Dey

High above the forest floor, children's laughter can be heard as small bird-like humanoid figures dart and zip around the canopy. Little houses nested in and around the massive trees glow warmly and families can be seen laughing and playing together. Four twisting, gleaming spires stretch above the treetops for the world to see. The four Queens live in those towers: Ruhi Nunun, Gadhi Abraxas, Maemi Vien, and Osrin Cadelle. Their broad shoulders and massive wings are surely a wondrous sight to be seen.

Physical Description: The differences between the male and female Dey are vibrant, with female Dey standing at least a full head above the smaller males. Female Dey have flat chests, no nipples, and no mammary glands: instead, they have the uterus in which the egg is developed. Male Dey carry the mammary glands and feed the babies. Female Dey are plainly colored, tending to be red, brown, black, white, tan, etc; while male Dey are vibrantly colored and showy. Regardless of sex, their feet are incredibly strong with a raptorial arrangement of large talons. They have both human arms and bird wings, but their human arms are also feathered with just palms and fingertips exposed. Their faces range from mostly human to entirely birdlike, all of them sporting a beak. Male Dey also tend to have narrower shoulders/wider hips, while female Dey are the opposite; broad shoulders and narrow hips.

Society: Both Dey cities are theocracies, ruled by four high priestess queens: one for each goddess. Female Dey are always in power, where the smaller, weaker male Dey are the housewives. The society is almost Amazon in nature. The trees in the canopy are close enough and large enough that each tree can supports upwards of seven large Dey families. Connected by swinging rope bridges, they form enormous mazes that form the cities of the Dey.

Relations: Dey are on neutral-standoffish terms with most of the other races on the planet. They don't quite like the Overland humans, but then again, who does? The Dey despise them because they don't stand up and protect their species: they instead enslave and rape and slaughter each other.

Alignment and religion: Dey are for the most part somewhere between Chaotic Neutral and Chaotic Good. The Dey believe in four goddesses, simply referred to as the Four, the First being the Sky, the Second being the Wind, the Third being Life, and the Fourth being Earth.

Adventurers: Dey Adventurers are good barbarians, rogues, and casters. They're one of the races best suited for a jack-of-all-trades play style.