Frontier Canos

Hailing from a low-to-moderately magical world where they were among the smallest of beings, the Canos- a race of anthropomorphic canids to the tune of wolves, jackals, african wild dogs, and dingos- are a people almost as culturally diverse as humanity, despite their medieval levels of development: considerable gender equality, high tolerance of ethnic, religious, and social minorities, lots of religion and government funded social care programs, etc. The wolvish ethnicities of your race are very much analogous to the Western European civilizations, the jackals to Middle Eastern and North African ones, the wild dogs to mid-and-southern African regions, and the dingos to various Pacific societies. Most of your people live in culturally sophisticated constitutional monarchies, parliamentary democracies, and the occasional theodemocracy. They followed mostly monotheistic faiths involving a variety of prophets, saviors, and saints; though some preferred more shamanistic traditions based on ancient heritage. Your people evolved and grew alongside the Amphos, for the most part enjoying cordial relations with them.

Your world was a savage one, filled with colossal beasts and titanic natural growths that made the forests your people were accustomed to impossible to ever truly tame, even with the use of nature magic. Any cities built had to be surrounded by massive walls protected by heavily armed knights, cannoneers, dragoons, and other sorts of elite specialists. There was rarely time for the Canos to war with each other or with their Amphos neighbors because of the dangers the world presented; having the ability to declare war on anyone is quite a luxury when it is a common occurrence for wyverns or rocs or other colossal monsters to decimate critical farming communities and fortresses. So working together and making cultural progress came much more naturally to the Canos. The liberties of the individual are just as celebrated and important as the needs of the community- one cannot work without the other to support it. Usually, at least. Not every Canos nation held such ideals, but the most prosperous ones did and in turn were frequently emulated by their peers.

Canos Stats:

Medium, Land Speed 30 ft, Humanoid (Canid). +2 Con, -2 Cha. Camouflage: Canos gain a +2 racial bonus to Hide checks made in forests. Motion Tracker: Canos have sharp eyes that quickly detect movement, giving them a +2 racial bonus on sight-based perception checks. Kaiju Survivors: +2 racial Dodge bonus against Gargantuan and larger creatures; this bonus is lost if their Dexterity bonus is denied to them. Forest Folk: Survival is always a class skill for Canos, regardless of actual class. Favored Class: Fighter.

Canos favor fashions and aesthetics similar to 15th century Eurasia and African designs based on ethnic subgroup.

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