Races
| Race | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Aakad da'Estra | Other |
Nonhuman race prominent in the Second Terran Empire. |
| AI/Robot | Gathered Worlds Sapient, Scattered Worlds Sapient, Terran Sapient |
Artificial intelligences of all kinds. |
| Ashtoki | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
A Daamin attempt to breed a super-race, the Ashtoki are lemur-like centaurs with faun-like features. They have enhanced general telepathic sensitivity. |
| Avethellan | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
One of the most cultured races of the Scattered Worlds |
| Bitlannen | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
A Scattered Worlds race that had a brief flowering some time before the rise of Avethell. |
| Bitterwood | Scattered Worlds Flora |
Hlutr name for a type of tree common in the Scattered Worlds. |
| Camelope | Scattered Worlds Fauna |
Large, swift mammals native to Helox. |
| Cats | Terran Fauna |
Small carnivorous mammal native to Terra. |
| Cetaceans | Terran Sapient, Terran Fauna |
Any of a number of aquatic mammals native to Terra. Some are of high intelligence, others are sub-sapient. |
| Children of Lavarren | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Scattered Worlds race which flourished c. 500 million BCE. |
| Children of Lost Time | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Builders of extremely sophisticated artificial intelligences |
| Coruma | Gathered Worlds Sapient |
The "Master Race": roughly Humanoid. Technologically advanced but not technocratic. Love the stars and draw most power from the suns. Ancestors of Humans, Metrinaire, Heloxans, Dolphins, etc. |
| Cratons | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Continent-sized silicon lifeforms |
| Cyborgs | Gathered Worlds Sapient, Scattered Worlds Sapient, Terran Sapient |
Creatures who are part-biological, part-cybernetic. Not a specific race, but often considered race-like. |
| Daamin | Gathered Worlds Sapient, Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Small in number and stature, peaceful and philosophic. |
| Dareta h'Lamoth | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Flying race with limited precognitive ability |
| Dawn People | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Native inhabitants of Sebya; candidates for successor race to the Hlutr. |
| Deities | Other |
Transcendent beings, often considered sacred or divine. |
| Digantra | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Ammonia-based continent-size colonies of smaller organisms. |
| Dogs | Terran Sapient, Terran Fauna |
Small carnivorous mammal native to Terra. |
| Elder Spirit | Other |
Mysterious, long-lived entities whose exact nature is unknown (and possibly unknowable). The Elder Spirits were venerated in the Pylistroph and before. |
| Evellan | Gathered Worlds Sapient |
Arthropod-like, somewhat like Coruma but less inteligent. |
| Folk of a Thousand Suns | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Huge, long-lived space-dwelling race |
| Ganremra | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Dayside race on the planet Ymfrex |
| Grand Starwoods | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Continet-size sapient trees floating free in a gas giant's atmosphere |
| Great Apes | Terran Sapient |
Nonhuman hominids native to Terra. Some are sub-sapient, others are sapience-enhanced. |
| Halira | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Aquatic race, plesiosaur-like, of the planet Ottansey. |
| Hamsters | Terran Fauna |
Small mammals, popular as pets in Terran cultures, especially spacers. In particular, it is customary for every inhabited starship to have a hamster. |
| Hchevidiire | Gathered Worlds Sapient |
Very large (elephant-size or larger). Live in mountainous regions and arctic tundra, sometimes used as beasts of burden by Coruma. |
| Heloxans | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Ancient, psi-powered race from Helox |
| Hlutr | Gathered Worlds Sapient, Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Sessile plant intelligences, communicate by changing colors in leaves & skin, by sound, and by the Inner Voice. Light-sensitive, some varieties carnivorous, highly empathic. |
| Human (fey) | Terran Sapient |
Humans with inherited psi abilities. |
| Human (mundane) | Terran Sapient |
Human without psi abilities. |
| Iaranori | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Scattered Worlds race, known as the originators of the Galactic Riders. The Empire of the Iaranor (c. 600 million years ago) was the first great Scattered Worlds empire. |
| Ice Dancers | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Short-lived race native to Inse. |
| Jazzberry | Scattered Worlds Flora |
Sweet berry native to Helox |
| Kareffi | Gathered Worlds Sapient |
Aquatic, ocean-dwelling, non-technological. |
| Keiman | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Sapient race native to the planet T Keimai. |
| Kelf | Scattered Worlds Fauna |
Nonsapient food source of the Sebhra, kelf are physically indistinguishable from the Qreen. |
| Keritha | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
A Qreen-like race native to Narac |
| Lalla-Pili | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Scattered Worlds race in charge of cuisine on Nephestal |
| Marpethtalan | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Large (whale-size) mammalian aliens, citizens of the Marpethtalan Empire. |
| Mehbis Folk | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Microscopic organisms that developed a civilization as part of a single ecological unit within the Mehbis Star Cluster. |
| Metrinaire | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Six-limbed mammals with two equally-developed brains |
| Minstrel Fish | Scattered Worlds Fauna |
Nonsapient fish said to produce some of the most beautiful music known. |
| Narbidrans | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Mature race with unusual sensitivity to the Hlutr Inner Voice. |
| Qreen | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Large hamsters with group minds |
| Reefs of Etile-viedel | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Aquatic beings with a two-stage lifeform and eternal memory. |
| Remra | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Nightside race on the planet Ymfrex |
| Sebhra | Gathered Worlds Sapient |
A Gathered Worlds race, the "Enemy" of the Qreen. |
| Skogs | Scattered Worlds Flora |
Sessile, telepathic, carnivorous inhbitants of Tyra Kiernath |
| Smokefish | Scattered Worlds Fauna |
Delicious fish from Tethys |
| Sssassp'kit | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
A reptilian Scattered Worlds race. |
| Tacanbeest | Scattered Worlds Fauna |
Large, sluglike predator on Phuctra |
| Talebba | Gathered Worlds Sapient, Scattered Worlds Sapient |
Crystalline, sessile intelligences with long life spans and appreciation of geological processes. Often spaceborne. |
| Treplithan | Scattered Worlds Sapient |
A Scattered Worlds race with telepathic sensitivity. |
| Unknown/unspecified race | Other |
A catch-all category for individuals of unknown or unspecified race. |
| Virgan | Other |
A catch-all term for races native to the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. |
| Vragnic | Gathered Worlds Sapient |
Mutated version of the Daamin created by the Core to test Humans |
| Wolves | Terran Fauna |
Large sub-sapient canine native to Terra. |