Height: 3 Meters
Width: 1.4 Meters
Length: 9 Meters

The Mother: Females are slightly intellectually more advanced than males and live longer, reaching up to 250 years. She usually teaches the cubs how to communicate, the art of math, astronomy, and the tribe's way of life. She is also the main authority, telling everyone what he or she can and cannot do. She is the most honored figure in the family.

The Father: The protector and gatherer of the family. He teaches the cubs how to live outside with nature, how to hunt, gather and provide for themselves.

Cubs (1-5 years): They are under protective care by their parents until they reach the age of a young adult.

Younger Akeshi (5-13 years old): Young ones are taught in many ways to see where their talent lay hidden. Once a talent or a future goal is found, they are taught more intensively in this direction.

Adult Akeshi (13 and older): They follow their life's goal more intensively and may join a master in order to fully learn their true potential, may it be combat, arts, or astronomy. Some may try to start their own family, others try to achieve something greater by venturing across the planet, learning all they can to ensure their clan can accomplish their spiritual goal, whatever it may be.

:: Flight
Most of the Akeshi have wings, others don't. Those who have them tend to use them only for gliding or flying short distances due to the strength needed for flight. While flying, Akeshi must always have their backs free of any obstacles to ensure the maximum flying ability and muscle movement.
While carrying cubs, or in slim conditions, humans/Ethonians, the Akeshi have custom hand-made pouches that they strap in front of their chest. The lashes of these pouches are like backpacks, which run across their backs, between the two major wing muscles, down the spine and around the hips.

:: Creation
The Nachenyu and all other Akeshis and Ethonians all believe in two separate beings: the observers and the teachers.

The following tale is a mixture from various Akeshi sources. As with all things being passed down generation to generation, the literal interpretation should be taken lightly.

One day the skies turned orange as the "observers" descended from the heavens on their roaring chariots. They saw the beauty of the planet and blessed it with their first creations. They took DNA from a feral dragon-like species, mixed it with their own, and created a hybrid being.

After creating a couple thousand individual hybrids, the observers left the planet. The observers believed that these new creatures would learn to create cultures, to better evolve themselves, ultimately becoming highly intelligent beings. Unfortunately this never happened. The hybrids were savage and nasty beasts, killing, attacking and torturing the weak, especially their own kin. The original, feral dragon-like species had become nothing but food for the hybrids. Millions of years later the "teachers" arrived on Ethonia to evaluate their evolution.

Much to their shock, these hybrids turned out to be anything other than peaceful. Seeing how these hybrids were vicious and without any sign of culture, the teachers gathered the most wisest of all hybrids, brought them to one of their cities high up above the heavens and "blessed" (genetically altered) them with even more intellect, less aggressive behavior and the basics of culture, a writing system, mathematics and an extensive knowledge of astronomy. They named these new beings, “Akeshi” and returned them to Ethonia. Hoping that the Akeshi were now well equipped to defend themselves from the hybrids and ultimately be intelligent enough to become the dominant species of the planet, the teachers left once again, with the promise of returning in the distant future.

Many years passed, with the hybrids and Akeshi at each other's necks. Constant battles, fights for survival and the peaceful nature of the Akeshi almost marked their imminent doom. The teachers returned, and witnessed the horror happening on the planet.

The hybrids were just too aggressive and the Akeshi too peaceful. The teachers decided to gather the few surviving Akeshi inside one of their cities, and warned that a day of judgment shall soon rain upon the hybrids and put them into an eternal sleep. The hybrids suddenly fell victim to diseases and plagues. The day of Redemption had arrived.

It took nearly three months for all hybrids to perish a terrible death for the sins of their crimes. When the winds calmed and the last hybrid was no more, the Akeshi returned to their homes to lay eyes on a more beautiful and calm planet. Centuries of peace and prosperity had begun.

The teachers told the Akeshi to continue the advancement of their given culture, to one day be wise enough to join them in the heavens for when the time comes.

That is exactly what the Akeshi did for millions of year. Some cultures would restart or completely die out due to disease or internal conflicts between different clans and tribes. There have been at least 390 such restarts. The current Akeshi culture is around 147,000 years old. The oldest recorded was around 152,00 years. Though the Akeshi have mastered the art of telepathy, a bit of telekinesis, and managed to manipulate the gravitational pull around their bodies, the teachers still have yet to fulfill their promise of one day returning.


:: Technology
The Akeshi believe that the teachers want them to evolve as a species, without the help of any technology. They use items found in nature, such as roots, plants, seeds, stone and wood for various purposes. They use their claws to hunt prey, but in some cases nets and spears work just as well.

The younger Akeshi show a great interest in the human's latest gadgets, but start to lose interest later on in life and return to the tools nature provides them.

Some larger Akeshi clans have adopted an agreement plan with the Ethonian governments to provide state of the art medical care and technology for visiting Ethonian or human school/tour groups, or other visitors.


:: Cities, Housings and Caves
It is a common cliche to say Akeshi live in caves. There are some who live underground, some in the giant trees in the thick forests of Ethonia, others underwater, in the valleys inside their own hand made buildings, or just simply within the mountains. The majority of Akeshi however love to live outside under the warm sun and to be one with nature.

All of the Akeshi homes are extremely well decorated, carved with precise and excellent skilled craftsmanship and built strong enough to last for generations. They make sure their homes mirror their culture and beliefs down to the finest detail.