Category:Halfbeast Races

Halfbeasts are a group of godborn races that first arose on the Ingenti Isles, the archipelago that resides on the edges of the Imperial standard map of Tellus. Legends say that the islands are actually the mountaintops of a continent that sunk into the sea during the final battle of the War of the Ethereals. The undersea ruins discovered by merfolk explorers support this theory. The Halfbeasts were born of the blood of the gods and demons that fell onto the islands. Originally, they were a single race called insulari. They were a race not unlike humans. They had variable hair, eye and skin colors, round ears, short facial hair and moderate magical capabilities. The main difference was their capability to communicate with the creatures of the islands telepathically. They could only send and receive basic ideas, as these were the only things the animals could understand, but it was enough to stop them from killing the creatures, for themselves or as sacrifices to the gods. This defiance angered the gods, who threatened insulari prophets with the removal of their blessings. The insulari heard this and stopped worshipping the gods, who they had come to see as immoral. In response, the gods not only removed their blessing, but punished the insulari as well. They wiped out five species on the islands (horses, goats, cattle, eagles and lions), and combined the bodies of these animals with those of the insulari so that they would remember what happened to those who disobeyed the gods. Now, the descendants of the insulari, known as halfbeasts, are separated into four nations, each composed of a different race. All but the satyrs remain on the Ingenti Isles, while the satyrs have no government and serve only the fay. Each of the nations curse the gods to this day, to the point where infernal magicians are less shunned than celestial ones.