Dodos

The Dodo people can be generally compared to a blend of fictitious fantasy society and members of the Raphinae biological subfamily.
Dodos are one of the twelve races of anthropomorphic birds that populate Yanìs, and are grouped in the subgenus of Walkers together with Ostriches and Penguins.

Physically, they are of medium-low stature and have a large but delicate build, barely reaching 5 feet in height and weighing no more than 40 kg. They have a rounded and tapered body with a pear shape, a long neck of about 30 cm, on which a small head with a long and heavy beak is positioned. They have a greyish or brownish plumage, with lighter primary feathers and a tuft of curly light feathers high on their rear end. They don't have wings and instead have fleshy, featherless legs (from the knee down) and arms (from the elbow down), both of which are dark yellowish and four-toed. Their chicks are born ovoviviparous, meaning they hatch within the mother's body, and families usually never has more than 3 or 4 chicks throughout their life.

The Dodo people have a unique and very peculiar culture. Although they cannot be considered a warlike people, they are undoubtedly the most boorish, disrespectful, and grim race. But at the same time, they are also extremely fearful and cowardly, able to provoke others' fury with their attitudes and then run away to avoid any possible confrontation. They live in total anarchy, without a government or politics, and the only sort of hierarchical respect is given by chicks to their parents, until they decide to be old enough to go and live alone. Dodo people gather in respectful ritual only during the main Lohudonist practices. It is known that Dodos worship two main spirits: the Great M'bakuya, the spirit of the volcano that brings both death and destruction, as much as rebirth to prosperity; and Kuluniai, the spirit of the great tropical ocean that surrounds them, which is also a bearer of as much life as death. An unusual practice, even for many Lohudonist peoples, is that of ritual sacrifice in which many compete to define who's the best, and so the winner throws themselves into the volcano's flames, galvanized by the idea of self-sacrifice.

The Dodo people have an artistic culture mainly centered on the self-figure, and therefore self-praising. Most works, both verbal and material, produced by Dodos always have a single goal: to place themselves at the center of attention, to attract admirers and possible partners, or simply to praise themselves.