Physically they are quite large, standing around 6 feet tall, but weighing relatively little. The heads of adults are small compared to their bodies, and are red in color due to the few feathers on them or the lack thereof. The beak is short and hooked, and is ivory in color. They do not have wings, but instead have fleshy, featherless legs (from the knee down) and arms (from the elbow down), both of which are blackish and have four toes. Their chicks are born ovoviviparous, meaning they hatch within the mother's body, and families usually have no more than a pair of chicks throughout their lives.

The Vulture people too are semi-nomadic by nature, dedicating themselves to hunting, breeding, and gathering. Agriculture is underdeveloped, although over time they began to grow crops such as corn and melons, which they trade with other races. Settlements of the Vulture people consist of wigwams, domeshaped dwellings made from arched wooden poles covered with grass, brushwood, straw, skins, or fabrics. The only stable building of Vulture people is a large tower built from carved stone, called Sunset Bright Tree, which houses their famous magic academy, known throughout the planet for its in-depth studies of Necromancy.

All of the Vulture people tribes live in extended family units, which generally consist of a husband and wife, their unmarried chicks, their married daughters, their married daughters' husbands, and their married daughters' chicks. The extended family is connected through a lineage of females who live together, into which males may enter upon marriage. Like the other three races of Malkut, they are also led by a tribe chief, usually a male who has considerable influence and his leadership is only as strong as he is evaluated to be, as no tribe member has ever been forced to follow a chief. Criteria for evaluating a good chief include industriousness, impartiality, forbearance, and conscientiousness. The Vulture people are often engaged in artistic production of stone and wood statuettes, ritual fetishes, and straw dolls representing their Ancestral Princes, many of which are refined representations with colored sands, as well as weaving cloaks and blankets. They are also known for growing and consuming tobacco and medicinal herbs, which can cause hallucinations and trance states when taken in high doses and are therefore traditionally used for religious purposes.

They speak the Aevar language, a subtle and melodious language able to make even a dull and narrow text harmonious and poetic (perhaps a Spanish gibberish).

Religiously they are mostly devoted to Zundoey (deity of undeath and oblivion), Teeje (deity of piracy and looting), and Vael Nohr (deity of magic and memories), but here and there also thrive the cult of Caamiran (deity of justice and law), Lotru Kori (deity of nightmares and suicide), Najan (deity of hunt and community), and Ekoari (deity of crafting and science).

Their Ancestral Princes were Kiowa and Yavapai, who taught their race to respect death and its times. In Vulture people's culture, livestock is not killed and then slaughtered, but must be left to starve, often under the scorching sun, before it can be slaughtered. Similarly, the Vulture people, following their Ancestral Princes teachings, rarely go to war, preferring instead to wait for their enemies to take each other out, unless it is for self-defense.

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