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A commoner from the Vainnic Empire, an empire stretching through Northeastern Europe and Northwestern Asia. The Vain are a people distinct from Men, being shorter, stronger, and hardier. They are famed among men for their skills at archery; their compound bows are more powerful than any built by men, and their accuracy is unmatched, perhaps due to their superior eyesight. While not all citizens of the Empire are truly members of the Vain ethnic group, men rarely make a distinction, and often go so far as to call peoples of the same race from outside of the empire "Vain" or "Vainmen" as well, ignorant to the internal diversity of the race. In truth, many of these people misidentified as Vain are members of egalitarian tribes or small states, and would be staunchly opposed to the militaristic, expansionist, and rigidly hierarchical Vainnic Empire.

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This is a generic character design from a fantasy/alternate history universe I've had brewing in my head for the past few years. I've developed plenty of world building in my head, but have yet to put much into writing, so this is my attempt to start changing that. The idea of this universe is that, through a slight change in the Pleistocene world, Neanderthals developed a large presence in what is in our world Southwestern Russia and Central Asia, and developed a pseudo-domestic relationship with Bears (not true domestication, as bears lack the required social behavior, but a relationship where bears experienced selection pressures for behavior more compatible with living close to Neanderthals, and eventually selective breeding for desirable traits). While Neanderthal extinction followed a similar path in most of the Middle East and Europe, in this territory, they survived, due to larger societal units preventing inbreeding and providing greater support for struggling tribes. With human expansion, they were pushed Northward, into what would become the seat of the Vainnic Empire. Smaller groups, meanwhile, dispersed into Europe, forming small tribal communities, mostly in thick forests and mountainous regions. By what would be the 14th century BCE in our timeline, the history of Europe and most of the Middle East would be completely different, as the Proto-Indo-Europeans never existed, and the Bronze Age Collapse went significantly differently as a result. This figure is from what would be around the 13th century in our timeline, which is the main period I've focused on in my world-building. By this point in history, the timeline would be completely different for the entirety of Afro-Eurasia, with many powers of our timeline never existing, others never falling, and thousands of new ones coming about and developing in their own way. That's why I call the universe a fantasy as much as an alternate history, as, in addition to the multiple races of humans existing, the world has diverged to a point where there's no reasonable grounds for plausible speculation about how things would be different.

Description
A commoner from the Vainnic Empire, an empire stretching through Northeastern Europe and Northwestern Asia. The Vain are a people distinct from Men, being shorter, stronger, and hardier. They are famed among men for their skills at archery; their compound bows are more powerful than any built by men, and their accuracy is unmatched, perhaps due to their superior eyesight. While not all citizens of the Empire are truly members of the Vain ethnic group, men rarely make a distinction, and often go so far as to call peoples of the same race from outside of the empire "Vain" or "Vainmen" as well, ignorant to the internal diversity of the race. In truth, many of these people misidentified as Vain are members of egalitarian tribes or small states, and would be staunchly opposed to the militaristic, expansionist, and rigidly hierarchical Vainnic Empire.

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This is a generic character design from a fantasy/alternate history universe I've had brewing in my head for the past few years. I've developed plenty of world building in my head, but have yet to put much into writing, so this is my attempt to start changing that. The idea of this universe is that, through a slight change in the Pleistocene world, Neanderthals developed a large presence in what is in our world Southwestern Russia and Central Asia, and developed a pseudo-domestic relationship with Bears (not true domestication, as bears lack the required social behavior, but a relationship where bears experienced selection pressures for behavior more compatible with living close to Neanderthals, and eventually selective breeding for desirable traits). While Neanderthal extinction followed a similar path in most of the Middle East and Europe, in this territory, they survived, due to larger societal units preventing inbreeding and providing greater support for struggling tribes. With human expansion, they were pushed Northward, into what would become the seat of the Vainnic Empire. Smaller groups, meanwhile, dispersed into Europe, forming small tribal communities, mostly in thick forests and mountainous regions. By what would be the 14th century BCE in our timeline, the history of Europe and most of the Middle East would be completely different, as the Proto-Indo-Europeans never existed, and the Bronze Age Collapse went significantly differently as a result. This figure is from what would be around the 13th century in our timeline, which is the main period I've focused on in my world-building. By this point in history, the timeline would be completely different for the entirety of Afro-Eurasia, with many powers of our timeline never existing, others never falling, and thousands of new ones coming about and developing in their own way. That's why I call the universe a fantasy as much as an alternate history, as, in addition to the multiple races of humans existing, the world has diverged to a point where there's no reasonable grounds for plausible speculation about how things would be different.