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Lervanians are the humanoid species that inhabit the planet Lervana. I know they look elf-ish with their long ears, but they are genetically modified humans. Earth has been destroyed by the humans inhabiting it. I won’t go into too many details as I’m working on a book to explain how this all happened and all those specifics.

Major differences between Lervanians and their human counterparts:

Telepathy: While telepathy doesn’t give Lervanians any real evolutionary advancement, the alien species who created them were telepathic and wanted their creatures to be able to communicate in the same way. This telepathy is limited by distance, cannot be used to span across the planet. The further away you are, the harder it is to reach the person.

Ears: Lervanians have elongated ‘elf-like’ ears. This was done to help adapt them to the forests on Lervana. They have increased hearing ability and the ears also have increased mobility to be able to point them directionally (think like a cat).

Eyes: It’s unknown if their eyes changed due to the aliens giving them telepathy or if it was intentional at all. But unlike human eyes, Lervanian eyes have a base color; unlike them, they react to their emotions. If their eye color is green, there would be a base color of green, and then they would go lighter or darker depending on their emotion. It is considered rude to hide one’s eyes; however, with practice at regulating one’s emotions, one can get better at not having one’s eyes be so reactive.

Skin: Another evolutionary change to help the species survive on their new planet was the modification of their skin to blend in with the forest. Trees on Lervana are typically dark shades of blue, green, or purple to help absorb sunlight. Lervanian skin color typically takes after their trees, ranging from blues to greens to purples, but the shades do not always range on the dark spectrum. Like the trees, this pigmentation also helps the species absorb the needed light, which the species uses to produce essential vitamin D3.

Here is an image of Kaelor as a middle aged adult verses as a young adult:

Image created by the talented Meep!

Throwing back to my other post, my world originated from my obsession with telepathic dragons. While I assure you, I still very much love dragons (please, give me all the dragon novel recs!) I remember the day I was sitting at my dentist’s office staring through the huge glass window and into the ivy, plants and trees that grew between the office and the stone wall. And I thought, how cool would it be to have a living tree to fight for you! Keep in mind, this was before the days of the hit Guardians of the Galaxy movie and our dear Groot hit the big screen, and I was never a comic gal in that way, so I had no idea he was a thing before my creation.

But what if I combined this idea with my love of telepathic dragons? So my mind birthed my Lifegivers. They are large, ent-like creatures that are telepathic and bond to Lervanians. A single drop of blood gifted to their Mothertree allowed her to choose who would be the next protectors for their species. No one knows precisely what makes the Mothertree choose who she does, but she creates them a perfect lifemate, a friend, a creature who will help complete their Lervanian partner, a Lifegiver. This is not romantic, but it’s the deepest friendship one can have.

Here is a Lifegiver/Lervanian pair from my original novel, drawn by the always lovely Huskie back in 2009:

And here is a modern redesign along with a velu drawn by OrionArte:

As you can see, there have been some changes, some evolution between the two of them. Their colors have changed a bit, but the general concept is still the same.

If these creatures seem interesting, then you’ll just have to read the books!