Avians

## Basic info

Native species of world stories happen in. Visually they are just humans with wings and feathered ears, but in reality they are way more different.

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## Avian info(some parts are non canon now)

### 1.      Avian’s early hair graying mutation (Non-canon)

It’s caused by mutation on additional chromosome right after Avian’s XY or XX set. It is a mutated chromosome, rendering it almost useless and harmful for Avian which inherits the mutation. Actually, the chromosome itself has no effect, as many generations of Avians have evolved with presence of it within many years. It’s caused by mutation in X-Z1 section of it.

The mutation has many spectrums of it – from being almost unnoticeable to rendering host disabled in their regular lives. The additional chromosome and mutation of X-Z1 segment is not always inherited and not always cause problems.

Symptoms of the mutation seem to show up after Avian reaches their 20th year of life.

Half-blood Avians do not have the additional chromosome, as their non Avian parent has healthy phenotype.

###### Common symptoms are:

Hair graying after 20-th year of Avian’s life(sometimes earlier), weakened abilities and senses(it’s pretty rare), feathers are sometimes affected too.

###### Rare symptoms:

Feathers falling out, strong weakness of body, wings being almost useless due weakness and feathers falling off.

There’s no cure to core cause of disease found yet nor anything to make symptoms milder.

### 2.      Avian’s bonding and mating

Avian bonding occurs when two Avians feel close to each other, in meaning of friendship or loveship. Avians need usually lot of time to trust someone, but when they do they are willing to help their friend in almost everything. Bonds are usually lasting till one of bonders dies. Bond can be created with a human too, but as humans lack natural bonding instincts, it’s much harder to create a bond or keep it long enough. There’s no limit for amount of bonds Avian can create. Marriages doesn’t count as bond.

Mating works in similar way to human’s one. Avians have different preferences in mates and different expectations of them. Avians took most of the laws from human ones about age and mating. It’s not forbidden to have more than 1 mate, but it’s seen as not okay by most of Avians. It’s quite common to see an Avian with partner of same gender as them.

### 3.      Growing

Avians are pretty smilar to humans in many aspects of their lives. There are very big differences thought. Children reach mind-ly age of 7-8 years old kid at age 5 or 4. The development of mind slows down til 10-12-th year of Avian’s life. Avians reach full maturity at age of 20, but according to law they are seen as adults at age of 18.

### 4.      Avian’s Alarmed mode

Alarmed mode is feral-like state into which Avians are forced when they feel endangered way beyond the comfortable level or when they seriously hurt. Their eye pupils become very narrow and their abilities to talk are blocked. Their heartbeat fastens to keep muscles ready.

Avian’s are almost fully controlled by  instincts in this state, causing them to either pick facing the danger or fleeing into safe place. Through trainings Avians can gain almost full control over their instincts. Usually Avians uncontrollably defend themself, sometime they end up killing the attacker by accident.

### 5.      Avian’s wound resistance

Avians are almost exactly the same under this category like humans, with addition of wings. Wings contain a lot of veins on them(under the feathers and skin), that makes them bleed a lot when is pulled out, and it causes a lot of pain to Avian, making ripping feathers out a very gruesome, but quite common threat. Avians are pretty resistant to blood-loss, in meaning it takes a lot to make Avian faint from it.

### 6.      Toxic/poisonous gas

It blocks some of Avian’s receptors, thus blocking some of Avian’s senses. It causes tunnel vision, coughing, nausea and finally makes Avian faint. Longer exposure to it can lead to death. Vision becomes very blurry and hearing is like under water. Getting away from source of gas and getting rest causes the poisoning to wear off. Gas has almost no effect on humans. Avians call gas ”Gevaar”.