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 ====== Jundari ======
+A species of winged humanoids prefers to live up in the highest mountains in great colonies called aeries. It is from here they hunt with the [[creatures:Thunderhawk]] and soar with the [[creatures:Great Eagle]]. The jundari are one of the [[lore:Origins of Life|Godly Races]]. They were created by [[lore:Aesir]] from spirits of the air that she brought from the [[lore:Land of Clouds]].
-This race of winged humanoids prefers to live up in the highest mountains in great colonies called aeries. It is from here they hunt with the thunderhawks and soar with the Great Eagles. While their wings are feathered like the eagles, the rest of their body resembles thin humans. Their skin is a pale white, nearly translucent, and their eyes are deep brown or hazel. They have mouths in place of beaks and feet instead of talons.
-When a jundari female begins to near her mating time males will begin to gather around her. They will compete in tests of strength, skill, and endurance — from this flock the female will choose a single male for the mating. Once the mating is over, the male will play no further role in the child’s upbringing — his role being replaced by older males and females of the aerie.
+===== Characteristics =====
-Most females will give live birth to a single child, twins or more being extremely rare, once every 3 years. During this time her wings become mottled and the colors start blending with the territory where she is raising her young. Once the child is strong enough to fly alone they are presented to the rest of the aerie. They will cast off their childhood name and give themselves their adult name.
+Most jundari stand around five and a half (5 1/2) feet tall with very thin humanoid builds. They are a long-lived race, with a life span of slightly more than 200 years. Eye color is generally dark, but hazel can be found in some cases. Their hair color always favors the predominate color of their wings.
-Physical
-Most jundari stand around 5½ feet tall with very thin human builds. They are a long-lived race, with a life span of slightly more than 200 years. Eye color is generally dark, but hazel can be found in some cases. Their hair color always favors the predominate color of their wings.
+Their feathered wings extend outward from their back just below their shoulders. There is a second set of muscles and bones strictly for flying; however this still requires a great deal muscle from the shoulders. This leaves them with very little strength left in their arms while in flight, but the strength in their legs still affords them some grasping. They are capable of very long gliding flights and are capable of staying aloft for a week or more before they need to land.
-Their feathered wings extend outward from their back just below their shoulders. There is a second set of muscles and bones strictly for flying; however this still requires a great deal muscle from the shoulders. This leaves them with very little strength left in their arms while in flight, but the strength in their legs still affords them some grasping.
+Their feet are quite different from other terrestrial bipeds. The [[wp>metatarsal bones]] are shorter and they have two extra [[wp>phalanges]] per toe; although the total length of the phalanges remains close to other humanoids. This along with different musculature allows the jundari to curl their feet down. They cannot grasp or manipulate small objects, but they have enough strength to hold on to something about five centimeters (5 cm = 2 inches ) in diameter. This gives them a semi-ability to perch, but it makes walking more than a couple of miles hard on the feet.
-Males have brightly-colored wings decorated with exotic patterns, which serves as both a warning and symbol of their strength. Females have lighter coloration and show only the soft hint of a pattern. During mating the female's pattern will become very brightly colored, outshining even the boldest males.
+Males have brightly-colored wings decorated with exotic patterns, which serves as both a warning and symbol of their strength. Females have lighter coloration and show only the soft hint of a pattern. During ovulation a female's pattern will become very brightly colored, outshining even the boldest males.
-Reactions
-Jundari, like their cousins the kindred, suffered at the hands of the marauding humans after the end of the Golden Age. The destruction of their most holy city at the hands of Riza, the Dark Emperor, keeps many wary of all non-jundari. If this wasn’t enough reason to despise the humans, many of the early settlers hunted them for sport or trophies.
-Their ancestors were forced out of the homelands given to them by Aesir “True Wind” they fled into the cold and barren mountains of the north. They have listened to her promises that all that was once theirs shall be theirs again, and most are willing to wait patiently. Those that no longer believe her whispers have traveled into the outworld — never to return.
-Some jundari, chosen by Aesir, travel among the humans gathering knowledge, bartering for goods, or simply watching. These have become known as the “lost children,” as any jundari knows that anyone that drinks or eats the food of the outworld can never return to the aerie. Still, those that remain know everything is as the wind wishes.
+===== Life Cycle =====
-Never the most numerous species on Miranda, Jundari now teeter on the edge of extinction. This race's eyries are situated high in the mountains where there are few predators that can challenge them. They have large feather colored wings often decorated in complex patterens, the males are brightly colored while the females are muted (only getting brightly colored during mating season. Their faces have many of the features found in the great cats: flat nose, almond eyes, whiskers, pointed ears; although they are not covered in fur. They also have a tufted tail that extends nearly to the floor when they are standing upright. This leads many people to assume they are only flying cats, but they have more in common with the great birds than the great cats.
+When a jundari female begins to near her mating time males will begin to gather around her, attracted by her bright colors. They will compete in tests of strength, skill, and endurance — from this flock the female will choose a single male for the mating. Once the mating is over, the male will play no further role in the child’s upbringing — his role being replaced by older males and females of the aerie.
-Jundari are not the longest living race and a female will typically enter a mating season only once every 5-7 years; giving birth to 1 or 2 children each successful coupling. In times past their oral history speaks of females entering the mating season every 2-4 years and successfully giving birth to 2-3 children. This is not much of a difference, but when taken over several generations it has led to the decline of the jundari.
+Most females will give live birth to a single child, twins being extremely rare, once every 3 years. During this time her wings become mottled and the colors start blending with the territory where she is raising her young. Once the child is strong enough to fly alone they are presented to the rest of the aerie. They will cast off their childhood name and give themselves their adult name.
+A jundari child is typically weaned from his mother by the third (3rd) year, but will not reach full maturity until their after their thirtieth (30th) year. For the next fifty to sixty (50-60) years a jundari will remain sexually mature until they go through a physical change near their one-hundredth (100th) year. The next hundred  (100) years, or for a long-lived jundari, they physically and mentally fit only declining in the last ten (10) or so years of their life.
+===== Community =====
+Community is more to the jundari that most other species on [[atlas:Miranda]]. The spirits of air that inhabit their body are but fractions of a fraction of the spirits that Aesir brought to this world. The fractions seek out others of themselves across the world in order to live close to each other. Their is strength and security in numbers, but for the jundari a community is so much more - it is spiritual life.
+===== Genus =====
+The jundari, like most godly races, have remained much as they were when created. They have socially and physically adapted, but there has been no new species to arise from them. There is a single exception to this; although the scholars do not believe they are naturally related.
+The jundari are not as stratified or geographically bound as many other species on the Miranda. They not only range across the world, but in fact are drawn together in a larger community. This intermingling has reduced the rise of distinct races as can be found among other sub-species.
+==== Rathari ====
+Regardless of the belief of most scholars that the [[creatures:Rathari]] and jundari are related, the jundari themselves reject this fully. The Rathari share many of the same characteristics as a winged humanoid species, but they were not created by Aesir from spirits of the air and they are far smaller - standing just under three (3) feet. Jundari lore speaks of the Rathari as creatures that appeared during the [[lore:Age of Legends]] or was an experiment by the [[creatures:magi]].
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