Humans

You should know what a human is. If you need help, look directly down and into your lap. Oh, shit. Who's that.

In the world of Nephele, the origin of the human species is the Serpentine Archipelago, a chain of island-nations that is close to the physical entrance to the mystical and extraplanar Throne Above Thrones. Distinctly human traits, as seen by the other intelligent species of Nephele, include that humans fall in love easily (a polite way of saying that humans seem to find an awful lot of species that don't resemble them in any way attractive), that they are apelike, that they are generally shorter and slimmer than Orcs, and more sturdy and curvy than Elves. Excepting species wherein magic has been done specifically to allow inter-fertility, such as in the case of Shrikes, humans are not capable of having children without both parents being human.

Cultures
Humans, much like any other intelligent species, can be found everywhere, on every continent and in every nation. Some nations will be majority-human or culturally have strong human influence, but there are no solely human nations. There cannot be said to be any dominant human "culture," as humans have founded or taken over many diverse places with many schools of thought between them.

Nations with strong human cultures as a dominant feature in their societies include:


 * Quartz Isle
 * Obsidian Isle
 * Malachite Isle
 * Chalcedony Isle
 * Taisilta
 * Clarent
 * Ukonvasara

Languages
Humans are able to learn any language that can be spoken solely in the third dimension, using a mouth with a tongue, gestures with five-fingered hands, or both. Humans can commonly be found speaking:


 * Steppes-Common
 * Shriketongue
 * Mercsat
 * Clarent language
 * Archipelago language
 * Modern Orcish