World Peoples

Races

Races are cultural and mythic identities in Dia: where a people comes from, what their bodies reveal, how they gather, what they fear, and what stories follow them.

Known Races

Peoples of Dia

Ali Secretive plant-born shapeshifters who guard their true names and identities. Nature-born plant people Open race page Avqar Totem-bound hunters, oath-keepers, and shapeshifting wildfolk of the forests. Totemic wild ancestry Open race page Devi Giant, horned peoples of Kajeti: red warriors, black miners, and rare white sun-wanderers. Created by Zaradan, Odi, and Balile Open race page Half-Devi Khibal and red Devi descendants whose strength, temper, and tenderness burn hot. Khibal and red Devi ancestry Open race page Human Short-lived innovators, builders, merchants, conquerors, heroes, and pioneers. Native mortal people Open race page Jasi Disciplined winged nobles of mountain cities, gifted with air magic and aerial grace. Winged air-touched people Open race page Kadji Otherworldly urban mages, metallurgists, and fortress-builders from Kajeti. Gareskneli ancestry Open race page Khibal Wild, powerful kin of the Tchinka, organized around tribes, raids, charms, and mounts. Kin to the Tchinka Open race page Meseph Simur's graceful amphibious people, equally at home beneath the sea and on land. Created by Simur Open race page Mitsriel Lava-blooded forged people who call themselves Vidavs, proud children of fire and stone. Forged from lava and divine craft Open race page Nokhib Human and Khibal descendants devoted to balance, mediation, travel, and the middle path. Human and Khibal ancestry Open race page Noseph Children of human and Meseph worlds, curious, adaptable, and lightly touched by water. Human and Meseph ancestry Open race page Ocho Horned, goatlike mountain, forest, desert, and river peoples bound by nature and the moon. Ancient nature-bound people Open race page Tchinka Small, quick, superstitious knot-mages with one of Dia's oldest civilizations. Ancient forest civilization Open race page