The Veyr are horizon-born wanderers who read weather like scripture, remember roads as other people remember faces, and believe every life is part of a longer migration. Their feathered forms are built for distance and endurance, but their greatest strength is communal: a Veyr knows that a single traveler can cross a plain, while a people can make the plain remember them.

Veyr are tall, lean humanoids with a graceful, avian cast to their features. Fine feathers grow along the forearms, shoulders, spine, and calves, while their faces are mostly smooth and expressive, with broad noses, sharp cheekbones, and large eyes protected by translucent inner lids. Their feather colors range from tawny gold and russet to slate, cream, charcoal, and storm-blue. A Veyr's plumage often darkens during stress or excitement. Their hands and feet are fully suited for grasping, running, and tool use, though the nails are hard and slightly curved. Their voices carry unusually well across open country.

Veyr society is built from interlocking households, traveling clans, and seasonal alliances. A clan may include blood relatives, adopted outsiders, sworn companions, and even honored animals. Leadership is usually shared between a pathkeeper who manages practical decisions and a memory-keeper who preserves law, genealogy, and ritual. Disputes are commonly settled through public storytelling, endurance contests, or negotiated exchanges of service. Veyr children are raised by the whole caravan, and every adult is expected to teach at least one useful skill. Their greatest festivals occur when multiple clans meet at ancient watering places to trade, arrange marriages, renew alliances, and exchange newly composed songs.

Veyr spirituality centers on the Three Vastnesses: Sky, Grass, and Memory. Some personify these forces as wandering divinities, while others treat them as sacred patterns woven through ordinary life. Ancestors are honored through spoken names, preserved routes, and songs performed at seasonal gatherings. Veyr culture favors compassion, responsibility, and freedom, so many are good or neutral, but a harsh life and strong clan obligations can produce stern lawful characters as readily as independent wanderers.

Veyr homelands are organized around migration rather than permanent borders. Their traveling camps use collapsible ribbed shelters, painted hide screens, and tall marker poles that double as wind instruments. Permanent settlements are built low against the horizon, often around communal wells, sunken courtyards, and broad meeting grounds. Important roads are marked with standing stones, woven banners, and carved wind-posts rather than walls.

Veyr often regard settled peoples with a mixture of admiration and unease. They value farmers, builders, and scholars who make lasting things, yet fear that permanent borders encourage possessiveness and forgetfulness. They are quick to form friendships with other wanderers, scouts, sailors, and displaced communities. Among the Veyr, hospitality is sacred, but trust is earned through consistency rather than grand declarations. Their old stories describe many historic conflicts with goblin-kin, horse-lords, and subterranean peoples, though modern Veyr generally judge individuals by their conduct.