Arctos Comics

The tir’a evolved from an arboreal predator. Their closest living relative, evolutionarily speaking, is a five-foot tree-dwelling creature they call the tir’sanu in their common tongue. Not that they evolved from the tir’sannu, just that the tir’a and the tir’sannu share a common ancestor. Similar to the relationship between humans and the great apes on earth. Tir’sannu literally means “lesser child of god”. Tir (as in tir’a) means person, people or child and sannu is one form of possessive for Va’annu, the tir’a name of god.

The legacy of their predatory history is that they posses short, sharp fangs and retractable claws. These claws can be formidable weapons in close combat. The tir’a also posses grasping feet, much like an ape, though somewhat less dexterous.