Nikola Tobias Hunter's latest update for Silverlight Saga: Daughter of Two Worlds

May 10, 2016

A brief explanation on the races of the Silverlight universe.

Humans: Humans have a reputation for being innovative and invasive. They stand generally at between 4’ 10" and 6’ 5" tall and can very widely on weight and musculature. They come with variety of both skin hair and eye colors, with a predominance of whiter beings in colder regions and darker beings in hotter regions. They dot the entire world in small bands or large cities they have built with the dwarves. They can live from 50 to 100 years old.

Elves: They are a long lived race but not immortal, they generally live to be about 300 to 400 Human years old. They all have slender but muscular builds, as well as blueish-black hair. They’re generally of human hight or slightly shorter and have no body hair apart from that of their eye brows. They are all mostly of darker complexion and come from a generally hot and dry climate. They live on their own continent apart from the human-dwarf empire and are currently in a cold war with the empire.

Dwarves: Short, stout and honest; these words could sum up most of the dwarven race. Deeply religious and hard-nosed, if a problem can’t be fixed hit it with a hammer, it will fix itself. Standing from 3’ 11" to 5’ 3" and living from 150 to 200 human years. Males have prominent facial hair and short blonde hair or are bald from birth, and Women grow long course brown or blonde hair usually worn a braid. They live alongside humans in the empire built on their shared continent.

Demons: Commonly called the Yararka, they are the twisted amalgamation of evil souls sent to the firey plain of the demon king. They have imposing figures muscular and tall with long curved horns, on a battlefield they’re a force to be reckoned with. When summoned to the physical plain they must inhabit a body, a vessel. Their physical characteristics are then forced upon the body and the soul that inhabited the body is destroyed. When a Demon is killed on the physical plain it simply goes back to the demon plain.

Tarks: Tarks for the most part are looked down upon as a sort of vermin or pest. Though killing them is mostly outlawed baring them from entering a city or town is generally accepted. While their outward appearance would speak of perhaps rodent origins, with furry faces and long ears, they are actually the product of magic. Long ago a wizard was experimenting with a tree trying to bring it to life, what he didn’t know was that a rabbit had recently died inside the tree. In bringing life to the tree, he brought life back to the rabbit and a whole new lifeform was created. Standing at only a foot tall these very short lived rodent-like-plants are very single minded. They take on the name of whatever they specialize in, and have a hive mind, meaning while they retain their identity they benefit from the experiences of the whole.

Half-elves: Usually looked down upon with contempt and disgust, because of the Cold War between the two countries. They are seen as an affront to the natural world, or even an abomination. Half-elves can pass for human if the elvish traits are weaker than the human traits. Most Half-elves choose self imposed exile with their own kind, over inclusion with the normal world. They live very long hard lives of about 200 to 250 years, if they aren’t kill by racist hate crimes first.

Half-dwarfs: There looked upon more as a merging of to cultures. It was actually a half-dwarf that designed the first airship, and as such many half-dwarves take up engineering. They stand at about human hight if a little stocky, and many live to be about 100 years old.