Beastfolk

The animalistic races such as ratfolk, gnolls, and tengu. Each of these races have a mindset closely resembling their animal cousins, only the social few being able to develop small societies. The largest of them being the Ratfolk and Tengu, both natives to Jales. There the ratfolk have created a sort of underfoot empire stealing away goods from the elves and spreading to Mistfall as stowaways, keen to form large family groups and do whatever it takes to survive. The Tengu however have a more symbiotic relation with the elves, acting as messengers between forests. Tengu leave the forests even more rarely than the elves, but do often migrate south to northern Terranus where they’ve made some good relations with dwarves and distant human settlements.

Beastfolk always resemble their animal kin more closely than any of the humanoids, looking more like someone took the respective animal and twisted it just enough to use tools and stand close to upright. As such armor for them is custom made to the species and as most lack the decency for tailoring when in proper society they wear loose rags to stay covered. The most humanoid of all are the Vanara and Monkey Goblins, thankfully already similar to apes the distortion of form is less noticeable. Creatures such as the gnoll however looks like someone’s broken the bones of a hyena to fit, worse a tengu who almost look like someone’s stitched a second pair of feet to dreadfully short ‘wings’.