Human

Humans are one of the most common and adaptable species in Wisteria and can be found almost anywhere. They are usually intelligent creatures and have good emotional intelligence as well and often value emotions more than logic. They are curious creatures and have a big drive to explore and discover, but can be easily spooked and often fall to tricks of the mind.

> "*Yes, I value emotions deeply.
> Call me sensitive, call me weak, call me outdated, call me anything you may, but tell me the truth, can you deny emotions give life to life.
> If Emotions are an integral part of Being Human,
> Why do people suppress feeling them ? Does the bruising scare them ?
> Then I wonder who is weak ?*"
>
> - **Wordions**

## Abilities

### Abilities

Pure humans have no abilitiesThose that do have roughly 2 abilities on average but can go up to 6

### General Weaknesses

Susceptible to : Magic

Diseases

Have little protective physical details

## Culture

### General Traits

Stubborn, curious, adaptable, inventive, emotional, social

## Biology

### Age Range

Lives up to 80-90 years oldYouth : 0-11

Adolescent - 12-18

Adults - 19-60

Elderly - 61-death

### Diet

Omnivorous - most prefer a mix of vegetables and meats

### Notable Physical Details

Squishy and soft. Skin colours and physical appearances vary between individual races and cultures. Wears clothing.

### Children

Usually bears roughly around 4 children per family, sometimes more. Mothers are the primary care givers and children stay with families until they're 18 usually, but some can stay with them for lifetimes.

As one of the most common species in Wisteria, Humans also own dozens of close-relatives such as Harpies, Were-wolves and so on. It is believed that most of those species likely evolved or were derived from a close ancestor millennia ago.

Nevertheless, because of their close biology, most humanoids can breed with each other and produce a large variety of offspring.

As such, pure humans are extremely difficult to find due to how much mingling exists and those who are pure humans, while they are weaker than impure humans with magic abilities, are very vital in big social hierarchies in large Kingdoms such as Thalassa.

## **Personality Traits**

Humans, due to their wide variety, are very hard to pinpoint to specific traits, however, do have basic stereotypes as all species do.

Pure or Impure, their behaviors usually have the same core principles. Many humans are curious and social creatures that thrive in the presence of others. They are also usually stubborn and seem to have a very difficult time admitting they're wrong or changing their minds as well, and often times will stick to their original values even when presented with overwhelming evidence of the opposite.

Of course, there are variants and some do not follow all of these specific traits, but many do and usually owns some varying degree of all of these quirks.

Aside from those personality traits though, many humans are hardworking and have an affinity to learn and pick up new skills fairly quickly. They are also very inventive and despite their intelligence not being on par with some other species, due to their adaptive and curious nature - they end up being those that discover and create new things for Wisteria.

Humans are social pack animals. They thrive in groups of friends and family, and some can thrive anywhere so long as there are friendly faces. They get lonely easily and deeply value human connection and romance.

## **Biology**

### **Pure-blood and Impure Humans**

Pure-blood (usually just referred to as Pure) humans are very rare. Almost every human, despite not having any physical detail relating to a different species, have mixed with them at some point in their bloodline - usually their great grandparents and so on. Nevertheless, most Pure and impure humans have very little differences social wise. Ability wise though, there are some differences.

Impure humans are slightly less susceptible to magic and due to them having abilities, are also much stronger and typically have more stamina than Pures. Whether they have abilities or not, impure humans who have the blood of another magic species usually also have passive resistance towards magic attacks or influence (such as curses, illusions, etc) and this trait can be trained and honed to bypass illusion magics, to sense protection spells and so on.

Pure humans have more vulnerability towards magic. Assuming they do not have any relics, blessings or enchantments, they are "Magic-Deaf" - which means that they do not have the capacity to sense magic at all. They won't be able to identify magical creatures, energy, illusions, spells and so on naturally and enchanted items that may give off auras and such to other species, will appear normal to them.

Magic spells and attacks can effect them much more brutally, and as such, Pure-blood humans will usually gain the help of either Freys or magic imbued tools to aid them.

While Impure humans have a heightened advantage, Pure humans are also extremely valuable. Aside from being rather desirable food sources to human-feeding species such as Wendigos, they are rare and vital to the social hierarchy in big kingdoms.

In Thalassa, the reigning Royal Family consist entirely of pure-bloods.

### **Age**

Humans have the capacity of living an average of 80-90 years, but the average age of death for many is usually half that number due to diseases, being killed by wild animals from the ocean, and so on. Nobles, wealthy folks and royalty usually persist past 90 years old and may even live to the hundreds.

### **Diet**

Humans are omnivores for the most part and have a varied diet, though much of it consists of fish due to the heavy abundance of food near the base of the islands. For many places, it is quite difficult to grow crops or hunt and rear animals so many will turn to the ocean for food. Humans have a taste for fish and seafood and often enjoys it as a staple while things such as meat, dairy and so on are usually considered luxury items and are rarely consumed by the average person.

Fruits and perishable items are also considered treats and sweet foods seem to be a wild favorite for humans despite its unhealthy consequences and become an addictive taste that most don't have the privilege of consuming.

### **Habitat**

Many of them reside on land and dry places, but some have taken into favoring life on ships and venture instead of stagnating on islands. They are an adaptive species and as such can be found living anywhere that has a source of water and food. They can be found from mountains to deserts to even the most barren of lands.

Regardless of cold and heat, they seem to be able to best it rather easily with magic and layers of clothing, though the extremes of both can and will easily annoy them to death or outright kill them. Many will prefer a more neutral location - a cool place that's neither too hot or cold.

## **Courting, Romance and Children**

### **Dating**

   Many humans, while not all, are strictly monogamous and often times idealize staying with one partner until the end. However, in reality, most go through dozens of partners before settling, and rare few have the privilege of only having one partner for their entire lives.

Often times, they court whoever is available - man or woman - and there aren't too much prejudice against homosexual couples. However, if a family does not have a potential heir to continue the family line, they will often pressure their youngest child into having a hetero-relationship in order to produce a child since if no one reproduces, the island may have a high chance of dying or falling into heavy incest or inter-species relationships.

While many are tolerant of same sex relationships, many are still quite on the fence when it comes to inter-species relationships - especially if other creature doesn't have a lot of humanoid features.

Regardless, on their more softer sides, since many idolize romance and human connection, humans usually spend months to years courting their partners with gifts and meaningful sentimental gestures. Females are especially more sentimental and emotional while males seem to favor more obvious gestures and acts, or those relating to more biological functions (food, safety, etc) - though, there are always variations.

After years of courting, if everything goes well, two humans will come together and propose to spend their lives with each other. If rejected, they will continue dating until the time is right to propose again, and other times - may end up with the relationship falling apart due to heartbreak.

If accepted, they will usually throw a big celebration with family and friends, and sometimes if the island is small enough - will involve everyone present on the Kingdom. The celebrations last several days of festivities, dancing, drinking and ceremonies, gifts and congratulations for the wedded couple.

The wedding ceremony will last an average of three to four days - and for Royals, Wealthy or important figures - it may last upwards of a week. Some try to extend up to a month but people seem to get tired pretty easily. Once they have been wedded, they will usually nest together and move away from their parents, though they may re-invite both of their parents to live with them in the future depending on culture.

Nevertheless, usually within a few years into their married life, humans will begin to contemplate bringing life into the word.

### **Children**

While some humans may not bear children, most usually will and many families average out at four children - sometimes even more. Due to the nature of Wisteria's rare and sparse lands and lack of people - many families tend to try and have many children in order to help take care of the farms, work or for population purposes.

Those in larger Kingdoms such as Thalassa usually tend to only have two children or less.

Humans reproduce sexually and must have a male and a female pair in order to produce children. Infants are birthed by the female and if the family can afford a healer or a doctor - the baby is likely to survive, however, stillbirths or child deaths are very common during this process and is almost expected for everyone to experience the loss of a child this way.

In most basic relationships - the female usually has a stronger maternal drive and takes care of both children, however it is not restricted to just this arrangement. Some other families will have the male, or those in homosexual or poly-amorous relationships may take turns or have a more leveled, or a different method of rearing their children.

At the start, children are very curious and absorbs information at a rapid pace, though they also tire out easily and are very fragile. They often mimic their parents but as they grow older, can begin mimicking their friends or the people around them. They are considered young until they are 11 years old, adolescent at 12 to 18 and finally at nineteen, many will consider them young adults.

During this age, they are expected to be pursuing their futures or moving out - though many of them will stay with their parents for lifetimes on farms, or working and the young will stay to take care of their parents as they grow older and their days come to an end. Humans are not the most family oriented, so some don't fulfill this with full hearts, but most do care about their parents.

## **Culture**

Due to their varied state, their culture is extremely different, however basic few can be agreed on between most human civilizations. Kindness, mercy and empathy is celebrated and it is often expected for people to be willing to co-exist and work with one another. They are materialistic, but many also have extremely sentimental reactions to their belongings. Respect is expected and many still have the ideals of young needing to respect their elders regardless of the situation.

Respect is also expected in authority situations regarding Royals, work place and so on and humans always seem at neck with moral and ethical issues as well. It is very easy for Humans to divide themselves and turn against each other for the smallest reasons and they often tend to generalize and hate one another too. This behavior can be commonly observed between the Nobility and Royalty and the working or lower class.

Many humans are forced to co-exist with other species and are adaptive and know how to utilize their surroundings to their advantage. It is how they survived for so long without magic and garnered the reputation of being one of the most determined and persistent creatures on earth.

They also have a very close heart with food culture and just like most other Wisteria inhabitants, they also hate wastage and will often dislike those who waste food and resources.

### **Werebeasts**

Humans have an extremely close relationship with Werebeasts as a whole, and its estimated than at least 30% of Impure Humans are actually Werebeasts with very little external signs, but with internal biological or genetic proof. As such, Humans and Werebeasts are often considered similar by other species, and sometimes seem exactly the same too.

### **Nobility and Royalty**

Despite the little differences - Impure humans have been noted to be barred from ascending to or inheriting noble or royal status. This is especially stressed in high ranking statuses such as rulers and kings and queens for political reasons as it can be difficult to determine if an Impure human is a Werebeast or an Impure due to how much these two species have mingled with each other.

As such, to hold Humanity's best interest - the rulers and higher rankings are ever only accepted if they are Pure Humans. An Impure will have their rank and status stripped, or be barred from official duties such as becoming a King, Royal advisors and so on, and will have their ranks and titles stripped to the average person instead.