Utukku

The Utukku are sentient animals sharing a common and anthropomorphic physical structure which icludes all the animal's families of the world: mammals, avian, reptiles, fish and cetaceans, dinosaurs and invertebrates (as these last fall into a particular category named Arthropoids).

The origin of the Utukku is set about 200,000 years ago when the entity known as the Last Abomination begins to mate and fertilize several animal species ending generating hybrid creatures, characterized by a bipedal posture, a developed intellect (enough to allow the ones who are endowed with individualism and subconsciousness to access the dream realm during sleeping, the Dreamscape) of hands with opposing thumbs and sharing very similar sizes even between different species.

In the specimens born from the larger species the first generation already possesses all the definitive characteristics, while in the smaller species several "buffer" generations are needed to reach the definitive form.

Coming from the Last Abomination all the Utukku possesses, more or less, the remnant of the magical power that their Father gave to the first generations (and is s common belief that this power is related to the presence in the body of the Kroizer Gland, located inside the chest and absent in their feral counterparts).

The Utukku are generally bipedal with a total of four limbs, however, a separate case are the Zusadin, the anthropomorphic ophidians possessing only two arms and crawling on their big and long abdomen as their ancestors and therefore discriminated in the multiracial societies of all the world; besides them there are also the brood of Lamia, anthropomorphic fishes whose lower part of the body remained feral, although they're currently extinct, exterminated in ancient time by the same population of anthropomorphic marine creatures. Unlike the Zusadin in which the gene is recessive and with sporadic manifestations, Lamia's sons live throught direct descendancy and therefore it's easily isolable.

Added to these two categories there are the hexapods, that is Anthro with six arts (two legs, two arms and two wings), artificially created thanks to genetic engineering by the Arthropoids, using as a base the anthropomorphic avians and flying mammals, with the aim of use them as their heralds and, afte the extinction of Arthropods and therefore the freedom from their control, they spread in the whole world as a recessive gene.

In addition to all the above features, the Utukku possesses a strong genetic tolerance, which allows them to easily hybridize with different species, even generations over generations, without causing serious deformity or sterility. The sons of these hybridizations were, according to the historical and social contexts, appreciated or persecuted with the contemptuous appeal of Chimeras, appeal from which only the Griffin's people saved themselves, developed about in the 5000 DD from the first interspecies's tribes thanks to a primitive form of eugenetic and used as guard animals against avian nomadic scavangers. Griffins in the millennias have expanded and solidified themselves as a community to the point of being recognized as legitimate species.

The last category is the one of the Dragons, born on the island of Eneida in the Pantakas's archipelago (Siphonic Ocean) from the hybridization between different species of dinosaurs (whose tribes were the first inhabitants of the island and the first to access to the techno-magic of Arthropoids, using it to refine their hybrids into a new species, the only one equipped with the ability to blend with and to assimilate into their body the archaic magical artifacts of Arthropiods, artificially reaching the status of bio-mechanical beings). The dragons suffer from a strong weakness towards Drefisula Extremis, a disease that can irreversibly transform them into monstrous and crazy dragoons, nearly immortals.

In terms of nutrition, the anthropomorphization process has considerably increased tolerance level, making virtually the Utukku all omnivores, although their atavic legacy manifests itself in specific food preferences and balances (a carnivorous will need an higher animal protein intake than a pure omnivorous, as well as an herbivore will have to be careful to avoid excess of meat in his diet to avoid eating disorders).

Although the Last Abomination has fertilized at the beginning of time all the animal species and given to the first generations some of its powers to ensure reproductive success (despite the deformity compared to their feral parents) this did not prevent the occurrence of extinctions, both for biological reasons (hybridizations that have long lost the original characteristics) and for historical reasons (wars, natural disasters, etc.) and that, in the present, lead to the presence of a modest variety of Anthros species compared to the enormous biodiversity of the Animalia's kingdom.