Faun

Description

Fauns possess an almost elf-like appearance, but they are marked with antlers and animal-like legs. Hair ranging from green, brown, grey or white, and eyes with usually yellow, orange, and green irises. They are roughly the same height as humans, though their bodies are typically lean and springy, built for movement and agility, enabling them to climb or move through rough terrain, such as mountains. Their most iconic features are two: their horns, which grow after birth and vary widely in size and shape. They can grow long and spiralled, like deer antlers, or short and straight; in some cases, they can also be spiralled, like goat horns. Their animalistic, digitigrade legs either appear goat-like or deer-like, covered in fur from their waist down to their hooves.

To the Fauns, there is no such thing as impassable terrain. Marshes, scree slopes, tangled underbrush: all are walked with nimble ease. Their hooves grip where boots slip, and their balanced frames can dart through bramble or shale without pause. They are at home in places that may force armies to turn back and confound maps.

Personality 

Fauns can be found living in cities, though their antlers and legs may give them a wild appearance to other citizens, along with their deep attachment to nature. Some have overcome this and are fine members of civilised society, but even then, Fauns are usually found in the countryside of cities more than anywhere else. Fauns don’t process the world the same as humans do. They usually value intuition and balance over structure and law, which gives them a rigid and suffocating view of society. Though Fauns who live in cities see the world differently. Even then, they usually have a core belief that life needs to be experienced in the wilderness, not controlled.