Ari

Culture
Inspired by Mesopotamia and Egypt with a simplified Chinese political system.

The Ari are a diverse and vast people, stretching across much of the sands in the south east of the Eastern Continent.

The Ari's diversity is sometimes more bame than boon, and power is balanced on a knifes edge. The country is separated into provinces that for the most part, self govern, and the largest provinces rival the glory and strength of Akbiba itself.

The strongest few of these provinces include Urukh, Eszkeh, and Bhutakhutak.

The desert is seen as the birthplace of all Ari, and they see all stretches of the sands they are based on as their sovereign territory. As such, they have frequent quarrels with the orcish clans to the north and little appetite for expansion out of their homeland.

Looks
They are a race of avian humanoids, slightly taller than the average human, muscular and thin. They are winged, with their wings extending out of their backs as if another pair of limbs.

Their bones are lighter, if not completely hollow, to allow for flight and thus not quite as sturdy as the average human or dwarf. It is easier for an Ari to become fatigued from physical exercise.

Devah (A1)
Unified Empire of the Sands.