Avians are a winged fantasy race in several strategy

Strategy game

A strategy game or strategic game is a game in which the players' uncoerced, and often autonomous decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome...

 and role-playing game

Role-playing game

A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...

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Maelstrom

Avians are also a fantasy race in the Maelstrom

Maelstrom (live role playing game)

Maelstrom is a live action role-playing game campaign run in the United Kingdom by Profound Decisions Ltd. The campaign consists of four events held each year at weekends during the British summer at a variety of locations...

LARP, which is run in the UK by Profound Decisions. They are, again, a mix of bird and human, bipedal and flightless humanoid

Humanoid

A humanoid is something that has an appearance resembling a human being. The term first appeared in 1912 to refer to fossils which were morphologically similar to, but not identical with, those of the human skeleton. Although this usage was common in the sciences for much of the 20th century, it...

s with a prominent beak

Beak

The beak, bill or rostrum is an external anatomical structure of birds which is used for eating and for grooming, manipulating objects, killing prey, fighting, probing for food, courtship and feeding young...

 and a feathered face. They are highly cultured. Minimum Phys-rep are a feathered face and a brow. A character may be avian if his or her culture is Alkyon, Free Islands, Merisusi or Rukh.http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/rules/avians.asp

Avians are winged creatures, and, for the most part,are considered to be a very aesthetically pleasing race. Although they have no other animalistic traits and retain a humanoid's appearance.

RAMA

The RAMA

RAMA

Rama is a first-person adventure game developed and published by Sierra Entertainment in 1996. The game is based on Arthur C. Clarke's books Rendezvous with Rama and Rama II and supports both DOS and Windows 95. It is the second Rama game to be produced...

series (Rendezvous with Rama

Rendezvous with Rama

Rendezvous with Rama is a novel by Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1972. Set in the 22nd century, the story involves a cylindrical alien starship that enters Earth's solar system...

) by science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...

 had Avians as one of the sentient species transported on the spaceship Rama.

Keisha'ra series

The avians have birds for second forms and their royal line consists of golden-eyed hawks. Their leader is the Tuuli Thea, or queen. Avian culture is uptight and strict, it centers on something called "avian reserve" which is the ability to keep complete control of one's emotions at all times. Avians do not lose their temper and they do not cry, even at funerals.

Dungeons & Dragons

In the Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...

 fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 role-playing game, creatures exactly known as Avians are not present. But the winged Elves Avariels, as well as Aarakocra

Aarakocra

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the aarakocra are a race of bird-like monstrous humanoids dwelling in high mountains...

 and Raptorans, being bird-human hybrids, are very similar in concept.

Maximum Ride

In the book series Maximum Ride, written by James Patterson, six kids of different ages are injected with bird DNA before they are born and call themselves Avian-Americans as they were born with wings. they are Max(female), Fang(male) and Iggy(male) who are 14 years old, Nudge(female, 11) Gazzy/the Gasman(male, 8) and Angel(female, 6). They all have different powers appearing at different times during the series such as mind reading and breathing underwater.

RuneScape

In the MMORPG RuneScape

RuneScape

RuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game released in January 2001 by Andrew and Paul Gower, and developed and published by Jagex Games Studio. It is a graphical browser game implemented on the client-side in Java, and incorporates 3D rendering...

, there exists a race of winged beings known as Aviansies, resembling a cross between eagle-like birds and humans. These creatures followed a god by the name of Armadyl.

Star Trek: Enterprise

The Avians were an extinct sub-species of the Xindi mentioned in season 3 of Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction television series. It follows the adventures of humanity's first warp 5 starship, the Enterprise, ten years before the United Federation of Planets shown in previous Star Trek series was formed.Enterprise premiered on September 26, 2001...

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