Beavers

The Beaver people can be generally compared to a blend of Éire Gaelic society and members of Castoridae biological family.
Beavers are one of the fifty-five races of anthropomorphic mammals that populate Yanìs, and are grouped in the subgenus of Rodents together with Mice, Porcupines, Rats and Squirrels.

Physically, they are of medium-low height, reaching an average of 4.5 feet, and have a medium build. Their bodies are drop-shaped like other aquatic animals and have reddish-brown fur, although the color can range from yellowish-brown to nearly black. They generally have short legs and wide webbed feet suitable for swimming and underwater movement, which gives them the typical and funny undulating gait on the ground.

Before their glad and voluntary union with the Ersynia kingdom, the Beaver people were organized into clans. An important feature of their culture is the brehon law, a legal system that regulates daily life, from marriage to property. It is led by a class of judges called brehons, who act as mediators in conflicts and enforce the law through fines. This law is based on personal responsibility and reparation, rather than punishment, and includes detailed rules for settling disputes and maintaining social peace. Furthermore, being very bound to showy ritual ceremonies' formality, in past times they celebrated many rites in various sacred sites, most important of which was the tara ceremony, where kings were proclaimed on the lia fáil, the destiny stone.
Although they have adapted to building large settlements even far from water, most of their villages, especially the smaller ones, are built along the course of large rivers. More traditional villages are built along the two banks of a river, with wooden houses close to each other and large overwater suspended bridges that connect one bank with the other. Large cities far from water mimic this pattern, having a longitudinal rather than concentric architecture.

The Beaver people are herbivores and mainly feed on tree bark and aquatic plants that they grow along rivers’ courses, much often right between their houses. But they are also good farmers who know how to use rivers for rice and similar aquatic plants. They are also endowed with great intelligence and engineering genius, and many believe that thanks to this gift, the kingdom of Ersynia has managed to evolve and adapt despite the difficult limitations of the more traditional Druidic dogmas.
The Beaver people have always had a strong oral tradition maintained by seanchaí, a sort of traditional storyteller and historian. Seanchai were kings' attendants who kept track of important information for them, such as laws, genealogies, annals, literature, and more.