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Avians

Not to be confused with Aves

Avians are a winged fantasy race in several strategy
Strategy game

A strategy game is a game in which the players' decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome. Many games include this element to a greater or lesser degree, making demarcation difficult....
and role-playing game
Role-playing game

A role-playing game is a game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a role-playing game system of rules and guidelines....
s.

Maelstrom
Avians are also a fantasy race in the Maelstrom

Maelstrom (live role playing game)

Maelstrom is a live action role-playing game campaign run in the United Kingdom by Profound Decisions Ltd. The campaign consists of four events held each year at weekends during the British summer at a variety of locations....
LARP, which is run in the UK by Profound Decisions.

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Not to be confused with Aves

Avians are a winged fantasy race in several strategy
Strategy game

A strategy game is a game in which the players' decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome. Many games include this element to a greater or lesser degree, making demarcation difficult....
and role-playing game
Role-playing game

A role-playing game is a game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a role-playing game system of rules and guidelines....
s.

Utopia

In the online game
Online game

An online game is a game played over some forms of Computer networking. At the present, this almost always means the Internet or equivalent technology; but games have always used whatever technology was current: modems before the internet, and hard wired Computer terminal before modems....
of Utopia
Utopia (online game)

Utopia is a massive multiplayer internet-based strategy game. It won the Webby Awards for Gaming Site of the Year twice .Utopia is free to play; the game is supported by revenue from banner and pop-up advertising....
, Avians are a mix of bird
Bird

Birds are wing, Bipedalismal, endothermic , vertebrate animals that lay egg . There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates....
and human
Human

A human being, also human or man, is a member of a species of bipedalism primates in the family Hominidae . Mitochondrial DNA evidence indicates that modern humans originated in east Africa about 200,000 years ago....
somewhat resembling angel
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s or harpies (visually), and they have a unique ability to fly. Their natural wilderness lifestyle makes them powerful and quick warrior
Warrior

According to the Random House Dictionary, the term warrior has two meanings. The first Literal and figurative language use refers to "a person engaged or experienced in warfare." The second Literal and figurative language use refers to "a person who shows or has shown great vigor, courage, or aggressiveness, as in politics or athletics...
s, but they have few other strengths. In the early Ages of Utopia, Avians have been usually denied an ability to use war horses, but over the time, this rule has been abandoned.

Maelstrom

Avians are also a fantasy race in the Maelstrom
Maelstrom (live role playing game)

Maelstrom is a live action role-playing game campaign run in the United Kingdom by Profound Decisions Ltd. The campaign consists of four events held each year at weekends during the British summer at a variety of locations....
LARP, which is run in the UK by Profound Decisions. They are, again, a mix of bird and human, bipedal and flightless humanoid
Humanoid

A humanoid is a hybrid term formed from Latin humanus "human" and the Greek :wikt:-oid expressing likeness. The term was coined in 1918 to refer to fossils considered close to human but not strictly human, including species now classified as Homo such as the Neanderthals....
s with a prominent beak
Beak

The beak, bill or rostrum is an external anatomical structure of birds which, in addition to eating, is used for Personal grooming#In animals, manipulating objects, killing prey, probing for food, Courtship#Courtship in the animal kingdom and feeding their young....
and a feathered face. They are highly cultured. Minimum Phys-rep are a feathered face and a brow. A character may be avian if his or her culture is Alkyon, Free Islands, Merisusi or Rukh.

Avians are winged creatures, and, for the most part,are considered to be a very aesthetically pleasing race. Although they have no other animalistic traits and retain a humanoid's appearance.

RAMA

The RAMA
RAMA

Rama is a first-person adventure game developed and published by Sierra Entertainment in 1996. The game is based on Arthur C. Clarke's books Rendezvous with Rama and Rama II and supports both DOS and Microsoft Windows 95....
series (Rendezvous with Rama
Rendezvous with Rama

Rendezvous with Rama is a novel by Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1972 in literature. Set in the 22nd century, the story involves a forty-kilometer-long cylindrical alien starship that enters Earth's solar system....
) by science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke

Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, Order of the British Empire was a British people science fiction author, inventor, and Futurology, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey , written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which also produced the 2001: A Space Odyssey ; and as a host and comment...
had Avians as one of the sentient species transported on the spaceship Rama.

Keisha'ra series
The avians have birds for second forms and their royal line consists of golden-eyed hawks. Their leader is the Tuuli Thea, or queen. Avian culture is uptight and strict, it centers on something called "avian reserve" which is the ability to keep complete control of one's emotions at all times. Avians do not lose their temper and they do not cry, even at funerals.

Dungeons & Dragons
In the Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by TSR, Inc....
fantasy
Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of Plot , Theme , and/or Setting . Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three ....
role-playing game, creatures exactly known as Avians are not present. But the winged Elves Avariels, as well as Aarakocra
Aarakocra

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the aarakocra are a race of bird-like Monstrous humanoid dwelling in high mountains....
and Raptorans, being bird-human hybrids, are very similar in concept.