sleeping. Ra'bas that go long times without some kind of light source have been known to waste away like they where starving, even when given plenty of food and water.

### Nativity and Distribution

They are almost exclusively found on the southern side of the Zun continent and the island of Ebony directly beside it, though few have been found in the more northern reaches of Zun. They are native to this region and have a long history of worshiping their goddess there.

### Contributions

Due to the Ra'bas' need to please their ruler and goddess, they have very few contributions to the outside world. Though they have been known to be great thieves or rouges in famous adventuring parties.

### Magic and Skills

The Ra'bas are known for both their skills with light magic and their unnatural ability to be rogues. Their priestesses are known as masters of light magic, learning any and all spells of their school. This natural affinity is a simple byproduct of their goddess being a demi-god of light. Being surrounded by the harsh light of the sun with little protection is also theorized to help them with their magic, but has yet to be proven.

The few Ra'Bas that have left the continent of Zun have been known as masters of stealth and traps. Their natural cat-like grace given to them by Faven meant that they could feel each grain of sand underfoot when in the desert. This translated well into less honorable professions. They could hear a creak before it was made, feel a trap underfoot before it was triggered. Even going so far as to sharpen their fingernails into claws and use them to cut purses, claiming that all Ra'Bas had claws.