Donna

A reference for the Vanki race. Vanki resemble standard humans with a couple cat-like features, such as feline ears, alongside, for males, a mane-like beard. The ear placement is the same as tazelo and slachi, however they have lost the lower set of ears found on most human variants. The clothing custom reflects a gender binary, although the actual clothing custom is very inconsistent across the Vana region besides general degree of coverage and materials, and often serves as a specific identifier for individual Vanki tribes.

The Donno (singular: Donna) are an ethnicity that has lived in Liruzon and Vana for a long time. The Vanki culture is associated with them. Ancient Donna/Vanki practices included the influencing of conceptual gestalts to manifest yarov for specified purposes in their society. This is the origin of the very high yaref population native to Iltezon.

The Vanki social system overwhelmingly uses yarov as a catch-all solution to various problems, taking advantage of their native magical capabilities in lieu of particularly complex technology, and more significantly of their natural friendliness as an aid to social cohesion. The Vanki social system utilizes ~100-person small family units, which function as the scale at which they do their social engineering, which are "held together" into much larger social groups by specific manifested yarov assigned to certain roles. Additionally, there are often large groups of yarov making up specific organizational structures in Vanki society. Because yarov function as lifeforms, this results in populations of yarov slowly accumulating in Vanki areas that have been inhabited in the long-term, and as a result the Vanki families end up pushed out of their own societies and re-establish in new areas, with new yarov, therefore continuing the large-scale cycle of Vanki society. The structure of a large Vanki empire thus generally consists of a city of yarov at its "nucleus" and surrounding Vanki settlements.

The Donno also are the origin of the Koratar myth. A more recent Donna influence is Lucorshi, a political union and former empire that formed in recent centuries and contains a number of Vanki states. The Vainadiv is a Vanki doctrine. Physically, Donno are of medium height and body type, with feline ears and tail.

The Cycle of Creation is a Donna concept.