Thunderbird

The Thunderbirds, known in their native tongue as Climatties, are a tribal race of agile humans who grow feathers randomly throughout their bodies, evolved to hunt the swift and elusive bird prey of their homeland. Over generations, they developed extraordinary adaptations that attune them to the movement of air itself. Their skin is covered with specialized pores that sense wind in the same way tastebuds sense flavor, allowing them to perceive subtle shifts in pressure, direction, and temperature. With this ability, Thunderbirds can detect the flight paths of birds long before they are visible, predict oncoming storms with uncanny accuracy, and balance their bodies effortlessly even in the fiercest gales. Their deep connection to the sky has made them both masterful hunters and revered weather-sensitives, often treated as spiritual guides among their own people.

To sustain such sensitivity, their bodies differ greatly from ordinary humans. Thunderbirds possess lighter bones and softer muscle tissue, trading brute strength for agility and grace. This delicate anatomy allows them to leap vast distances and even glide through the air for short bursts, mimicking the very prey they once pursued. In flight, they are a breathtaking sight—figures of flesh and featherless grace, their garments trailing like wings as they ride the wind’s invisible currents.