Prepare for some BIG TIME reading here. This is basically a list of all of the races in Zanzira. Make sure you read EVERYTHING here. And I meand EVERYTHING before you decide on which race you want your character to be.


HORSES

AVES

Unicorns (yu - NEE - corn)
Unicorns are powerful horses with golden or silver horns on thier foreheads. These horns contain thier magical abilities, which include purification, healing, and the casting of small light spheres to harm others. Unicorns can be of any color or breed.

Pegasi (peg - AH - sus)
Pegasi are elegant horses with long feathery wings on their shoulders which enable them to fly. Like many of the other races, they have magical abilities. Pegasi can control the air around them, turning it into tornadoes, or sending it at a a opponet to do them harm. Pegasi come in all colors and breeds.

Alandors (ah - LAND - or)
Alandors are powerful horses with special marks on thier sides or forehead. These markings come in a variety of colors and shapes, including stars, moons, suns, flames, and leaves. These marks glow when used. Alandors have the power of creating storms, and controling the wheather. They have been known to pelt rain and hail at attackers, as well as use lighting as a leathal weapon.

Draas (DRAH)
Draas are horses with feathers for a mane and tail. They can speak to birds, and fly without wings. Draas are graceful and elegant, deer-like in many ways. Draas can shoot balls of light at thier enemies. Draas can have the feather type of any bird, and they come in a variety of colors and breeds. Draas usually have light blue or green eyes however.

GRADORS

Hipicampi (hip - ee - CAMP - us)
Himpicampi are scaley water dwellers. They have gills, but also have lungs. They have long fish-like tails, but have front legs that end in flippers which they use to push themselves through the water with. Hipicampi have the power to transform their tail into hindlegs, and their frontlegs into hooves. This way they can walk on shore. Himpicampi can control water, using it to drown opponets or blasting boiling water. However, they cannot create water, and so they must be near a source in order to use their powers, be it a puddle or another body of water. They come in a variety of colors and breeds that are either fish breeds, or horse breeds.

Felins (FEE - lin)
Felins are horses that have evolved paws and sharp teeth. Their coats have the same patterns as different types of big cats like tiger stripes or leopard spots. They eat meat, have sharp teeth, and usually a cat-like tail. Felins are granted the power of the big cat breed they are, like if they are a cheetah, they can run extremely fast, or if they are a tiger they have incresed strenghth. They also can produce the vocal sounds of cats They attack with teeth and claws and all can talk to cats.

Hippogryphs (hip - oh - GRIFF)
Hippogryphs have the hindlegs of horses, the front legs and head of eagles, and giant wings. They hunt small game with thier extremely powerful vision by swooping down on thier prey from above. Hippogryphs attack with thier sharp beaks and claws. Hippogryphs come in a variey of breeds and colors, including different spieces of birds. All can talk to birds.

Calins (CAY - lin)
Much like Felins, Calins are thier dog counterparts. They are smaller than Felins, and can produce the vocal sounds of dogs just as they can. They come in a variety of breeds, such as timber wolf, red fox, and grey fox. They also come in dog breeds such as German Shepard, and Saluki, but these Calins are much rarer. They eat meat, and prefer to hunt in packs. They have paws, sharp teeth, dog-like eyes, and dog-like tails.

Penguina (pen - GWEEN - ah)
Penguinas like the water, a lot. Some prefer not to go onto land at all, spending their whole life under the water. Penguinas seem to "fly" under the water. They swim much faster than Hippocampi. Penguinas are a cross between a Hippocampus and a Hyppogryph. Feathers cover their entire body, unless there is a strange mutation in their genes which causes then to have no feathers and only scales. This mutation usually causes them to die at a young age because they don't inherit gills from the Hippocampus parent (they do have lungs, but spend most of their time underwater). They are attracted to water like metal is attracted to a magnet. They make nests for their young on floating rocks or small islands in the water. They lay bird-like eggs. Some Penguinas have a beak, others have a horse's mouth. Penguinas have control over water. They can also talk to some small species of birds (penguins, cardinals, blue birds, things like that). Most Penguinas have black on their backs and white on their bellies and on the inside of their legs, but some inherit fish colored feathers.

SHADOWED ONES

Shadows (sha - DOE)
Shadows are a mysterious breed. They prefer to keep to themselves rather than socialize with the other shadowed ones, mainly because Shadows turn completely invisible in broad daylight. They come in a variety of breeds, but all are jet black. Some have been known to have white markings however. Shadows can turn merge with shadows to hide, and throw great balls of darkness at opponets.

Dark Wings (DAHRK WING)
Dark Wings are the opposites of the pegasi. They have bat wings rather than feathered wings, and are usually black with cloven hooves. But Dark Wings can be chestnut, brown, and bay. Thier eyes are usually black. Some Dark Wings have rope-like, or lion-like tails. They come in variety of breeds. Dark Wings can grow spikes on thier backs at will, retract the spikes at will, and throw great balls of darkness at opponets.

Nightmares (nite - MAYR)
Nightmares, or Fire Horses as they are sometimes called, have flaming manes and tails. They have cloven hooves with sometimes rope-like or lion-like tails. Their hooves burn when they hit flesh, and when they get mad sometimes their whole bodies erupt in a inferno. Nightmares are usually black but can be bay and chestnut. They have control over fire, and use the fire on their bodies to throw at opponets.

Skull Flames (SKUL FLAYM)
Skull flames are black horses that have no skin on thier faces. Instead they have flaming skulls. Despite appearances, this doesn't hurt them at all, and they can see smell, and eat just fine. Skull Flames attack by biting and burning thier victims. They have cloven hooves and rope-like tails, and come in variety of breeds.

MONSTROUS ONES

Rackors (RAC - or)
Rackors are the biggest race of the Monsterous Ones. They have a long scorpion tipped tail that can deliver a venom that gradually makes a horse be paralized. The paralization wears off after three hours. They can only do this three times however in thier lifetime, and often the stings are "dry" and inject no venom. All Rackors have cloven hooves and a forked tongue. They eat vegetation however. They come in all horse coat colors, but the scorpion tip is always black.

Drayagons (DRAY - ah - gon)
Half horse, half dragon, drayagons are fierce and protective. They are covered in scales, often red, white, blue, green, black, or brown. They have cloven hooves, spikes running down thier backs, and a forked tongue. All have a powerful lizard's tail, ending in a spade or a fluff of fur. They also have unique racks of horns, sometimes antler-like. Bat wings are rare, but a possibility. They have sharp teeth and eat meat. Eyes are often oddly colored. Drayagons have breath weapons that they can shoot from thier mouth in a cone three feet in front of them. The choices for this are as follows: acid, fire, lightning, chlorine gas and cold. They can be any breed of horse.

Crokers (CROH - ker)
Instead of hooves, Crokers have webbed claws. They use thier powerful finned tail in place of thier old horse one to push themselves through swamp water. The Crokers mouth extends backwards towards the ear, and it is hinged just under the ear. The skin usually on the sides of the face are missing, so all Crokens have a crocodilian smile. The teeth are curved backwards, helping them keep hold of struggling fish.

Crokers have no fur or scales, just bare green skin. They do have a mane. Thier backs are often covered in spikes or fin-like structures. The saliva of the Croken burns like acid when it touches flesh. Crokers also produce more saliva then normal horses, and because of this tend to drool alittle. Crokers eat fish. Crokers can be any breed of horse.

Tecti (tek - TIH)
Black horses, often with red, orange, purple or green spots, Tecti eat meat. They have two four foot long tentacles on each shoulder that have trianglular spades on the ends. The spades are covered in rows and rows of suckers, and in each sucker there is a barb. When the tentacles are attatched, the barbs shoot out, into the skin. They have cloven hooves, lion-like tails, and forked tongue. All have white irises and pupils, so thier eyes are ghostly white. But just before the nostrils they have two pits. These pits are heat sensing pits, they see heat rather than color. Tecti can be any breed of horse.



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WOLVES

ICE

Blizzards (bliz - AHRD)
These types of wolves never are still. They are always pure white with either silver or blue eyes. They have the power to break up into snow-like particles snow and can be carried by the wind or by mental power. When attacking it will look like a swarm of white particles someing right at you then at the last minute they will transform into its full form to give the last killing bite. Like all Ice wolves they have extremely thick coats and are immune to cold. Their pads are covered in fur to keep out cold.


Frost Wolves (FROST WOHLF)
Where ever they go they bring a chilling atmospere with them. Their breath is frosty and chilly, and when they breath upon the ground ice usually blossums from nowhere. Their fur can be any color, but is often tinged with blue or silver. Their eyes are often freckled with white, blue, or silver upon the normal eye color. Like all Ice wolves they are immune to cold and have extremely thick coats. Their pads are covered in fur to keep out cold.


Ice Benders (IHS BEND - er)
Ice Benders have the power to manipulate ice with their minds. Ice Benders cannot control water unless it is in its solid state, and have no way to freeze water anyhow. Ice benders are usually white, black, dark blue, and often have spots upon them of varying colors. Their eyes are always grey, with blue around the rims of the eyes. Ice Benders have ears tipped with fluffs of fur, much like a bob cats. Like all Ice wolves they are immune to cold and have extremely thick coats. Their pads are covered in fur to keep out cold.

Snow Wings (SNOHW WIHNG)
Snow Wings are white wolves with large wings extending from their shoulders. The wings are usually white, and are tipped with silver and light blue. Along their neck and there appears to be a "crest" of feathers, and along the back of their legs they seem to have the same thing. Their claws are abnormally long so that they can grip ice if they land upon it without slipping. Like all Ice wolves they are immune to cold and have extremely thick coats. Their pads are covered in fur to keep out cold.

FIRE

Fireflies (FIH - er - fly)
Fireflies have the ability to burst into flame whenever they want to. Once they are "flamed up" they have the ability to fly around. Fireflies have long front canines that are sort of like sabre teeth. When in a normal stage, Fireflies have grey, black, orange, red, or yellow coats. Their eyes seem to "burn". Like all Fire wolves they are immune to fire and heat. They have very thin coats.

Lava Benders (LAH - vah BEND - er)
Lava Benders can control lava with their minds. They cannot create lava however. Lava Benders have large bat-like wings on each of their shoulders, and abnormally long front claws. Lava wolves tend to be black or red, with eyes that seem to "burn". They are happiest swimming in lava, since they are immune to it. Like all Fire wolves they are immune to fire and heat. They have very thin coats.

Sparkies (SPARK - ee)
Since Sparkies have powers over electric waves, they can start fires where ever they please. Sparkies can also control lightning with their minds. Sparkies have electric yellow coats, sometimes streaked with black or orange. Their fur seems to stand on edge all of the time with static electricity. Their eyes are usually yellow, but can be light green. Like all Fire wolves they are immune to fire and heat. They have very thin coats.

Dregos (DREH - goh)
Dregos are large powerful wolves with horns and lizard-like tails covered in fur. These wolves can breath fire in a cone up to three feet in front of them. They can be white, green, black, brown, red, orange, or yellow. The horns on their heads tend to vary with the wolf. Sometimes they have curled ram horns, antlers of deer, or even the horns of goats. Their eyes seem to "burn" all the time. Like all Fire wolves they are immune to fire and heat. They have very thin coats.

WIND

Cloud Wolves (CLOWD WOHLF)
Cloud Wolves are as light as a feather and can jump very high. They can even walk on clouds. They are know to very very optimistic and happy, and they love to play and sumersalt in the air since they are abnormaly flexible. They aren't very strong, but if hit hard enough you could go right through one since they are made up of thousands of tiny water particles, just like clouds. Cloud Wolves are usually white, cream, or light grey with silver eyes. Their fur is of medium length.

Current Wolves (CUHR - ent WOHLF)
Speedy and fast, Current Wolves have small wings like a dragon fly's. They aren't very big, being only about 2 and half feet tall at the shoulder. They are light and agile, and able to leap great distances. Their ears are tipped with tufts much like a bob cats, and two small antenaes perch on their foreheads. Their coats can be grey, white, cream, red, orange, pink, green, orange, blue, purple, yellow, or indigo. Their eyes tend to be yellow, copper, or gold. Their fur is of medium length.

Wind Benders (WIND BEND - er)
Wind Benders can bend the air flow with their minds. They don't need wings to fly, since they can propell themselves into the air without the use of them. They are often grey, white, or cream, spotted with black or silver. Their eyes are of varying colors. On the back of their necks they have bird like crests with white or grey feathers. They are able to move these feathers up and down. The position of the crest often depends on the wolf's mood. Their fur is of medium length.

Swifts (SWIFT)
Swifts are wolves that are extemely fast. They can reach speeds of one hundred miles per hour, and can keep running that fast for hours. However, running for too long can make a wolf extemely hungry. Swifts are often sleek and slimi with powerful legs. They have large blunt claws on their toes for running faster. Swifts can be cream, yellow, white, or brown. Sometimes they have streaks of different colors across their bodies. Their eyes are of varying shades. Their fur is of medium length.

SHADOW

Hallucination Wolf (hal - uk - in - AY - shun WOHLF)
This wolf is always pitch black or a really dark blue color. color their eyes are yellow with a black slip for a pupil. They have the power to transport themselves at the speed of thought but they have to see their destination before being able to teleport there. When they teleport in or out, they often leave a puff of black smoke behind. Hallucination Wolves have large sabre tooth like fangs.

Gargoyle Wolf (gahr - GOY - ul WOHLF)
They have bat like wings and are very bulky in figure, their noses are a bit pug like but fully functional. They have huge claws on each of their paws, and are very lightweight so they can perch in trees. Their tails are long and slender, and end in a devil-like spade. Their fur is abnormally thin. Gargoyle Wolves are often purple or black with blue, violet, grey, or purple eyes.

Transformers (TRANS - form - er)
Transformers can transform into any animal or wolf that they have seen. When in this form they have the abilities of that animal. Transformers do have a real form, but rarely use it. They are often black or grey, with extremely long nails and purple eyes with slits for pupils.

Shadow Benders (SHA - doh BEND - er)
Shadow Benders are wolves that have the ability to control shadows with their mind, and become a shadow and float around. Shadow Benders tend to be black, cream, grey, or brown with black eyes and white pupils. Sometimes they have strange rune-like markings on them that glow. Shadow Benders have backs that are covered in long silvers spines that shrink in size as they near the tail of the wolf.

CATS

ICE

Sabre Cats (SAYB - er CAT)
Sabre Cats are large cats with hunched backs and huge paws. The paws are often covered with hair to keep out cold. They have extremely thick coats and small mohawk like manes that run from the top of their heads to their shoulders. Their tails are short and stubby. But, prehaps their most disinguishing feature is the foot long front canines that protrude from their upper lips. The fangs are extremely brittle, though deadly. They must insure that their prey is perfectly still before sinking their teeth into them.

Shards (SHAWRD)
Whenever these cats move, they seem to shimmer and shine. Shards are large cats with thick fur and silver eyes. They have long sweeping tails that end in a deadly spike that could rip through the bark of a tree. Shards have fur covered pads and thick coats.

Storms (STORM)
Storms are always pure white with either silver or blue eyes. They have the power to break up into snow-like particles snow and can be carried by the wind or by mental power. When attacking it will look like a swarm of white particles someing right at you then at the last minute they will transform into its full form to give the last killing bite. Like all Ice cats they have extremely thick coats and are immune to cold. Their pads are covered in fur to keep out cold. They can be any type of cat.

Chills (CHILL)
Chills are large cats with the ability to breath cold and manipulate ice with their minds. Chills have large paws and often oddly colored eyes. Chills sometimes have bodies streaked with strange rune-like symbols that glow blue or gray. Like all Ice cats they have extremely thick coats and are immune to cold. Their pads are covered in fur to keep out cold.


FIRE
Infernos (in - FERN - oh)
These cats are fire itself. Their back has small horn like bumps, but these aren't just for protection; they are really like mini-volcanos inside. When frightened or angry (or in deep in battle) they can spray fire from them, like mini volcanos. Infernos are often black or red. They have been known to have black or orange stripes across them however. Like all fire cats they are immune to fire and heat.

Fire Torches (FIYR TORCH)
Fire Torches are strange cats that can light themselves up in blue or red fire. They are rarely in their normal form. When they are lit up, they have the ability to fly around and manipulate the fire that is on their coats. Like all fire cats they are immune to fire and heat.

Fire Manes (FIYR MAYN)
Fire Manes are cats with flaming tails or manes. They are much like Nightmares, for they are able to manipulate this flame by making it grow, shrink, or move. Fire Mane tend to look like regular big cats except for, of course, the flaming manes and tails they have. Fire Manes can be any type of cat, and are immune to fire and heat as all fire cats are.


Gons (GON)
Gons are cats with large bat wings, horns, scales, and the ability to breath fire, cold, acid, or lightning. Their horns vary in size, and shape. They can be the antlers of deer or the curling horns of a ram. Gons also have odd colored bodies. They can be blue, white, green, brown, red, and gray. Gons can be any type of cat, and are immune to fire and heat as all fire cats are.

WIND

Breeze Chasers (BREEZ CHAYS - ers)
Breeze Chasers are large big cats with bird wings. These wings can be any color, or from any bird from a eagle to a magpie. Breeze Chasers also have a bird like fan on the ends of their tails to steer themselves through the air. Breeze Chasers look like normal cats, except for the wings of course.

Chinooks (CHIN - uk)
Chinooks are the masters of wind; they can create a storm or a gentle breeze. Though only the powerful can create storms. Chinooks can also lift themselves up to fly upon the wind they are bending if they so choose. Chinooks often have feathers running all the way down their backs, and odd white eyes with no pupils, though they can see fine. They are a mysterious race.

Skids (SKID)
Skids are slender cats, often with mohawk like manes and short Sabre teeth only about three inches long. They often have a very long tail that acts like a rudder when they are running. Their claws are non-retractable. They cannot pull them into their toes. Instead, the claws act like cleats, or running shoes. Skids can reach speeds of 100 miles per hour. Running this fast can tire them out very quickly however. Skids are often electric yellow or green, sometimes with black or white streaks running down their bodies. They can be any type of cat.

Gryphons (GRIH - fun)
Gryphons are definately related to the Hippogryph in some way. Gryphons are cats that have the head, claws, and wings of a bird, but the back half of a cat. They are able to communicate with birds. They can have the front half and wings of any bird, and the back half of any cat. They have extremely powerful vision, and attack with their claws and beaks.

SHADOW

Night-Paws (NIYT - PAWZ)
Night Paws have the ability to cast complete darkness upon any place at any given moment. Doing this tires them out however, and to do this for too long may even cause the cat to faint. They are often black or dark purple, with varying eye colors. Like all Shadow cats they can see extremely well in the dark, but sunlight tends to hurt their eyes.

Flickers (FLIK - er)
Flickers are cats, much like Shadows, with the ability to flit in and out of shadows. They can break up into tendrils of blackness to flit about, or simply walk straight into a object or creatures shadow. They cannot be seen in direct sunlight. They can be any type of cat and have no speacial coloring or eye colors. Like all Shadow cats they can see extremely well in the dark, but sunlight tends to hurt their eyes.

Sneaks (SNEEK)
Sneaks are small cats with goat-like horns and tiny bat wings. They can fly very well on these, however. Sneaks are very acrobatic, and have the ability to do a assortment of tricks and flips in the air. Sneaks love to play tricks on other cats. Like all Shadow cats they can see extremely well in the dark, but sunlight tends to hurt their eyes. They can be any type of cat and have no speacial coloring or eye colors.

Displacer Cats (dis - PLAYS - er CAT)
Displacer Cats are prehaps the deadliest of the Shadow cats. They are large cats, often colored black or purple, with two huge tentacles on each shoulder. The tentacles are about four feet long and have a squid-like spade on the end with suckers. When the suckers touch flesh they shoot inch long barbs. But that is definately not what makes these cats so deadly. Displacers can make the vision of another animal blurry, so that everything appears to be shaking or vibrating very fast though it is not. This often tends to make the animal dizzy and disoriented. Like all Shadow cats they can see extremely well in the dark, but sunlight tends to hurt their eyes.



RESTRICTIONS- These are types of cats that can only belong to certain alliances and no other, mainly because it doesn't seem right for a Snow Leopard to be a Fire cat does it?

ICE
CAN BE- Snow Leopards, Pumas, Siberian Tigers, Amur Leopards, Lynx, Bobcats
CAN'T BE- Lions, Cheetahs, Bengal Tigers, Leopards, Jaguars

FIRE
CAN BE- Lions, Cheetahs, Bengal Tigers, Leopards, Jaguars, Servals, Caracals
CAN'T BE- Snow Leopards, Pumas, Siberian Tigers, Amur Leopards, Lynx, Bobcats

WIND
CAN BE- Cheetahs, Leopards, Jaguars, Lions, Bengal Tigers, Siberian Tigers, Servals
CAN'T BE- Snow Leopards, Pumas, Amur Leopards, Lynx, Bobcats

SHADOW- Can be any type of cat.