Kith

• What are they?: Kith fill the anthro niche in Litanaea, but they are more similar to anime catgirls than to full anthros. Think of them as humans who have 'shaken hands' with animals, rather than a true blending of the two. This picture and this one are good examples.
• Birth: Kith x kith = kith. Human x human = human. For all pure values of kith and human. Unfortunately, you'd be hard-pressed to find 'pure' stock of either these days. A kith can be born to human parents and vice versa and, while unusual, it is certainly not unheard of. A kith born to human parents is like a little blonde boy being born to black-haired parents. Some people may talk, but it's ultimately just genetics being very, very odd.
• Physical: Kith can be a blending of human and any kind of animal. Ears and tails are common animal attributes, as are beaks, muzzles, skin patterns, fur in places, claws, the occasional digitigrade feet, eyes, etc. Pick the options that appeal to you and run with them. The end result should feel like a human base with other elements grafted onto it. It should be noted that the extent of a kith's "animalistic traits" can vary quite extensively - it's not particularily rare to find "humans" in litanaea who have oddly coloured hair, or slightly pointed ears, or rather odd fingernails. 
• Species: Kith, for reason we shant go into here, do in fact correspond to "real" species (for some value of real) - so sorry folks, you're not going to get to create a catkith with bright purple fur, or a chinchilla/crow hybrid kith. However, while this is relatively obvious to players, it's significantly less so from inside of Litanaea, where the small size of the known world means a number of kith resemble creatures never before seen. It helps even less that the limited number of animal traits a kith possesses can make identifying their animal counterpart rather tricky at best. Pointed ears, poofy tail, slate coloured fur...is it a fox-kith, or a cat-kith? How can you be sure?
• Senses: Some kith have senses and physical abilities similar to their animal friends, depending on what aspects the two share. An eaglekith with avian eyes might have telescopic vision, while one with the scaled feet would just have a handy backup weapon and some extra grasping limbs. Of course, this works both ways - there's no small number of kith who have sense well below human par - but perfectly in line with their animal counterparts. Colourblind dogkith, virtually deaf snakekith, and snowshoe harekith with their sense of touch impaired by the heavy fur on their palms.
• Population: Kith make up an average of 50% of the population in Litanaea. They were here first, but have integrated wonderfully with society (thus supporting claims that they're simply humans with some odd factory additions). So, while it is possible to play the "I was an oppressed kitten in my youth" card, understand that such a situation is generally unrelated to one's race.
• Culture: Being a kith in Litanaea is a bit like being "black" in the real world - it has cultural implications that are just as (or, frankly, far more) important than the mere biological fact that one has a tail. For extra bonus points, the cultural implications change dramatically from place to place, and in no few cases, are specific to a kith "subspecies" - fox kith have a different cultural identity than horse kith, have a different one from cat kith. And then, of course, there is the fact that the word "kith" doesn't exist in every language. The -kith suffix comes from Thevan and has pretty much been adopted as standard for when people want to use it, but describing somebody as a "catkith" is akin to saying "blonde", "overweight", or "hispanic". Sometimes, the girl who everybody else would call blonde, adamantly and violently refers to herself as a "light brunette" and god help you if you forget it.