OvWils

OvWil is the common name for a strange race of beat-like anthropods that lived on the Greater Continent in the time of the Mage Wars.

History

Early History

The origins of the OvWils are not known. No records of them exist during the Age of Darkness, yet references to them from the earliest periods of the First Chaotic Period show that the population was widespread at this time.

Ancient wall frescos from early Greater Antiquity depict beings that might be OvWils. Some Scholars also claim that they are the Visseers mentioned in the Book of Lore. However, like many such subjects of the book, this identification is hotly debated.

There also exists very ancient statuary in M'KHara that bare strong resemblance to OvWils, but to date no skeletal remains have been found in that region.

Later History and Extinction

Evidence indicates that OvWils were mostly slaughtered wholesale during the Second Chaotic Period as there percieved future-sight ability was thought to be more dangerous than useful. Persecution of isolated OvWil communities continued after the wars drew to a close, and by the mid Golden Age they are believed to have been fully extinct.

The Gudersnipe Foundation has in archives three well-preserved OvWil bodies; two ice mummies and one kept in preservatives. They further have over three hundred skeletons and a catalogue of some fifteen thousand artifacts.

Magical Capabilities

Ovwils are a species that have taken up residence in remote areas of the north. They prefer mountains and high cliffs. Generally hard to reach places. They are a tad alarming at first withcurled horns that look to be carved from stone, their smooth flat features and their large eyes. Not to mention the thin sparse fur that grows over much of their body. While they where originally thought by other races to be beasts they are a gentle species with deep spiritual beliefs and a power to look beyond our plane of existence. While their ancestors could see other planes as clear as your hand in front of you the modern Ovwils will see glimpses and hear widowed from these other planes of existence. This gives them an advantage to perception checks against most anything except for humans themselves.

The Ovwils try to keep away from Humans as they have a rather violent and deceptive nature. Ovwils are honest and have the inability to deceive others. This is why they are so trusting in the words of others and cannot tell if a human isn't telling the truth. They can sense a rock being thrown at them a second after its left the asailents hand but if a human says the sky is magenta well then clearly this human sees the sky as magenta and must be looked after due to its strange color vision.

While the Ovwils avoid violence at all cost they are trained to subdue both with staffs and rope as well as Magic.

I'll draw one up when I can. I imagine them kind of like Beast from beauty and the beast but not as animal and more human

Actually they're called Ovwils because when they originally came here they where referred to as off worlders. They came via magic not science. They where generally enslaved during the mate wars and seen as a hot comodity because even though their perceptive abilities have waited over the years they where thought to be able to see the future. Total bullshit but still. They're generally thought to be extinct after the magenwars but they're really just in hiding. I picked the giant cliffs on the north western area of the continent because I have this awesome idea for how they build settlements off the cliffs. They're hard to reach and kinda camoflauged.

The horns are giant but small wouldn't work for the design for the one I have in my head. His is like the gazelles with the twisted horns. They look like marble and Quartz though.

They're kind of like your version of Munks. Or airbenders lol since the age wars takes a major toll on their population.

Cileans librarian in her castle is a Ovwil named Sylus. He's everything you would want in a librarian and a companion. He also has an affinity for waistcoats