Mythra

Description

Mythra, also known more simply as "Men" or the "Race of Man" are an intelligent bipedal mammalian race found throughout all of planet Haven, and are a member species of the Edian Races, a group of seven individual races all descendent from the Inomeni race, the Edia, who once held dominion over the entire planet. Mythra are both the most populace of the Edian Races, as well as the most populace species across the entire world, accounting for a staggering fifteen percent of the whole of the planet's population, and as such, they are able to be found in nearly every corner of the globe. Due to their prevalence, much of Haven's world history has been dictated by the actions of Mythra individuals, as they have held positions of power and authority throughout the millennia.

The name "Mythra" derives from the Edian word for "Destined Mothers," so named due to their race's special ability to be able to create a special crossbred child between themselves, and any member of the four other civilized races of the world, forging a new interbred species rather then the child simply sharing the race of the mother, as is the case for any other two members of separate racial groups mating with one another. Their name is also derived from the race's extremely quick rate of reproduction when compared to the rest of the collective races of Haven, making them be able to dominate the whole of the planet in sheer number alone.

Mythra are an extremely determined group of people, famed for their ingenuity, ambition, and overwhelming sense of community and kinship. All Mythra are born with a deep-seeded sense of discontentment, leading them to continually and eternally charge ever onward to quell this sense of discontent, be it from the completion of a simple personal project, such as the construction of a town or village, to the more grandiose of conquering entire continents. This sense of ambition has led to numerous conflicts between Mythra and other races, most predominantly, their rival sister-Edian Race, the Sylvians, who often times find themselves having to compete with their more prevalent contemporaries for relevancy in land, culture and politics.

Biology

Appearance

The Mythra are perhaps are the most alike to their Edia ancestors when compared to the rest of the Edian Races, as comparatively, they hadn't diverged in many distinctive ways from their forbearers. They are a bipedal, mammalian species, standing at an average five feet six inches tall, (1.5 meters) and typically weighing around one hundred and thirty-six pounds. (61 kilograms) They're bodies are usually fairly slender, and somewhat frail when compared to other races of the world, making a Mythra have to rely more on created accruements to offset their fairly lack luster levels of physical durability.

Individual Mythra can vary widely from one another in appearance, weight, and height, as there are numerous sub-races of the Mythra depending on their place of origin. However when compared to the other Edian races, particular those of the Sylvian and Gnarvesh races, they are fairly uniform, lacking the same varied physical builds, or striking shades of body colorations.

As the Mythra originally developed within temperate forests across the planet, they are best suited to thrive in that environment, however as the Mythra began to spread themselves across the continents, their bodies, particularly their skin, became adapted to the respective environments they now found themselves within. Mythra races found in colder areas, such as taigas and tundras, developed pale-white skin due to the comparatively lower amount of sunlight reaching their bodies, as well as thicker bodies to better insulate themselves, while those found within hotter regions, like deserts and badlands gained a darker pigmentation, able to better withstand the increased sunlight and heat put upon them, as well as thinner bodies, able to expend more energy then they otherwise would be able to.