Characters, Ethnicities, and Cultures
Version 0.7 - This is derived from the Zoonbats Production Guide and may contain spoilers.
Characters and Personal Histories
- Murray Sepulveda
- Ricardo Covington
- Myra Fine
- Caitrin
- Cedzik
- Dieko
- Doe
- Esan
- Fal
- Giullia
- Kel Cole
- Kemi
- Kina
- Lumas
- Marli
- Me'Rao
- Menet
- Mr. Vickerts
- Nora
- Oazmi Ioma
- Pazil
- Raim
- Ria
- Shae
- Stu
- "Thirsty Coin" Grady
- Yura
- Zouna
Main Characters
Wayne Molly
As the story begins, Wayne is traveling in the Northern Lands of Ruma, far from his hometown of Haquel. Until recently, he paid the bills by working as a clerk on the graveyard shift at an all-night liquor store called Liquor 24. While on break at this job, he met Toast Duerr, a dishwasher and line cook at a neighboring all-night restaurant called Plisken's, and the two quickly became good friends. On his nights off, Wayne continued to play drums and would occasionally sit in with small jazz combos at local nightclubs. However, Wayne has not been fully committed to improving as a musician, as he essentially views it as pointless outside of the specific methods taught by the Vsai Kuranai orthodoxy he was born into and which subsequently shunned him after the age of 5. He formed a vague goal of saving up enough money to go to college, but was unable to do so. In order to be able to save more money, at the age of 20, he moved into an abandoned factory building nearby that was largely adapted into a shared residence by a small community of squatters.
Wayne's life in his early 20s is a mixture of pleasant friendship, inconsistent commitment to musicianship, and frustration at his economic limitations. By chance, he encountered the trombonist Myra Fine repeatedly late at night, and the two became friends. However, Wayne was eventually spooked by Myra's insightful urgings for Wayne to get back on his path to musical mastery. In part because of his over-use of the medicinal/recreational herb Syff, Wayne became paranoid and began to wonder if Myra Fine might be a ghost, since seemingly no one else was ever around during the times he would see her. Eventually he began to avoid her.
One night in late Winter/early Spring 3330, however, Myra Fine forced Wayne to listen to a song known as “Djiurna-Miusjn Surkura Qurorin Djunadir” (“the Djiurna” for short) which caused Wayne to have an intense vision in which he remembered the events of the Silnai Domestic Security forces destroying Thirty Coin's farm when he was a young child.
Following this visionary event, Myra tried to convince Wayne that his path towards becoming a master musician was not over, if he would practice more. Wayne still believed that, because the Vsai would not allow him back into their tutelage, it was futile. However, he did begin to research historical documents in order to try to understand what led to the attack on the farm. In the course of his research, he learned that the states of Sunnh, Disan, and Ceb had complied with the BTC's wishes and had outlawed organic agriculture. Only the state of Ruma continued to resist and openly grow organic crops. He also learned of a resistance organization called SOAR (Silnai Organic Agriculture Resistance) and he wanted to find out if they had any information on what had happened to Thirsty Coin and the other adults at the farm – in particular, Fal and Cedzik, the two who had brought him to safety. With this goal in mind, he quit his job at Liquor 24 in the late Spring of 3330 and traveled to Ruma to work at organic henchberry orchards and ask around for information about SOAR. As the story begins, Wayne is now leaving from that work and intending to meander back to Haquel.
In Chapter 3, Wayne told Murray some of his personal history: Wayne was taught within the Vsai Kuranai orthodoxy as a young child, and as was standard, he was guided by a single mentor (title: “Jurai Sonsuraiun”) assigned by the Vsai. That mentor was named Thurston Colin Grady, nicknamed by the very young Wayne as “Thirsty Coin.” In addition to mentoring Wayne, Thirsty Coin was an organic farmer who ran an orchard for an heirloom crop known as henchberries. Henchberries are believed to have psychoactive and/or spiritual properties.
When the state in which Thirsty Coin lived, Sunnh, outlawed organic agriculture, he refused to follow the government's laws and things escalated to the point where a government-contracted private security force (“Shinma Domestic Security”) burned down his farm, killing Thirsty Coin and several others in the process.
Moments before this event, Thirsty Coin instructed two adults, a Koroum woman named Fal and a Z'jurundu man named Cedzik, to take Wayne to live with a guardian, Moira Molly (nicknamed “Granma Moira”) in Haquel, Disan, a large port city. In Haquel, there was a large, well-established Vsai Kuranai community. However, the Vsai Kuranai have strict rules regarding that system of mentorship, and essentially, although what happened was not in any way Wayne's fault, the orthodoxy prohibits anyone else from taking up the role of Jurai Sonsuraiun if that person dies during the child's tutelage. As a result, Wayne was not allowed to continue his practices within the community of Vsai Kuranai.
In Chapter 7, Wayne reveals to Murray that at one point, in 3324, when he was a 16-year-old, frustrated with the Vsai orthodoxy, Wayne became so enraged that he destroyed his drum kit, badly injuring his right forearm when he punched through his snare drum and the snare wire snapped off and cut him, resulting in a permanent scar.
Subsequently, Wayne resolved within himself to work on controlling his own anger, although in practice it might be more accurate to say that he repressed his anger and presented a much more calm demeanor to the outside world while still struggling with anger and confusion inwardly. Although he eventually learned that Thirsty Coin and several others did not survive the attack on the farm, he still wondered why the two adults (Fal and Cedzik) who took him to safety and brought him to live with Moira never returned as they had promised.
Throughout all of this, Wayne did develop as a highly-skilled drummer, although he internalized a (mistaken) belief that, because he was denied the full Vsai tutelage, he would be unable to fully realize his potential as a master musician. (Master musicianship in this world entails the ability to perform acts that seem magical: healing acts, manifestation, instantaneous travel through space, the ability to become invisible, to pass through solid walls, and so on, initiated by a trance state while playing music.) He has traveled to the last remaining state in Sil where organic agriculture in general, and henchberry cultivation with the assistance of Kuranai drumming in particular, are still legal: Ruma.
In Chapter 3, Wayne reveals to Murray that, while working as an apprentice at Rumanai henchberry orchards, he has discreetly asked around about SOAR, the underground resistance organization that he hopes to get in touch with. Although he was seemingly unable to contact them, he correctly surmises that it's no coincidence that an old acquaintance from Haquel has picked him up on the road - Murray is, in fact, an operative with SOAR and was assigned to deliver a message to him. The message instructs Wayne to contact someone by phone. In Chapter 7, Wayne makes the call and speaks to a woman who identifies herself as Irena. Wayne reveals that he has been trying to contact SOAR to see if they have any information on the whereabouts of Fal and Cedzik. Irena says she is looking into that, but in the meantime she invites Wayne to meet with her in person in Eunil on the following night to discuss the possibility of Wayne working with SOAR as a smuggler of organic seeds, under the cover of a touring musician. Wayne agrees to meet with her, hoping for information as well as a steady income.
Bloom Banks
Bloom (given name, Meredith) was born in Minsha City, Minsha to a wealthy family. Her parents divorced when she was 6. Her father works (in an as-yet undisclosed role) with the biotech firm Genesys, a fact that contributes to their strained relationship now - as she tells Toast in Chapter 4, both she and her father disapprove of each other's lifestyles. Her mother works as both a bartender and a biomechanical technician and lives in the “sky city,” Niana. Bloom's relationship with her mother is fairly healthy and positive, although in some ways Bloom worries more about her mother than her mother worries about her. Bloom has two sisters, one older and one younger. Bloom grew up living part time with both parents and utilized her unique circumstance to visit Zom and Sil periodically, eventually surprising both parents when she decided to utilize her dual citizenship to live in Haquel, Disan, Sil.
Bloom is a graffiti artist and writes fiction. She works as a concessionaire at the Bella Donna Theatre in the Fishscale District in Haquel. The slow pace of the theater and her good relationship with her co-workers allows her the flexibility to take off from work for extended periods of time to visit her mother in Niana and/or hop freight trains for the purpose of seeing and writing wildstyle graffiti pieces.
In 3329, when her best friend Kel Cole's van was stripped and her bass and longboard stolen, Bloom worked tirelessly to find a venue where an all-ages benefit show could be hosted.
At that benefit show, Bloom met the young man who became her current boyfriend, Toast Duerr. When Toast was injured by a group of howler monkeys living in his apartment building, Bloom insisted that he should move in with her to recover and avoid further conflicts. This proved to be too soon in their relationship, and in the Summer of 3330 they broke up. They remained on good terms, and in the Winter of that year they began dating again. We can surmise that Bloom is cautious about opening up to Toast, because it is not until Chapter 4 that she reveals to him that her father works for Genesys.
Bloom is fiercely independent and has a serious, down-to-earth demeanor. However, when alone with her best friend Kel Cole, she lets herself get swept up in Kel's exuberant fantasies/delusions. Bloom and Kel have a close relationship that sometimes becomes too intense and leads to quarrels.
Bloom has great respect for the cultures of Shinma, in particular the arts and music of Haquel, Sil. She considers herself a resident of Haquel and is uncomfortable with being identified as a Minshan. Bloom has Zyss Yes 25 implants in her cheeks. These appear to be small glass ovals attached directly to the surface of her cheeks. They correct vision impairments and have modes activated by touch that can overlay additional environmental information in her line of sight, show thermal energy, improve nightvision, etc. They are an extremely expensive and fashionable item, only available on Minsha due to the embargo, so their presence makes it obvious at a glance that Bloom is from a wealthy family and not from Shinma. A status symbol that she coveted at age 16 when she received them as a birthday present, she now feels self-conscious about them marking her as a rich outsider.
Toast Duerr
Toast (given name William) works on the graveyard shift at Plisken's Restaurant in the Fishscale District, sometimes as a dishwasher and sometimes as a line cook. In the early Winter of 3329, Toast met Bloom at a secret cafe/benefit show that Bloom had set up to help her friend Kel Cole after Kel's property was stolen. They began dating.
Toast grew up in Rina Rina where his father still lives and works as a city busdriver. As a teenager, Toast was rather pessimistic, short-tempered, and quick to anger, but has become more mellow and thoughtful as a young adult living on his own.
He started working at Plisken's a couple of years ago upon arriving in Haquel, and he has made friends with some of his co-workers in the kitchen, particularly Ricardo Covington and Doe, but for various reasons those co-workers have disappeared either intermittently or permanently, so Toast has found more consistent friendship with Wayne Molly, who works next door at Liquor 24.
Toast is also interested in the local music scene and his favorite band is PLUM, so he often wears a t-shirt with their logo on it. (The guitarist/vocalist for PLUM, Kina, works at the Crescent Druggists next door to the Belladonna Theatre.)
Toast's co-worker Ricardo Covington sparked an interest within Toast in robotics. At first Toast regarded Ricardo skeptically and assumed he was either crazy or just liked to make up exaggerated stories, but eventually Toast realized that he was actually quite knowledgeable. With some guidance from Ricardo (prior to his disappearance), Toast attempted to build his first robot, a large quadrupedal giraffe-like robot named Inaara.
In the late Spring of 3330, partway through the process of building and programming Inaara in his spare time, a group of loud and provocative howler monkeys moved into the apartment above Toast's and began instigating a series of confrontations with him. These quickly escalated to the point that one of the howler monkey's threw a potted daisy down onto Toast's head, where it became stuck. Unable to remove it himself and having no health insurance to have doctors remove it, it has remained stuck there since.
Following this confrontation, Bloom insisted that Toast should live with her for a while in order for Toast to avoid further arguments with the howler monkeys. However, this proved to be too much too soon for their fledgling relationship, and they decided to break up soon after. The two of them remained on good terms and eventually began dating again in the Winter of 3330-3331, a few months before the story begins.
At the beginning of the story, Toast calls Wayne to let him know that Toast's robot, Inaara, has immediately run away after being completed and powered on for the first time. For some reason, Toast has a hunch that Inaara is making her way east to get to the port city of Eunil where she could then escape to the “sky city” Niana and leave the moon.
Aside from this odd mishap with Inaara, Toast is beginning to have confidence in robotics and thinks that he might be able to make a living designing robots on Shinma. However, some of his ideas about what kinds of robots to make are a bit fanciful (e.g., an autonomous boombox with legs).
Supporting Characters
Murray Sepulveda
Murray is an acquaintance of the three main characters, initially because he worked for several months as the interim manager of the Belladonna Theatre while their usual manager was recovering from surgery. At the Belladonna Theatre, he met Bloom. Then he subsequently met Toast and Wayne because they were becoming friends with Bloom and would sometimes hang out at the theater.
As the story begins, Murray is working as a long haul truck driver, and he coincidentally happens to be in the same area as Wayne Molly, so he is able to offer him a ride as Wayne is trying to travel south to meet up with Toast and Bloom. Eventually it is revealed in the third chapter that this meeting was not coincidental at all, but was planned as a way to invite Wayne to begin working in the Silnai Organic Agricultural Resistance (SOAR), an underground network of people endeavoring to resist the BTC-imposed regulations against organic agriculture on Shinma.
Murray is involved in the resistance out of his own personal interest in living a luxurious life, more so than out of a noble purpose to promote Shinman autonomy. As a child, Murray's family was upper-middle-class, and he saw that economic status erode once the embargo was imposed when he was 10 years old. (In Chapter 7, Murray reveals to Wayne that his family had owned a shipping/logistics firm, whose two primary locations in Usy and Uoira were destroyed in the attacks on Zunnual 17.) His father, a supporter of the BTC, mistakenly believed that they would come to their aid; he died young, presumably of stress related to his family’s loss of status. Murray’s efforts in recent years have been focused on trying to restore a high degree of material wealth for himself first and foremost.
Murray also resents the fact that being a law-abiding citizen ruined his family's fortunes and got him nowhere as a young adult. His traumatic encounter with rig pirates in Katu as a young adult, and his subsequent rescue by the highway spirits Cerene Symfonia and Jisoun (described in his chapter 1 sub-story), contributed to both his radicalization as a member of the resistance, as well as his vanity and need to be seen as well-dressed and fashionable. However, his fashion sense is still somewhat questionable.
Ricardo Covington
Ricardo is introduced in Toast's sub-story in Chapter 2 as someone that Toast previously worked with at Plisken's, prior to disappearing. In that story, we learn that Ricardo at first seemed to Toast to be slightly crazy or prone to making up outlandish tales. But when their manager, Stu, treated them badly, Toast agreed to go along with Ricardo's elaborate and risky plan to prank Stu in retaliation. The plan involved what Toast describes as advanced knowledge of chemistry and mayhem in order to use collected kitchen grease to temporarily set Toast on fire, in a staged “accident” that led to Stu being doused by a large bucket of icewater. This was immediately followed by the use of baking soda to safely put out the fire. The plan worked just as Ricardo envisioned, and so Toast took Ricardo's tales more seriously thereafter. Ricardo began to teach Toast about robotics, which led to Toast building his giraffe robot, Inaara.
As a young adult, Ricardo took part in an exchange program with the Svenama Institute of Biotechnology in Minsha. (This is an institution whose graduates are often hired to positions at Genesys and Biotech Superium.) Although Ricardo was there in a service industry capacity, he utilized the opportunity to learn as much as possible in subjects as diverse as Mechanical Engineering, Quantum Physics, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics. He also had ample time to socialize, and made friends and even fell in love. However, when the embargo went into effect in 3305, he was deported back to Shinma. He was disappointed to find that there were now no professional pathways into any of his fields of study. He subsequently made his living working in restaurants.
Ricardo (supposedly) didn't come back to Shinma alone, though. He claims to have smuggled back a Minshan cat named Rashomon, who he credits as a teacher in the stories he tells Toast. It's unclear whether Rashomon is real or even if there are actually talking cats on Minsha. (Notably, although Bloom was suspicious of Toast's story about Ricardo, she didn't specify that the notion of a talking Minshan cat was unrealistic.)
Ricardo apparently has an incredible amount of energy and has been known to work at least three full-time jobs concurrently. He left Plisken's in Autumn 3330 and Toast hasn't seen him since.
Myra Fine
Caitrin – She works as a concessionaire at the Belladonna. She is caring and sees the community around the Fishscale District as brilliantly creative, as opposed to its media portrayal of being crime-ridden. She edits the zine “the Carver Ave. Review” where she tries to promote the arts and music of the Fishscale District. She also aspires to be a rapper, adopting the name “Flavordust.” She has a crush on Pazil.
Cedzik - a worker at the Grady Orchard, he and Fal were assigned by “Thirsty Coin” to get Wayne to safety just prior to Shinma Domestic Security’s attack on the orchard. Following their successful completion of this task by delivering Wayne to his Granma Moira in Haquel, he and Fal disappeared.
Dieko – an older street performer who usually hangs out between the Belladonna and the Crescent Druggists. He has a bicycle with a boombox strapped to it, and he dances to the music that he plays periodically throughout the day. He lives in an efficiency apartment above the Crescent Druggists. He has a habit of asking the people who work at the Belladonna and the Crescent if he can borrow a Zanuul (the equivalent of a dollar), and then without fail he returns the exact same Zanuul bill to the person he borrowed from on the following day. Prior to the embargo he worked as a mechanic on the orbital elevator stations on the “sky city” Niana, but the embargo halted almost all off-moon travel.
Doe – a dishwasher at Plisken's. He dreams of revolution and composes manifestos as he washes dishes. Older brother of Pazil, who works at the Belladonna Theatre.
Esan – Works as a concessionaire at the Belladonna Theatre. Unusually tall for his (or any) age, he is into music and finds that most people working the doors at 18 & Over venues don't card him because they assume he is an adult. He is painfully shy and expresses his personality mostly through writing show reviews in a zine that he contributes to (using the pen name Mr. E) called the Carver Ave. Review. He develops an intense crush on Kel when he learns she cultivates mixtapes.
Fal - a worker at the Grady Orchard, she and Cedzik were assigned by “Thirsty Coin” to get Wayne to safety just prior to Shinma Domestic Security’s attack on the orchard. Following their successful completion of this task by delivering Wayne to his Granma Moira in Haquel, she and Cedzik disappeared.
Giulla - an impatient brunette Kuranai woman who is traveling with her friends Raim and Zouna to Eunil to protest the Fromage Festival, she quickly becomes annoyed with Wayne when he says he doesn't have any money to spare for gas.
Kel Cole – Bloom's best friend. Works as a concessionaire at the Belladonna Theatre. She is brash, impulsive, funny, and beautiful. She is artistically driven, as it is necessary for her to maintain her mental health. She plays bass guitar and cultivates biomechanical mixtape organisms, both of which she approaches with a spiritual mindset. In Chapters 5-6, Bloom tells the story of Kel’s struggle with mental health due in particular to the theft of her bass guitar. Kel explains to Bloom: “Seriously, I need to make art, pretty much almost continuously… If I don’t my imagination keeps going and going on autopilot until it’s out of control…” This comes to pass as Kel rapidly descends into a fantasy world, becoming obsessed with lozenges and entering into power struggles with her friends and coworkers.
Kemi – A server at Cafe Kuranai in the Superknights Travel Center in the Turqoise Coast region of Ruma. Initially annoyed by Wayne's attempt to snag an entire tray of coffee mugs at the merkur-crazed urging of Murray, she begins to take a liking to him when he reveals he, like her, is a drummer who has worked in henchberry orchards. As a Rumanai Kuranai, she has been well-educated in the details of the BTC embargo and Ruma's role as the only remaining Silnai state in defiance of the attempt to outlaw organic agriculture. As such, she understands that when Wayne says he hasn't drummed in a henchberry orchard since he was a young child in West Sunnh, that the orchard he was at was likely burned down. Realizing that he has travled to Ruma to try and reconnect with a part of their shared Kuranai culture, she soon regards Wayne more sympathetically than her initial impression of him. Outside of work at Cafe Kuranai, she performs in ritual drumming ceremonies as one of the highest ranked drummers of her age range, mnesziz quri ("dreamtraveling rhythmist"). In her spare time she helps tend to her family's henchberry orchard and plays in a band, Turquoise Coast Witches, with her close friend Shae and their co-worker Lumas.
Kina – the young adult daughter of the family who owns the Crescent Druggists. She works in the bodega by day, and plays guitar and sings in the band PLUM in her spare time along with her younger brother and two other musicians. She has a crush on Bloom.
Lumas - a dishwasher at Cafe Kuranai. Outside of his job, he performs as junior drummer with the rank of xouk in regional drumming rituals, and enjoys surfing. He also performs in a local band, Turquoise Coast Witches, with his friends Kemi and Shae. Although he enjoys his country lifestyle, he is interested in lurid crime stories that he has heard about big cities like Haquel.
Marli – one of the three projectionists at the Belladonna. She is a beautiful, sexually-confident stoner. She is a bit philosophical but more so an aesthete who notices the artistry in films, fashion, and architecture. She is also a singer and lyricist. She is completely oblivious to Nora's crush on her, and instead she is interested in Esan.
Me'Rao - a burly, boisterous line cook at Cafe Kuranai.
Menet - a laid-back, mellow yet playful line cook at Cafe Kuranai.
Mr. Vickerts – the Manager of the Belladonna. He's been the manager there since the 3280s, in the heyday of the theater when it would regularly host regional film premieres with celebrity guests and a red carpet. When the embargo went into effect, Shinma's domestic film industry rapidly shut down and since then the Belladonna has had to rely on smuggled foreign films arriving in a relative trickle. As a result, the Belladonna has to show films for far longer than they are popular, so on many days only a handful of people buy tickets. In late Winter 3329, Mr. V had to have a quintuple bypass surgery and was in recovery for several months, during which time Murray Sepulveda filled in as the interim manager. He returned to his regular duties in late Spring 3330.
Nora – one of the three projectionists at the Belladonna. Her short-tempered, intense personality conceals an interest in mysticism and philosophy. She wants to become a filmmaker and her hobby is in astrological divination. She doesn't take Pazil's flirtation seriously; rather she has a crush on Marli.
Oazmi Ioma - a young Z'jurundu woman who helps support her family in Usy by working as a professional race car driver on the Shank Cigarettes Circuit. She feels a tension between leaving her seed structure community behind, and following her passion on ground level. Pazil – one of the three projectionists at the Belladonna. He is charming and funny, a bit of a jerk with a big ego. He is Doe's younger brother, and he is learning to play guitar. He flirts with all women, but he has real feelings for Nora, although he plays it off like he's joking with her.
Raim - an auburn-haired Kuranai woman traveling with her friends Giullia and Zouna to Eunil to protest the Fromage Festival. Kindhearted and cheerful, she enthusiastically tells Wayne of their intention to "burn the cheese" at the protests, while dressed as a rabbit in her outfit to celebrate the traditional Fauna Festival.
Ria – a server at Plisken's. She is tough but has a heart of gold.
Shae – a server at Cafe Kuranai, and a close friend of Kemi. She likes to tease people and give them nicknames, but bristles when she receives the same treatment. A moderately talented drummer, she assists in ritual drumming practices as a xouk. When getting to know Wayne and trading stories of their respective residences, she notes that she feels so safe living in the countryside of teh Emerald Coast region that she often doesn't even bother to close her front door as long as the weather is nice. In spite of her peaceful country life, she and Lumas are fascinated by tales of crime in big cities, with Shae in particular hung up on a concept she calls "beatdown drama." In her spare time, she performs as a vocalist in a band called Turquoise Coast Witches along with Kemi and their co-worker Lumas.
Stu – the manager at Plisken's. He is uptight, egotistical, short-tempered, and mean.
“Thirsty Coin” Grady - (deceased) - real name, Thurston Colin Grady, the owner of the Grady Orchard, established 3257 in West Sunnh. He received the nickname “Thirsty Coin” from a very young Wayne Molly. He served as Wayne Molly’s Jurai Sonsuraiun, a musical mentor in the Vsai Kuranai orthodoxy, until he was killed when the orchard was burned down by the Shinma Domestic Security in 3313.
Yura – she works as the Assistant Manager of the Belladonna. Sarcastic and a bit pessimistic, she sees her job at the theater as being a temporary formality yet at the same time she knows her (and everyone on Shinma's) prospects are limited. She secretly poses as an artists' model. She has a crush on Kina who works next door at the Crescent Druggists.
Zouna - a blonde, bespectacled Kuranai woman traveling with her friends Giullia and Raim to protest the Fromage Festival in Eunil. An inveterate syff-smoker with an intellectual interest in politics, she tells Wayne that the Fromage Festival is a manufactured event intentionally scheduled in a BTC-backed attempt to disrupt the traditional cultural Fauna Festival.
Ethnicities & Cultures
There are many ethnicities in the planetary system and specifically on Shinma where most of the story takes place. Almost everyone is of mixed ancestry, to a much greater degree than we observe in the real world in the 21st century. There is racism and discrimination based on ethnicity but perhaps not as widespread as we witness in the real world, as these civilizations are more than a thousand years into the future compared to ours. Featured characters will occasionally blunder and say something insensitive or inappropriate, not out of malice but just out of ignorance or different cultural standards.In Zoonbats, there are characters who appear similar to humans as well as characters who appear to be anthropomorphized animals or science fiction “aliens”; however, within the story's world, they are all referred to as humans. In layman's terms for the purposes of story planning, here are some of the main ethnicities represented:
Note: the suffix -nai is often added to the name of a city, state, country, continent, moon or planet to form a demonym. It can be translated roughly to mean “people of” – thus, “Silnai” means “people of Sil.”
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