Nix

Since the Nix are rare you'll need to seek permission to make one. They tend to be 1000 years old or older (unless you've had admin approval to do otherwise) and people are only allowed ONE each (unless you have both admin permission and have bought a Nix spot). Hermaphrodites do not exist in this race and they live to around 10,000 years of age.

The Nix also known as Nyx or Zombies are a race of people who're closely intertwined with life and death itself. Hailing from the island that the Tower of Light rests upon they've lost knowledge they once had. However their aether reserves are so high that they can both make wonderful mages (of any type) and they're usually very sturdy. The Nix are very rare to see about though they seem to have a thirst for knowledge.

They live off Aether, do not need to drink water or consume actual food and they can often be seen hanging around graveyards or other places that involve death. Mostly because there might be remnants of Aether they can absorb to sate their thirst or hunger.

All Nix have the innate ability to speak with dead, this is an ability that if they're in a graveyard or some place where there is Aether (they can sense it) they can commune with the spirit attached to that aether.

All Nix may LOOK human (unless they gave up their human looks) but one thing stands to reason all of the Nix are unnatural, they have literally been pushed beyond their bodily limits, been under more pain than the body can tolerate, but their bodies were too stubborn to give up and let life slip away. They may have horrible scars or even parts of schrapnel embedded in their bodies but even though they should be dead? They're still walking around. They have been to hell and heaven and yet have come back here to the land of the living due to either some desire to live, some strong will or purpose, or they just aren't ready to leave certain things behind, some come back for vengeance, some come back for retribution, some come back just to right the wrongs that have happened in their lives. They may not remember what it was like on the other side, in the aether stream but now that they have seen that side of things, they no longer live normal lives.

Everyday life after these events, are difficult to deal with. Victims of this often come back missing or lacking something which is yet another hurdle to overcome. If they're missing their sight? They'll need to ply themselves with Aether so that they can see or they'll need to learn to over come it themselves. If they've lost their voice? They'll need to ply themselves with Aether just to speak or like the other example they'll need to learn to over come it themselves in some fashion or other. Most of the plying with Aether involves stealing Aether from living beings or finding what's called an Aether Rive which is a spot full of Aether that's flowing out of the planet itself. They can see these as a bright green, blue or purple fume like substance rising in a particular spot. When stealing from living beings they have various ways of doing it, some are vampiric in nature and draw the aether from a bite (willing sources tend to give much more aether), others simply absorb excess given off or have the same sort of style as a succubus or incubus for stealing Aether (as in the traditional sense of sneaking in to someones bedroom at night and stealing energy while the victim sleeps and is unable to defend themselves). Targets who are left to survive the encounter never remember what happened unless the Nix wills it.

However, most pick the vampiric approach or the pacifist route of stealing from graveyards or excess aether from living hosts as it's a replenishable reserve.