Levoliuan

The average levoliuan stands at 6’6 not including antennas. They are moth folk with a humanoid body, although they have four arms, a slight thorax, and a set of wings which can be folded against their backs as capes, cloaks or with rare dexterity into a full hooded cloak. They generally have fluffy fur around their necks, and a thinner coat of fur which covers their hard exoskeleton and comes in colors ranging from dingy browns and whites to bright oranges and yellows. Their antennae tend to be stylized from a young age to swoop back if they are male, or bend into an S shape if they are female. Females are fluffier, have (mostly) hidden breasts, and also tend to be taller than the males who have stockier bodies and less fluff. Though all levoliuans start as pale white caterpillars with six limb nubs on their bodies and a tan head, and produce silk, these caterpillars remain in this way for 10 years until which they go into silk cocoons that change them into their adolescent moth form, after which it is 10 more years of occasional molting. Levoliuan’s have compound eyes and patterns of most natural moth species that are seen elsewhere. They also have mandibles for munching their main diet of vegetables and fruits from their treetop homes.

Noteworthy Factions: The Levoliuan Council, a group of elders from villages who have control of political matters and the army that protects their forest. The Woven, Padded armor warriors who prefer fighting at a distance or in hit and run with bludgeoning weapons. These are the mentioned army of guardians and the force which guards their island.

Native to Velumisilvae the levoliuan are an old race of scholars and weavers who have made once grand cities in the giant trees of their island. Those cities held astrological knowledge, delightful stories and plays, along with many trials and trails into magic from the magic members of the levoliuan. But after a while their peace was broken by the arrival of lizardfolk who gave them a first taste of war by burning Nilfi’s academy down with its twin tree. After this the mages of the levoliuan retaliated with magic and an army was formed to assault the new threat. After a while of this war the humani arrived and the levoliuan were able to coax them into a political agreement and reinforce the weak moth army as long as trade kept flowing to and from the island.

CAs mentioned previously levoliuan are innately scholars and artists, focusing on silk weaving from their larval spawn and later becoming singers, dyers, carvers, or weavers to expand the cities or record histories. The culture of the moths is currently split, older generations favoring the ways of peace and scholarly research of nature and magic, while the younger gens have gotten a taste for blood and want to end the war with the lizardfolk via devastation of the swamps and stealing of its resources. This split has left its council politically weak as its mostly older generation and too passive to flex its power.

Favoured classes: Wizard, Bard, Monk

Their home Island is as mentioned Velumisilvae, a smaller island and colony of The Cidel Empire.