Zeyphr2012's Field Guide to Firis/Fauna

Fauna is another word for the animals that live in this world. This planet is burning with life, so not all the creatures discovered will be listed...

Aviraptor
Scientific Name: Raptorias Avia (Bird-Raptor)

Lifespan: 100 Years Earth Time, 1000 years Crystalian Time

Sentience: Ranges from Animal to Civil

Aviraptors are bird/velociraptor hybrids that originated on the planet Crystalia. They were a space-faring race there, so their sentience on Firis doesn't fall too far from the tree. "Wild" Aviraptors have spikes running down their backs, a clubbed tail, and green antennae that is used to communicate while hunting in a pack. "Sentient" Aviraptors, however, have traded these for the classic clubs, spears, swords, and what have you.

The cobalt scales that cover the Aviraptor can be moved to its will. It can puff these out, withdraw them, shift them different directions, or shuffle them. Making an Aviraptor mad will make it puff its scales out to make it seem larger. Getting too close to an angry Aviraptor most certainly means a quick and painful death. They will use the sharp front teeth to bite, and gripping the stomach while flapping its blue, feathery wings attracts more Aviraptors to attack. Very few survive an Aviraptor attack, but since Aviraptors are naturally docile, it is very rare that they will attack.

The characteristic wings on an Aviraptor are actually from natural selection. In the ancient world of Crystalia, a radioactive meteor slammed into the crust and blocked out the sun on the lower ground. Several velociraptors were living in the area, and the radioactivity cause all their children to have beautiful, birdlike wings. These wings were controllable, and with them, the velociraptors could jump higher and reach the only surviving prey they had left. Eventually, they evolved greater wings, and later learned how to fly. At this time, these velociraptors were carnivorous, until meat soon became scarce.

A nest of Aviraptors lies in the forest, slowly starving. One desperate Aviraptor decided to eat a fruit. Despite the protests of his nestmates, he goes and eats it anyway. It turns out to be really, really good. Other Aviraptors decided to try the fruit, too, and they like it as well. It was then that they had unlocked their omnivorous potential and became omnivores.

Eventually, they evolved into Tribal, then to Civil, and soon Space. They were very powerful and had allied nearly every new empire they had met, creating a star system known as "The Circle".

===Migration to Firis===

A group of sentient Aviraptors is on a spaceship, dancing their butts off. They don't pay attention to where they're going and get caught in Firis' gravitaional pull. They're partying too hard to hear the alarm and eventually crash into a tree, knocking half of them out.

The half that was knocked out reverted to being wild, while the other half simply became Civil, having no spaceship to return home on. As the years passed, some of the wild ones entered Tribal, so now we have wild, tribal, and civilized Aviraptors. Whoopee doo.

When the Crystalian Aviraptors found out what happened, they did a full-scale planetary survey and decided the master race there is harmless, so they made allies with Firis, although they had not reached Space yet.

Only one thing was said about them. "Oh, you silly Bards."

Tinytuft
Scientific Name: Microscopus Avia (Tiny Bird)

Lifespan: 80 years Earth Time, 800 years Crystalian Time

Sentience: Wild

Tinytufts are small birds that can run very fast and fly very far. They are popular pets on Firis because of their utter fluffiness. ITSH SHO FLUFFEH! :D

These little guys are pretty much the Pidgeys of Firis, being very common and very small. Even their scientific name proves it (Pidgey is the Tiny Bird Pokemon).

You cannot make a Tinytuft angry. It does not know anger. You can only either make it happy or sad. However, injuring it will make the Tinytuft try to injure you back. Their claws are sharp and can slice through skin, but as pets, their claws are dulled and clipped so that they are unable to kill.

Squeel
Scientific Name: Parasitis Domesticus (Domestic Parasite)

Lifespan: Varies from planet to planet

Sentience: Pet

Squeels are small, spherical creatures that are popular as pets. They have many subspecies and are tripedal. Their scientific name comes from their original name, Parasite, since they are insectlike, but the youngest one can fit in a bottle cap and the eldest is as large as a palm. The spike near their bottom is actually a stinger that delivers a highly toxic poison that can paralyze the nervous system and kill you within an hour.