What’s a Pharlan?

Pharlans are race concieved of myself many years ago - around 1995. They don't come from any movie, game, book or anything else, just my own insane imagination. Their intrusion into the game of The Elderscrolls III: Morrowind (and possibly Oblivion) is the result of my own desire to have *my* race in games that I play. Everyone else gets to download and play with them as a bonus. :P

Anyway Pharlans are an intelligent winged race of bird-like people. I say bird-LIKE but they are not human bird hybrids. They are a unique form of life that does have some avian characteristics. They are highly advanced, interstellar travelers, yet similar to many ancient cultures in their senses of honor, love of battle and ties to nature. Pharlans can fly quite well (even in the Morrowind mod) but are somewhat slow on the ground-only slightly faster than humans. They have excellent senses of smell and eyesight and are strict carnivores and usually hunt without the aid of weapons although they will eat some fruit and nectar on occasion. In the Morrowind mod Pharlans make excellent mages (My own universe is sci-fi and uses energy in place of magic) and are nearly immune to magical attacks but very weak to normal weapons.
Lately I have put the other sub-races of pharlans into the game. The one pictured is a Standard or Theneka Pharlan from the Morrowind race mod.
Go here to read about the mod that adds Pharlans as a playable race.
Want more background on biology and culture? Go here

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Pharlans are copyright me - Sarah Kinder.

They were first recorded on the web about 1998.