Kelebras are the youngest race on the planet. in their human shape kelebras are tall and tout. Males are big and muscular, their rough features, specially the eyes, witness to their animal nature. Transformed men take shape of giant wolfs. Females are tall as well, but gracious, their bodies are strong and agile, their features regular and delicately chiseled. Transformed they appear as big lynxes.
They were people once, defending their territories from incessant attacks of arrawns. They strived for strength not to yield in this fight and that's how they became what they are. They got their name from an old house of people, whose head, warlord Kelebra founded the city Watch Nest in the Narrow valley of the Southern principality. Hundreds of years his descendants contained the aggression of arrawns, but when their situation became hopeless they appealed to people's rulers to start an offensive. The appeal was not heard, and the soldiers felt disappointed and betrayed. The legends tell, that the Godess Moreg heard their laments and promised to endow those who would spent their lives serving her with great force. Thousands of warriors accepted secretly her gift. They could never be the same again, but they acquired enormous strength and the ability to take animal shape, which gave them equal chances in the fight against arrawns. The new race turned out to be quite prolific and soon the new creatures outnumbered people in the Southern principality. Enraged, werewolves lost control over themselves and could even attack their former kinsmen. Then the great magicians, patrons of the human race, decided kelebras had to leave in order to avoid a civil war. They were banished to protect the Twilight lands, people's domain in Sanadaria. Butkelebras rather disliked their position as outcast servants. Soon they declared independence and were determined to defend it. They even consented to the persuasions of Lizards and contracted an alliance with their most hated enemy, the arrawns.
Strong and harsh, kelebras know neither fear nor temperance, this race is charismatic and self-confident, hardened in the blaze of dreadful battles with arrawns, zwergs and people. Kelebras are quick, relentless and fearless, which distinguishes them from other races. Like fire they emerged once from the battlegrounds and changed irreversibly the alignment of forces in wars and world politics. Ostracised by the people, they made canny lizards, ingenious zwergs and murderous arrawns respect and defer to them in several years. Kelebras' destiny has always been to fight and to protect. Their spirit and will have become unyielding in the endless battles. They believe passionately, the faith is an escape for their seething fury.
Kelebras are double-faced and double-natured creatures, living simultaneously on two sides of one world. By their will alone they can turn into a powerful animal. But their power is also their curse, kelebras can take animal shape just for some minutes, but as soon as they stay in this condition a little longer than necessary or practice too industriously on this ability, they loose their will and senses and fall into bestial insanity, destroying every life around them. The atrociousness of the curse feeds an incessant fear in the souls of this most courageous race, that's why they feel better at night, when darkness conceals their faces and makes colours fade. At nighttime fear transforms into fury and hurt into power. But however complex their feelings are, day and night kelebras exemplify proud warriors, physically perfect and fearless. They embody the very essence of force, attractive, furious, but at the same time humanly sage and compatient.
