Fentharum

### Distinctive Features

Horns in various shapes, scales in various patterns and locations, tails, rarely wings, and at times, scaly digitigrade legs.

Fentharum are a humanoid, dragon-folk race with distinct features such as scales, horns, tails, wings, and sometimes even digitigrade legs akin to their what-would be draconic form. Their appearance highly varies based on what they are from. For example, mountain-based Fenatharum tend to resemble a real-world Eastern dragon, with long serpentine tails, while ones found in Vales resemble more Nordic dragons in appearance. They are a resilient people, and their builds consider many variables, such as sex, preference to magic or physical strength, or being slow and speedy.

Despite their appearance looking similar to actual dragons in their humanoid forms, they lack a proper draconic form and cannot transform at all whatsoever, being a corruption of dragons.

## Culture and Society

A nomadic, peace-loving people, despite created in an attempt to make dragon-like soldiers for battle. They are peaceful, benevolent, and love to travel either alone or in caravans, which are usually their families, distant or close. In times of conflict, they much prefer peace but a very vocal minority are not opposed to shedding blood.

Even though they are peaceful and generally indifferent to conflict, they experience racism and suspicion too. One prominent case is the Elvhen Union, who are heavily suspicious of both Fentharums and Orcs due to the union suffering pillaging and raids and other related events, and are oftentimes ostracized as a result.

## History and Creation

### **Early History**

Created as a corruption of dragons by Taurvala, it is actually not known exactly who was the first Fentharum. Born as an attempt to wipe out the races, the Fentharum were extremely discriminated against, being that other beings had found it startling and intimidating that people that looked just like dragons began to co-exist with them, and their first major appearance was sacking and raiding other cities. This generated an extreme negative response towards the people, eventually becoming the catalyst for attacks against the people; especially in territories that they had took from other races.

A prominent event of this was the Reaving of the Golden Fields. Orcs, Goblins, and Fentharums were indiscriminately impaled and shot by Palaran riders in the Naevan Valley, simply reclaiming their rightful land from the "scoundrel" races.

Eventually, the craze of murdering, maiming, and driving out the Fentharum had died out after realizing their peaceful nature unlike their violent forebears and once they had finally stopped attempting conquest.

However, some locations and some people, did not hesitate to slaughter them when given the chance.

### **Present Day**

Fentharum today, are just like any other sentient humanoid race in the world. Some are violent, some are peaceful, but that doesn't mean all of them act the same just because of one bad bunch. Despite their attempts to make reparations and achieve victory through peace and kindness, they are still unwelcome in some territories and will be greeted with the sounds of blades unsheathing, remaining a subject of discrimination. Fentharum today are successful merchants, traders, and mercenaries, their natural bulk and sufficient stamina well valued in the industries of the world and sometimes even exploited for slavery.