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Dwarves are broken into two Categories, Volcanic, and Mountain. The main differences in these two categories are one lives in volcanoes, a hotter climate while the other lives in mountains, usually in a colder climate. Now Volcanic dwarves have caused Mountain dwarves to gain a bad name due to the fact that they are more active with the "outside" world as arms dealers due to their role in past conflicts, while mountain dwarves are more isolated and tend not to deal with the outside world unless traveling to a near mountain clan, exile, or in current cases having to find a new mountain due to shifts in the earth causing their home to become volcanic, or a large cave in. Dwarfs usually stay in one place and have a system where the man with the longest beard is the chief of the mountain (since they deem long beards as a sign of wisdom and courage), after this the men usually mine or smith (though if a female is proven better they will allow her to do either task, it is usually smiting though) while women do most of the farming, merchant work, and appraising. Usually by the age of thirteen male dwarves start growing beards, and go through their rite of passage, though any males without beards have to wait till they grow one to be seen as a "man". Though it is seen as a bad omen when a male dwarf cannot grow facial hair, causing them to be seen as a harbinger of chaos in some case in forced to leave the mountain, in most cases now just unlucky (like a black cat). Female dwarves are not allowed to cut their hair, or even in some cases shave body hair since hair is seen as a thing of beauty among dwarves (though among volcanic dwarves they only demand that women don't cut their hair like males don't cut their beards). It is seen as losing one’s honor though if a male dwarf has his beard cut, or a female has their hair cut, when the Dwarf hunts happened a lot of the time hunters would cut the hair and beards of dwarves before killing since they did not want them to die honorably.
Dwarves are unable to use magic, but instead can use runes to enchant items such as swords, battle axes, ECT. Most commonly Dwarves would enchant the entrances to their mountains with puzzles to keep outsiders from entering; of course volcanic dwarves eventually stopped doing this when they began trading with outsiders, mountain dwarves on the other hand kept such things since they don't like the outside world very much. The tallest dwarf is 4'11ft and the average height is roughly 4'3ft - 4'6ft for females and 4'5 ft -4'8ft for males.

Most Harpies are Migratory even though the species originated in Greece, you can now find different kinds of harpies all around the world. Even with the branching out of the species, all Harpies are born female and from maturity (the age of 13) they hunt for mates to continue the race, during this hunt, Harpies can decide whether or not they wish to remain migratory with the flock, or to stick to one area and be cut off from the flock.

Non-migratory Harpies even from olden times were known to be jailers and to torture for their masters, gods and lords. This method of life has been translated into current day with many stationary harpies taking up positions in law enforcement or guarding.

These Snake lords can grow up to 200 feet long, and from birth hunt for a territory to make theirs. This territory can vary in size and is completely dependent on how strong the Basilisk was. The established territory becomes the domain and a court hierarchy is established between the Basilisk and all other life forms in the area. Usually higher positions are given to the reptiles in the area, but occasionally it is seen that other mythical beasts can hold positions in a basilisks court. Basilisks have been known to fight each other to expand or take over another territory, in these circumstances, only one Basilisk is left alive.

All Basilisks are all born male, as they are the "King of Snakes", and a female birth has never been recorded as of yet. During the early 200 years of a Basilisks life, they develop the ability to take on human form, it has been recorded that some basilisks have been able to revert back to snake form, but most seem content to rule with their new bodies. Basilisks can live for over thousands of years, and the longest recorded life was that of 15768 years, a title held by Lord Blackfang, a basilisk who ruled in tandem with humans over a large section of southern Egypt until recently.

Dullahan are a strange mixture between the reaper, fae, and ghost families, they are usually born female and are either born with their head attached or not. Usually if a Dullahan breeds with a reaper classed race the child if male takes the father's genes and has no Dullahan attributes, while female children can be either the father or the mother’s race. Though when breeding with Fae, fairies, or ghosts this is where the headless syndrome can hit the male children of a dullahan, male children with the headless syndrome are strange dullahan and ghost/fae or fairy mixes that are male and born without heads, but are still living, it is said that the headless syndrome was probably the cause of the rumored headless horsemen since children born like this usually use something to replace their missing head, such as a pumpkin, or other assorted items that can work as a head, though these are rare cases and usually the males ones again are that of the father's race. Usually Dullahan stick fairly close to Ireland, though some have been recorded around Europe, usually in either Scotland or England. Dullahan do not breed often, and will usually only have one child, unless the first born does not turn out to be a Dullahan, usually the most children a Dullahan can have is three since they genetically have a higher rate of giving birth to children, usually after she has her daughter they will leave their mate, and potential other children to train their child to take their role of reaping souls. Usually a young Dullahan gets her first mount around the age of six, in old times they were headless horses drawn chariots, but due to the need to update with the times the mounts tend to be from small sports cars all the way to mopeds, though most Dullahan like cars or motorcycles, this can also only happen to males that have the headless syndrome. Usuallly around the age twelve the mother will give the child her spinal whip that is usually either made by the mother for the daughter or passed down from mother to daughter. Dullahan are not born with the ability to reap souls, in fact it is a trait passed through a rite of age where the daughter has to go through a ceremony that the mother passes the ability to reap souls to the daughter, though if the daughter chooses to not succeed the mother she will not gain the ability to reap, and usually the mother will then search for either her previous mate, or a new mate and attempt to start over, though there are some cases that this does not happen and the mother will not age, unlike the daughter who will age very slowly after the age of twenty and will gain a physical age for every decade, this is assumed that after the daughter hits the age twenty she is unable to take the mother's ability and loses all rights to it. It is well know that Dullahan are repelled by gold, though the reason is unknown it has a burning like effect on their skin in which their will physically have burn marks on the skin from gold, also being around gold give them headaches.