Canine Race - Aesir Chronicles Databank

Canines are a hardened, migratory race of survivors from the eastern Realm of Jotunheim.

The Canines are not natural soldiers, but creative builders and scavengers. They lack the means to build many advanced weapons, such as mechs. Thus, they mainly resort to an improvised kinetic guns and wanton thievery. What the race don’t have in finesse, they make it up with their numbers and willpower. They are innate scavengers and thus, have the ability to engineer a simple hardware from almost anything. That being, is their main strength against the Feline Matriarchate’s technological prowess. As an example of their adaptive nature, the transport ships they use are generally made out of a scavenged scrap metal.

The canine race is divided into several main breeds. The large Basal are the heavy haulers. Vulpini get by as scouts and technicians.The Lupus will fill the gap as the frontline rebels and workers.

History

Canine-kind were made to flee their homeland to escape a ravaging plague, in what became known as the First Canine Exodus. Having arrived to the west, they sought aid from the felines of Vanaheim. Pleading help from Skuld, she agreed to devise a first temporary cure. After the population was healed, they were allowed to stay and were given a portion of Midgård as their new home. The refugees secretly pilfered scrapyards to pile together a fleet of airships, should they ever need to leave.

As the Great Race War suddenly fell upon Thyra, the canines found themselves pursued once more. Not to be stopped, the canines left Midgård and other settlements in force, all the while being pursued by Matriarch’s agents. While on the run towards east, the fleeing crowds of desperate canines ransacked rural communities for supplies. Aside retreating to Jotunheim, some groups left south towards the Iron Woods of Jarnvidr.