The Viera

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Vieras are odd creatures of nature. They live a very structured life upon an island called Vabyle, referred to as the Wood, located just a little ways before the Beyond, split into thirds of the completely forested island, Eruyt Village, the village of the Trees, Fevlykji Villiage, the village of the Earth, and Wlistj Villiage, the village of the Unfortunate, but the exiled race live upon Roda Volcano, the island of the Exiled, a smaller island further towards were humes exist. Even in their odd looks and such, they do not alarm the human race, or any other race for the most part and they seem to co-exist peacefully.

Appearances and Sub-types:

There is three different sub groups of Vieras. But all Vieras have typical, noticeable, and common, general looks, though it may vary in degree and such according to race. Vieras have rabbit like qualities about them and tend to be taller than most humans, even without their stiletto heels on, though Viera's rabbit-like feet do not provide them the ability to walk without out them on. They average out to be 6' to 7' in height often with their stilettos on. They have ears that like a rabbit, but much larger and taller and tails that are that of a rabbit, shorter, but larger. They are lithe with supple limbs, making them very agile, quick, and a heighten senses, but with this, they have low defenses, though they are great fighters. Viera's hair is always a pale or light hue of color, but with an exception to the Rava race. Vieras often have long fingers and claws that are pointed and sharp as daggers, making them dangerous even unarmed. Vieras of the Wood or the Viera's that fight always keep their hair pinned up, if they keep it long, which those of the Wood often do, out of their way to fight. Vieras also usually wear very light clothes, often only wearing enough to cover themselves in society, even their armor for the Wood-Warder. If a human was to see their way of life in the Wood and their homes, they'd call it Elvish.

Rava Vieras:

Dark skinned, being brown to black in skin tone, dark haired Vieras are the Rava. They, though they look and act much like the Veena Vieras, they are much different. With all hues a dark skin, their hair are dark colors as well, both being earthy browns or a brunette of some type, though black hair is a rare, but not unheard of occurrence in this race. Their ears and tail share the the same color as their hair, though the ears are tipped in a specking, patterned white or pale brown colors and their tails frosted on what would be the bottom of their tail. This is the Fevlykji Village Vieras, tending the to the grounded earth unlike their close cousins, the Veena.

Veena Vieras:

Though their not pale in skin color, their skin tone is lighter than that of the Rava, being tones of medium to olive in color. Their hair is always a hued white, light pale pastels of any color in the rainbow. Often their hair color is so subtle that it takes a very well trained eye to see it's hue from a distance. It's very rare to find a Veena with pure white hair, hence why their highly regarded in their race. Their ears and tails are all the same as their hair color, though only their ears are tipped in a specking, patterned black, dark grey, or dark grey-brown colors. These are the Vieras that live in the Eruyt Village, the village that is made high in the trees, making a simple life in the tree-bound Village.

Feol Vieras:

Though they are a Viera, they are outcasted by all full blooded Vieras, being as their are a mix of human and a race of Viera long since extinct since the Feol came along. They are sometimes referred as the Exiled to their own kind. They were a result from a long forgotten named noble, that was called Feolthanos by the Feol, who fell for one of a extinct race of Viera. As a result, his family rejected him. But the pair had many children, soon creating a separate race of Vieras. The Feol are more human like than their cousins, having shorter tails, ears, and generally in height shorter, being 5'10" to 6'7" with their stilettos on. Their fingers and nails are more human like and though their feet are more normal, this sub-type of Viera still wears stilettos, making them still taller than an average human. Their hair is blonde, staying to the light hues of the blonde colors, as their ears and tails are as well. Their ears are tipped and sometimes slightly edged all the way around in brown colors, but the bottom of their tails frosted in white. Their skin is all the paler shades which you don't see in the Rava or Veena, in the shades from light to fair. Their clothes, since this race is much more peaceful and tend not to not wanting to fight, wear more normal clothes, like humans, thought especially tailored to fit their own tall height, though some still stick with the common wear of the Viera. Though they, the Exiled, live on Roda Volcano, many move to live with the humes, to live a less of an exiled existence.

*Other half breeds of Vieras are not Feols for simply being human and Viera mix, since Feols have been around for even longer than the Rava or Veena and have distinguished themselves as their own race.

Male Vieras:

Though the most common thing to see in Vieras are females, it's rare to see males with the females. The chance to see an actual male Viera is so rare that many think they don't exist and many believe that Viera females have children asexually, that they have both male and female organs, or that they magically created out of thin air, thought none are true. That is because male Vieras are the Unfortunate. The Rava and Veena Vieras tend to push out the males, only meeting a male when needed. The only difference in Male Vieras from Females, other than their genders, is their feet are formed different, giving them an ability to walk without stiletto heels, but they walk on the front of their feet. Male Feol Vieras are more common, since their race is not full Viera, but they also to be more fortunate to not be removed from their homes in the Roda Island and forced to live with the Rava and Veena males in the village of the Unfortunate, the Wlistj Village.

Abilities, Weaknesses, and Lifespan:

Since the Vieras are so rabbit in their being of life, they also have great abilities, which makes them great hunters but these can also lead to their down fall. Their sense of sight is superb and ultimately far more greater than that of a human. With such great sight, a Viera is able to spot prey from about six to seven miles away, this being one of their sense that does not have a down fall. Their sense of smell is so strong they can smell the slightest of scents from four to five miles away, but this could lead to a down fall. Something with a strong smell to human is twice as strong to them, much like a dog, and some can actually cause their eyes to water, which blurs the sight. A Viera's sense of hearing is very key to them. Their very, up most survival thrives on their hearing. Though up close, loud talking or yelling don't cause as much as issues their smell can, a Viera can tell what footfalls are following them, or if their being the hunters, where the footfalls are, but sometimes loudness can alter this and make it hard for them to focus on a single being's movements, and sometimes extremely loud sounds can hurt their ears enough that a Viera will pass out. But with their strong hearing, they can hear the spirits of the Wood, and able to communicate to the Wood or to other careful listeners of the Wood. Vieras are very sensitive to Mist, a magical mist that comes from where witches, magical monsters, and other magical beings or objects have set for too long and magic as gathered very strongly. Sometimes Mist can get so strong in a contained area, that you can see it, but it's hard to tell what has caused it. If around too much Mist, a Viera will go into a berserk mode, losing all control, though they know who is their real enemy is and won't harm those that they know won't harm them. But a Mist-Frenzied Viera is not a Viera to mess with, even if it's a Feol, who's senses are weaker and also more defenseless than a Veena or Rava, since they'll strike anything trying to strike them. They become very strong in a frenzy like that, able to break metal shackles and take on heavily armored humes unarmed, without even using their claws. This berserk mode is simply called a Mist Frenzy. With their lithe like bodies, they are quick, agile, making very flighty and a general good offense and well able to fight a winning battle, though their defense lower because of this agility. A Viera doesn't get the same illness as humans, and as it would be, has to depend on their careful, weary kin to help them in case they do catch a rare Viera aliment. A female Viera often lives three times as long as a human, able to live through more than human can as well. A male Viera lives four to five times as long, since their rarity makes them live longer, see as it takes time for another male to be born. No one knows for sure why Vieras all together live as long as they do, or even why the males live longer yet.

History Of The Viera:

Original, Vieras never lived on the island they call Vabyle before. They lived in an ancient land now tossed to the sea by ancient humans long dead with their old home. They called their old home Xvluim. Life then was thriving. And in those days, there was not true leader of the Vieras, since they all knew each other's thoughts because of their home, the Wood. Also, male Vieras were more common than they are today. Perhaps it was because in those days, Vieras and Humes didn't know of each other's existence. Upon exploring the seas, the Human happened upon the heavily wooded island of Xvlium. As it would be, at first, the two races were standoffish towards each other, but neither fully wanting to attack each other. At last to two had begun to to trust each other more and more until the peaceful Vieras welcomed the Humans. The Humans and Vieras soon became allies, though the Viera refused to leave their home. It wasn't long before the Vieras had begun to hear of the Feol Vieras. One of nobles had slipped out with one of the Vieras on the island. But he was rejected but his family and had no where to go other than back to the island of Xvluim. Though the two were considered exiles to the Viera kind, the allowed to take up home in a unused place of the wood. It wasn't long before the two made themselves at home and began a thriving family. On the island, they called the man Feolthanos, and soon the two had so many children that they had enough to have a whole race of Vieras that would be called the Feols after their father's name. But war was brewing on the human end of the world. His family had tried to find the man's fortune, to give the new head of the house. But they could not find it, which they never knew he took it with him to give to his new family. While his human family remained noble by name, they, without that fortune, were more poor than church mice. Soon, growing anger of not finding the fortune spread to the people outside the family about how the man stole their fortune, though it was his to peddle away with. The other nobles grew outraged not at the man, but at his Viera wife, that his love for her blinded him and that she should have never stayed around the Humans when upon the island. Soon, the Wood cried in terror of it's destruction by human hands, that it's life was over, dead already but the battles hadn't even begun. But the Vieras, hearing the weeping of such deep sorrow wanted to stand to defend their home. Little did the Vieras knew, the Humans were coming with three times as much as the people the Vieras had as fighters. Soon, battles began to break along the shores, the Vieras holding their ground. But on this day, the wood had went silent. Not a peep for it came out. It was like the soul entity of the Wood had died. Soon after realizing their death of their home, the Vieras weakened. Many ran for the back of the island, while some stayed behind to ensure the others got away. Feolthanos and his family in the mean while tried to find the fortune he hid for these reasons of a war breaking out. But, he only found it in time to give it to his wife before a passing Viera shot him with an arrow from a distance, killing him agonizingly slow. His whole family watched him pass in his horrible death. It is said he has haunted his children since his death and continues to haunt the other decedents of his own creation. The Vieras soon made it off the island on the ships, including the Feols. While on the ship, the Vieras all held the utmost hatred towards their mixed blood family. From there, they exiled them from their life, resenting them in such a way that they took the mother of the Feols, and executed her for her indiscretions. They allowed their children to live, but not with them, though the Viera thought they would never survive without the Wood. The Vieras stole a huge chunk of the fortune that cost them their home as a payment for the risk of their lives, leaving the Feols without hardly anything. It wasn't soon after that the Vieras here the call of a familiar voice. A voice that eased the Vieras in familiarity, though it was of a different tone. The Vieras followed the becking voice, thought little did they knew what they felt was familiar was only a beginning of their punishment. Upon arriving to the island filled with diverse parts, trees growing off land, closer as the move out into the shallow waters. This Wood was young, but capable of care for the Vieras of needing a home, which there it stood, ready with the Vieras' punishment of killing unnecessarily, exiling those of need, and taking what in which they did not need. The Vieras of the ones that exiled to Exiles, took the fortune, and killed Feolthanos and his wife were the most severely punished, taking in the same fortune as they had dealt. Those who exiled were forced to live on, with the others, ignored and left to weather away to their deaths without nothing more than their own suffering. Those who took the fortune that was not theirs were force to never know prosperity in their life, not even in the human world. And for those who killed the the human and viera we've faced to become ill with incurable disease that killed them slowly and the suffered insanity from it, only feeling the two lost souls pain and sorrow now until they died from the illness itself. The male Vieras were the main fighters the day that battle took place on the dreaded day. The wood punished them by making them few in number, not many would be born, but to ensure the survival of the race, the males live longer. After that, the woods took to mercy on the Vieras, but peace and harmony was still not on the verge. While the Damnable Punishables as they called it happened, the Feols continued drifting along the sea, trying to find a place they could exist without dieing. There seemed to be no life upon the islands they found, nothing to survive in. They couldn't live with the Vieras because of them being exiled and the couldn't live with humans until they forget what crimes they have not done. Soon, they found the the island the the humes knew as Roda Volcano. No one actually inhabited the place, though the volcano was dormant and dead. After finding home for the Feols, something happened withe the Vieras in the new born wood still unnamed. No one knew if it was the Wood or the original Vieras' own that was the cause of demise, but either way, the original Vieras had slowly began to die off, their offspring not of their kind. It was now the Veena and Rava Vieras were born. They named their home Vabyle, the races splitting up to the certain ends of the island. The Veena's took to the closely knitted trees that went to the seas while the Rava preferred the ground where the terra was able to hold them. Though the two races would live two different lives, they were never really that different in society. This was all 850 years ago.

Society Of The Vieras:

As a Viera, their abilities in hearing the Wood and the spirits of the Wood shaped their religion and their way of life. Both the Rava and the Veena believe in the Green Word law. Though it was also their religion, it was literally a law itself as well. This makes it a taboo to be involved in outside life, unless that outside life came to them, but then they would have to push them out. The Rava and Veena Vieras learned greatly from their ancestors mistakes of the past, and though they still haven't unexiled the Feols, they are more than willing to help if called upon, as the same for anyone else. But since loosing their old home, which the humans had destroyed and the dead wood fell to the sea, some have lost faith in their new home or in their old beliefs. These Vieras leave the Wood most generally, trying to find something else to believe in, meaning they have to break the law and leave the Wood. Breaking this leads to exile and after being away from the Wood, a Viera's hearing senses of the Wood and her spirits dull or are completely dulled. It is not known if a Viera can get this sense back after losing it, since no one has ever tried or wanted to try it. Those that do go to the Wood, the Wood turns hostile on them, for abandoning their Viera ways. In the Wood society of the Vieras, they have two main jobs. Wood-Warder and Salve-Maker. Wood-Warders are the hunters, protectors, and defense of the Vieras. Veena Wood-Warders wear black, light armor, only covering the vitals that a Viera can not protect herself, while the Rava wear a bronzey colored armor, wearing it much the same as the Veena. But all the armor is made uniquely for each Viera, the design show each of one's personality in it. Veena Salve-Makers wear blue hued white cloth or leather cloths and very fitting, while the Ravas' are green hued grey. The design in their clothes doesn't only show their personality in the detail, but also their rank to as to what kind of Salve-Maker they are. Both Wood-Warder and Salve-Maker have a mission they must do to become a fully ranked Wood-Warder or Salve-Maker. A young Wood-Warder must successfully protect and help a young Salve-Maker on their mission. A Veena Salve-Maker must capture a rare Vopal Rabbit, which is only born every fifty years, then fully mature after another fifty years, making it a hundred years before the creature to be used in the Vision Dust. Something in the Vopal Rabbit's tail has the ability to hide the path to the Eruyt Village path, in which only a Viera can see it without getting a clouded mind from the Vision Dust, much unlike other races. A Rava Salve-Maker needs to contain the blood of the Malboro, which is hard to obtain from such a deadly creature. The blood is used to make medicines to cure aliments that Vieras get. But often, Vieras' do not actually live in their towns. All the villages only have a series of paths around, shines built for the Wood around them. There's only two uses for the towns really and that is to only meet in the town's center, with contains the main shire to the Wood, near the middle of the day and the one house made for the leader of each town. The rest of the day, they will sleep around the entire forest, guarding its trees. In human society, a Viera would make a good job at being an assassin or archery, since all Vieras of the Wood were trained in the using a bow. They can do well in many other jobs, depending on their other abilities they have, such as a salve-maker could be a good at being a doctor and such. Vieras in general do well in jobs that they can be quick in.

The Locations:

Vabyle Island:

This island is actually small, but the trees that grow out into the sea make the island seem double it's size. Trees here grow tall and thick. This island is split into three sections, though the middle of the island is really only a unclaimed land, since it's more of a hunting ground. The island sits not too far from the beyond, often the guided spirits of the dead go through the place before going to The Beyond itself.

Eruyt Village:

This village is made in the trees, small in size as much as the other villages on the island. The sea lies were the huge trees come out at. This is also were the port is to the island, for Viera to take off the island, but to never to return to the island. The village is technically the smallest there is, only being accessed by the series of tree branches and bridges and stairs wrapped around trees. Even as high and far from land the trees are, ferns, mosses, and grasses actually grow in spots, on the trees and bridges both. The shrines built here are actually carved in the trees or built sitting on an unused branch. The center or town and the main meeting place is a double platform spot, cradled in branches, The first platform you will walk on is large, plants growing on the very edges of the platform. Thick railing poles settle along the sides and many Vieras perch on them, idly chatting to each other. The next platform is up a flight of stairs, the platform large yet, but most the space taking up by the largest, main shrine of the town. It's sculpted structure made of the whitest grey stone, a serene pool of water and floating water lilies held inside of it, a small, quiet waterfall from it's center. This town is easily navigated for it's placing in the branches and bridges in the town. There's only a one way path through the village that goes from the outside, through the town's meeting place, to the back of the village to the Matriarch's home. It's built like a shrine you see along the whole way back, except it's larger, and has a curtain doorway for the Matriarch to move in and out of.

Fevlykji Villiage:

The Village Of The Earth as they utter the name as, this complex village actually burros under the ground under the giant trees that humes believe to be extremely old, though Vieras see the Wood as Young yet. The interworkings of this village is the most confusing and complex of all, being as tunnels lead everywhere. Shines to the wood above are molded into the walls, usually found at the end of dead end tunnels. The village's meeting place sits in front of the Leaders home. It's tunnels around the house, boulders and built-in shelves creating places of relaxation to idly talk of words of the wood and such, there being three sets of walk ways here, though they all wrap around the Matriarch's home, that leads up high to the shrine about her home. Openings to the village are located emerging from under some sturdy trees. While in the ground, some would think the place would be a dull in the terra color, but mosses, lycans, and various plant life that could survive on little thrive here, coating patches of walls and such. The Matriarch's home in the complex tunnels is an odd placing. The main shine of the village sits above her home, making her simple abode elaborate in it's upper stages. It's a mystical place of being, fireflies and torches lighting the way through the tunnels.

Wlistj Villiage:

This is the village of the unfortunate males of the Viera kind. Both races of Viera that live on Vabyle Island live here if they are male. They get excluded from the females lives, as they do prefer their seclusion, which makes them seem rare upon a sight. Unlike the two other villages, this village is more of a general area than an actual village. Random shrines appear off the paths, made out of small branches, rocks, and dirt, carved with intricate designs. The males technically don't have a Matriarch of the village, since their unknown existence prefers to stay unknown, even to each other. They do meet to talk, as Vieras are social creatures. Females and males only meet if it is needed. Males tend to live in hollowed trees, or lazy about in places, but prefer their life in a less noticeable existence.

Roda Volcano:

This is the place of the Exiles, or the Feol Vieras. The island is more closer to the humes, since the Feols were exiled. The place has an still active volcano on it, though it is believed to be dominant to the Feols, since the volcano hasn't actually been active, other than the smoke that raises daily and nightly from the it's innards. Life of odd creatures live here. Many Feol still live here, though many have left to live a life in the human world. This place doesn't speak to the Feols and their sense are dulled from the mixing of human in their blood. The place seems much more normal than Vabyle Island, and that could be perhaps of the fact it is so much further away from The Beyond than Vabyle. Feols actually live like humans, in homes in a town like base through out the island. It's got a small port for the Feols, though their senses dull, they are crafty, work like normal people, and make things of value in the human world. But unlike normal society, they do not have shops. The Feols take as they need from the land and each other, though the ask for payment from the humans. The males here do not live in seclusion and actually enjoy knowing the fact their not unwelcomed by their female counterpart. Also, the Feols take in any of their cousins of their race that have been exiled themselves.

(The original idea of Vieras does not belong to me and all true credit goes to Square Enix)

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