The Ayanics were a race of humanity that were of an extraction from the western lands of Caskaris, and who had migrated to eastern Caskaris as a result of their having abandoned the Garden of Runaral in ancient times. As a result of their fixity in regards to their perspective on the darkness which had come to invade all parts of life in the eastern lands, they were further made distinct from the Neraics through their reverence for powerful idols and aspects of the gods of the mortal plane, referred to by various exonyms throughout. It is thought, then, that they worshipped the semblances of the life given by the light, though also holding in high regard through placation the vast and ineffable darkness which had been inherited by these deific aspects.

These proto-humans were thought to have originated from the same incarnation in physicality of the Neraics, though instead venturing out of the consecration of the Garden of Runaral in order to establish themselves as the explorers of a new world which circumstantially existed from without the protection of the ruling Daevas. In the wilds which were not ruled by the Daevas, they were more apt to discover the divinities of other powers and beings, though also being plagued by the demonic entities of this time. As a result, they had abandoned the worship of the Daevas so that they could found a new creed which would instead acknowledge the abilities of other spirits of the world. Accordingly, they would eventually come to worship the Aren as a race of gods that inhabited another world, while also holding in high reverence the aspects of these gods which had found themselves in their world, known as the Aardals.

Because the Ayanics had first diverged from the inhabitants of the Garden of Runaral as a group, they no longer held in high esteem the ruling powers of light of the Daevas, and would instead adopt worship of and belief in a new pantheon which clearly demanded an acknowledgement of the existence of beings of both the chaos and the earthly, in addition to the waning light. Thus, they would grow to be a rather tough and hardy people which were hardened by the troubles which the darkness had caused, though there being no sovereigns to observe that could effectively rule over them. Then, they were free to worship select members of the overarching pantheon as they pleased, though with there being some religious disputes as a result of their lack of civility and unification as was given by the Daevas in the Garden of Runaral.

As the race of humans known as the Ayanics lacked a unified state or government that could better regulate and punish the people, they also worshipped a rather large swathe of gods in a way that was not unanimous, indicating their rather tribal nature which was caused by the lack of an overarching deity or group of deities to be worshipped throughout. These tribes were known to be like clans in that they consisted of one or two families that had either become united through marriage or circumstance, and who would exchange cultural values and the worship of very specific spirits of the mortal world. In leaving the Garden of Runaral, they had ensured that their descendants could not share in the same light as the Neraics, though still holding in high regard the light’s aspects of soul and matter which had emerged in physicality.

As a whole, the Ayanics were a people that relied on many cultural phenomena of hunting for food throughout the vast forest and a reverence for the forces which were thought to have incarnated into these forms, thus establishing some form of totem with which to resemble and acknowledge the great power of the earthly gods who had found themselves on the plane. Thus, the gods of the cardinal directions, each associated with a different season, were thought to be an ultimate form of the elements of existence throughout the plane, where they had somehow ascended above the elements to instead be like a god in that they no longer were of a certain necessity and being bound to the primordial formation of the mortal plane. These gods were known as Dracelys, Nyvara, Joraela, and Asphothys, and they represented the summer, winter, spring, and autumn respectively.

This group of humanity was known to originally possess in majority a cold, pallid skin tone, varying from shades of a pale ivory to a porcelain color, along with eyes of either a deep gray or a cold blue. Hair colors also ranged from many cooler shades, and ranged in color from an ash brown to an icy blond. As a result of these adaptations, they were prone to acknowledging and conceptualizing their anthropomorphic deities as possessing congenial traits of color, thus instigating many pieces of mythopoeia where deities had found themselves in human form somehow, and being unable to return to the light which had become sparse. Thus, they themselves thought that they were a fallen form of some being, though not being able to remember their true, previous identities.

The Ayanics were also known to stand at a smaller stature than that of the nourished and proliferating Neraics, as a result of the destruction and famine instigated by the corrupting darkness. Thus, their height allowed them to be better adapted to the lack of nutrition among the land, enabling the development through allocation of other modes and aspects of experience and structure which allowed a certain facilitation of the existence of these facets of life.