skypeople - Tenkūjin (天空人 – Sky People / Fairy People)

 fictional race based from Filipino and Bicolano mythology mixed with East Asian mythologies also based from insect societies where females are majority and dominant sex

Tenkūjin (天空人 – Sky People / Fairy People)  The sky people are slender, pale, and androgynous, exuding an ageless grace. Both male and female members of their race appear eternally youthful, with fine-boned features, soft iridescent eyes, and an otherworldly symmetry. Their skin is porcelain-pale and cool to the touch, often catching light like silk. While uniform in appearance, small differences in aura, mannerism, and magical signature mark individuality. Known in forgotten eastern tongues as the Tiānrén, celestial beings who dwelled in floating domed cities above the clouds. To ordinary humans they resembled immortal elves or divine spirits.

The Sky People stops aging entirely after reaching maturity, allowing some to live hundreds or even thousands of years. Their society was ancient and collective, functioning with eerie harmony like colonies of bees or ants. Individuality existed, but devotion to balance and order came first.

The Tenkujin are slender, pale, and androgynous, their features elegant and symmetrical. Eternally youthful in appearance, their delicate frames radiate an unspoken power. Their soft, luminous eyes shimmer like moonlight on water, and their expressions are serene, as if carved from stillness.

Both male and female Tenkujin  have a near-identical build, creating a visual uniformity prized in their society. When their purpose demands it, some of them manifest translucent, dragonfly-like wings structures of gossamer light that hum with arcane energy.

names

Tenkūjin reflects their own identity: dignified, unified, celestial.

Tiānrén reflects how others perceive them: distant, heavenly, untouchable.

Fairy People reflects how enemies reduce them: exoticized and objectified.

A Hive-Like Civilization

The Sky People do not think of themselves as separate individuals the way humans do.

Like ants or bees: every member of a colony is considered family, all females are viewed as sisters and all workers and warriors serve the colony as one collective whole

Harmony and balance matter more than personal ambition.

Conflict among themselves is extremely rare.

Their cities function like living organisms, each member naturally understanding their role within the greater balance of the hive.

The Queens

Each floating hive-city is ruled by a powerful Queen: ancient, psychic, magically gifted and almost worshipped by her people

The Queen serves as: ruler spiritual center mother of the colony and protector of harmony

She guides the entire hive through psychic resonance and collective memory.

The Males

Male Tenkūjin are rare and treasured.

Unlike females, males are often exchanged between colonies to preserve magical balance and prevent stagnation within the hive-bloodlines.

Young males are usually sent away from their birth colony to serve within the royal harems of other Queens.

There they become: companions, healers, singers, spiritual attendants, advisors and fathers of future generations

This creates connections between colonies and maintains harmony among the Sky People.

Because of this custom, most males never return permanently to the colony where they were born.

The Enlightened Males

The rare males who remain within their original hive eventually become something sacred.

Over centuries of meditation and isolation, they transform into monk-like semi-divine figures: wise, emotionless, deeply spiritual and detached from worldly concerns

These elders preserve ancient songs, memories, and rituals.

They are seen almost like living saints.

Some are so old they barely move or speak, existing in eternal meditation beneath moonlit gardens and crystal chambers.

The Shadow-Born

Rarest and most feared of all are the males born with shadow manipulation powers.

These individuals possess abilities unlike normal Tenkūjin: summoning shadow crows, manipulating darkness, creating living shadow creatures and controlling hidden spiritual forces

Such powers are viewed with unease among the Sky People. Because the Tenkūjin draw their civilization’s energy from harmony, moonlight, wind, and spiritual balance.

Shadow abilities disrupt this balance.

The presence of shadow-born males slowly affects: the colony’s magical currents, psychic harmony, emotional resonance and spiritual energy systems

Animals become restless. Dreams darken. The hive feels disturbed. For this reason, shadow-born males are often isolated from society. Not hated. Not executed. But quietly separated. Some are sent away from the colony entirely to wander the world alone for eternity. Others willingly exile themselves to preserve the harmony of their people. These exiles become mysterious immortal wanderers spoken of only in myths.

(Tsukishiro is one of these rare shadow-born.)

(Tenji is also one of these rare shadow-born.)

Creation of New Colonies

The Sky People almost never expand. Unlike humans, they do not desire conquest, wealth, or endless growth. Most colonies remain content for thousands of years in peaceful isolation above the clouds. New hive-cities are created only during extremely rare events: population imbalance, spiritual necessity, catastrophic disaster or once every several thousand years

When this happens, a Queen leaves with selected followers and males to create a new floating colony elsewhere in the skies.

The process resembles insect swarming:
a sacred migration guided by instinct, psychic resonance, and celestial signs.

Entire floating domes drift across the heavens like wandering moons until a new hive is born.

Because this happens so rarely, many humans believe the Sky People are extinct—or never existed at all.

Society & Culture

The sky people live in two primary forms of habitation:

• Floating Domes – Cloud-wreathed, luminous habitats that float above the world like forgotten moons. These domes are crystalline and elegant, shaped by magic and organic technology. They drift on ethereal currents far above mortal lands.
• Hive-Cities – Enclosed, hive-like megastructures that are entirely self-sustaining ecosystems. These echo the efficiency of a beehive, with tiers dedicated to healing, art, defense, and meditation. Each Hive is a living entity, attuned to its population.

Hierarchy of sexes

Each Tianren settlement is ruled by a Queen, a supreme matriarch of formidable magical and psychic strength. The Queen holds court with a harem of male Tenkujin, prized for their grace, beauty, and healing abilities. Among them is a drone consort, the only male allowed to breed with the Queen, chosen for his magical purity and ethereal finesse.

• Females – The dominant sex, they are physically powerful, mentally disciplined, and form the backbone of Tianren society. As soldiers, workers, and architects, they are trained in martial and arcane arts from a young age. Despite their strength, they retain the graceful, slim appearance of the males, blurring traditional ideas of femininity.
• Males – Rare and deeply cherished, they possess gravity-defying grace, often seeming to float rather than walk. Their magic leans toward healing, illusion, sound manipulation, and aerokinesis. They move with elegance, flitting across distances with almost no sound or trace. As they are far more delicate than females, they are often guarded with fervor.

Hierarchy of the Sky People

• The Queen (女王, Joō) – Matriarch, mother, and monarch of each dome. Her mind is a fortress of psychic might; her will, the law of the hive. She is the single womb of her people, mating only once in a lifetime with her chosen drone consort. From her, thousands of daughters emerge, warriors and workers, and only a precious handful of sons, destined for beauty, song, and magic.
• The Drone Consort – Singular among males, he unites with the Queen in a sacred rite that births the next generations. His body glows with unearthly radiance during this union, his magic woven into her womb, transforming into eggs that will grow into Tenkūjin children.
• Male Consorts and Harems – These delicate men are chosen from domes across the sky, prized for their elegance, their voices, and their mystical finesse. They never breed but are treasures of harmony, healers, singers of memory, companions to majesty. They exist as living jewels within the Queen’s court, fragile yet indispensable.
• Females – Countless and eternal in their labor. Slender yet immensely strong, they are soldiers, architects, guardians of the hive. With wings like dragonflies shimmering when manifested, they are the storm and shield of their people. Their beauty mirrors the men, yet sharpened with the aura of strength and discipline. 

Culture & Values

• Uniformity – Sameness is not seen as dullness but as sacred alignment. Variance is rare and often ritualized.
• Balance – Whether in gender roles, architecture, or behavior, equilibrium is paramount.
• Nature – They do not conquer nature; they cultivate and become part of it. Even technology is organic and alive.
• Peace & Harmony – Violence is a last resort, used only to preserve sacred harmony.
• Secrecy – The Skypeople avoid all contact with outside races. Their cities are cloaked in illusions and myths. They believe mortals bring imbalance and entropy.
• The Tianren hold balance, secrecy, and beauty as sacred. Each action is measured for harmony and aesthetic value, from city construction to daily rituals.
• Interaction with other races is forbidden. They consider external societies disruptive, primitive, or dangerous. Human curiosity is met with evasion or, at worst, psychic deterrence.
• Songs and rituals bind their collective memory chanted histories carried through male choirs that echo through their domes like soft thunder.

Technology and Magic

They wield a blend of bio-magical technology, seamlessly integrating organic and arcane elements living structures that respond to touch, clothing that shifts with emotion, and weapons that grow from crystal hives.

Their magic is elemental and psychic, but non-aggressive by default. Their power lies more in control than destruction binding enemies in stillness, cloaking cities in illusion, and manipulating air pressure to launch themselves like falling petals caught in reverse.

“Sky People”

• Self-Name (their own tongue): Tenkūjin (天空人) → Heaven-Sky People
  • This is what they call themselves in their floating domes and hives.
  • It ties into their love of balance, uniformity, and their lunar gods.
• Alternate Name (when spoken of by foreign cultures): Tiānrén (天人) → Celestial People
  • This is the translation used by outsiders, scholars, and poets.
  • It makes them sound mythic, almost unreachable, like divine beings.
• Derogatory or Simplified Name (used by humans, demi-humans, and Baalanians):
  • “The Fairy People” → a mix of awe and dismissal.
  • Baalanians in particular use this term to dehumanize them, even while coveting their males.

The Tenkujin – “The Fairy People”

In whispered tales passed between travelers, hidden scrolls, and forbidden tomes, the Tenkujin or Tianren are known to humans, demi-humans, and Baalanians as “The Fairy People.” Rarely seen, they are often mistaken for divine spirits or illusions. Their beauty, mystery, and utter disinterest in the mortal world only deepen their legend.

The View from Beyond

Humans and Demi-Humans

To humans and their kin, the Tenkujin  are ghost-like beings of air and moonlight. Their floating cities are often mistaken for celestial phenomena moving stars or sacred comets. Some older mountain monasteries claim to have seen Tianren gliding on the wind, their wings glistening like ice in starlight.

Most mortals regard them with awe and fear, revering them as untouchable spirits of nature. Efforts to contact or track them end in failure hikers vanish, compasses spin wildly, and seekers fall into inexplicable sleep.

The Baalanians view of the sky race

But to the Baalanians, a powerful and morally ambiguous empire of technomagical origin, the Lambana are not spirits to be revered they are assets to be captured.

Obsessed with conquest, longevity, and perfection, the Baalanians covet Tianren males, viewing them as living treasures. Their:

• Healing magic
• Vitality-enhancing aura
• Ageless beauty
• Light-as-air physiology

…are considered ideal for alchemical experimentation, elite breeding programs, or royal collection. The Baalanians refer to Tenkujin males as “Silversouls,” and special raider factions have been trained in failed attempts to infiltrate a Lambana hive and abduct them.

So far, none have returned alive.

Tainren Response

The Tianren have never responded to these abductions with war or retaliation. Instead, they act through subtle and precise means:

• Memory-erasing spores released from high-altitude flora
• Illusory landscapes that redirect or trap intruders
• Warrior females who descend silently from the sky and eliminate invaders before a word is spoken

Though peaceful by design, the sky people are not defenseless.

The Queen's wrath silent, telepathic, and absolute has only been triggered a few times in known history. Each time, an entire Baalanian sky-ship fleet vanished without trace, its remnants later found embedded in cliff walls, twisted as if by unseen force.

A Sacred Warning

On moonless nights, the Tianren males chant a warning to their own kind a song of grief and vigilance, reminding them of the world below, of hands that grab without asking, of eyes that desire without understanding.

"Beware the earthbound gaze,
For it sees only the shell and hungers for the soul."

To the tenkujin, contact with outsiders brings disharmony not out of pride, but out of necessity. To them, peace is a garden that must be pruned of threat, even if that threat comes wearing curiosity, diplomacy, or desire.

“From ash, nothing grows. From silence, the tide flows.” – tenkujin Moonchant

The tianren view the Baalanians particularly the fire-born Kharathi warlords and their crawling cities of flame as the greatest threat to celestial harmony and the last embers of the apocalypse that once ruined Earth.

While the LTenkujin shun most outsiders, their avoidance of Baalanians borders on sacred taboo. The Kharathi are not merely seen as violent; they are regarded as cosmic disruptors, vessels of Baal-Zhur’s entropy, sworn to unmake creation. The Lambana remember the Fall of the Sky as both a historical and metaphysical wound and to them, the Kharathi are walking scars of that trauma.

🛑 Avoidance Doctrine: The Fireline Vow

“Let them burn the sand, but never touch the tide.”
– High Priestess of Hive-Lumina, during the First Sighting of the Baalanian Siege-Cities

The Skypeople  practice what is called the Fireline Vow a solemn pact between all hives and domes, which forbids any engagement with Baalanian forces. No negotiations, no emissaries, no trade, no contact.

This vow is rooted in ancient moonlit prophecy, which foretells that contact with the Fire People would tear a hole in the Veil of the Moon and awaken the “Tide Below,” an entity or force that could consume both sky and sea.

Instead, the Tianren:

• Cloak their domes in shimmering illusion-fields to remain unseen by Baalanian scouts and skywatchers.
• Redirect their flight paths and tide-sails to avoid known Baalanian territories or smoke-cloud trails.
• Seal all moon-gates when Baalanians approach within horizon range.

To the Tianren the Kharathi siege-beasts crawling across the Ash Wastes are not just engines of war but blasphemies given breath, desecrating the sacred sands with every step.

🌑 Sayings & Quotes of the Tenkujin Regarding the Baalanians

Here are some quotes, sayings, and beliefs specific to the Lambana view of Baalanians and their ideology:

Tenkujin Sayings:

• “Flame forgets. Moon remembers.”
  (A saying that contrasts Baalanian destruction with Tianren memory and foresight.)
• “We do not war with beasts. We pass them like wind.”
  (Refers to the mobile siege cities of Baalania seen as both tragic and unworthy of direct conflict.)
• “Fire has no shape. It burns its own masters.”
  (A quiet prophecy that the Baalanian obsession with fire will destroy them.)
• “To speak with the ash-tongued is to swallow the cinder.”
  (Warning against even entertaining dialogue or diplomacy with Baalanian agents.)
• “Let their gods drink fire. We sip from silence.”
  (Declaration of philosophical opposition.)
• “The last moon will never crown a tyrant.”
  (A rejection of the Baalanian prophecy that Baal-Zhur will descend and crown a flame-wielder.)
• “We walk where flame dies.”
  (A saying used when Tianren nomadic hives move to avoid Baalanian conquest paths.)

Tenkujin Nomadic Cities & Sacred Hives

The floating domes of the Tianren people are a testament to their connection with the heavens and their need for spiritual tranquility. These mobile cities, light as air and as ethereal as the moon itself, drift from place to place to avoid the chaos and destruction of the world below.

🏙 The Floating Domes: Guardians of Harmony

The floating domes of the Tianren are masterpieces of magical engineering, powered by ancient lunar forces and bound to the celestial tides. They are self-sustaining ecosystems, floating above the land like celestial orbs. These domes move freely across the skies, evading the looming threat of war and conflict below, much like the silent passage of stars across the night sky.

These cities are driven by harmonic energy, synchronized with the phases of the moon. They move only during certain lunar cycles, ensuring that they never remain too long in one place, shifting with the celestial tides to avoid detection and destruction. Their movement is silent, imperceptible to most, as if the very air hums with their tranquility.

🐝 The Hives: Sacred Sanctuaries

In stark contrast to the nomadic floating cities, the Tianren hives remain in fixed locations deep within sanctuary fields guarded by powerful enchantments and magical defenses. These hives, known as "Moon-Roots" or "Hive-Lumina", are where the true heart of the Tianren people lies.

The hives are places of worship, culture, and quiet reflection, where the Lambana engage in moon worship, study, and breeding rituals. They are never to be moved, for they are grounded in a spiritual plane tied to the lunar gods. The hives serve as immutable anchors to the Lambana identity and their devotion to balance.

Each hive is protected by a force field dome, a shimmering barrier of lunar energy, which is both a shield and a prison. The dome blocks entry from the outside world, ensuring that no outside influence can disturb the delicate harmony within. The force field is impervious to both physical and magical attacks, a divine safeguard against the forces of war and chaos. Only the queen and her chosen consorts and protectors can manipulate the barrier’s entry points.