Kelf

Anthropomorphic cats and rabbits who live together in the underground in both Willick and Zurraith.

Appearance and Behavior
Though thought to be extinct, the kelves had been around recently enough to have clear pictures and drawings done of them. Kelves from Zurraith typically look more cat-like, with short fluffy doe tails, whereas the kelves in Willick are more rabbit-like with powerful legs and long ears. They all come in various shades of lavender and dark purples, typically with green or blue eyes. These kelves are the leaders, who possess the intelligence to communicate with other species.

Worker kelves are strikingly different, being small pixie-like beings who aren't very smart and must be told what to do. They are often mistaken for moles and help out the leaders with whatever they need doing.

All kelves enjoy decorating themselves in green fabrics and often times actual leaves from the plants around their homes.

Kelves are miners who live in large colonies underground and trade and barter with other colonies using their gems, vegetables, decorative pieces, and whatever else they have to offer at the time. Their homes are often caves so big they have their own ecosystems and a series of tunnels eventually turned into small homes for living.

The leaders are always who decide what to do, and there can be any number of leaders in a colony. The workers will follow, usually, without complaint.

Abilities
Kelves are naturally nocturnal and live underground, and so they posses a sort of highly sensitive night vision. Sunlight is capable of blinding them.

Worker kelves are born with large and thick claws used for digging, and leader kelves with small fine yet strong claws used for cutting gems.

Leader kelves dabble in basic and easy magic.

Reproduction
Worker kelves reproduce in a typical manner. A single pairing can have up to hundreds of offspring a year.

Leader kelves however do not possess reproduction organs. They all instead grow small rounded gems on their backs throughout their lives. When they die, their body turns to a type of dust that will be used as fertilizer in their fields and every single gem will then become an egg.

History
According to many textbooks and researchers, kelves were one of the few species to have been around for many thousands of years, perhaps even millions, making them one of the oldest known species to have lived. That is, until their extinction.

However, from a kelve's point of view, they never did go extinct. They were being hunted for their gems in modern times, and so one by one, each group began to seal off their entrances and gradually disappear from the human eye.

It's theorized that leader kelves and worker kelves are in fact completely different species working in a symbiotic relationship, as they possess different levels of intelligence, cannot breed among each other, and have no known shared relatives.