u/EtTuHubris

Homunculi Villager (Axe), Homunculi Villager (Knife), Dwam Scavenger, Sleeper, and Homunculi Guard.

I have other enemy designs that I'm putting through the meat grinder and attempting to improve, make them stick out more etc.

At the moment I'm merely making the enemy battle screen sprites and nothing else, I haven't even started coding. So I mean it when I say *slowly*. Expect to see this project get finished by 2082 😌

Within my high fantasy setting, there are many places in history where a race was either created or diverged from another. From the very start of creation where the first beings were born, the Ondari, Alkari, Inchari, and Beastmen. The main lineage to focus on is that of the Ondari and their descendants. The coupling of the ancient Beastmen and Ondari gave rise to a "hybrid" species later referred to as the Numea or Numari who would eventually diverge into the elves and humans that inhabit the continent of Tulkeyen today.

Humans ans Elves are in essence the same species, and are cousins within an evolutionary taxonomy. The only true differences are phenotypic expressions which tend to be found within one group over another. This is to say that long ears and full sclera that elves usually possess can also be found within humans, and as such human traits can too be found on elves.

At one point in time, dark skin and facial hair was considered a "human" trait, and as such many of the Kuralki Elves were treated under that pretense, giving rise to the Sut-Nualku ethnic group, those elves who were forced to make a pilgrimage from their homeland due to the discrimination they faced, and once arriving within the Uanalkan Desert, took refuge there and eventually diverged into the many ethnic groups that remain there today.

Nowadays, facial hair and dark skin is considered a shared trait, and Kuralki Elves are considered as elves again. But the confusion still doesn't end there. Another group of Kuralki Elves are the Ilkemari who live on the coast of the Uanalkan Desert, and the only real way to differentiate them from the similarly dark skinned Baazmen race is by their long ears, as Ilkemari Elves tend to have "human" eyes with a distinct pupil, iris, and cornea.

The Ulkithi ethnic group is a mix of Kuralki Elves and Baazmen Humans, who all but their ears appear similar to one another. The Ulkithi Elves will carve their ears down to a rounded form like that of a humans to avoid being targeted by Nerethi Human slavers, all while the Ulkithi Humans protect them from potential harassment.

In the West you can find the Teymen, who are considered human by the Teyoni Elves, and treat them as impurities within their land. But the Teymen appear too "elvish" from their exceptionally pale skin and full blue sclera and as such the Numen race who inhabits the south west want nothing to do with them either, unless it is to take them as slaves. As such the Teymem are sometimes referred to as vagrant elves, who have no home and nowhere to go.

The truth of the matter is merely a long history of racism and eugenics which has encouraged the thinking of elves and humans as distinct beings, besides culture and some physical appearances, humans and elves are one in the same. Born from the same Numea race, and able to sire offspring with each other, with traits appearing on one another. It would take many years to fix the fear and hatred that has built up due to mere appearances.