General

Interbreeding within Taxonomic Class

As a meta note: it is interesting if different humanoid species within the same taxonomic class can breed with each other (not ‘interesting’ in a weird way, just in a ‘it makes for fun creatures’ way).

• human + dwarf = half dwarf
• lizardfolk + turtle = half tortle (or half lizard depending on how the child turns out)

Features of the resultant children can vary very widely from couple to couple. Features of the descendants of interbred subspecies can either turn out as a mix of both parents’ features or as a nearly pure species of one of the parents’ ancestors (it doesn’t make sense biologically but whatever).

Forms of Perception

• Darkvision — A wide range of species on Cytgard are able to see in the infra-red spectrum with Darkvision. For most species, their Darkvision kicks in independently from their visible light vision once a certain dimness threshold is crossed. This allows them to see “normally” in daylight and lit environments, without picking up stray infrared light emitted by the sun or hot light sources (but it also means they can’t be used to assess crop and foliage health without an elaborate setup). The effective range of Darkvision is usually around 30 to 60 feet before details become lost in background heat. Darkvision is also obscured by heated or cooled air or particulate masses.

• Tremorsense — Some species and constructs are able to sense vibrations in fluids and solids with nearly pinpoint accuracy using Tremorsense. This requires no EMR of any kind to detect entities, but the range of tremorsense is very limited and prone to interference from ground geometry or vibrational noise.

• Truesight — Some entities on the Ring are able to ‘see’ using mana alone, which grants a wide range of information, quite different from what any EMR based vision can reveal. This is called Truesight. Such entities include Coutals, Sphinx, Drones, Liches, Battle Angels, and many gods to name a few. Usually beings with an extremely strong connection with magic.

Mana is not unlike the Higgs Boson (a ‘mass wave/particle’). Mana is a wave/particle that exists in the Weave of magic that suffuses the entire universe. Mana can be harnessed or channeled by conscious minds or machinery to give “mass” to directed magic. Beings with Truesight are able to see how mana particles interact with physical and ethereal objects (including pure magical entities like true elementals, ghosts, etc) which allows them to perceive in different “colours” of magic (This is much like how standard light vision allows a creature to see how photons interact with physical objects before reaching their eyes). Truesight can sometimes be obscured by an overload of background mana, or abjuration magic that specifically blocks detection. Some particularly dense mana opaque materials can also block truesight (lead, uranium, certain refined forms of adamantine, ever-ice, etc.)

• As a side note, objects or entities in the Ethereal plane are composed of pure mana waves in the Weave, which is why physical objects on the material plane cannot interact with them normally. Something must be infused with mana (either an enchanted object or a spell) in order to interact with an Ethereal object, or the entire material object must be transposed into mana on the Ethereal plane.