Nizanna

Nizanna are the smallest of all sentient spacers in The Fields. The are mammalian and possess leathery wings that they use to fly on their homeworld.

Appearance
Nizanna appear to humans as small, winged, raptors. They have six limbs, two arms, two legs, and two wings. They also have a short and bushy tail that is mostly for gliding purposes. Their posture is semi-upright in the same way a raptor would stand, their legs are very powerful which they use for take-off and landing. Their arms are shorter, proportionally, than a humans but their fingers are long compared to their arms. Nizanna have a fox-like face with a long pointed snout and large upright ears. Their sense of smell is appalling but their eyesight is very keen. The nizanna are covered with a thick fur that can be almost any colour but is often a light purple. Nizanna reach a mature height of 0.8m which makes them the most dimiunitive of all the species in The Fields.

Nizanna reach maturity at the age of 20 and have an average life expectancy of 300 years. Nizanna give live birth to litters of 4-10 but do not produce milk and instead rear their young on regurgitated food. Due to a infertility of the race Nizanna also get sympathetic mothering instincts that mean a child is often considered the child of the community rather than of individual parents.

Society
Nizanna society is governed by the nomadic and free spirit of the Nizanna people and the strong mothering instincts that activate when children are born in a community. Nizanna don't get strong bonds with one another very often and intimate relations are almost never exclusive. Communities of Nizanna experience shocking amounts of emigration and immigration and quite often the entire population of a city can be exchanged in a a generation.

The fertility rate of the Nizanna is very low, around 40%. As such Nizanna are encouraged to mate with many different partners in case there is a fertility match and they can produce offspring. The offspring are then taken to a nursery where the entire community will help with looking after them.

Their nomadic nature and love of 0G makes the Nizanna natural spacefarers and show up in most systems in The Fields, the one exception is that the Lixthar and the Nizanna are mortal enemies due to a mining accident 500 years ago.