Beast-kin

**Beast-men** or **beast-kin** are a collection of different races who were created when Vida mated with several of the different beast-kings, who served Ganpaplio the beast-god. Depending on the beast-king progenitor, their appearance and attribute values differ.

There are only mammalian races in this group. There are no boars, horses, aquatic mammals nor birds in this group, because the beast-kings of these races were either destroyed by the Demon King or joined the evil gods, thus the children born between them and the goddess became Harpies and Centaurs. The boar beast-king joined the Demon King, and became the ancestor of the Orcs; This incident is recorded in the myths, though it is not often spoken of. Incidentally, there are no beast-kin based on domesticated animals such as dogs, cats, or pigs. Meanwhile, reptilians are descendants of Marduke's subordinates in Lambda.

All beast-people generally have ears and tails of beasts, but beyond that each race have different features, depending on the beast-king they originate from. Some have fur growing on the back of their hands and their shins, or horns growing on their heads.[?]

## Temperament

They are treated the same as Demi-Humans but with less intelligence; Particularly feisty species will just be counted as monsters. Some Beast-Men may have animals such as bears and have a higher rank from birth, but some other beast-men are only slightly stronger than Humans or even as weak dependent on the beasts from their origin.

There are no races that Beast-men are hostile towards as a race, but they truly detest those who speak ill of the pride of their kind. It is not uncommon for people to be challenged to duels to the death over wolf-type Beast-people being called Kobolds and buffalo-type Beast-people being called Minotaurs.[?]

## Abilities

In general, most of the beast races have poor magic aptitude, while being excellent in physical attributes like vitality, strength, agility and stamina. The distribution of these attribute values are mostly determined by their beast-king progenitor though.

In the **Status**, Beast-people’s races are displayed as, **XX-type Beast-person**. Wolf Beast-people are displayed as **Wolf-type Beast-person**, while wildcat Beast-people are displayed as **Wildcat-type Beast-person**. The skills that Beast-people possess from birth depend on what kind of Beast-people they are. However, most Beast-people possess the **Dark Vision** skill. Also, carnivorous Beast-people have fangs and claws, while herbivorous Beast-people have horns.

Within ten years, they grow to the equivalent of fifteen years in human age, and after that, they live until they are a hundred and fifty to two hundred years old. The speed of their aging is extraordinarily slow. Also, children born between parents of different races of Beast-people are born as a Beast-person of one of the parents’ races. There are no cases of things like Beast-people with wildcat tails and a wolf’s tail. However, such children can grow fangs and horns; there have been confirmed cases of things such as bear-type Beast-people with horns. Also, when using the **Beast Transformation** skill, which will be mentioned later, some of their parents’ physical features can appear. These are not the limits of half-breeds that Beast-people can create; children can be born with pointed elf ears and foxtails.[?]

Bat-type Beast-people can fly.

## Culture

Their diets depend on what kind of Beast-people they are, but carnivorous Beast-people are not completely unable to eat food that isn’t meat, and likewise, even herbivorous Beast-people can eat meat.

As **Adventurers**, they are suited to being scouts or frontline fighters, and they tend to prefer being unarmed fighters using their claws and horns or having roles that fight with light equipment. Also, they can gain skills such as **Beast Transformation**, a skill that turns them temporarily into half-beast half-human creatures, and acquire race-specific Jobs such as **Beast Warrior**. Perhaps because they worship the beast-kings, there are some with a **Job** called **Shaman**, which is a separate **Job** from the **Priest Job**. Incidentally, unlike most Beast-people, fox-type, tanuki-type, and goat-type Beast-people have qualities suited to magic, so many of them become mages. They don’t have any inclinations to any specific occupations as civilians. They work in all kinds of areas.

In societal terms, they are the same as humans, but other than in the Birgitt Duchy in the Orbaume Kingdom, few Beast-people hold high-ranking positions in nations. When they live in villages and cities, they use the systems of those villages and cities.[?]

## Reproduction

They have all kinds of views on love and marriage; when members of a single race are all gathered together and living in the same place, they can have monogamy, polygamy or no marriage system at all, depending on the race. The thing that they have in common is that the husbands act important while it is actually the wives that hold authority in the household. But in important situations, the husband’s opinions take priority.

Also, for Beast-people, love equals marriage; creating children is the basis of it. The criteria for loving someone is whether one wants to make children with them or not. Thus, adult relations are not desirable. Incidentally, Beast-people have certain periods where they want to leave offspring behind, which vary depending on their race. They can still create children outside of these periods, but things are rather plain when doing so. It is not an insult to make fun of this as being a mating season for the Beast-people, but one should be prepared to receive a comeback of, “Well, your people mate all year round.”[?]

## Trivia

* Among Beast-kin, having someone wear a collar is a sign of a strong master-slave relationship, and in the case of a man and a woman, it even has special connotations.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 101: *The meeting between those who crawl on the ceiling* (Web Novel)
2. ↑ Chapter 219: *A house of puppets* (Web Novel)