Loxodon

Key Similarities with Ravnica's Version

• Loxodon are humanoids that resemble elephants, having huge ears, a long trunk, and tusks with emerge from just under their trunk. While they are not nearly as big as actual elephants, they are very large humanoids, towering above most other Kith races, and weighing quite a bit more as well. They will tend to have skin the shades of brown, grey, red, or green, and just like an elephant's, it will tend to be wrinkled and leathery even from a young age.
• A combination of their longer lifespans and their positions of power and wealth in their native lands, Loxodons tend to consider the age of 64 to be the true age of adulthood, when loxodons are given genuine responsibilities in the running of their society. The few loxodon families that don't find themselves in such a fortunate position will likely start taking on all of the responsibilities of adulthood much sooner, while still celebrating 64 as a symbolic age. Other prominent milestones in a loxodon's life are 2 (the age at which survival into adolescence is most likely), 4 (the age at which most learn to speak their first words), 8 (the age at which one is considered a child), 16 (the age at which one is considered an youngling), 32 (the age at which one is considered fully responsible for one's own actions), and 128 (the age at which one is considered an elder, and retirement may soon begin).

Key Differences with Ravnica's Version

• Loxodon first came to prominence as members of a powerful racial faction within the ancient Jungle Kingdom of Yongara. Today, they act as the ruling elite class of the majority of Kelior, except for Serpentinium and Yuyake - the other Satrapies are all ruled almost exclusively by the loxodon race.
• Despite their physical presence, most Loxodon raised in Kelior will have a keen sense that they should be the one directing others to do work - they will often shy away from hard labor or physical exertion, thinking it to be the providence of the smaller races - or more darkly, their slaves, which they tend to keep in great number in Kelior's satrapies.
• The tusks of a Loxodon are the most important sign in the Western cultures of their status in society. Since in their ancient past, the tusks would be used as weapons and tools, the degree to which one's tusks are draped in finery shows the degree to which one needs to use them - the more ornate the decoration, the less one would be able to actually use them for anything, indicating that one has servants and warriors to do such things for you. Loxodon adventurers are well recognizable then, for their typical near complete lack of any such decoration.

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