Historical
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Fox
Advantages
Fox
Foxes have the racial advantages Accute Hearing (2), Night Vision,
Claws, and very thin Fur (no advantages) . In addition, Fox gain one of
the following, based on their fur color:
Red fox ST +1
Blue IN +1
Orange DX +1
Gold Status(1) and Charisma(1)
(At this time there are no stats for black or white fox.)
Psychology
The Fox as a whole are not 'evil' in any sense of the word, just curious and too smart for their own good. Most of them would prefer to live their lives as they want to and most do without any limits. The scientists are free to explore any avenue they want to as long as it might benefit the monarchy, at least, that's how it has been for a very long time.
Culture
A name was an earned title and brought with it wealth and honor. It was something that every Cyantian Fox strove for, to uphold the past. A name was an heirloom passed on through the generations, as priceless as platinum and as long lasting as diamonds.
The Guttouve are the Gutter Fox, the lowest of those in the Fox caste system. Those are the ones whose desires do not match the colors of the fur they were born into.
There was a difference in Foxes who lived in the city compared to those from the country. City Fox were hardened to their conditions. They were more likely to take bribes and be only concerned with themselves. Country Foxes were softer, a bit naïve and they wanted to change the world.
Fox guards who take bribes are refered to as "Black Hands"
Politics
The Fox people have ever since their first King, a White Fox, followed a caste system in day to day life, wherein, fur color dictates rank and jobs. Higher castes only talk to lower castes to order them around. The lower castes must always obey those higher then they.
It started when the Fox seperated themselves from the others, in 155. Genetically, they higher Cast colors are superior so that's why it was set up. Genetics of course, don't know good or evil and those in charge originally manipulated it to their advantage. The original leaders didn't quite have the best interests of their people in mind, just themselves. The throne has been tossed back and forth between militant white foxes, red foxes, golds, silvers, black, etc to a point that a white Fox is a preferred ruler, but the throne doesn't know a set caste. Whomever has the gold fox in their hands is who will have the power. If they're smart, they brainwash those below them at a young age, at least, that's how most Fox operate.
Occasionally, you have good leaders, like Medici.
The current King, Kiet, is much different from the past, but since the
past weighs heavily still on the people's minds. King Kiet's father took
over the thrown through coup and the use of the Golden Fox, who moved
up in rank to take the top caste just underneath the king himself. Both
Kiet and his father are a reelly dark red with black points. Kiet has
a few extra black markings around his eyes. Once Kiet's father took the
throne, he called himself a Royal Red Fox and set himself apart from the
normal reds. From that point, the system was put into extremes by the
Golden Fox who went about to kill off all those with white, silver and
black fur. (Wasn't very hard, there were only a half dozen white furred
fox, a dozen silvers and maybe a hundred or so black fox.) Of course,
just killing them off doesn't stop them from being born as any gold fox
pair could have any of the three as offspring.
Kiet's father was a tyrant and killed his mother before Kiet's eyes when he was a tiny kit barely able to remember it. Family life wasn't that great either, several of his father's other wives and their male kits as they got older kept on trying to kill the king, and take the throne, and were killed for it. Kiet wasn't interested in taking the throne. He didn't want it either, because of all this trouble he saw. *Consequently, he's the first born kit and the ONLY male to live. Among the Fox, the king chooses who succedes him and it's not always a firstborn son.. or a son at all. Queens are equally acceptable.*
Even though the system is abolished, mental habits die hard. The list below is the current standings and the correct standings, although it has been warped as a whole in the past.
White The leader caste of the Fox. They are very rare and all are descendants of Elite Fox.
Silver Secondary caste of the Fox. These are also rare and descendants of Elite Fox. Advisors, personal body guards.
Black Tertiary caste of the Fox. Not nearly as rare as the White and Silvers, but almost hunted to extinction by the Golden Fox. Descendants of Elite Fox.
Gold Genetic descendants of the Elite Fox. These server as bounty hunters, law enforcers and imperial guards. They tend to be very single minded, stubborn and persistant in anything they do. For awhile, they were part of a genocidal push to rid their race of impurities, namely, the White, Silver and Black Fox, without knowing that they themselves, also carried the legacy of the Elite Fox at a much lesser level, but far above normal Fox.
Orange Your normal every day fox in color. Architects, artisans, scientists and high level working class.
Blue Another normal Fox, rarer than the Orange, Red and Goldens. These served in professional areas such as medicine, engineering and tactics. Blue and orange share their class as equals.
Red The second largest class and the base rung of the Fox people. These are the farmers, merchants and heavy labor workers, as well as basic troops, pilots and militia.
Gouttouve Below the bottom rung... those Fox whose color doesn't match their class profession. This is the largest class. They are not permitted to own anything within the cities, and are delegated to doing jobs that nobody else wants. They usually serve as woodfoxes, hunters, cooks, smaller merchants, herbalists and a menagerie of smaller jobs.
A plague brought about by the caste has almost all but wiped out the
Fox, leaving only a handful in comparison to a mighty kingdom that once
was. 99.94 percent of all fox in Vixinte (their capital city) were wiped
out. All told there are maybe 100,000 fox in existance. Currently, Fox
in general are scattered, with the Fox on Cyantia being pooled together
under their new king and future queen, Tira. Uniting them is a horrendous
job, one which Princess Tira Wrashoen will be helping out in by marrying
King Kiet. Tira is at the Academy to help promote unity among their race
and with others.
The main threat to the peace are the Foxes who are NOT on the planet.
They're grouping together into a small rebellion to keep the old ways
and to continue advancing scientifically in the areas of genetic tampering.
Family
Births among the Fox, range from 1 to 2 kits equally. Identical twins are very rare.
Technology
Foxes tend to lag a short distance behind the Wolves in most fields,
because most of their technology is in fact stolen from the Wolves. The
one area where they uniformly surpass the Wolves is in genetic enhancement
mainly because the Wolves don't ALLOW the experimentation that goes on
with the Fox. The foxes have created wildly inappropriate things with
their genetic labs.
As bad as Exotica Genoworks is, they don't create for the purposes of
a pleasure pet. Of course, enforcing that is something they don't do because
they can't. They just don't intend them to be used for those purposes.
They're weird, they have no qualms about playing with genetic codes, but
do have a sense of what's right and wrong. They consider it O.K. for someone
to enslave another for a short period of time as long as they don't actually
'own' them and they are guaranteed that their product will not be violated.
They're genetic artists, and they tend to believe that art is best seen
and not touched.
The Fox are also the masters of the techno-mages. They've perfected the
use of a small mobile fusion reactor as an additional weapon and a very
useful one at that.
Fox Guards are typically armed with swords and control rods. Those on assignment, or traveling in dangerous regions will be equiped with energy bows.
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