Bestial Kinds

Bestials

The Bestial Kinds are those that resemble the animals of the land and air but walk with the sapience of other kinds such as duerthi, aelthi, humans, dragonkin, and the like. Their presence in the world seemed to exist at near the same time that humans did. The Bestial Kinds walk upright like men and have dextrous hands complete with opposable thumbs but keep those characteristics intrinsic to those beasts they resemble. Their legs and feet resemble paws, talons, and haunches adapted to the bipedal movement. Their hands may have features such as pads where palms would be. Their chests and arms are very humanoid with the exception of gliding Kinds such as the Chiropterae that make up the Elakansi culture and the Avians. These latter two examples either have hands, paws, or talons directly attached to wings or serve as wing and hand themselves (see the Ruto of LOZ:BOTW as a meta example). They often are less dextrous at baseline but can train to hold handheld objects others use.

Origins

Bestial Kinds have different origin points. A vast many came from Tarkaria which lies in southern Velas and where many of them live today. Others seemed to have originated in the jungles of southern Xatlaxa such as the Celatls of Celatua. The corvidae and the psittacidae come from an island between the Grush Archipelago and the Nahanguat league of northern Xatlaxa.

Dragonkin

Dragonkin do not count as Bestials. They do not resemble a sentient but non-sapient creature and although they look like reptiles they are actually warmblooded.

Societies

Societies of the Bestials are often dictated by region and cannot be pinned down to having a specific Kind-exclusive society, even in the same regions. The majority of bestials in Tarkaria 0 PR are low tech nomadic tribesmen or agrarian societies spread across the region. However, near the center of the territory is Treia City, the capital of the Tarkarian Union that is a representative Harmonistic city state. It is a cosmopolitan metropolis and one of the largest cities in the world that has fully taken to industrialization and modernization based on the advancements of the Skalovians. Paved city streets, smokestacks, extensive plumbing, and multiple luxury enterprises are found there. They are often at odds with the traditionalists that roam through the grasslands, forests, and steppes that seem them as giving up their culture to resemble the neighboring Thralish that enslave their kind. Celatua in southern Xatlaxa on the other hand is a large empire ruled by panterae and their neighboring nations often find bestial and human on equal standing. Also equal in being enslaved in their wars. The Khululekans are isolationists but have a tight confederation of different Kinds that are dedicated to defending their island. Sylvaras Zelien once visited the island from afar and thought of how cooperation between the Kinds of that island that included avians, mammals, and reptiles as a voluntary cause for survival could be codified in his future work. Bestials are also present as the majority of Shonanite Kinds

The Different types of Bestial Kinds, a List
Note, these names were given either by old Mekkhorian observers of the Kinds or Universal speakers 

Canidae (Wolves and dogs in Tarkaria and Mekkhor, Foxes) 

Cervidae (Deer) 

Aves (General Birds) 

Capriniae (Goats) 

Bovinae (minotaur-esque cows, buffalo, yaks) 

Alligator (forgot name) 

Crocodile 

Lizardmen 

Panterae 

Felinidae

Rodentiae 

Mustelidae (badgers)

Psittacidae

Corvidae 

Aaksi (Turtlemen) 

Philodota (Pangolinmen)

Elakansi (Bat People)

GURPS Species Document containing stats for them

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tTX9vMpcf1dPSp2mwBGB8MGSqhpXaylc9A_5b-o1zQc/edit?usp=sharing

Epithet
Biter and Grazer for carnivorous and herbivorous animal Kinds. Omnivores are often called either. These are often the names for those enslaved. The words became so synonymous with their presence in the nations that used them as forced labor that those Kinds around them and even the Kinds themselves would use them without meaning to demean those that they referred to or addressed.