SPECIES INFORMATION

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ORIGIN:

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• most angels have been manifested onto Earth at different periods of time. Some have been around since the beginning of time. Others can come from eight-hundred years ago, to just fifty-years ago. A small population have recently been re-born.
  
• early beliefs suggested that they were messengers from God.
  
• these creatures never age, but are able to be killed and re-born in the next few centuries.
  

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE:[/u]

• When not exerting the energy to disguise themselves, they are typically at least seven feet tall, the shortest ever being about six feet, eleven inches.
  
• Their wings are enormous and can vary from a very white plumage, to a pitch black one. They can possess any color variation in-between.
  
• Typically have very light colored eyes, even white pupils.
  
• When angels are disguising themselves as a human being, the transformation is virtually painless. They still however, are incredibly tall. Their wings manipulate the human eye to think that they do not exist. But an angel's eyes never change color.
  

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• Angels have been known throughout history to be saviors. They have a calming presence (whether humans are aware they are around or not) and very sensitive to emotion.
  
• A few older angels have developed their power to manipulate light and air forces.
  

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• There is the occasional bad apple, where an angel goes bad. They are known as 'Fallen Angels' and use their powers to tempt others. There is nothing they would love to see more than someone else suffer.
  
• Fallen angels are not distinguishable from regular angels. If an angel possess dark colored plumage, it does not make them a fallen angel.
  
• This variation of evil angels has prompted many other angels to hunt them down and destroy them, for the off chance they may be reborn good.
  
• Angel hybrids that have been mixed with any other race are immediately rejected from the rest of the angel race. If angels come across mixed-blood angels, they will kill them for the sake of their own lineage.
  

[classy=c3]DEMONS[/classy]
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ORIGIN:[/u]

• Like angels, they have been manifested onto Earth and can be reborn. They have been around for as long as the angels have been around.
  
• Folklore and myths blamed demons for tempting them or for their misfortune.
  

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• Typical demons do not possess wings like they once had did in the past. However, if they do, they are usually deformed or insufficient for flight. Only extremely lines of demons are still able to fly.
  
• A few possess horns, but they are not for any practical use. In fact, the handful that do have this attribute, can easily hide them under a mess of hair.
  
• They have the same build as human beings, allowing them to live among them at all times.
  

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• Demons are sensitive to light. They are known to be weaker during the day time, and thrive as soon as the sun goes down. (When they are among humans, they typically wear sunglasses)
  
• Are known to hypnotize other races, especially human beings.
  
• Have an incredibly high body temperature, but is mostly noticeable through touch.
  

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• Although it is very rare, a few demons have good intent, like angels. However, they are so rare that there is no name for them. These rare beings try to rid themselves of all evil temptations, and try to coexist among humans.
  
• These 'demons gone good' are not popular among other demons, and are usually killed-off for game, if they are ever found by other demons.
  
• Angel/Demon hybrids (although incredibly rare) typically do not live long. They have constant inner battles and usually end their own lives out of pain, if their parents haven't already.
  

[classy=c3]FAERIES[/classy]
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• Faeries are born in a separate realm from our own, and often travel between different realities at their own ease. However, only older and more experienced faeries have been able to master this skill.
  
• Faeries do age, but much slower than human beings. Their lifespan (if they choose to stay on Earth) is typically two hundred years old. However, they are able to die like any other human being. When they die, they return to the faerie realm.

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• Although they look different in every reality, they resemble petite humans in this one. They are no taller than five foot, eight inches.
  
• They have warm qualities about their appearance (darker attributes, like hair, eyes and skin color)
  
• All faeries are able to fly. They possess wings that range in size and color, but all are slightly translucent and resemble the shape of a butterfly's. Faeries are able to manipulate the size of their wings, from full-grown so they can fly, to so tiny, they can hide them under a shirt.
  

SUPERNATURAL ABILITIES:[/u]

• Faeries are very much influenced by nature. Their moods are determined by the weather outside, but only to a degree. They can communicate to animals, and manipulate living things (like plants).
  
• The more advanced faeries have developed their abilities to be so powerful, that they can cause natural disasters like earthquakes or tsunamis.
  

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• There is a small population of faeries that do like to cause trouble. They're the kind who like to trip people in the forest, or are very showy with their abilities. These have usually cheated their way into a different realm, and don't belong.
  

[classy=c3]GHOSTS[/classy]
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ORIGIN:[/u]

• Ghosts, like with popular belief, are spiritual beings who have not passed onto the next world. This is usually the case when human beings experience a disturbing death or if they had chosen to haunt, and stay in-between life and death.
  
• They describe death as just going to sleep and waking up where they had died, in the clothes they died in.
  
• Do not die, and do not age. They are stuck in-between life and death forever.
  
• Most ghosts haunt Griffin to look over its citizens (if they died knowing the secret of Griffin), or to follow and watch those whom they loved.
  

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE:[/u]

• Most commonly known to be invisible, but they have the ability to determine their translucency. This is a skill developed overtime. The oldest ghosts are able to manipulate their body to look like they are a solid human being, however, they still do possess a translucent, almost blurry quality.
  
• The more solid a ghost appears, the harder their body feels. For example, if a ghost is invisible, you can walk right through them. But when a ghost is fully-developed, they would feel a bit like a human being. You are still able to drive your limbs through a manifested ghost, but that takes a little bit of effort. They say touching a ghost is like sticking your hand in ice cold water.
  
• This skill is exhausting for ghosts, and is exclusive to those have practiced it for years at a time.
  
• As for clothing, it is easiest for a ghost to manifest the clothes they were in when they died, however, if they wanted more modern-day clothing, they would need to put in the extra effort.
  

SUPERNATURAL ABILITIES:[/u]

• Ghosts will never reveal themselves, and they must avoid all of the people they had known. They must live among themselves or by themselves. This clause was determined when they had died.
  
• Their ability to feel is impaired. They are not able to feel temperature differences, but are able to feel a touch or tap, if they are in their solid form.
  
• Able to communicate with both the living and the dead. Communicating with the dead is much more different than with the living. For one, they do not have physical forms. When a ghost communicates with them, they are only able to feel emotions or visions, no actual talking or writing is done.
  

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• Ghosts are not able to reproduce, and every ghost's intent on Earth, especially Griffin, is different.
  

[classy=c3]HUMANS[/classy]
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ORIGIN:[/u]

• The origin of humans is still under debate, but many believe humans had evolved from primates and into the sophisticated homo sapiens today.
  
• History indicates that some human beings were very much aware of other supernatural beings. But according to recent scientific studies, many human being are skeptical to their existence.
  

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE:[/u]

• The average height of a human being ranges from four feet, six inches to six or seven feet tall. They weight typically around 120 - 200 pounds, depending on the build, stature and frame of each human being.
  
• Pigments have a wide range, from a dark brown to a pale pink. Hair can also vary from jet black to platinum blonde.
  
• Physical appearance typically does not predict their intent, like other species.
  

SUPERNATURAL ABILITIES:[/u]

• A few human beings are able to sense supernatural powers, or they possess an uncanny ability for certain talent (be it statistics, music, etc.)
  
• Typically very weak and prone to the temptations and lures of other races.
  

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• Hybrids of human and another species are rare indeed. There have been many combinations: angel/human, demon/human, faerie/human, shape-shifter/human, werewolf/human, vampire/human. But this combination have damned these children as 'impure'.
  
• Combination or mixed blood is usually rejected from all races.
  

[classy=c3]SHAPE-SHIFTERS[/classy]
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ORIGIN:[/u]

• There is uncertainty as to where shape-shifters originated. Many say they are mutated human beings. Others say they are descendants of werewolves who have had their genetics manipulated or deformed.
  
• Shifters do not know they are one until their late childhood (ages ten to thirteen). Very few are born without other shifter blood in them (typically one of their parents are shifters).
  
• If you take the average lengths span of a human and their animal, you will have their life-span. For those who have shorter life expectancy, they develop quickly (in both their human and animal form). This is the same also, when reversed.
  

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE:[/u]

• Shape-shifters look like typical human beings, when they are not in their animal form. However, when they are in this form, they have the characteristics of the animal they shift into. For example, if a shifter transforms into a mouse, when they are a human being, they would have a pointed nose, refined features and a small frame, that makes them resemble a mouse. (please be aware of this when picking your play-by's)
  
• Usually have a marking or characteristic that is the same in both forms. For example the most mild case can be the same hair color. To the most extreme case, where shifters in human form have tails or ears.
  

SUPERNATURAL ABILITIES:[/u]

• The mere ability of changing form is supernatural.
  

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• All shifters are typically offspring of one human and one shifter. However, in the rare case of a shifter and shifter, they become more animal (instincts are much stronger and their markings are much more noticable)
  
• As more pure shifters reproduce, their offspring find it harder and harder to transform into humans.
  

[classy=c3]WEREWOLVES[/classy]
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ORIGIN:[/u]

• These creatures have been known to be cursed. They were once humans, but after a mishap, they have been put under a curse, where they transform into a wolf/human hybrid and prey on human beings.
  

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE:[/u]

• Werewolves in their human form are tired looking, roughed up and have very earthy tones. Most are of big build, and possess a lot of hair.
  
• When they transform into their werewolf form, they are a strange combination of human and wolf. Their form varies. From the most extreme looking like a deformed, horse-sized wolf, to the most mild, where they resemble a large human with a lot of hair, a tail and a wolf face.
  
• The transformation is typically incredibly painful, as their bones and muscles stretch. As to if they transform during a full-moon varies with each individual werewolf. Some can willingly shift, while others must transform every full-moon.
  

SUPERNATURAL ABILITIES:[/u]

• When they are in their human form, some of their senses are enhanced. They are more sensitive to sound, and to smell. But they have poor vision and sense of taste as a human.
  

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• Although most werewolves are friendly and do live among humans, there are the few who are more beast than anything else. They constantly crave human flesh, and spend more time in their wolf form than human. Werewolves that do fall under this category isolate themselves from society and hunt on stray human beings.
  
• Combination blood with werewolves is rare. But when it occurs, their offspring typically are not able to reproduce.
  

[classy=c3]VAMPIRES[/classy]
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• These are not the sparkly ones in the movies. Vampires in this world are the classic ones you have heard about in old tales. They were human beings once, but have been cursed. Like many believe, they crave human blood. If they were to transform you, they must fill you with their own blood, but this process is very rare.
  
• Vampires live forever, but can be killed. Not by a wooden-stake, but by fire. If they were to be stabbed or shot, they would be dead for only a few days, and they will return to life. So in order to destroy a vampire, they must be burned.
  

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE:[/u]

• Vampires look like human beings. However, when they are feeding, their teeth transform into skinny, sharp daggers. Their front teeth are short (like a sharks) in order to suck blood. They can freely transform this at their will.
  
• Have incredibly smooth skin, and are typically well shaved.
  

SUPERNATURAL ABILITIES:[/u]

• Incredibly sensitive to light. And like demons, have to take extra care when they are out in daylight.
  
• Vampires are incredibly seductive (especially to humans).
  

VARIATIONS:[/u]

• The few who do not wish to prey on human blood must prey on animals. However, the more they drink animal blood, the more and more do they grow weak. It's to a point where a vampire can drink himself into a permanent comatose state.
  
• When vampires encounter mixed or combination blood of their own kind, they do not dare challenge them. Vampires, combined with other blood, can become incredibly powerful. Instead, vampire hybrids are shunned from all supernatural races, and the occasional human, if they are not oblivious.
  

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