In appearance, Kujaku (or Kujakus) are bird-like humanoids, their bodies covered with a fine feathery blue-green fuzz which becomes more featherlike toward the separate pair of wings sprouting out from their backs, with which they can fly. They have bird-like heads, complete with beaks, typically topped with a flop of feathery "hair", with an iridescent quality. Males and females alike sport colorful trains of tailfeathers (unlike the Earth peacocks which they remotely suggest), the females being slightly smaller in stature. While Kujaku are not true avians, their young are hatched from eggs. Kujaku are omnivores, but have a strong tendency toward vegetarian diets. While they do sport some small attraction to shiny objects, they do not have gizzards and do not require swallowing pebbles to digest their food. Kujaku do not have a language of their own, using the language of whatever country they are found in, though many also pick up the tongue of the Vartans, since it is especially geared toward use by the "beaked" races. Kujaku are not especially strong or dextrous, but many of them are found to have strong scholarly and financial aptitudes, meaning that they are often found in the upper classes of whatever country they are found in.
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