/ / / Shagal female -- male Human/Wolfen Hybrid -- Rhakhasha grrl Shagal destroyed their world. The shagal used tech twisted by dark magic to create portals. Through these hundreds of shagal nobility escaped what should have been their fate by right. Shagal appear elven. They are all born with the ability to sense and use magic. Their reflexes are three to four times faster than that of an average human, and they can put on extremes bursts of speed for a few seconds at a time, several times a day. Mated pairs are fiercely loyal to each other; but that is the one and only trait that can considered not completely evil. They are otherwise a very sinister and dark race indeed, with an evil to rival even the dreaded drow. With drow you know about what to expect; with a shagal, you'll never see it coming. They have a charming way, and are masters at getting people to trust them. They are also masters at covering their crimes. The wolfen (fur covered humanoids with canine heads) poured all their memories and id into their High Chancellor, using him as a receptacle to retain all that was left of their great race. The wolfen High Chancellor then used mighty psionics to project his astral self to the world of Rhea. There he searched until he found a dying man, willing to give the wolfen his body. The wolfen possessed the human body. He repaired, healed, and remade it to suit his needs; and from there went on to find a mate and start a new beginning. A human/wolfen hybrid looks human. If you really know what to look for, you'll notice that they often have eye colors not typically found in humans. Twice as strong and three times faster reflexes. But their true power is psionics. All human/wolfen hybrids have both telepathy, and telekinesis to lesser or greater degrees. The rhakhasha chose a handful of their number to be absorbed into the huge forms of three rhakhasha High Lords.  Three massive white saber toothed tigers with huge majestic wings carried what remained of their proud race within the wild raw magics of their being; they carried them across the great void to the world of Rhea. Anticipating the arrival of the rhakhasha, the shagal spun tales of the evil and ferocious monsters and managed to convince nearly all the civilized peoples of Earthwood that rhakhasha must be fear, never trusted, and destroyed on sight. And so the war carried over from the now dead world of Aohsland, to Rhea, and her Great Island, Earthwood. Ironically, enraged rhakhasha, fighting for their survival, seemed to confirm the tales of the shagal. Rhakhasha are large muscular people, with the proportionate strength and speed of great cats. They're able to extend their fingernails into fighting talons at will. They can pass for human if their careful to keep their cat's eyes and predatory teeth hidden. They traditionally fight with Razclaws; Razium (metal ore from their destroyed home world) claws infused with raw rhakhasha High Lord magic. Rhakhasha that still fight with Razclaws do so to emulate the natural talonblades of their leaders, the High Lords, and are usually still dedicated to their culture and loyal to the leadership of the High Lords. Those highly skilled with these weapons are called Severcats. Others have mostly adapted or merged with the cultures of their new found lands. Once a month they can shape change into huge winged cats roughly the size of elephants, and remain thus for a full day and night. Enraged, they will tear chunks of flesh out of their enemies with their teeth, and some times actually eat their vanquished foes heart. Rhakhasha Lords are far more powerful and have talonblades, three long claws than can extend from within each forearm. And once a month a rhakhasha Lord can shape change into a dragon sized saber toothed white tiger with huge white wings. There are perhaps less than a hundred rhakhasha still alive.