Races of Ivancha

Invancha is home to 20 races, each is ranked from 1st (most powerful) to 20th (least powerful). Each race falls into 1 of 4 categories;

* Spiritual: Races that do not posses a physical body
* Humanoid: Races with non-animal features
* Beastoid: Races with animal features
* Demonoid: Races created with demon blood

## **1. Celestials**

Category: Spiritual

Celestials are the most powerful beings in Ivancha, their most notable features include their very colourful hair, pale skin tone, pointed ears, and their most unique feature; large, white, feathered wings. The hair and eyes of the celestials reflect their element; Amber and brown for earth, Dark blue for water, Green for wind, Red for fire, light blue for ice, violet for lightning, black for darkness, and gold for light.

The celestials have 6 sub-races, each with an important role to play in Celestia.

* Angels: The lowest rank of celestial, they serve as soldiers in the army of celestia
* Seraphs: More powerful versions of Angels, these celestials serve as messengers for the gods
* Arch Angels: The most powerful of the angel races, these angels keep the lower ranked angels in check and they act as the guardians of the mortal world.
* Lesser Gods: The lowest of the god races, these celestials are the children of the Greater Gods and grandchildren of the Primordials. Unlike the Greater Gods, these gods do not have "godly" titles.
* Greater Gods: The children of the primordials, each grater god is immensely powerful and each with a title. For example: Lucifer is a Greater God and the God of Darkness.
* Primordials: The original 8 gods, the most powerful beings in existence, a single primordial has enough power in a single finger to destroy the universe.

## **2. Demons**

Categories: Spiritual + Demonoid

Created by Lucifer to rival the gods, fortunately he was unable to make demons strong enough to match greater gods in raw power. Lucifer desires to become the 1 true god and rule over Celestia, the Mortal World, and the Demon Realm. Like most races, the demons have sub-races that split into 2 categories: Physical and spiritual demons. Spiritual demons are the stronger demons, completely immune to physical damage, can be harmed by magical damage, but cannot be completely killed, unless struck by a spirit weapon. Physical demons have a physical form, meaning they can be harmed physically and magically, and can even be killed by non-spirit weapons, these demons are far inferior to the spiritual ones.

Demons greatly differ from Demonoids, demons were created by the Demon King directly while demonoids were either an already existing person who was infected with demon blood, thus turning them into a demonic monster, or they are an individual who was born to a demonoid.

The strongest demons are the Demon Lords, the rulers of all demons, which are further divided into 4 ranks:

* Demon King, which isn't actually a demon, instead he's a Greater God named Lucifer.
* Demon Queen, Lucifer's 1st demon he created to be his wife, her name is Lilith
* Demon Prince, the children of Lucifer and Lilith, there's 4 in total
* Demon Lord, demons created by Lucifer to rival the god's power to assist him to take over Celestia.

	+ The Daeva, created to become the new gods, fortunately, their power fell a bit short, however they are still the most powerful demon race. Lilith and every Demon Lord is a Daeva. The most notable features on a Daeva is their long, pointed ears, black hair, completely black eyes with red pupils, black nails, pale skin with corruption veins, and black, feathered wings.
	+ The Gallus, created to be the officers of the demon army. The most notable features of a Gallu includes their pale skin, demon horns on the top of their heads, black claws, red eyes, and black demonic wings.
	+ The Acheri, the weakest of the spiritual demons, these demons were created by Lucifer mostly out of boredom, he wanted to see if a little girl demon would make humans scream, he has fun with the knowledge that yes...a little evil spirit girl does indeed make humanoids and beastoids scream.
* Demonoids:
	+ Imps - created to be messenger demons, they weren't created with much power, so it doesn't take much to defeat an Imp
	+ Gargouilles - Demon Guards
	+ Incubus - male demons that seduce women and slowly suck their life energy away during the "act"
	+ Succubus - female demons that seduce men and slowly suck their life energy away during the "act"
	+ Ahriman - Powerful demons granted much magical power, these demons serve as officers of the demon king's army and aides to Daevas

## **3. Spirits**

Category: Spiritual

Created by the primordials to govern the mortal world and to control it's weather. Spirits rank as the 3rd strongest race under the Demons and Celestials. Their most noticeable feature is their partly-transparent body, as for overall appearance, they do not officially have one, they can appear as anything. Eventually spirits can evolve into a celestial and will gain divinity. There are multiple different types of spirits, all differing in power.

* Spirit Queen: The Queen of the spirits, she was the very first spirit created by the gods. Her name is Sylph
* Greater Spirits: The most powerful spirits under the Spirit Queen.
* Elementals: These spirits are the ones responsible for controlling the weather.
* Dryads: Spirits responsible for controlling and healing nature, known as "Nature Spirits".
* Lesser Spirits: Lesser spirits act as guides to mortals, they all have an element and can form contracts with mortal summoners.

## **4. Dragons**

Category: Intelligent Monster

The 4th most powerful race, dragons aren't one of the 4 categories of intelligent races, instead they have been classified as an intelligent monster race. The dragon races are all mostly extinct aside from 4. The appearance of each race greatly differs from one another, some are small, others are taller than houses.

The below images are just depictions of what each dragon race looks like, the images themselves do not belong to me, credit to their original artists.

A Wyrm, 3 left in existence.A Hydra, there is currently only 1 left in existence.The other races; The Amphithere, Wyvern, Cockatrice, Drake, and Dragonnet are all exinct. Fafnir is the Dragon King, a Wyrm.

## **5. Dragonoids**

Category: Beastoid

The 5th strongest race is the Dragonoids, a powerful mortal race descendant from the dragons. Prior to the primordial's awakening, the dragonoids controlled Ivancha, there were many nations in the world, each controlled by the dragonoids, some allowed peaceful co-existence with the weaker mortal races, some enslaving them. The average lifespan of a Dragonoid is 7 thousand years. The most notable features of the dragonoids is their colourful hair, pointed ears, horns on top of their heads, dragon wings, and dragon tails. There are 8 sub-races of dragonoids;

* Cavern Dragonoid (Earth)
* Sea Dragonoid (Water)
* Sky Dragonoid (Wind)
* Flame Dragonoid (Fire)
* Frost Dragonoid (Ice)
* Storm Dragonoid (Lightning)
* Shadow Dragonoid (Darkness)
* Holy Dragonoid (Light)

## **6. Elves**

Category: Humanoid

Elves rank at 6th out of the 20 races for power, they mostly excel at light and nature magic, however they can use all elements. The elvish race is by far the most gorgeous race on Ivancha, tall, slender bodies, beautiful eyes, pale skin, soft, silky smooth hair, everyone wants an elf. While elves do excel with nature and light magic, they are also proficient with archery, making the best archers in all of Ivancha. The Demonoid version of the Elves are the Dark and Blood Elves, however, unlike the other demonoid races, Dark and Blood elves are still capable of living peaceful lives among the High, Light, and Forest Elves. The average life span of an elf is 700 years. The Elves have 5 different sub-races:

Countess Tandrielle de Martinite, a High Elf from the Irminsul Empire.Lord Aldaval, the leader of the Abyss Order and a Dark Elf.
* High Elves: The High Elves have a higher magic power level than the other elves, they are a rare sub-race of elves, majority of the high elves are Irminsulic nobles and royalty with every member of the Imperial Family and the cadet branches being a High Elf.
* Light Elves: Light Elves are also a rare sub-race, they excel at light magic, especially healing magic. Light Elves look similar to Forest Elves, however their ears are slightly shorter and their height falls around the same average as a human. They are often mistaken for Half-Elves.
* Forest Elves: By far the most common race of Elves, they excel at nature magic. The average height for a forest elf is 5'11 for females and 6'5 for males.
* Dark Elves: Dark Elves are a demonoid race created by Lucifer by infecting a Forest Elf with demon blood. Dark Elves have very dark skin, black hair, and violet eyes. Dark Elves, unlike their normal elf counterparts, specialise in Dark Magic.
* Blood Elves: Blood Elves are a rare race of demonoid-elves, created by injecting demon blood into a Light Elf, they are shorter than Dark Elves with shorter ears, red eyes, and they have a reddish tint to their skin, hence the name "Blood Elves"

## **7. Giants**

Category: Humanoid

Giants are the tallest race in Ivancha, excluding the dragons, the average height for a female giant is 6'3, for males the average is 6'8. Giants originate from the eastern country of Mesopotamia, they were created by the God of Judgement, Terra. Their appearance differs for each sub-race, some have pale skin, while others are more tan. Due to their raw strength, giants excel at using heavy weapons, such as claymores and battleaxes. The giants are direct descendants of the Titans, the original race created by Terra who aligned themselves with Lucifer, as punishment they were executed by the gods, 10 titans were spared and their race was changed to the giant, they were reduced 3 times in size and were dropped from 4th to 7th strongest race. The average lifespan of a giant is 525 years. There are currently 5 sub-races of giants.

* Frost Giants: The frost giants live in the Mesopotamian tundras up in the northern region, they are immune to the cold and specialise in frost magic. Frost giants have pale skin, light blue hair and light blue eyes.
* Spring Giants: These giants live near the coasts and in small communities around lakes and rivers, they specialise in water magic. Spring Giants have pale skin, dark blue hair, and dark blue eyes.
* Sun Giants: These giants are the 2nd most common race of giants, they live in every corner of Mesopotamia, aside from the tundras and specialise in fire magic. They have a tan skin tone, red hair, and red eyes.
* Sky Giants: This is the rare race of giants, sky specialise in wind magic. They have pale skin, green hair, and green eyes.
* Mountain Giants: This is the most common race of giant, they live everywhere in Mesopotamia aside from the tundras and they specialise in earth magic. They have tan skin, brown hair, and amber eyes.

## **8. Harpies**

Category: Beastoid

The creations of Ventus, the Harpy race originates from the western country of Ithaca. Similar to elves, the Harpy race is tall, with pale skin, silky smooth hair, and pointed ears, the only difference is that Harpies have wings. There are no sub-races of Harpies, all harpies are the same. This race excels at archery and wind magic. The Harpy race is known to be very religious with Ithaca having more churches than any other country, they pray to their goddess before doing anything. Unlike the other gods, Ventus actually makes an appearance in Ithaca to be worshipped directly instead of through prayer. Harpies are often mistaken as angels by humans. The average lifespan of a Harpy is 420 years.

## **9. Ogres**

Category: Demonoid

The Ogre race is the 2nd strongest demonoid race under the Dark and Blood Elves. Lucifer created the Ogre race by injecting a giant with demon blood, the giant's skin turned black, their eyes turned red and their hair turned black, out of their head grew a pair of horns and claws grew out of their nails. There's 3 sub-races of Ogres, every ogre starts as the sub-race simply called "Ogre", eventually an Ogre can evolve into a Kijin and later an Oni. The average lifespan of an Ogre is 525 years,

## **10. Kitsunes**

Category: Beastoid

Created by the God of War, Ignis, this race loves war. Kitsunes originate from and dominate the Hōrai Shogunate. Unlike the other eastern races, you would hardly find any Kitsunes on the western continent, they are often ridiculed for following such a crazy god, many people also enjoy pulling on their ears and tails. The average lifespan of a Kitsune is 350 years. All Kitsunes are born with 1 tail and will gain more tails when their power grows. There are multiple sub-races of Kitsune.

* Flame Kitsune: Specialists in fire magic, these kitsunes have red and orange hair, orange eyes, and tan skin.
* Air Kitsune: These kitsunes excel with wind magic, they have green hair and eyes, and tan skin.
* Celestial Kitsune: These kitsunes are the priests of the Church of Ignis due to their celestial connection. They specialise in light magic and have blonde hair, gold eyes, and tan skin.
* Thunder Kitsune: The most hyper-active race of kitsune, these kitsunes specialise in lightning magic. They have violet hair and eyes and tan skin.
* Spectral Kitsune: Created using demon blood, these Kitsunes are demonoids. They specialise in dark magic and have black hair, red eyes, and a skin tone as dark as a Dark Elf's.
* Kyuubi: All Kitsunes, aside from Spectral, evolve into Kyuubis when they receive their 9th tail, these types of Kitsunes gain the power of omniscience

## **11. Oceanoids**

    Category: Beastoid

The Oceanoids are a race of sea dwellers, created by Aqua, they dominate the seas. They originate from the Kingdom of Atlantis. Like their goddess, the Oceanoids love to drink and party. Their notable features include their blue fins, pale skin, and bright blue eyes, most oceanoids have brown hair, however it is not uncommon for them to also have red or blonde hair. They have an average lifespan of 350 years. There exists 3 sub-races of oceanoids.

* Merfolk: The original race
* Siren: A race of all female merfolk demonoids, the only physical difference between merfolk and sirens are their red eyes, allowing them to easily trick people into thinking they have good intentions.
* Lamia: The common demonoid merfolk race, their common features include black fins, dark skin, red eyes, and black hair.

## **12. Undead (Lichs)**

Category: Intelligent Monster

The 12th race are the undead, more specifically, the lichs. There are 6 sub-races of undead, 4 are considered monster races, the top 2 have intelligence and are thus considered one of the 20 races. Atop the Lichs is the Undead King, an Elder Lich with a special skill that can manipulate the undead. Due to being undead, they do not have a lifespan and are thus, immortal.

* The monster races include:
	+ Skeletons: The weakest of the undead, with a threat level of D. Skeletons are ancient soldiers brought back to like by a D level necromancer.
	+ Zombies: Unlike Skeletons, Zombies still have flesh attached to their bones, they are stronger, yet slower than Skeletons. Zombie summoning is a C level necromancy spell. Zombies have a threat level of C.
	+ Ghouls: Stronger versions of Zombies, however, they have the capability to use magic and their skin and flesh is not as rotted as a Zombie's: Ghouls have a threat level of B.
	+ Wights: Weaker versions of Lichs, they posses some degree of intelligence, however still considered monsters. Wights have a threat level of A.
* Lichs
	+ Lich: Lichs are created by fools attempting the immortality ritual, in the process of trying to become immortal, they end up turning into an immortal undead monster with a high level of intelligence. Lichs have a threat level of A+.
	+ Elder Lich: After a few hundred years, a Lich will eventually evolve into an Elder Lich and will gain more power. Elder Lichs are rare and act as the top lieutenants of the Undead King. Elder Lichs vary in power, the weakest having a threat level of S, the strongest are SS.
	+ Undead King: When an Undead King is defeated, one of the SS Elder Lichs will be automatically granted the skill "Control Undead" which is the unique skill only the Undead King possesses that allows them to control and create undead. The current Undead King is Merlin, the legendary hero mage of the Kingdom of Camelot. The Undead King has a Disaster-class threat level.

## **13. Lizardman**

Category: Beastoid

Descendants of dragons, unlike dragonoids, lizardman took a different path while evolving. Unlike a dragonoid, lizardman look more animalistic, they have green skin, no hair, lizard eyes, a large tail, and no wings. Most people mistake lizardman for monsters, as such, they are often hunted by adventurers. The average life expectancy of a lizardman is 210 years.

## **14. Caitsi**

Category: Beastoid

Created by Ignis, this race is closely related to the Kitsune race. Unlike the Kitsunes, the Caitsi aren't interested in war, they are a timid species. The Horanese Armed Forces do have Caitsis within their ranks, mostly as support mages as Caitsis specialise in support magic, whereas Kitsunes specialise in offensive magic. The average life expectancy of a caitsi is 350 years.

## **15. Tomte**

Category: Humanoid

Nicknamed the "Ice Dwarves" this race was created by the Goddess of Love, Glacies. The Tomtes are a race full of love with powerful ice magic. The Tomte originate and dominate the Oponskoye Tsardom, the weather in Oponskoye is very harsh with almost no warm weather all year. Notable features of the Tomte include light blue skin, pale blue eyes, short height, and pointed ears. The average life expectancy of the Tomte is 175 years.

## **16. Faeries**

Category: Humanoid

Created by Vita, this race co-exists with the Elves as they share a lot of similarities and were created by the same God. While they live extremely long lives, the Faeries are much weaker than their elvish counterpart. The average lifespan of a faery is 700 years. Notable features include pale skin, long pointed ears, and faery wings. Faeries have multiple sub-races.

* Pixie: Nature Faeries, green wings, hair, and eyes
* Kelpie: Water Faeries, blue wings, hair, and eyes
* Nymphs: Dark Faeries, black wings, hair, and eyes
* Salamanders: Flame Faeries, red wings, hair, and eyes
* Seelies: Light Faeries, gold wings, hair, and eyes
* Sylphs: Wind Faeries, light green wings, hair, and eyes