Tribe Seslen

Found mainly on Mahar 1 (forest)The smallest build and wing size.

Wings are uniformly feathered, and are usually about 1/2 the distance from head to feet (on a 7’ tall male, their wings will average around 3-4’ from leading edge to flight tip). Brightly colored feathers usually descend in a rainbow from edge to body, and are often dominated by purples, blues and pinks. Their wings are not nearly as large as some; they cannot fly, but some can glide for extremely short distances.

Skin color is usually very pale to light tan, hair goes from a rich brown to silvery blond-white.

Eye color can be from dark green to pale blue, never darker.

Avian arms’ coloration also spreads to chest and neck area, the scaley skin for some reason being more apparent on this tribe -- the colors are often those found on the leading edge of the wings.
Feline arms tend to be either dramatically darker than the avian, or a shade lighter, but rarely an entirely different color.

Seslen tribe members are usually found in the lower reaches of forested lands, on farms, and in urban settings and they have no innate claustrophobia.

-- A note -- females outnumber males in this tribe by three to one.

Tribe Ahalo

Mainly on Mahar 1

Of a medium size, barely bigger and barely distinguished from the Seslen. They share the same basic appearance as the Seslen, generally blond haired and blue eyed, with bright wings.

Their wings are larger -- aproximately 3/4 body length, and are distinct by the fact that they have a stiff wrist covered in leathery skin, and a hook-finger at the top and a second just passing the secondary feathers, the feathers are usually 4-5 colors, with the primaries being the largest and all the same color. They are able to glide for short distances.

Also, this tribe has a second color of fur on the tuft of their tail, usually a darker version of the hair, but sometimes a contrasting color.

This is a very new tribe, only distinct for about 500 years.

Tribe Aphern

From Mahar 1 and 3.

Tallest and most slender of the avian-winged Humanoid tribes, Aphern are also usually blond to red-haired, with red to brown eyes, occasionally green; and light skinned, but several instances of dominant-gene breeding has led to dark-skinned and black haired versions (usually on Mahar 3).

The wing size on Aphern is up to 100% of height, occasionally larger. They are able to fly -- hence their slight build. The wrist and leading edge of the wing is a scaley skin, with hook-finger only at the folding wrist. Wrist skin is often the same color as the bright feathers directly beside it. Some primaries have been seen at up to 4 feet in length, and these are usually in many colors.

Occasional instances of the chest-coloration have occurred, but are very uncommon.

Their arm coloration is often brown, green or dark blue.

Females outnumber males by about 1.5 to one, identical (or near-identical) twins are common. Aphern live in tall forest areas, and occasionally in high mountain aeries, open to the air. They are the most curious about human affairs of the K’thari, and often involve themselves in local government or business - as long as it occurs outside...

Tribe Aich’i

Primarily found on Mahar 2 and 3

Largest physically and most varied in appearance of the humanoid tribes.

With small, heavy leathery wings, they are unable to even glide. The wings are very bat-like in appearance, with two hook-fingers at wrist and primary areas. The wrist-leather color is uniformly brown, but can vary in intensity. Wings are often two striking colors, one in the high fold near the wrist, the other filling out the wing. Hook color is directly connected to arm coloration.

More Aich’i are dark-skinned than light, the lighter are often red-headed, or white-haired.

Aich’i are most likely to have different colors of arms.

Eye color varies from violet to brown, red and blue, greens and rarely black.

Aich’i live primarily on flatlands, jungle, and urban settings. They are used to human habitation, and are more likely to join any human ventures.

Tribe Chiroko

Usually from Mahar 3

Smaller than the Aich’i, but are a new (within 600 years) version of an intermediate breed.

With thinner wrist-bone and only one hook-finger, their wings are often as much as 3/4 height. Wings have two colors. Wrist color is varied, but still usually brown, orange or yellow. They can glide, but often they weigh too much for the wings to carry them.

Most are dark skinned, but few are appearing blond.

Eye color is from brown, yellow, green, occasionally red.

They are equally as likely to have arms with complimentary colors as contrasting.

Twins are most common.They are often found in urban settings, and are quick to learn technology, unusual in K’thari.

Tribe Daioko

Primarily Mahar 1

With wings the largest of the leather-winged tribes. Like the Aich’i their wrist-part of the wing is uniformly brown or matching their humanoid skin tone. They have two colors on the wings, with the greater part starting beneath the wrist, the smaller color patch is at the edge. Their wings can support short flights, and must be kept moist or well tended.

Their skintone reaches the darkest brown, with pale or light colors occuring less than 10% of the births.

Hair on darkest skinned individuals may range a silvery-blue to deep black.

They have complimentary colored arms.

Eye color is red, orange and yellow, with occasional green.

Daioko are mostly found in very wet climates, caverns and rainforests.

Tribe Heli

Mainly found Mahar 3

A cross between Aphern and Daioko, the long, leather-tipped wings with feathers down from the wrist, one hook-finger each. Wing size is up to 100% height and flight is possible and likely.

Skintone is usually dark, Instances of chest coloration exist.

Hair is black to silver and brown, eye color is red and violet.

Arm color is always complimentary, and usually dark.

This Tribe is less than 1000 years old. These individuals are often viewed as outcasts, but make little attempt to fit in in their own tribes. Many of these have left their homeworld.

Tribe Apthi

Found on all three moons.

A cross between Aich’i and Seslen, wing size is 1/2 to 3/4 height, giving a gliding ability. Wings are compact, with the leathery patch being the area beneath the wrist, and feathers covering the lower parts. The feathers are in complimentary shades to the wrist and patch, and are usually very long (as primaries, seemingly without any secondaries or other feathers).

Skintone is generally fair to medium, with hair everywhere from silver to red, to dark brown.

Eye color varies considerably.

One of the oldest mixes, with evidence that they were cross-breeding among tribes about as long as they have had tribes. They do breed true but may also lead to 'throwbacks' of their foundation traits. Fraternal twins are common.

These are the most often seen in spaceports, forest and deserts, they’re everywhere.

Avian Tribes

Living exclusively in heavy forest and rainforest of Mahar 2, the single remaining tribe of Avian K’thari is dwindling rapidly. They unfortunately do not survive well with pollution and are fearful at best of human or alien contact.

They live only around 120 years, and are at most 70% as large as the humanoid race. They are generally of a squat build, but hollow-boned, and their wings while slightly less than 75% height are extremely strong and usually support them on long flights. They have a single very sharp hook finger on the wrist of the wing, and the feathers are usually yellows, greens and browns.

Arms are contrasting colors only, and their feline arms are more humanoid than pawlike. Their talons are often opposed.

The faces of the Avian race are wide, with a sharp, long nose, and a small horizontal mouth. Feathers grow from the cheeks of adults, usually in a color near their head hair. Their eyebrows also are more like feathers than hair.

They have feathery down on their legs, which proves uncomfortable for them if they are forced to wear any clothing.

Their tails have feathers around the base as well as the tuft of fur, in a brighter color.

They are light to medium skinned, The avian race has its own language, and they do not tend to learn human concepts well. The birth rate of the Avian race is in such a decline that it is estimated within 100 years the race will be functionally extinct.