Faleighs or
ffaleighs (
Mutt hasn't quite decided--either way, it's pronounced "fallies"), Shade's 'humans', are bipedal humanoids and one of
Shade's
five major races.
They are taller than ferais and shorter than rocca. Their blood is red and their skin tone depends on both this and climate.
They are very similar to various alien species called humans, but completely genetically incompatible.
Appearance
They have fine hair. Their ears are rounded, not pointed, and usually have separate lobes. They're pretty much like
offworld humans in most physical respects, but don't assume that their biology,
disease susceptibility and so on will be the same.
Faleigh skin is pinkish ranging to rich brown (varying with area of origin, as with ferais, srolli and voks). Hair ranges from blond to dark brown or from russet to brown. Eyes can be anything from orange to brown, green to brown, blue or grey.
Species idiosyncrasies
Faleighs are known for being the most sexually promiscuous of the five races and (like
ferais) intuitive and artistic. In mixed-species areas they tend to be stereotyped as dumb muscle, especially in places where
rocca aren't known well enough to inherit this stereotype, or "daddy's girls"/"mummy's boys", faleigh children being slower to mature than anyone else except srolli. (Note that though this is the common perception, it is a generalisation and is not true in all cases.)
Magical ability is reasonably common in faleighs, and they are the most likely of the five races to have telepathy (though this is still very rare).
Ethnicities
Faleigh characters
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