Ornithar

Racial Overview
The Ornithar are a very mysterious race, one whose history is shrouded in secrecy. Even the Ornithar themselves do not know of their past. Their historical records only go back as far as the beginning of the First Age, and no stories or legends exist of what sort of race they were prior to the counting of years, unlike nearly all others. They refrain from believing in creation-stories, particularly about any that would pertain to their race, simply because they do not feel they were created by another being to walk on Natheria.

A race of bird-men, their ignorance of their own past brings out a natural thirst for knowledge about the world around them. The Ornithar seek out relics and ruins of the ancient world wherever they can, and many have devoted their lives to the study of one or more groups of immortals, be they the Dragons, the Ancients, or even the Titans. Many have taken this desire to learn and applied it to the arcane arts, becoming some of the greatest mages across all of Natheria. Others have learned the ways of Elven priests of Danaristhu, finding hope and establishing faith with the god of the sun. And others still learn to utilize their mana with the elements themselves, learning from the shamanic ways of the Minotaur, and becoming oracles of the wind itself.

While most Ornithar come from the Midway Mountains in central Skentu, they have made their homes across all of the eastern hemisphere. Ornithar have also shown themselves to be composed of a natural resistance to magic, something that many other people of Natheria find very peculiar.