Elytrons

**Overview** Culture History

The term ‘Elytrian’ or ‘Winged—Folk’, is an umbrella term that encompasses all living, winged beings. Examples of this group include: The Monnasant (Corvidfolk), Aarakocra and Avians. Though the latter two are the two most common kinds of Elytrians amongst the large population of them. Stereotypical Elytrian tend to have wings; in all different shapes, sizes, textures and colours, leading to a wide variety of different Elytrian races.

They were originally created by the goddess Vrijheid, effigy of Freedom; using the last of its power before it turned into the sleeping giant known as ‘Leviathan’.

## biographical information

### Other Names

* Ones who’ve touched the skies
* The star–touched ones
* the Sky dancers

## Overview

*A short summary of the Elytrian ‘creator’ race, their bodies and identities.*

# **Biology**

*A rundown on the Biology of the average Elytron; Including their Reproductive Biology, physical appearances and lifecycle. Any unique traits in their biology will be listed on the race’s own article.*

***Disclaimer One**: This section will also include a large amount of information detailing the Elytrian’s reproductive organs (including words such as genitals and cloaca), including the processes of ‘child–bearing’ and ‘delivery’ (labour). Viewers discretion is advised if uncomfortable with such subjects.*

*In an addition to the above mentioned disclaimer, this section is created for educational purposes only and is intended to serve as worldbuilding for ROR. None of the content written here is strictly intended to serve as NSFW content.*

## Reproduction

### Genitals

Both male and female Elytrians have what's known as a cloaca. The cloaca is an internal chamber that ends in an opening, and through this opening, a bird's sex organs — testes or ovaries — discharge sperm or eggs. This same opening also serves another purpose: the expulsion of urinary and digestive waste. This is inaccurate to other winged beings, such as vertebrates.

Elytrons do not give birth to live young, instead, they will lay eggs through Oviposition. In which their children will be born from. In detail, Oviposition is the expulsion of an egg from the oviduct to the external environment, this is a common phenomenon in vertebrates other than eutherian mammals, in this case, Birds.

### Oviposition

Elytrians as a classification are all defined by their ability to give birth to offspring through the use of eggs, commonly referred to as ‘Oviposition’. They will have a period of which they will lay a clutch of offspring that ranges from approximately two to five during one month of the year. If they haven’t already had sexual intercourse these eggs will not be fertilised and will therefore never hatch, but the Elytrian parent will keep these eggs in their nests for up to two weeks or so before finally disposing of the eggs that have by then gone rotten.

Though, if this clutch is fertilised, the eggs will therefore have the ability to hatch. Out of the eggs that will hatch there will usually be one egg that never hatches and is defined as ‘dead’ if it has not hatched in the two week period that the parent keeps the eggs in their nest, but that isn’t the worst: as there is a moderate chance that one off the offspring will be born as a “runt”, therefore not having any obvious features of being an Elytrian and is therefore defined as humanoid, and completely useless to the flock. As they still hold onto several avian instincts that they cannot attend to making them a burden on the flocks ability to survive in the wild.

These runts will usually be left alone and away from the territory, abandoned due to their lack of Elytrian blood, as they are left out in extreme climates where they will perish in a short few days. However if they do manage to survive they are usually placed into the hands of captors who’d want to use them for a variety of purposes that would not necessarily be considered good for the runt.

Recommended articles: Runt Elytrians

## Major systems

### Respiratory System

#### Diaphragm.

All Elytrians lack a functional diaphragm. However, they have chest muscles that will move air to create pressure changes.

Since birds lack a diaphragm, the inhalation is achieved by expanding the chest, moving the ribs laterally, the sternum ventrally and cranially, and expansion of the abdominal muscles.

## Elytron wings

An Elytrian’s wings are regarded as the most important part of their anatomy; expressing their thoughts, feelings and emotions through simple motions. They also allow a majority of the Elytrian race to soar into the sky, high above the clouds.

* Ulerian Elytrians
* Athaichian Elytrians
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### Common impairments

* **Arthritis** — Arthritis is a common condition in Elytrian’s that mainly affects the wings, it causes pain and inflammation of the joints. To treat the condition Elytrians cannot wear braces on their wings, since it is seen as too restrictive; so in place of braces, various applications of warmth are applied to the wings as the main treatment to reduce the pain.

This leads to many Elytrian–folk who suffer from the condition tend to not fly too high, will stick to being inside and close to the heating systems during the winter months and will go outdoors during the summer months and get plenty of sunlight.

* **Wing deformities and Feather mutations** — Wing deformities are an uncommon occurrence in Elytrians as a whole and are classed as a disability by the Intergalactic Federation and its council members. These disabilities can come in a number of different forms; such as with the character Landon Cardin, a bird elytron who was born with a wingspan too large to fly with and use due to their extremely heavy weight.

In some cases the wings are amputated from the body entirely due to them being either impacting an Elytron’s life too much or causing the body an extreme amount of pain that cannot be nullified no matter what the Healers may use. Though, these surgeries tend to cost a lot of money to do due to the risks and lack of true research on Elytrian wings. After these surgeries an Elytron may feel depressed as those with wings chalk ‘wing-loss’ to being “on level with suicide”.

* **Wing–Clipping** — wing clipping is a common practice that involves using a pair of pliers to rip out an Ulerian Elytrians wings, though not natural it is seen as a cruel act that impairs an Elytrian’s ability to fly.

### Elytri

Elytri, also known as an elytra or ‘The wings of Icarus’. Are a set of severed Elytrian wings collected and harvested from; the dead corpses of Elytrians, the remaining shedding from an Elytron’s skin or the wings of an extinguished Phantom. These wings are semi-sentient, and have some ability to communicate with the environment around them and when obtained will take on a silvery, bug-like appearance: like that of a beetle, bee or wasp.

These ‘Elytri wings’ have special properties of some sort; that after being worn for an uncertain period of time, that’s to give them time to adjust to their new environment and placement on the body, they can shift and change form becoming something new and completely unique to the individual. Every step of the process is process of the adjustment can be felt by the wearer and is most commonly described as a ‘Tingling sensation’ throughout the back muscles of the wearer, almost like their body is being ‘Pricked by pine needles’, as the semi-sentience of the Elytri begins to read and recognise certain patterns of the wearer’s mind, soul and brain to change their style according to their wearer’s personality and using it as a reference; which is done through small scale sensors layered in a thin layer on the surface of the wing.

There are several methods people could wear the Elytri, one of the most common methods used for easy access is by wearing a durable leather harness. The harness itself has two straps that are connected together with a third strap with a metal buckle one the chest-area of the wearer to keep it locked in place and from sliding off the back of its wearer; this buckle also doubles as a button that when clicked allows the Elytri to simply disappear, leaving only its harness behind, clicking it again allows it to easily materialise back out of thin air. The wearer can press the button of the harness to remove the Elytri and store it somewhere else for later use. As the harness unclasps to remove any pressure entirely.

The Elytri are highly valued as they are quite rare, they are an extremely useful for both winged and wingless Elytrians alike; especially those with feather mutations that make the wings unsuitable for flight or cause the winged Elytrian difficulty flying. They are mostly used as a ‘major’ mobility aid and are highly efficient at allowing an Elytrian into playing into their own internal instincts.

Though, these wings are not designed to be used in extreme temperature nor are they intended to be used during moments of heavy rain showers, snow storms, heatwaves or any other kind of extreme weather conditions including natural disasters that affect the air.

Though these appendages do not always have to always be feathered, some Elytrians have an extra set of ‘Elytron’ in place of their ears. These act exactly like their feathered counterparts, in both turbulence and protecting an Elytron’s hearing capabilities. Of which are quite good.

### Weaknesses

*A list a definite weaknesses of the Elytron wings.*

* **High caloric needs** — Elytrians have high caloric needs to supply them with enough energy, nutrients and protein to allow them to fly.
* Can’t fit into tight spaces
* can't wear armour without losing flight and can’t plausibly armour wings at all
* can't carry much weight