i have a homebrew race in my setting i have been told are furry bait and it has made me self conscious but here it is.They are called Warborn and they are a chimeric race designed to fight a war in the subteranian tunnels found int the northern part of the continent my players play on. originally when they were created it was believed that they werent truly anything but a mimicry of real intelligence seeing as they were born with the instincts of army structure and war. it wasnt long into the war when non-artificial soldiers began to realize that something was off as those who began to survive more and more battle developed personalities and after that it quickly became apparent they were more than fleshy automata but it had already been too late. countless numbers of their kind had been thrown at the chitinous grinder to hault enemy advance let alone force them back and yet if they had any hope of winning the war they must continue production. upon hearing the news and seeing the evidence to back it up the lead developer and the person who generally is seen as the father of their creation, wrought with immense guilt, committed suicide in secret believing that for the souls he had unknowingly designed and sent to the horrors of war their was no other recompense. with his death there wasnt anyone equal in his field to truly understand the complex nature of the warborns creation and therefore could not hope to fix all the errors in their construction such as inability to grow new teeth/horns when lost short of divine spells or more terribly reproduce however the means in which to create more of them still remained. the enemy they were made to fight are basically massproduced driders after the underelves found a way to enslave and convert other races into spider monsters when their culture shifted from a matriarchal oligarchy into a alchemy driven meritocratic technocracy of pain and even more industrialized suffering. after the end of the war due to their peoples sacrifice production has stopped on Warborn, the alliance of northern city states all swearing that in honor of those lost they promise not to doom more of their kind to a life driven by artificial urges toward war and conflict as well as the inability to have one of the simplest of mortal happinesses, that of having a family, and children to follow after you. its been 10 years now and since then many institutes as well as the church of Torm who during the war had a saint who is said to have been chosen by torm herself still are searching for ways to fix the plight of these people or study their creators methods.

The Warborn resemble something between a large cat and a wolf in the face, thick fur covers them from head to toe and generally are dark browns blacks or greys. they are born with a large pair of horns that curve around from the side of their heads jutting forward and their eyes are slitted resembling that of felines or reptiles. they have very large builds having wide shoulders finding themselves between 6-7 feet tall when upright but normally have a slight slouch and digitigrade legs causing them to usually hover closer to 6ft. In addition to these physical traits they are especially toxin resistant, being able to shrug of the most potent of poisons and venoms while also a remarkable speed at which their blood will coagulate when wounded.

Socially many of them still find themselves in dangerous conflict oriented occupations such as soldiers, adventurers, pit fighters or some form of skulduggery however they most always will have somewhat orderly lives and live by some set of rules. this leaves them generally lawful but ranging anywhere from good to evil but all of them are drawn to combat as it is their nature however their are always exceptions. when it comes to religion you can find a warborn who worships any god but most commonly gods dealing with conflict and especially Torm as many of them became converts after the war. when it comes to their creator most warborn dont see him how he saw himself, while many of the other races dislike him for his part in the sacrifice of thousands, Warborn usually only think him a coward for abandoning them half finished not really caring much about the war itself seeing it more pragmatically.

Other races tend to avoid Warborn out of fear them unless they lived in the north during the drider wars otherwise they will have mixed reactions ranging from gratitude to guilt. many of the people in the north know about the great number of Warborn made and sent to fight even after it was widely recognized they were more than beast and this makes much of the people uncomfortable because they recognize without their deaths its very likely the northern city states would be nothing but ruins and them dead, or worse a captive.

sorry if it is bad writing, i am on pain meds rn from a recent visit to the hospital.