Nevreans

Notice: This article strongly features WIP nature. Existing information in this article is available, however, due to the ongoing development of the concept in the Vilous Original Stories, this article is necessarily incomplete. Because the Canon is subject to change as the story evolves, parts of this article may change greatly in the future.

Reference for a gender comparison of Nevrean race.

Nevreans (Japanese: ネウリア, Néuria) are a species that belong to the Eltus organism group. They have a similar appearance to feathered dinosaurs with a distinct case of sexual dimorphism. Nevreans are one of the three sentient and sapient Eltus races, that Sergals and Agunders belong to as well and are regarded as "Human" collectively or the "Human Existence" on Planet Tal.

When compared to both Sergals and Agudners, Nevreans have very distinct and unparalleled differences between males and females. Both genders share smaller and slender physiques than the other two races. Because of their sexual dimorphism, both male and female Nevreans could be considered their own species.

The gender differences between the two can often be hard to understand, because of this there is often a misunderstanding between the species as a whole. A common example of the confusion and misconception would be "Nevreans have reversed gender roles compared to Earth's Humans," however, this is definitely not the correct way of understanding Nevreans for various reasons. When in reality, Nevreans just have extreme contrast and unparalleled gender roles.

Nevreans are Oviparous, making them an egg-laying species. Because of this Nevreans do not have a navel or breasts. Among the three Eltus races, Nevreans are the only species who are born from eggs.

The origin of the Nevrean race can be found from the Nev Mountains, very steep and craggy mountains located on the realm of the Nevrea region, the Western lands of Tal. Residents in the Nevrea region are their original and Native race, and Nevreans who live in civilized areas such as Gold Ring fall under Urban Nevrean. There are several highly notable differences in the cultures of both Native Nevreans and Urban Nevreans, due to many historical and cultural reasons. Native Nevreans are very exclusive and unfriendly against the other Races and their culture while Urban Nevreans who mainly live in Gold Ring, are comparatively friendly towards the other races.

Canon representative members of the race would be Yun Yagili as the female and Quu as the male.

Summary

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  Comparison of adults and children. All Nevrean children have little or no gender differences, however, they will have stark differences when they came of age.

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  Nevrean couple, Kolon the female on the left, and Parsley the male on the right. [Design Notice] As this artwork was drawn in the early stages of Nevrean design construction, the male displays three fingers, however, males in the current standard of the canon design have four fingers.

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  Yun Yagili and Quu in the symbolic style, showing the contrasting concept of gender differences in the Nevrean race which can compare to that of Yin and Yang.

Although Nevreans are known for having stark gender differences, all Nevrean children do not have gender differences in both appearance and behavior throughout their infancy to childhood. They will finally begin to experience a big, physical change when they have reached puberty and attain distinct, sexual dimorphism.

Compared to life on Earth, while Nevreans' appearances have been described as bird-like, they also display many similar features to that of feathered dinosaurs. For example, having teeth and a crowned head with visibly stout horns swept backward.

Each gender has its own specifications and is completely different from the other. In comparison to Earth's Humans, the gender roles of Nevreans are both lopsided and polarized. The difference between the two genders can be described as "black and white", "shadows and light", or "Yin-Yang".

The gender differences in Nevreans are sometimes expressed as being "Gender-Reversed", however, this is absolutely not the correct way of understanding Nevreans, even though it may appear this way at first glance. A correct way of understanding their predisposition and nature in their gender could fall under Gender-Neutral or Non-Binary when compared to Earth's stereotypes.

See the following chart for differences in both appearance and ways of thinking;

	Female	Male
Appearance	Dinosaur-like, fierce appearances.	Bird-like, beautiful appearances.
Build	Tough physical constitution.	Fragile physical constitution.
Specialty	Practically minded -- Technical workers, engineers, hunters, guards, dieticians, architects, etc.	Creatively minded -- Artists, musicians, actors, dancers, entertainers, comedians, etc.
Personality	"Down-to-earth" in a word -- Serious, decent, careful, realist, and cautious. Have a passive and secretive nature.	"Utopian" in a word -- Hilarious, light-hearted, careless, idealistic, and talkative. Have an active and sociable nature.
Flight Ability	Can't take flight, instead of good at running.	Can take flight, and some of them have the ability to fly.
Symbolism	"Shadows", "Land", "Reality", and "Yin(陰)"	"Light", "Sky", "Fantasy", and "Yang(陽)"

Nevreans have many stark differences but they do have common unisex features: they are quite skillful with their hands and are both generally smaller and slender compared to the other Eltus Races. Both genders love music although there is a gender divide. Male nevreans generally play the role of a musician while Females are listening and being an audience.

Nevreans have a clear difference in behavior and social activity between Males and Females. In their traditional lifestyle and culture, Males are artistically creative, they may be actors or performers in a traditional Opera. In contrast, Females engage in pragmatic works, such as food procurement, housing maintenance and technical cooperations to maintain life.

Native Nevreans have been very exclusive and isolated in their homeland of Nevrea, located in the far west of Planet Tal. They are in a state similar to a closed country. The Native Nevreans who live in these lands have maintained their own culture with only their race for a long period of time. The region of Vetla, located within Nevrea has been the only exception to this. Vetla is the only region that has been actively exchanging culture with the Gold Ring nation. Even though a cultural exchange has been established, most Native nevreans still have no grasp on the other foreign countries and races on Tal.

Around the year 33 in the Rain Calendar, during the events of the World War, Nevreans who had lived in the Vetla region took refuge at Gold Ring. These immigrants would become the urban nevreans who still live within the city. From the time Nevreans first immigrated to Gold Ring, they would be subject to a harsh and difficult life filled with racial discrimination from the other races until the year 70 in the Rain Calendar. These Nevreans would lawfully get their Human Rights in the year 70 finally joining the ranks of both Sergals and Agudners.

General Misconceptions and Incorrect Views

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  Nevrean couple. The female on the left, and the male on the right. The female is designed to possess dark, muted hues and tough-looking, while the male is carrying bright, colorful hues and innocent-looking.

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  Kolon the female is leading Parsley, the male. Female Nevreans usually work like a protective mother towards their males, while the males carry the meaning and role more so as that of a precious son that should be protected.

Nevreans are a unique race which has very contrasting gender roles and differs from Earth's gender basics. Due to this, the minutia behind their gender basics is quite hard to understand and more often than not there is quite a lot of misunderstanding with regards to them.

A common example is "Nevreans have gender opposites to humans," it may be an easy explanation for people seeing Nevreans at first glance, but it is never a perfect description when considering their racial features correctly.

In actuality, Nevreans, exactly, amplify various specific aspects that all humans hidden inside, regardless of gender or biological sex.

For example;

Serious / Realistic / Logical / Thoughtful / Careful / Practical -- These aspects fall under "Female Nevrean" elements.

Fun / Optimistic / Hilarious / Sociable / Creative / Imaginative -- These aspects fall under "Male Nevrean" elements.

It's why that they cannot be explained like "gender-reversed" race because the above elements are purely located in a gender-neutral state and they cannot be associated with the concepts of either "feminine" or "masculine".

In conclusion, the best way to understand them is to forget the real standard of femininity and masculinity and instead use it to refer to the standard of the opposite gender related to Nevreans. Rather than "Girlish = Feminine. Boyish = Masculine", it would be "Bright = Masculine. Dull = Feminine", etc.

On Males

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  Quu the male Nevrean, who is the first and representative character as a male Nevrean. He is designed to be just an androgynous-looking Bishounen.

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  A common male Nevrean harvesting cactus fruits. He is having an appearance that just looks as a "boy" pretty much.

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  A common male Nevrean, who has an appearance that does not correspond to either feminine or masculine while carrying a colorful and fancy looking.

For a long time, there has been a narrow viewpoint around that male Nevreans are simply "girly boys". In actuality, the characteristic of "Girly" is not a need-to-obey standard, it is just a choice in how a part of Urban males can work. Not all males are like that. If we need to define it strictly, the overall male average would be androgynous persons filled with beautiful looks.

Male Nevreans basic and original nature is more generally cheerful, hilarious, fun, creative, and imaginative person regardless of whether they seem like they belong to a specific gender.

There are both males who look like your average "boy" and ones which look like "femboys" from an earthling's sense. Or, more ambiguous-looking individuals. They have a wider range of personality and behavior types than just "femboy".

Also, they have sometimes been mentioned as being "effeminate" or doing "effeminate" acts, however, this is also, not a perfect description to cover how male Nevreans function. Because some parts of their core natures, innocent and playful features, are clearly intended to be like mischievous and naughty young boys rather than "effeminate" things. As a result, they can imply both "feminine" and "masculine" aspects in different ways while having different scales depending on the individual, it eventually reaches that their comprehensive features can be said as "androgynous."

These are all factors which need to come into consideration and why it is hard to say something along the lines of "Male Nevreans are effeminate," because there are many unparalleled gender roles which are totally different from normal Earth-like conventions in their racial culture, ranging from Biological, Psychological and Social standpoints of their respective species and lifestyles.

On Females

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  A typical and common female Nevrean, Mizori Kodas, an apothecary lady in Gold Ring.

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  An urban female Nevrean, dyed her hair bright orange. She has an appearance that is obviously "woman."

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  A female Nevrean, who has an androgynous appearance alongside a tough-looking.

As same as the case of males mentioned above, there have been similar problems around Female Nevreans also. All Female Nevreans have sometimes been considered like vague, rough, manly ladies, however, this is also a very narrow viewpoint and a deadly misunderstanding, these elements are not the basic features that Female Nevreans carry by default.

As mentioned, the average gender characteristic of all Nevreans, in essence, is rather androgynous and gender-neutral things when compared to Earth's stereotypes. Due to this, as same as the case of males, there are both females who look like your average "lady" and ones who look like "manly lady" from an earthling's sense. Or, more ambiguous-looking individuals.

When it comes to Female Nevreans, there have quite negative misconceptions that "Female Nevreans are brutal, cruel, bloody species", however, these stereotypes are very harmful to the species concept itself as same as the case that all Sergals have been considered identical to General Rain Silves. is the most widely known sergal. These aggressive behaviors are generally confined to outlaws belong to Out Ring and those under their influence. Because common Female Nevreans are designed to be pretty decent, protective, and down-to-earth people, the notorious stereotype for the species leads to deadly misunderstandings and misconceptions.

Gender Differences and Features

An example for a person who has an androgynous look in terms of appearance towards the general, gender basics of the Nevrean race.

While there still more or less individual variation among Nevreans, there are steadfast gender basics between females and males. The gender differences show completely opposite and contrasting features physically and behaviorally, and two genders make a balanced social system while complementing each other like Yin-Yang.

An individual who has features comparable to both genders in terms of both/either appearance and/or behavior would be treated as an 'androgynous' person towards the general, gender basics of the Nevrean race.

They don't have an external penis in any way, they perform the cloacal kiss now to mate, like modern birds. Due to this genitalia structure, they are expressed as "no penis race" figuratively. Originally, Nevreans don't consider sexual intercourse like entertainment and save it exclusively for reproductive purposes. But a part of Urban males can do sexual intercourse like other species, via body modification (discussed below).

They have a very unique culture of romance. Briefly, "clean yaoi" is an important and traditional culture in Natives. Therefore they generally don't have antipathy or aversion to gay romance.

Irregular Individuals

Irregular individuals in terms of both and/or either appearance and his overall behavior towards the general, gender basics of the Nevrean race, such as females who have a fragile body and males who have muted-tone hues in their feathers, still appear infrequently.

Unlike regular Nevreans, they generally pass through a heavily difficult life as these irregularities are comparable to that of physical disorders towards the general, gender basics of the Nevrean race. If they live in Native Nevreans homeland, Nevrea regions, and follow their traditional lifestyle, they may not pass through so many difficulties because regular people would support them and give suitable roles and tasks for them.

If they live in regions where are outside of the Nevrea regions, they will be required to try harder in order to get a good life due to the deep differences in a social and cultural environment. If they were not able to practice that manner, most of them would fall quickly into carrying out improper activities such as what Out Ring Nevreans do.

In the case of a new generation of the urban Nevreans, as most of the irregular Nevreans had become able to belong to "Sabi no Wa", the progressive group for all Urban Nevreans which try to develop a new culture beyond gender differences. Due to this, these irregular individuals could get more options in life peacefully and properly.

Females

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  Regular Female Nevrean.

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  A random female Nevrean in caricature or cartoony exaggerated style. She shows obvious basic features of female Nevrean; Short plumage, muted hues of feathers, considerable large horns, raptor-like talons, stout and thick beak, and tough appearance.

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  Urban female Nevrean living in modern Gold Ring, she is working seriously at the place which handles Fire-Loquats which are the flammable fruit. Female Nevreans are good for tasks that require close attention as they are prudent, diligent workers with careful thought and behavior.

They have a raptor-like tough body, a stern look, taciturn and serious nature. Their basic personality shows a strong "static" and "passive" nature as they don't say anything if they are not talked to by another person. They always keep realistic, careful thinking and behavior. They are rather nervous, and their personality is quite mature in nature They are very severe and true to their role, therefore they carry on with life without freedom of choice. Generally, they consider it is "taboo" that they depart from their basic role. Have instinctive secretiveness nature, they don't publish their information about from personal matter to business things Because they instinctively worry about any "information leakage", it has led to their taciturn, keeping a poker face, unamiable behavior. They don't share a lot about themselves, even things that they are passionate about such as hobbies. Due to those nature, they are easy to give "weird, spooky, and doubtful" impression to other races. Moreover, their serious severe personality adds more bad vibes to this. Then finally, many other races have an antipathy to female Nevreans, and it has caused the big racial discrimination to Nevreans in Gold Ring after the world war. See Also: Gold Ring

They are symbolized as the "shadows", the "land", or the "Yin(陰)". It means they generally stick to the audience's side about any entertainment. They don't carry out initiatives in creative activities. (But urban females depart from such nature since "Sabi no Wa" has been founded.) Native females join the great chorus as they will set the rhythm with their lower-pitched voices and percussion performed with their beaks, but main melodies are entrusted to males. (Females are awkward at singing and fast-talking due to their structure of the throat.)

Relationship with males: They are protecting males while getting "spiritual healing" from males. They enjoy any entertainment like songs and operas that are given by males. Those function as "simulation of enjoyment" for them. Because of this, they give up these joys for the males to have, and experience it vicariously instead of enjoying it first-hand. In a sense, they experience a type of psychological projection onto males who are treated as an "avatar" of them.

Build	Saurian, especially similar to raptors. Despite their slender bodies, their bone density is higher than their male counterparts and their lower-body muscles are more developed, especially among those who run frequently.
Plumage	Mainly dull colors and dusty tones.
Tail tip	There is a small decorative feather, although it lacks an eye-catching pattern like the males’.
Height	Slightly taller than the males, average height of around 150 centimeters. (4.9” feet.)
Horns	Conspicuous, firm and stately looking.
Fangs	Large, sharp and clearly visible. Their frontal fangs protrude from their beaks even when their mouths are closed.
Beak	Stout, thick, and solid. Closer to a dinosaur's muzzle than the bill of a bird.
Legs	dinosaur-like legs with thick talons. they have a sickle-shaped talon-like that of deinonychuses. And their toes show pamprodactyl.
Wings	Lightly feathered compared to the males. They are essentially flightless.
Diet	Foods are rich in calories, fats and vitamins like meat, nuts, insects and other exotic dishes from Tal.
Personality and behavior	Serious, severe, hardy, careful, prudent, secretive, reticent, and realist. They usually keep a poker face, are taciturn due to their secretiveness nature, their remark generally starts as a response. Especially as for native females, they don't say anything as long as there is no serious topic which should be told.
Vocalization	Deeper in tone than males, and prefer to talk in their natural voice. And they are awkward at singing and fast-talking due to their structure of the throat.
Role	Diligent workers; combatants, guardians, hunters, secret agents, and backstage workers.
Impression	They often are unfavorably impressed by other races, due to their taciturn and secretiveness nature, and unamiable behavior. Their basic behavior as female Nevrean looks weird, spooky, and doubtful from other races. Because of this, most of them are prejudiced and are discriminated as a villain, without reasons.

Notice for good perception: Females are not necessarily masculine like a human male would be, most can display a stronger nature of diligent worker.

Irregular Females

Their large talons may not develop in rare cases. Fragile females may be supported by other females in Natives. But in Out Ring case, it has led to getting bullied by other members.

Natives culture expects females to employ taciturn and reticent behavior. Due to this, a female that speaks to anyone without having something important to say is considered rude. In contrast, urban females may be talkative like males, because these traditional gender differences have been eroded in the city.

Females who are belonging to "Sabi no Wa" carry out and initiate creative activities, and dye their feathers in vivid colors.

Out Ring females are representative examples of "corrupted females". It is one of the worst situations to be associated with this group of females, with those in society do their best to avoid falling into their company.

Males

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  Average Male Nevrean.

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  Priley and Quzue, both are the urban male Nevreans working as a merchant. They are having fun with some hats including a mascot head which imitates Rain Silves.

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  Modern Gold Ring, three males are enjoying chatting under the night sky. From samples of Vilous Official Art-pack#1

They have a fragile body, bird-like adorable looks, and talkative and creative nature. Though they still have individual differences, their personalities generally are characterized by energetic, hilarious, optimistic, mischievous, light-hearted behaviors. However, these features often lead to having somewhat indiscreet, careless, frivolous aspects as well. Comprehensively, their behaviors can be expressed to have a "childish" nature.

One of the noteworthy points is their talkative and chatty nature. Not only that they do not hesitate to talk to someone when they want to do, but they also work as a natural glib talker due to their rich vocabulary, the quick-thinking ability for talking, and flexible, creative, imaginative ideas. They enjoy various topics without limitation or hesitation, also they prefer to express a story to sound more fun or interesting. Due to this, they often exaggerate or overstate a story to make it sounds more exciting more than how it is true. However, due to the aspect that they decide something with a point of "interesting or not" rather than it is fact or not, their story sometimes may lead to pointless gossip or even fake news. Also, their chatty nature is related to the above careless aspects as well, they sometimes may blurt out themselves or someone's secret or make slips of the tongue.

Due to their cultural system, they basically can carry on with life with wide freedom without social limitation. They are delighted to find things that they find interesting or amusing, and try to do or join those. However, due to their fragileness and the lack of physical strength, the range of things that they can potentially practice is eventually limited.

Eventually, their beautiful, adorable appearances generally give good vibes absolutely. Due to these points, the other races get a blindly good impression towards them, just as "pretty and fun people". When they came over to the Gold Ring nation, they got good treatment easily, unlike females.

They are symbolized as the "light", the "sky", or the "Yang(陽)". It means they are suitable for creators such as artists and musicians, and any entertainers. They positively carry out initiatives in creative activities. In their Native land, any entertainments such as songs, music, and operas depend on them. At Gold Ring also, they brought big influence that led to a major shift in every entertainment of the whole of the city. See Also: Gold Ring

Relationship with females: They are protected by females who function as a "defensive wall" for them, due to their careless behavior and lacked physical strength. They just live their life the way they would like. But, that behavior naturally gives the "spiritual healing" to females. Hence, males always play the role of the "inhibitor" to female's brutality even if they do anything.

Build	Avian, their body is slender and their bones narrow and hollow to enable flight. Individuals who fly frequently may have a puffy and well-rounded chest.
Plumage	Their feathers are vivid and striking in color with bright and exotic tones.
Tail tip	Every individual has a unique and beautiful decorative feather similar to a peacock's or confuciusornis plumage. Twins may show mirrored patterns.
Height	Slightly smaller than females. Approximately 140 centimeters. (Around 4'6" feet.) on average.
Horns	Small and discrete, and may be covered with long hair.
Fangs	Similarly small and discrete. Cannot be seen when the mouth is closed.
Beak	Very similar to the classic bill of a bird.
Legs	Slender legs like a bird with thin talons. And their toes show anisodactyl.
Wings	Feathered enough for gliding, some younger and lighter individuals can fly.
Diet	Softer foods like fruits and worms.
Personality and behavior	Hedonism, facile, innocent, cherubic, chatty, amiable, glib talker, and idealism. Their mentality is some childish and youthful forever. They are easy to become emotional, talk to anyone positively due to their talkative nature.
Vocalization	Individuals who have learned to sing have a high pitched voice and can sing aloud in beautiful tones. Those who have not still possess a squawky and chirpy voice, and can communicate with simple cries when not speaking.
Role	Entertainers; musicians, artists, singers, dancers, actors, and models.
Impression	They often are favorably impressed by other races, due to their glib talker mouth, amiable behavior, and adorable appearances. Because of this, being opposite to females, most of them are treated well blindly.

Design Wise: The first Nevrean design displayed males with three fingers, meanwhile, they now have four fingers.

Notice for good perception: When it comes to males, in particular, it could be said that their personality is akin to young little children from Earth. The adjectives hedonism and idealist are here to define a specific trait reflecting their habit of being dreamy and to live off in their own world. But we should keep in mind that it does not mean that they are a fool.

Irregular Males

Though males that show a muted or dull color scheme like that of females are regarded as inferior or ugly male, in Natives, they are evaluated if they are good at singing. And about their inferior appearance, it is evaluated as individuality.

But in a city, even if such males have a too beautiful singing voice, they are not evaluated because urban people evaluate the only appearance. Since founded "Sabi no Wa", such males match to them and work at some kind of progressive activities.

Their wings of ones who have not any abnormalities in their health, continue growing throughout their life. But some of the urban males may cut their wings for ones' jobs or personal reasons. Because their flying ability doesn't make sense so much in urban areas.

Genitalia and Reproduction System

They are oviparous, hence they don't have a navel or breasts. They have cloaca for a function of reproductive and excretory.

Females have an ovulation cycle that occurs every from a few months to half-year, and they will incubate it if there is a possibility of fertilized eggs. They lay one egg at a one time and eggs hatch in 7 to 8 months. Children are taken care of by the main females until hit the adult ceremony.

Females maybe don't have a clitoris. ::Note:: This has not been decided yet.

Males have a slit, and their penile structure is identical to reptiles. Their penis is not normally exposed, even during sexual intercourse. Copulation is possible even if the male does not use the penis as their mating is similar to the intercourse of modern birds from Earth. However, it is still possible for males to expose their penis via special training, but this is done in only urban males, mainly for satisfying the sexual demands and fetishes from other races. Hence urban male prostitutes have achieved allowing to expose their penis at all times or when circumstances require. Due to their cloaca structure along with oviparous nature, urine is not expelled from the penis which is used exclusively for semen.

As an aside, Native Nevreans consider sexual intercourse exclusively for reproductive purposes, and never pursue it for pleasure in any way. See also: Sexuality and reproduction rules in the native Nevrean culture

Unisex Features

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  A Nevrean appearances without feathers.

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  Example of fatty Nevrean and old Nevrean (both of them are female).

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  Male Nevrean Anatomy

They are known as there are big gender differences, but both genders also share some common features as the racial nature of Nevreans. Compared to other Eltus races, their bodies are shorter and thinner, and they lack physical strength. However, they possess remarkable intelligence and manual dexterity. They are skilled in precision engineering but lack the physical endurance needed for labor-intensive mass-production jobs.

• Face

Their beaks take up the center of their faces; the ends of their mouth has the freedom to move, while the beak moves around their eyes. A front of their scalp is a set of smoothly contoured, small swept back "horns". Both genders own small horns above their eyes. Their eyes face forwards, and their eyes are comparatively big.

• Breastbone

Nevreans feature a small breastbone (the keel) or keel similar to that of Sergals in the middle of their chest.

• When got aged

Aged Nevreans show some white feathers sparsely, also some people maybe have chipped wounds in their beak or horns.

• When grown fat

If they grow fat, their chest will have fat than an abdomen, it makes them like a pigeon breast.

Voice and Cries

Both genders have a voice that echoes a lot. Their natural tone oscillates between tenor and soprano.

Basically, though, male voices are high-pitched, and female voices are low-pitched. Both genders are excessively noisy when they quarrel. But females are generally quiet and taciturn due to their traditional culture, and females' throat structure makes them difficult for singing and a tongue twister.

Diet

They are generally carnivorous, but they will eat various seeds, fruits, nuts, and berries depending on what they are able to harvest. Beans are also a staple food.

Females, in particular, will seek out and consume small game animals such as mice, birds, and insects. On occasion, they may hunt and kill larger game up to the size of a deer. Males tend to prefer more tender fare like fruits and worms, but their diet is overall quite similar.

Ecology and Behavior

Urban Nevreans. Female enjoys an email by portable fax, while male talks to her from a window.

They lack physical strength compared to other Eltus races, but they possess remarkable intelligence and manual dexterity. They are skilled in precision engineering but lack the physical endurance needed for labor-intensive mass-production jobs.

Though they are divided into creator males and audience females, both genders greatly value music, arts, and beautiful things. And they consider spiritual sense to music and poem important.

Family and Childcare

Both genders have an equal role in child-rearing. However, the tougher and more serious females take this the most seriously, and males may choose own time to play.

Native Nevreans would feed their young regurgitated foodstuffs. Urban Nevreans make use of commercial food preparations, though they may still feed through regurgitation if they are unable to afford these.

Nevrean Music

All Nevreans love music, as racial sense, and they treat it as an important traditional culture that has been handed down from generation to generation in Nevrean race history. They never forget, abandon it from their culture. Even as for urban areas, musicians and composers include many Nevreans. But we should keep in mind that they show a clear difference according to gender role also in musicality, generally, females devote themselves wholly to audiences, and males become positively creators. And there is a big regional difference in musicality between Native Nevreans and Urban Nevreans;

Native music	No lyrics, and no musical score because there is no text in Nevrea region. They use a traditional musical instrument, and males traditionally provide the melody with their high pitched instrumentation and voice, while females set the rhythm with their lower-pitched voices and percussion performed with their beaks.
Urban music	There are lyrics and musical score, unlike Native music. They use an electronic musical instrument, hence electronic music is the main genre.

Natives songs and music include special spiritual metaphors hiding the "Secret of Vilous". But, those things can understand by only Nevreans. If other races listen to those things, they may get something like "insanity", due to feeling incomprehensible, enigmatic, and arcane against those. Therefore, to prevent the occurrence of such a case, the female Nevreans gene made themselves instinctive secretiveness nature. Then native females unconsciously try to hold their songs and music among only Nevreans.

Many urban male musicians prefer to create electronic music as a matter of course. It is caused by the genetic nature and role of male Nevreans in all probability.

 

Children and Adolescents

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  Nevrean baby.

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  Babies and children of three Eltus races, Sergal, Agudner, and Nevrean.

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  A little girl of Nevrean, features that she is having wings as she is a child.

While Nevreans are known as clear gender difference, all Nevrean children have no gender difference until reach to adult. Male children have a muted gray plumage, and female children have long wings which are able to fly.

Before Puberty

Nevrean offspring are born with a gray and fluffy coat regardless of their gender, a common feature shared by all Eltus races.

Unlike other Eltus race children, they still keep gray plumage whole even passed 2 years of age. They will not begin to show their true colors until puberty.

A females' talons are of a slightly different shape, though this cannot be easily determined before their other gender characteristics begin to show during puberty. In rare cases, this change will not occur at all.

No difference between genders is apparent either physically or in personality prior to puberty. This is reached at around 11-12 years. Nevrean children of both genders may engage in a "play" flight.

::Note:: Whether these times are in Earth years or Tal years has not been decided yet; the difference between the time on Earth and time on Tal also has not been decided yet.

After Puberty

During puberty, their sexual dimorphism begins to become obvious.

Females will continue to gain bone, talons, beak and muscle mass, become increasingly heavy and their flight feathers will eventually fall off naturally, never to regrow new ones since they will no longer be usable for flight. Every Native female cut off their last flight feathers as a coming of age rite, the rite will have been finished by making an arrow with those flight feathers. Adult females vocal cord structure will change, then they become unable to make fine sounds. But due to their childhood experience, they can still identify various sounds and words and understand those deeply.

Males have few differences in physical structure, but they change and regrow their entire plumage to that of beautiful feathers, all at once.

Males will undergo a loss in bone density and their body will become relatively more lightweight and fragile as they approach adulthood. In contrast, females continue to gain bone and muscle mass, thus they require a diet higher in fats and protein while males will develop fine on their usual diet of fruit and tender animal food.

Learning for Adults

Native Nevreans will learn rules for each gender along with strict and formed gender roles of their traditional culture. Read more: Details of learning for adults in native Nevrean culture

Urban Nevreans such as those of Gold Ring will have a less traditional upbringing due to their cultural interaction with Sergals and Agudners.

Weapons and Combat

Main Weapons

Armed Urban Nevreans.

Nevreans specialize in ranged weapons such as bows, crossbows, blowguns, rifles, and slingshots. They can also use knives, stilettos, sabers, and bucklers in close quarters combat.

Their most favored weapon is the bow and arrow. Less skilled individuals may stick to lightweight firearms and knives. They perform best at longer ranges, and while their weapons can be used in the middle range, they are less proficient in this area. Urban Nevreans use relatively light guns, but females can use heavier guns and bows if they are physically capable of handling them.

In Nevrean culture, weapons are considered for female use. But there is not antipathy to males handle bows because archery is a common culture for both genders, and their accuracy with them is on par with females.

In Unarmed Situations (Females)

Talon kicks, bites, scratches, pouncing attacks taking advantage of their sharp appendages and natural agility.

Their strategy is to inflict deep cuts resulting in major blood loss. They show lethal efficiency at close range due to their expertise with knives and melee combat.

Females body is naturally gifted with many natural weapons, far more so than the males. Possessing a rugged physique, large raptor-like talons and strong jaws filled with razor-sharp fangs. Females jaws are stronger than any Sergals' and inflict serious injury.

Talon kicks and knives are the favorite weapons of bandit females.

Combat Style and Ability

Female Nevrean police in Gold Ring, is armed with crossbow.

Nevreans are light and quick, and their jumping ability is excellent due to their lightweight. They can move and change direction in a flash, giving them excellent mobility. Due to their relatively small size, they can negotiate smaller areas than other Eltus races. The tradeoff is that their running speed is outmatched by Sergals, though it still exceeds the Agudners.

An additional weakness is their reduced leg strength and stamina compared to other Eltus races. Their overall physical durability is poor, and they are less likely to survive serious injuries.

Combat is generally the reserve of females, but in urban areas, males may also be employed as bodyguards by merchants. However, they will usually be relegated to rear guards and other areas less in need of protection.

Although physically superior to males, female Nevreans are nonetheless still not as robust as other Eltus races. Consequently, when they encounter primitive creatures, they will attack from the back ranks using ranged weapons. In combat with larger beasts, they will stop short at killing and merely attempt to drive them off. Close to mid-range combat with primitive creatures is beyond the capability of even females.

Due to the location of Nevrea region, combat with other races is a rare occurrence and they are not exposed to the ancient primitive creatures that the Sergals share their territory with. As such, they are not reliant on the resources these creatures provide. In cases where close combat with other races is unavoidable, they will attempt night ambushes, attacking their targets vital areas with their fangs, talons, and knives under the cover of darkness.

Female Nevreans, while lacking in brute strength, may compensate with lethally accurate bow strikes and lacerations with their blades that incur grievous blood loss.

The Case that Males Combat

Males, however, are nearly powerless in direct combat but can serve a support role in a battle. Since some can fly, they can use elevation to their advantage for reconnaissance. Their beak still has the strength that can sever fingers and appendages like cutting pliers, and their piercing and echoing cries can serve as rescue signals, so any friend, ally nearby, or even individual will most likely rush in to see what's going on after hearing it.

Society and Culture

There are notable racial differences in culture and behavior between Native Nevreans and Urban Nevreans.

Nevrea region located in the far west of the planet Tal where is their homeland has been very exclusive and in a state which can be said to be national seclusion or closed country, they have maintained a civilization of their own with only Nevreans for a long time. While the very limited location of Nevrea region such as Vetla had been doing a cultural exchange with only Gold Ring from of old, almost all of overall Nevreans had not known foreign countries and other races at all.

Around RC33 during the World War, Nevreans who were living in Vetla took refuge to Gold Ring and they had fully settled down there when the war is over. These emigrants would lead to prospective Urban Nevreans, and they have experienced a rather difficult time due to different environments and society at first.

After they had experienced many difficulties including racial discrimination matters from the native races of Gold Ring, have completely changed racially under urban cultures. After RC70, they finally got definite and legal 'human rights', and be admitted as "the third race in Gold Ring" side-by-side with native races in Gold Ring, Sergals and Agudners.

Miscellaneous Nevrean Knowledge

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  Three female Nevreans who observe the Sergal's sparring in Shigu land.

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  Chatting males from samples of Vilous Official Art-pack#1

There exists a small number of Nevreans in Shigu territory, but they are generally only workers and merchants captured while traveling the eastern lands. Nevreans would not visit Shigu territory voluntarily due to distance and language. Only a few Native Nevreans, mainly males, have been captured from the western Nevrean lands. Most workers in the Shigu clan are captured from other races with combatants being entirely Sergals. Had captured Nevreans been used in combat, General Rain's invasion of Gold Ring may have been more successful.

There is a misconception that females can be "noisy and foul-mouthed" However such behavior is generally the preserve of the males. Females are wary about the repercussions of careless banter. Female bandits use profanity to curse and bully their victims, or if they have a clear intent to kill. Those who inhabit bars or cantinas may use rough language while drunk or in casual relationships.

Urban and new age Nevrean females are more likely to banter like males as their traditions have faded. Out Ring females are especially foul-mouthed, expressing the emotional pain caused by the loss of their males who is a role to limit their brutality.

Male Nevreans generally like to spread memes, especially urban males who can be fond of gossip and are prone to spreading misinformation, especially when they have access to communication networks. Females may attempt to limit the spread of harmful gossip.

Trivia

Their origin for the name is the anagram of "raven".

About the original base of Nevreans, while their appearances have been described as avians and feathered dinosaurs, but there's also "alien", "doll", and "fairies such as hobbits and dwarfs". Particularly their appearances without feathers are considerably similar to alien. The elements of "alien" and "fairies" show a whole of them, and "doll" mainly shows male Nevreans, which means the abstract concept of "a virtual body such as avatar". In contrast, there is the abstract concept "a physical body in the real world" for females.

At first, their gender differences and role were explained as opposed to humans, but this explanation is wrong as a rigorous concept. Exactly, they display symmetrical natures are similar to the element of Yin-Yang. Meanings of Yang(陽) that corresponds to male Nevreans includes "male principle", and Yin(陰) for females includes "female principle".

Gallery

Females

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  Yun Yagili the urban female Nevrean, one of Canon representative members of the Nevrean race.

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  A female Nevrean.

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  A female Nevrean wearing a gasmask and ready for combat.

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  A female Nevrean.

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  An urban female Nevrean who is living in modern Gold Ring.

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  Bakoto, an urban female Nevrean, lurking somewhere while looking for something.

Males

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  Quu the urban male Nevrean, one of Canon representative members of the Nevrean race.

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  A male Nevrean.

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  An urban male Nevrean who is living in modern Gold Ring.

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  Priley, an urban male Nevrean, and his shop. He is visiting Rain's royal palace and flattering her to encourage to buy merchandise.

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  Aged urban male Nevrean, a babysitter living in modern Gold Ring. He is holding a young child of Sergal.

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  A male Nevrean wearing knives. He lost his tail.

Females and Males

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  Nevrean couple. Kolon the female on the left, and Parsley the male on the right. [Design Notice] As this artwork was drawn in the early stages of Nevrean design construction, the male displays three fingers, however, males in the current standard of the canon design have four fingers.

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  Nevrean couple. The female on the left, and the male on the right.

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  The symbol of Yun Yagili and Quu, showing the contrasting concept of the Nevrean race can compare to Yin-Yang.

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  A practice drawing showing Nevrean genders. Left is female while the right is male.

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  Left is Yun Yagili the female and the right is Quu the male.

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Independence Articles Related to Nevreans

• Nevrea - Region located on Western lands where Nevrean race originated from
• Native Nevreans - Original tribes of the race
• Urban Nevreans - Urbanized people of the race
• Out Ring - Organization of thieves who appear in the desert, mainly composed of female Nevreans