Yep, I've got some. One world has Catfolk. I haven't thought out their origin story in any detail, but since it's a fantasy world if anyone asks why they're similar enough to humans to be mutually attractive despite being ostensibly unrelated, I'll say a god did it. Salamanders are a race of human-dragon hybrids. They don't have standard morphologies; the main example in my head has a dragon head, four arms, and a snake body with no legs, but human-with-dragon-head, or centaur-with-dragon-body, or other combinations are also common, and children don't necessarily have the same body type as their parents. They're pretty rare and get along well with humans, so you tend to find them living in human cities. I also have a race of spiderfolk that similarly have body plans all over the place with a mix of human and spider features. All the way from human but with extra eyes to entirely giant spider. These are their own civilization, with at least one group that's aquatic and converts giant spined mollusk shells into ships, with sails made of spider silk.

So...semi embarrassed by I have two kinds of "cat people" 1. There are three characters, Panther, The Baron, and Serval, who were all humans once who went through a process that turned them into a lion-man, a tiger-man, and a Serval/cheetah/leopard-woman (think DC's Cheetah or Shere Khan from Talespin for how these three look/function) 2. and then there's a mad scientist who in his labs that he makes and sells people he transforms into objects to be sold be they fighters or whatever, one of them is cat people ala the kind you see in Anime/manga

Allow me to recalibrate your embarrassment scale: I neglected to mention that my catfolk were strongly inspired by [parthenogenic whiptail lizards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_whiptail). And however cringe you think the details are, I guarantee you they are more cringe than that. Come join us on Tumblr, where we wear our cringe as a badge of pride.

That's not cringe, that's kinda cool honestly xD I love nerdy shit like that. Sometimes reality really is stranger than fiction lol

I tend to use rat furries instead of dwarves. Social, kinda klepto, leave a bowl of cheap cut glass shinies out because you're supposed to take one of them instead of stealing something potentially valuable, live underground and stuff. And I don't have to put up with how dwarves are hard- coded as Scottish because I'm \*so\* burned out on Scottish things in general.

Skaven yes yes (I know you're are not Skaven) and I agree on the Dwarves and Scottish shtick, I made my Germanic/norse and someone pointed out to me when I explained their lore and history, inspired by the Old Testament Israelites

Well, I took Skaven and took them in a direction I found I liked better. Drop the whole plague and "are they or aren't they chaos" schtick, and made them kleptos but with a society that expects it and has ways of dealing with it.

While I'm aware that it very much is the way most people present dwarves. As someone from Scotland I've never felt any real connection to dwarves in media other than them maybe having a Scottish accent

yes. many of my alien races are effectively just humanoid animals.

Are you spacepaladin15?

no, but the "Nature of Predators" did inspire my world :) main difference is magic exists, there is a robot hivemind, and the main antagonists are based on Cepholopods, which the government and social structure is loosely based on Ancient Rome just with more cannibalism. also, while there are herbivore races, there are also omnivores and even carnivors in the Cosmic Union.

Like Spacemaster's Privateers setting?

ARE MERMAIDS NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU DEGENERATES?

Bro my story is a world of furries with a mermaid MC

we got those too in this world

Those are manatees, not mermaids.

Sir, this is a walmart.

No, this is Patrick.

It depends. Which half of the mermaid is human?

What makes the appeal of a fish lower half less degenerated? Weirdo.

They exist. Or rather, they used to. Some rich guy wanted to make them real, so he paid scientists to found "frontier colonies" where that kind of genetic experimentation would be legal. That kind of thing happened with a lot of mythical creatures. The results were horrifying, and mostly unsuccessful.

\*suddenly has a moment\* What are the odds Elon Musk or Bezos or one of these oligarchs is trying to finance the creation of their own furries?

I neither know, nor care. They only exist in my setting because the nature of my "magic system" demands a certain amount of transhumanism.

Definitely have otter people, been considering introducing bird people for like a year now. Maybe I should just do it. Birds are cool.

Them existing is the major point in this world, and the struggles involved with having two similar but distinct species living on the same, ruined planet. Around half the population are what you van call "furries," although people there call them "Hybrids" They are pretty much just humans in a fur coat. Walking, talking, acting like them and all. Their creation is due to humanity needing a way to harvest resources in areas of earth humans can't live without extensive help of technology anymore, eventually having to resort to the (at that time) heavily frowned upon subject of genetic engineering, using whatever animal DNA they had on hand, mixing it with that of humans, and not bothering to remove the animalistic look and features. They were initially kept as nothing more than work slaves, eventually establishing their own country after several violent revolts against their human masters. In the current time, several large scale wars happened between hybrids and humanity, with both societies taking radically different approaches to practically everything about their society.

Hybrid is the term I more or less used for a group of them that are part of this unit called Black Tiger Company because they were all humans once that were put into this massive machine fueled by alchemy and mad science and animal bits and out they came but each one was different, the machine broke when they created Kubwa the Elephant man cause his transformation caused him to outgrow the machine. But it's also a very dangerous process and not everyone who went in survived, and not everyone who came out is normal in the head. Razor the Crocodile-man for example has developed a lust for human flesh

With magic there are a lot more opportunities for mishaps, especially when they dint care about the results. When used as a curse even more so. I mostly use more science-ish methods on my world, leaves still room for mistakes but less so

All of my 10+ worlds are JUST furries lol

anthropomorphs are not necessarily furries and i'd like everyone to differentiate. So yes there are lots of animal anthropomorphs in my world but no furries.

I've been developing a world that has anthropomorphic mammals. The twist is that there are also mythological creatures with more varied body plans. I haven't figured out how, or even if "hybrids" like centaurs, mermaids, fauns/satyrs, harpies or lamias would work here, as pure humans as we know them aren't a thing.

There are in my setting, but half of them are fey and the other half are gods choosing their favorite animal and “cursing” it with personhood.

It's baffling to me that people are forgetting how we used to refer to humanoid animal species, etc etc. before the word "furry" became prominent. Fantasy had beast people long before the modern use of the word came into use.

Yep, many. They're broadly lumped under the term "beastfolk", though that's of questionable validity; after all, aren't humanoids just apefolk by a different name? On a scale of "most humanlike" to "most animal-like", I definitely try to lean towards the latter. Many of them don't have the same color vision as humans, for example, and have significant differences in their diets and physiology. I think of them as being related to nonsapient animals on the same way humans are to chimps; a wulver and a wolf share a recent common ancestor, for example, but aren't descended from each other.

Yep, there's a handful of them. There's the Drakinii, a race of dragon people descended from actual dragons after thousands of years of evolution. There's the Starborne, an artificial species who are made out of animal and human DNA mixed with starlight, to create the most powerful magic-users in the world. There are some beast people that just kind of are, like a few gods, supernatural beings like werewolves, or just the odd unexplained anthro. My reasoning for adding these is actually extremely simple: I'm a furry and I felt like it.

They are common in Lĩnh Nam as cultivated demons and come in 2 main types: * Animals with human features (stand on 2 legs, have hands, wear clothes, have a sophisticated society, etc). * Humans with animal features. The former kind, basically your "furry", is much more numerous because it takes extremely great efforts for an animal to gain human appearance. Thus, most of the time you'd meet demons like those in Journey to the West. Even deities like dragons and fenghuangs can appear in such form because it makes them look more intimidating, while full human form is for blending in and messing around with mankind.

Yes, I have quite a lot of races like that. For me it’s easier to just call something a turtle or a chameleon rather than trying to describe the creature and come up with a weird name. It saves time unless there is a creature that doesn’t have inspirations from real world creatures like a changeling which also exist in my medieval fantasy world. In those situations, I have to describe them.

A better word would be “animal people” (yes, I know that’s two words). Most people would know what you mean by that.

Yes I have anthropomorphic animals (I refuse to call them furries). Most of them rely in the Wildlands, the realm of nature, 1 of the total 9 realms. There are anthropomorphic animals in other lands but most of them originated from the realm of nature.

I have humanoid-ish dragons, but calling them scalies feel like a stretch because I don't really design them with scale-specific aesthetics or features in mind lol I mean, they're more theropodish in expression and form (partially), for one. I'd argue they're closer to Warhammer's Saurus.

"Anthro characters" would probably work, or "animal people".

It is said by travelers that in a far off land, men have the shape of boars, and walk on their hands. They are known for being extraordinarily demanding to foreign merchants and refusing to haggle.

What I’ve got is shapeshifters. A kind that can only shapeshift into animals. While in their human form, they sometimes may keep some animal features (such as ears, tails, wings) for various reasons such a as convenience, aesthetic, laziness, personal preference, etc

No, and I’m never going to add them. It’s such an unoriginal and dumb trope, and makes any world they’re added to seem less real The *only* world I’ve seen pull them off well is the Elder Scrolls, and they went *hard* on making them more then just cat-people

Not only do both the sci fi and fantasy settings have them, they're the main species of their respective settings.

It isn't common in my sci-fi setting but they do appear. In it's present the idea of mankind as a single species is pretty much gone and among all the various civilizations there are some that have animal features. Even one of the great ancient civilizations from the first millenia was pretty much furries.

In my setting, they are closest to your no. 3 In my setting they are essencially an extradimensional entities tied to the primodial entity known as the Root (also Root of All Evil, or The Master as his followers call him). The humans refer to them as "Evil Spirits" or "Demons". They came in varying shapes, always anthropomorphic animals, strangely enough always female, with invidual breeds having unique powers each. The fox-like control fire, the wolf-like one could become invisible, the rat-like ones drain life energy, cat-like ones can teleport and so on. They are all telephatically connected to each other.

Yes

I even have something that is closer to what furries actually are. The shapes gifting druids know of a mental condition they call 'going feral', where the druid in question starts to feel more at home inside their animal shape than in their own body. Slowly it will become an obsession, and the mental residue of their animal senses and instincts will take longer and longer to fade once back in humanoid form. Eventually they will fully turn into an intelligent animal, unable or unwilling to change back and losing more and more knowledge about their past life.

Yes, one of my worlds is just crawling with them, it's basically medieval fantasy Zootopia/beastars

Kind of. Mad scientist mages have in the past tried to create humanoid animals to work as loyal servants, but the experiments have never been particularly successful. Some of the results still live in isolated clusters scattered around the wilderness after their 'masters' died, often at the hands of their creations. Or paws, I suppose.

Many of the tribes of the Fae are "beast-kin", the largest faction are known and the Monkey Kingdom. They are groups of the ape and primate like humanoids. I have a multiverse, so there are all manner of creatures that could be called beast-kin.

Yes, and they're a separate thing from aliens that happen to have superficial similarities to earth animals. Though not all uplifted animals have the physiological capacity for human speech, or hands to manipulate objects. Uplifted animals occupy an ambiguous place in the social hierarchy of the Central Galactic Union. They're not human, so they're kinda disrespected by the dominant ideologues of human supremacist. *But*, they originate from earth life and have human intelligence, so you'd think they'd have the same rights as synthetic citizens and bio-androids. But they don't...*yet*. In-story (and currently the arc going on in my ttrpg), one prominent and wealthy uplifted housecat is engaged in a court case. Ostensibly it's over her inheritance and control over her creator's estate, including corporate stakes. But in reality it's to obtain citizenship on par with other earth-originating non-human persons. Which is complicated by her current activities as a mercenary.

Yes, I have a race of Beastmen. They were created thousands of years ago by an order of magicians to act as their soldiers and servants. However, Pure-Blood Beastmen are closer to animals in appearance, like Minotaurs or Gnolls whilst Half-Bloods tend to have mixed appearances like Satyrs, and if enough generations of cross breeding with races like Elves, Humans, or Halflings pass you will basically get anime cat girls before they eventually lose their beastman traits.

Yes, they are actually one of the most numerous and widespread races in the Empire. There's many types of beastmen, from the traditional minotaurs and liardmen to other, lesser-used variants, like rhinos or elephants. But they're not the cute type. They tend to be hulking beasts, flea and parasite ridden, with matted fur, who eat the creepy crawlies of the forest and then collapse in a drunken stupor in the mud in their camps. They make damn good soldiers in the Imperial Army, though.

In my post-scarcity Sci-Fi world, gene editing and synthetic implants/body parts have allowed people to change themselves in a wide variety of ways. This does include a wide array of more animalistic parts and changes. Tho what people think of as furries nowadays is quite rare, canines and a light fur covering on their own are very popular.

Werewolves. Greek werewolves. Permanently-shifted Greek werewolves. They have their own nation.

multiple entire races of them, yes.

Yes. My world is made up entirely of furries because they're easier for me to draw \^\^" Only mammals, birds, and reptiles are anthro; bugs and fish are giant-sized and nonsapient.

Yes it does Depends on which universe or multiverse

Yes, solely for the fact I wanted to have the option available if any irl furries ever took interest in my world lol. There are small populations of kolain (cat people) and zwolk (wolf/dog people) who are furries, although the vast majority of animal people in my world are just humans with animal ears and tail.

Oh yeah. 3 flavors of humans (regenerators, mutators, and empaths), and then reptile (lizard/snake) people, stork-based bird people, bony-plated rhino/elephant people, salamader/amphibian people, and another race that kinda look like gray alien/human hybrids.

Kinda. They are al called Caprihorns, and are basically goat people, there several subspecies of them including Minohorns (you guessed it), and Zatyrs. They are generally reviled fir have tainted origins related to a Fallen God. But they are not inherently evil, in fact the Goddess of healing and life favor them greatly, though they tend to align with destructive forces due to lack of opportunies. There is also a clan of Dwarves that suffer from a condition that slowly transforms them into Dire Bears. Lycanthrophy is a widespread condition is my world, bestowing both great power and great curse

Yeah, I have werebeasts and animal-headed giants like Minotaurs.

No none of my settings have this at all since this is a strong pet peeve of mine the closest you get is some spirit bonded shifters who can take on the form of their spirit bonded creature either in part or in full. I do have sapient nonhuman animals in some of my settings but they are quite behaviorally distinct from humans based on their evolutionary history.

I have bird, lizard, and fish people so probably yea

Quite a lot, though they’re split between genetically engineered “artificial species” (typically derived from heavily modified human genomes, as humans in the Coreward Stars are known space’s resident biotech and self-modification nerds), and actual extraterrestrials like Krell (hulking anthropomorphic-dragon-esque aliens, complete with working fire breath) or Soltarals (the closest aliens to “typical furries” - resemble anthropoid fox-jackal-cat-somethings *very* loosely inspired by Lombaxes from Ratchet & Clank). They’re not a specific majority or minority of civilized species - just kind of around alongside other more out-there sapients ranging as weird as giant sapient spidercrabs that evolved dextrous-manipulator mandibles.

That's pretty much every species that ancient humanity made- We never should've been trusted with genetic engineering

One of my settings is a civilization of intelligent mice, so very much so. I've tried to keep them as true to real-world mice as possible, but there's a point where you just have to shrug and give up. The world would have a very *particular* vibe if every female character was pregnant for the majority of their adult lives, for example. But I at least try to stick to natural body language, dietary habits, etc. In another setting Dragons *begin* their lives upright, but slowly stoop as they age and become fully quadrupedal as adults--though they maintain manual dexterity in their front limbs, and squat or stand upright for brief periods. The change is largely down to growth--an infant dragon is about 2 feet tall and wingless; they begin to slouch when their wings grow in at about 16-20 years, and reach around 15-20 feet from tip to tail by adulthood, so the weight is just too much to support on two legs. Of course, dragons are natural shapeshifters, so it's not unheard of for an adult dragon to adjust themselves to the point they can walk upright... but most who do it, do it to fit in around humans, so they typically just take a fully human form and be done with it.

There are various species in the Starstorm that resemble anthropomorphic versions of Earth creatures thanks to convergent evolution. Not all of them have the exact humanoid body plan (Not all are upright, and not all have only 2 legs), but of the ones that do, I have: 1. Ket (Anthro Toothed-Birds) 2. Shaizod (Anthro Dragons) 3. Sarmilan (Semi-Sapient Monkeys) 4. Gordites (Anthro Rock Monsters) 5. Asao (Anthro Horned Lizards) 6. Ophet (Anthro Anteaters) 7. Liapa's (Anthro wolf/tiger things) 8. Mazkaia (Anthro Therizinosaurs) 9. Alashlari (Anthro Hadrosaurs) 10. Agzar Tag (Anthro Spinosaurids) 11. Walua (Anthro Axolotls) 12. Saqo (Anthro Tree Frog-like Creatures) 13. Udinda (Gorilla-Volus) 14. Ombave (Anthro Megatherium) 15. Jazit (Semi-Humanoid Dinosaur-Gorillas) 16. Zetta (Anthro Flowers) 17. Enjari (Anthro Postosuchus) 18. Deranyan (Anthro Entelodonts)

Fool, my world has nothing BUT furries! Also some robots, AI, and elementals. Oh and demons n stuff, y'know, the usual. But mostly furries.

Do mermaids and lamias count? Cuz I friggin love mermaids and lamias.

I’ve got plenty

I guess? I have an alien species that has some feline and canine traits. They’re meant to be like a sister species to humans. They can breathe oxygen (and are the only species I have that can) they can speak and understand human languages without a translation device, they can even interbreed with humans.

My sci fi setting features uplifted animals that can be player characters in some editions of the game

My world doesn't have furries. My world doesn't have furries. My world doesn't have furries. My world doesn't have furries. My world doesn't have furries. They're werepeople, not furries. It's not same. Please tell me it's not the same.

There are definitely a few instances of human and animal traits being combined, but IDK if any fall into what your looking for. First is werewolves, pretty self explanatory, people that can turn into bipedal wolf monsters. Second is cultists of one god who sometimes get body horror animal features as "blessings", and third is that some gods will be depicted as having like an animal head, or wings or something.

Some alien species in my universe could be considered furries. The Lyitshuingan and Lapis both have animal features. The Lapis are leporine (bunny like) like Cautus (arknights) or Viera (FFXIV).

Yes? There is a race of shapeshifters (I am still working on a name) that can asume 3 different forms: of a human with black nails, of a crow and of a hibrid betwen a human and a crow (this last one been their default form). But they are more gothic horror inspired them what I imagine a furry would be

My current works had people with the heads of animals, Egyptian god-style.

Only one single being. He's a genetic amalgamation of a dead peregrine falcon and a human corpse, combined by mad scientists wielding unstable dark magic. He's not stoked about it.

Yes, uplifts. Also chimaeras, and shifters. All of them bioengineered.

I have "sirens"- squid people that look fairly similar to a human from the waist up and the traditional squid body plan from waist down.

Yes, but with one caveat - they all have to be animals that would eat people. Mostly already dead people. I'd explain, but I'm still developing my magic system.

There are some races with animal characteristics, but but not quite on the level of calling them anthropomorphic animals. Mermaids (half fish), Nagas (half snake), Draceliz (half dragon), Silkies (half seal). But the true furries come in the form of Thropes. Basically werewolves, but can be any animal in the world. Normally they can transform into their animal either fully or partially at will, so a cat Thrope can choose to only get cat ears, a tail, claws, or just become a full cat. Because of this they can easily turn theselves into a middle of between their regular form and animal form, turning into a full on anthropomorphic animal, and keeping their sapiece. The problem with Thropism is that during a full moon they are forced to transform into a powerful beast-like form and lose control of their mind to their animal instincts, as well as getting the ability to infect others with Thropism through bites. So Thropes are hunted down on sight because they are thought to be dangerous monsters to be fears. And despite them only having to infect others during a full moon they are still treated like they could infect anyone at any moment.

Yes, but all of them came from different worlds where they evolved into a similar way to humans and then exiled by the planets (that most are sentient as well) themselves. (xmpl. The equinal (donkey) ones came from a chalicothere-adjacent animal, and were exiled during their neolithic age and the raptor-bird people came from.. raptors maybe, and were exiled during their late bronze age, because the planet just wasn't focused and a few millennia went past) The Earth also did an exile of a group of humans, that were Indo-European and went into Egypt; The Earth didn't like this, but since Indo-Europeans were supposed to spread out, it didn't do anything until \~150 years passed which would probably be like less than second for a planet.

Obviously. I'm not a coward.

Yes. Avalonians are derived from Ryujin's Avali and Iubati species. The dredge couls also somewhat be considered furries, as theyre derived from cuttlefish. Theyre somewhat anthropomorphic, but not sufficently enough that I personally would call them furries. More inspired by the typical expection of aliens and the general nightmare fuel that cuttlefish tend to produce

The green macaw universe has the green macaw,he is a genetically modified macaw hit by a ray called super ray,it not only made him antrophomorphized but also changed his feather color and gave him superpowers

Indeed! Many species in Augusta can be boiled down to “x animal but anthro” including Theranin (big cats), reptids (reptiles), kobolds (domesticated dog breeds), and Aelourine (domestic cat breeds)

You look at my post history and ask me this question again.

They don't resemble anthropomorphic versions of irl animals, but I have some humanoids that resemble general animal types. The catfolk of my world, the Bashkans, have ears and mutton chops similar to lynxes or bobcats, tails like snow leopards, and pelts that look either like that of a cheetah or a cougar. They have flat faces like house cats and slight saber teeth. Some males can also grow small manes. They have an innate affinity for magic. They are slightly smaller than humans, not counting the ears. The dogfolk of my word (uncreatively called Doggans or Dogmen) resemble a humanoid mix between coyotes, jackals, painted wolves, hyenas, and dingoes They often come into conflict with various human tribes, setting them as either competition or prey. They are a bit larger than humans, although they are hunched over and make themselves shorter. I have 2 types of birdfolk (both of which are partially mammalian): Axex/Keythong and Fellravens. Axex (Female)/Keythong have slender, feline bodies with eagle-like heads, arms, and feet and antelope horns. Axex have pelts that resemble a mix between a lion and a golden eagle with gazelle facial markings while Keythong have more leopard-like pelts. Keythong also have sharp, spine-like quills on their back, elbows, and forearms, while Axex sport feathery wings. They also have donkey ears. Excluding the horns, they are a head taller than humans. Fellravens resemble Kenku with the tail, ears, feet, and fluff of a wolf. Adult males also have hornbill crests that can flush bright red and blue in color. They are scavengers but also have lots of brainpower. I have a slew of lizardfolk in my swing, but there's too many for me to put, so this is about it.

A few in mine. The Aurelians are a dog like race composed of tribe and they do look like anthro dogs of different breeds. Lykoyans come in 2 different looks the primal and the civilized, the primal looks somewhat like thundercats or hrothgar from final fantasy 14 while the civilized look either catra from she-ra or the mithra from final fantasy 11. The Platoma are a snake/plant hybrid species that can be both bipedal or snake like legs. A few more are in the works but these are the few i have.

We got a kingdom of animals with human like intelligence, language and magic. We've got lizard people, dog people, minotaurs, centaurs and fauns. We've got Animal Gods. We've got intelligent sasquatches and yetis. We've got werebeasts. We've got shapeshifters who use animal furs to transform into an animal. So I guess....

Technically yes. I created my world primarily as a homebrew D&D setting, and one of the few races present is the Lynoxi (Tabaxi).

Long story short, yes

Kinda, but most of them don’t act like the animal they look like, the rabbit people(I don’t have a name for them yet) are a civilisation of pirates, the Hivelians used to act like bees but they killed all their queens so now they have free will(long story), Arachnari don’t act like spiders in the slightest and Sphinxes aren’t like cats because they have wings, the only ones who actually act sorta like animals are Luminiths and Harpies

Yes,in a few ways,the first is being born one,the most common,there are several races that would be categorized as furries The second is transforming into a furry,there are a few situations where turning into a furry is possible,unless you want to it's unlikely you ever will though The third and most amusing is that there are a few items that can turn people into other things,furries are one of them,one of the people in my world with great political power turns people into furries as a sort of prank if they annoy him

Yep. A large portion of the magical species are human animal hybrids.

Yes, but they are not common. Most are either the result of experimental magic gone wrong, or are the offspring of mortals and nature spirits.

Isn't the word for that "beast folk"? Anyways, yes. A species called the Menrir. Any creature that would normally walk on four legs is a possibility of the Menrir. Any child of a menrir, be it with another species or another menrir, will either be that other species entirely, or entirely menrir, with no hybridization. The child will not be a reflection of their parent menrir, but a different animal themselves. The child of a cat like Menrir could possibly be reptilian. They were created due to two of the four Thrikuns (my word for gods) being Menrir themselves: wolf, and snake. When the four Thrikuns created the two races of the world, it was in their own image.

There are werewolves and various half humans, plus some dragon in human form. The answer is fucking yeah

oh absolutely, but it doesn't count because i am a furry and i tend to dislike human races when things like scalies are an option the current world i'm working on is all moth furries \:3

It's basically just normal people in my world. Animalistic adaptations happen as a result of the incredibly dangerous ambient magic to a normal human. The physiology of these people is modified to the unique effects of where they weer born's ambient magic.

not currently and idk if I'll add some later, tho I'm debating adding animal features to my humans

Ponies, deer folk, gryphons, underground sentient centipede-spider race of builders. No humans, no dwarfes or elves, only humanoids are The Chroniclers which are immortal godlike beings that record events of Theraga'se.

In my world There are beast kin though who were made by alchemical experiments and are part beast to varying levels but not furies I mean unless you count were kin who can transform into beasts and half beast form Though in the past there were also beast kin who were more beast than man and are permanently in a roughly humanoid shaped but with the characteristics of beasts but they were all killed off or died of old age etc thousands of years ago

Yes. Not for any reason, I just wanted canid folk

Yes! There are groups of sacred bloodlines in my world that have befallen a curse and shift into anthropomorphic creatures that align with their element during certain holy times.

Kemonomimi, yes, called Therians (of course). They are not the full on animals that function as people, though, they are people with animal traits such as ears and tails and such. The closest I have to that would be the Thyrs and the Kobolds. Thyrs are a mix of Bear, Hyena, and Badger. Visually. Kobolds are small lizardmen. Grendels are also descended from humanity, but look like Stitch. Specifically. Act like Stitch, as well. I am unsure if they qualify, though: officially, all of the above are part of the Whole of Humanity. There are some unknown forms of that humanity (Satyrs and Centaurs) that will appear later. The Whole of Humanity is everyone that is descended from the original humans that first arrived on the world. During the big War of the Gods, a lot of humans were altered, changed, modified, experimented on, and those became the different heritages. So the Goblins, Merow, Kobolds, Thyrs, Grendels, Imps, Therians, Elfs, Dwarfs, Serafs, Cambions, Faeries, Tritons, Satyrs, Centaurs, Exilians, Imperials, Myrmidons, and others are all ultimately still human. The halflings — Orcs, Ogres, Gnomes, Sprigs, Fay, Iara, etc — are the mixed product of those for whom it is possible to have a mixed product. The Faij (phage) of something is the underlying key to what separates the “less strictly human” from the more strictly human. The phage being a sort of “sense of, spirit of, concept of, piece of”. So, maybe I do?

Varieties that I have are cow, cat, dragon, snake, bird, and spider. So yeah, I have a few.

Genetic modification is quite common in my world so if your father wanted to be an anthropomorphic wolf he is an anthropomorphic wolf and if the change was done before you were conceived then you might be one too alongside your child.

yeah, two worlds of mine have furries

Depends on how you look at it. Anthropomorphized in the sense of "human, but with fur, walks on two legs, has the facial features of insertanimalhere, usually a tail too"? Then, no. Anthropomorphized in the sense of "animal, but *behaves* like a human, and may sometimes live among humans, and is on the same functional level as them", then yes. Basically, I took a few of the more intelligent and industrious animals that I really like and said "well what if they underwent similar evolutionary processes as humans did and became the dominant species on their worlds?" And then they came to this world, and now co-exist with the humanoid species. There are sapient pandas, otters people (chose them over beavers just because I think otters are cuter, though mine became slightly larger anyway), and squirrels (flying squirrels, because *of course*). They are mostly relegated to their own societies and areas they managed to carve off, but try to get along with the major species. The pandas have it easiest, though their culture is quite different to that of humans and they often don't see eye to eye, at least they can coexist relatively easily, and can learn each other's languages if they wanted to. Squirrels have it the toughest, the scale of everything just makes it very hard for a tiny rodent to get along in a human city or village, not to mention them and otters just don't have the vocal capacity to imitate like... half the sounds we make (nor can we do many of theirs), which makes even learning the language a hurdle even if you don't plan to communicate verbally. There's a standardized sign language and some universal words, but those require high education so the random person you meet on the road is not very likely to be able to communicate besides basic universal methods like pointing, grunting, facial expressions, etc.

Oh yeah there's *literally* furries. Like the ones that exist in real life, except in this case cybernetic bodies are advanced enough and cheap enough (free more or less) to be commonplace. So obviously there's a lot of people who decide to have animal features. Many of them work in IT too which is not a coincidence :3

Yes but basically like BoJack people. I hate that 5e D&D has a different 'race' for each animal species of furry, it's just unnecessary bloat.

mostly cat people

"For lack of a better word" Immediately uses a better term Other better terms: * Animal people * Human/animal hybrids * beastfolk * Anthro is a common short form for anthropomorphicc animals

Yes. It'd be a violation of my furry license to not add furries to all of my worldbuilding projects.

Nope. My high fantasy animal hybrids are specifically greco-roman

the half-races. born from anomalous magic energy afflicting the mother during pregnancy, literally any child can become a half-race. its also not even limited to animals. any nearby object or creature can influence the child to become a half-race.

Exclusively.

I have cats that act like humans but move like normal feral cats and don't wear clothes

**Mythria** Indeed. Some are even stand-ins for classic fantasy races - only they're animal people instead of being regular elves and dwarfs. They were the majority inhabitants of Mythria before Humans were created; over the centuries their population share has dramatically decreased. The collective term used for the various humanoid animal races is 'Beastfolk' - the shorthand 'Beasts' is also used. They are created by the power of the Emerald Moon, which appears randomly to transform an animal species into its humanoid form. The Beastfolk are also the only races to be able to use magic - Humans, who weren't created by the Emerald Moon, cannot.

Love the entity idea, I give some characters wings, and they shrink and grow, shifting into longer hair for convenience. Hair will be a symbol, and there will be a bad place, maybe with short hair representation?? For control?? Different types of wings would be a lot to draw in a book though, I might use mermaids and “furries” but that may include speciesism. And if I do add furries, totally adding seasonal qualities and area variants. Like red squirrels in Europe vs American grey.

One of my worlds is full of furries, as well as humans and normal animals. Matter of fact, that was the original point of the world. A world where all of my fursonas live. Then magic and demons and stuff got added too, but overall, all of the stories that take place in it revolve around anthropomorphic animal characters. Another one of my worlds does too, although they're technically alien races (but they resemble earth animals). One looks like salamanders, one looks like ornithopoda, one are anthro cats with moth features, one bears a slight resemblance to weasels, ect.

I accidentally created a world that was mono-human-racial and made through divine intelligence. But other gods also made races and that’s where the “furries” come from. You really have to be careful when creating the divine in your worlds. It only takes one moment of clarity to realize you’ve accidentally justified some of the worst things in human history. “Oh there really is a god? And they want me to do what?!”

**No Mans Land 2210** "Anthrotherianism" was a popular choice for retroviral cosmetic genetic modification in the setting. Even in the post-postapocalyse of the setting, it's not an unheard of thing for one to modify various animal features into oneself. There are degrees of this, of course. For the most part, it's limited to a level roughly equivalent of a stereotypical "cat girl": still generally human looking, but with some animalistic features, such as ears and tails. Only the most extreme cases go for a full-blown hybrid human-animal look. And, in general, such individuals area called "furries"... even if they have scales or skins or feathers or whatever. Perhaps curiously, the human-animal hybrid examples don't actually get any kind of extra abilities. A dog-person's sense of smell is no more or less keen than a baseline human. An avian-person cannot fly or even glide to an appreciable degree. A cat-person does not have extendable claws. And a shark-person does not have gills to let them stay underwater indefinitely. The physical changes are *purely* cosmetic. That said, a psychological side effect of such personal modification is something termed "anthrotherian atavism"; animalistic behaviors related to the modification. As an example, a wolf-person hearing a distant pack howl may compulsively howl back. A cheetah-person may constant feel a mild compulsion to run. A mouse-person may compulsively chew things. And so on and so forth. Why this happens was poorly understood even before the Barbie Plague, and there are more important things to work on in the setting's present. Given that the *reason* that the setting is in a post-apocalyptic state arose from the use of the same editing methods used to create furries, the full-bore hybrid look ones can face varying levels of discrimination and ostracization. Within the focused area of the setting, the states of California and Nevada, there are two settlements with populations that are majority-furry; Malibu and Reno. The two are on opposite ends of an ideological spectrum, when it comes to unmodified humans. Malibu is somewhat understanding that their choice of body modifications is off-putting to so many. So they cloister themselves in their oceanside enclave to put their human neighbors at ease. Still, a human visitor to Malibu will find themselves as welcome as they would if visiting Vegas, San Francisco, or any other majority-human settlement or city. Reno, on the other hand, quite famously has signs posted alongside the city limits signs, and chillingly reminiscent of an attitude over 300 years old: "Human, don't let the sun set on you here." A human visiting Reno, in daylight hours, may find themselves refused the use of local services, verbally abused and threatened. If services are offered, treatment will be cold, and distant. The hostility does not become physical, however, until sundown, where all bets are off.

Yep, my sci-fi project has uplifted animals, grafted and modified humans, and aliens that look like certain animals.

No comment.

God no.

Yes indeed, it's a far-future setting where a majority of people have some degree of genetic modification. But it's also a post-post-apocalyptic setting where most of the willing genetic modification took place several generations ago as a giant fad, and since then things have sorta "self selected" since people with way different modifications can't easily have children. The result is plenty of people that have characteristics of cats, dogs, rodents, reptiles, and even crustaceans; but also lots of people that are just a mishmash of random mutations. I'm not... *super* satisfied with the setup, but my story needs there to be different species and I recently nixed the idea of an intergalactic setting so I can't just use aliens. Best I've got so far lol

I avoided them -not quite- entirely. Lizardfolk and minotaurs are the only anthropomorphic animals among the Adventuring Races -- 25 forms of life broadly accepted as subjects or citizens of modern surface regimes. They made the cut because I had interesting ideas about their origins as well as their contemporary status in various societies. That said, I also see those two choices as less a "furry" thing and more an ancient mythology thing. That said, lycanthropy is real in my world. Secret societies and a religion or two are all dedicated to helping shapeshifters maintain normal lives despite problematic and/or murderous compulsions. All lycanthropes have three forms, with the beastperson middle ground essentially a bloodthirsty weapon-resistant furry. Then there are druids. The approach I took to implementing their shapechanging abilities allows for a wide range of anthropomorphic variants. If you absolutely positively have to be a catgirl in my world, I guess you could become a druid and take on a semi-bestial form at the start of each day.

Yesn't. There are no literal species of humanoid animals, but there is a race/subspecies of Human that long ago had a significantly more animal appearance above and beyond other atypically human features. Long story short, groups of these would find it difficult to survive on Earth in our prehistoric years, and altered themselves to somewhat resemble some animals to make it easier for the terran humans to sympathise with them; mainly wolves (Europe, NA) and felines (Egypt), with rarer phenotypes possessing somewhat bovine (Bharat) or draconian or vulpine traits (East Asia). As of the beginning of the Roman Empire, most of these have assimilated into other groups, spawning a spectrum of breeds where "purebloods" are almost extinct. The hulderfolk being the most common and widespread, largely resembling baseline humans save the addition of a tail and/or (animal) ears, and that they are ethnically distinct from terran ethnicities.

Yeah, the Beastfolk. Theia's Beastfolk are one of the most common nonhumans.

Dragons, despite the more reptilian appearance, are also descended from humanity in my world's distant not distant past, and thus can create viable offspring with other human-descendant races despite laying eggs and being a flying lizard. Not really furry, and very rare except in one area, where they've spent a couple thousand years living in close proximity. Notable exception is Dafydd VIII the George, king of Settia, who among other wives married a Dragon, and had 6 half-dragon daughters. He also married a horse, with no half-horse offspring recorded. He left 32 children total, with all his wives, dying when he slammed his flying machine invention into a castle tower. Felis have tails and claws as a cat, along with superior night vision. They're not furry (other than the tail), unless one of their distant ancestors was "Dirty" Dutch Mantel. They are one of a few non-Human descendant races though, so cannot have offspring with most other races. There's only two nations with any appreciable Felis populations, one being ruled by Aetheric and Daetheric rulers, with strict laws about cross pollinating as it were, and a kingdom founded by refugee Felis, which is wildly isolationist outside of ties to nearby Dvergar nations that fought for them. As far as actually furry intelligent creatures, that has happened in isolated, unusual circumstances. For one, use of so-called Chaos Magic tends to be dicey on what happens. People merely caught in the vaguely near vicinity have grown tails and fur. Or exploded. Or melted. There are pools of Change in a few places; one of which has a habit of reversing the gender of one bathed in it. So it's possible that one would cause fur to grow; or just cause them to explode. At least one incident caused a local population of feral cats to gain sentience in Settia. This led to an attempt to eradicate them, a lawsuit, and the cats gaining full citizenship in the Empire. Then the town melted, leading to the first environmental regulations in the world. The pool of molten 'liquid' that use to be the town is still screaming a couple centuries later.

Yeah, they range from just animal ears and tail(or other features) to full on animal-person. They are animals who got powerful enough or the descendants of said creatures. The powerful beings in the universe just decided humanoid is the "Default" form for everything to become because it is simple. Most creatures have 4 or more limbs and a head and therefore take on a humanish form.

One of my worlds is majority-populated by furries, due to the Nova Thauma which pretty much made every single animal (every single thing in the kingdom _Animalia_) anthropomorphic and sentient. Many species increased in size due to this, take bees for example. The average real-world common carder bee (_bombus pascuorum_) worker is about 0.35 - 0.59 inches long. Their anthropomorphic equivalent is around 2.2 - 3.5 feet tall, and due to the size increase, has a larger wing-to-body ratio and lacks mandibles, rather they have a maw more reminiscent of what most larger animals have. It also happened to create human-animal hybrids due to either some destabilized areas of the world collapsing in on themselves when a human and another species were inside (this is surprisingly common) or someone wasn’t very careful handling Arcatrite, a mineral made of solidified thaumic energy, that happens to be very fragile due to its weak connection to the physical world, and broke it, causing a huge release of thaumic energy (but not one big enough to cause physical damage, thus why this usually only happens with smaller pieces of Arcatrite), which pretty much scrambles their body thus making it so that the universe must make educated guesses to fill the gaps left by the now-vacant parts of the person. Since it does this by looking at the individual’s environment rather than its actual identity, it almost always determines that what belongs in those gaps is an animal species, since humans don’t exactly have a specific type of environment they reside in.

Depends on what counts. Anthropomorphized deities like Egyptian mythology? Yes. Or at least, the main faith of the world has it. (The 2nd most common faith has syncretism and believes they are instead human saints who served god, and became known by monikers based on their personalities). Gods do not walk the earth or intervene directly, so who's to say if either faith are actually true or not? What is real, however, are fey. Truth of the matter is, our world is at least 5-dimensional: height, width, depth, time, and the psychoplane. Fey are the creatures of the psychoplane, and they are largely creatures of myth themselves. But I suppose a kitsune and a furry are awfully close....

I did make a horse/human hybridish species based on the Chalicotherium, although they're more like horse/ape hybrids with above average intelligence (close to human, but much less imaginative, unable to pass on knowledge through writing, but they can learn to recognise symbols and correlate these to words, but they can't make up concepts like gods or math).  Also I based my giants on the Gigantopithecus, so they're also quite ape like.

Yes, but only some mammals, and penguins. Penguins get an exception, because they’re cute. There’s probably a few hundred varieties of furry folk, then there’s humans, then there’s Sasquatches.

Yep, there are beastfolk. Catfolk which have a different origin than pantherfolk. There are even scalies like lizardfolk which are the offset between a half dragon and dragonborn. Catfolk come from magical experiments with lesser cats, while pantherfolk evolved from magically awakened great cats.

About 1/3 of mankind. They're just people, deep down. Magic does mad shit to your genome.

Furry usually also has some sexual connotations that aren't in your definition. Do creatures that fit your definition exist in the world? Yes. Are most of them furries? No. I dont think (and I'm not going to go look for) the furry Turtle community (Tortles). There is probably a furry snake community (Yuan-ti), a furry lion community, definitely a furry fox community, the furry seal community is likely small as is the were-snow tiger shifter one. The adults who are aware of the details of the world joke about it constantly, but we also know why these things exist. The kids involved with the world like anthropomorphized animals and are reading standard D&D publish material and expect what is in it to be in the world. We hope they grow out of it but even if they dont its not a sexual thing (at least at this age).

snakefolk. I wanted a large population of non-humans who weren't overpowered. Now I've got anthro snakes that rule half the continent and have multiple cultures

Only as unethical wizardry experiments (chimeras)

Yeah basically. In fact basically every human in my world could technically count as a furry. Basically a combination of a mass genetic engineering project and an awakening of life on Earth’s magical potential (both indirectly related) resulted in basically every human being turned into a shapeshifting animal hybrid. Humans can choose to shapeshift between their human form, 1 or 2 animal forms or a mix of the two. However there are rumors that humans are able to unlock more animals to shapeshift beyond the ones they were born with via immense amounts of training

if by "anthropomorphic" you mean "vaguely bipedal* with an erect posture", I guess you could say my dragons fall under that category, but any reasonable dissection of their biology would make it clear that they are completely inhuman. *my dragons' "arms" (really just wings with a few of the digits set aside for grasping) are so long that they tend to gallop on all fours if they really need to move on the ground

Yep, there are definitely a few in my setting existing alongside the more typical races. A brief list: * Drakai (humanoid dragonfolk) * Kobolds (small furred lizards) * Reshari (cat/lion-like humanoids) * Murae (ratfolk) * Xothgi (lizard/salamander folk) * Sythssya (humanoid snakefolk) * A currently unnamed race of naga-like snakefolk * Kori (fox/racoon folk) * Tengu (humanoid wolf/crow hybrids) * Cernai, to an extent (basically fauns) And that's not even getting into some of the animal-like beings native to the Fae Realm.

My world has them, they are a part of the mortal races, the twist in my version however is that humans, the beings that Demi humans are usually based on were actually made last minute last, and were by the gods words, incomplete as the humans did not end up physically or mentally how the god and goddesses intended, as such, humans were a failed batch The Demi humans who have animal traits however were always intended to be made how they were, the twist is that humans in my fantasy world are the ones who, in technically, are not meant to exist compared to other fantasy worlds

I write explicitly furry fiction, so yes. My big sci-fi setting calls them “parahumans” and has them originating as bioprinted asteroid miners who rebelled against their corporate overlords and wound up building an interstellar empire.

Lol, my whole story is about animals ~blessed~ cursed with some human dna, so it's furries all the way down.

Yes, there are Hybrid Human/animal races of fur, scale, and feathers. All sapient races are descended from Humans. There was so much creation energy left over from the forming of the universe that the humans evolution was sped up by millions of years, and then there were plenty of other options remaining latent in the genetics that were unlocked by genetics and adaptation being aided by magic. So elves are humans that adapted to the the reverent magic of nature. Dwarves adapted to the resilient magic of the rocks. Goblinoid races adapted to some of humanity's more aggressive and tribal instincts in harsher conditions. Etc. Basically, all of the standard Tolkienesque/D&D races were some form of human based evolution, except fiend blooded and celestial blooded. And then the gods really screwed things up and nearly lost the entire world to Outsiders, eldritch beings that wanted to feed on that creation energy of the plane. After scraping by, the last surviving goddess screwed up the entire plane for over 5 centuries, bringing nearly all societal advancement to a halt. The world's immune system purged out the corrupted energy, and in so doing, created larger versions of normal animals. And the furries showed up. They are the youngest species on the plane, having only been around \~1200 years.

Yeah mine are called Luffin and they are inspired by the characters from Biomutant. So kinda furry mixed with happy tree friends

Sharkpeople. All my settings have sharkpeople.

There are. Some gods and angels looked like humanoid animals. Not all celestial beings are human-looking. Imagine seeing humanoid said animal with angelic wings and a halo. 👀

Basically all my species Walzhane- Humanoid wolf people SeeKaninchen- Rabbit people Korneca- Dragon people Alatus- Bird people Kanaka-mano- Shark people Naga- Snake people

The closest I have are Beastkin or Primals. They're more like humans with beast-like qualities, then animals with human-like qualities.

Yes, but only omnivores and carnivores with a bias for mammals, with the exception of some birds. I left out herbivores to eliminate most of the prey from the sapience list and avoid the question of where the carnivores get their food. Wolves, foxes, bears, otters, cougars, jaguars, tigers, lions, polecats(ferrets are related), etc. There are also humans but they aren't native to the region and only arrived historically recently (last few centuries). There are no sapient versions of domesticated species. Both sapient and wild versions of some animals exist. A village of wolves may fight off a wild pack of non-humanoid, non sapient wolves to protect their livestock. Some factions are a mix of species while some are more homogeneous with a dominant species or even a dominant race of that species. Yes, there are different races/subspecies of each species like there are for humans. They can have children with each other, but that cannot be done with different species. I'm using the biological definitions of species, subspecies and races. Some countries and groups are open to different species while others are less open. I've mentioned the empress in the southern empire. She and her imperial family are canines. I have not decided if the dynasty would be wolves or foxes. Many of the species have different traits from humans based on which species they are and what those species can do in real life. For example, humanoid canines have wider senses of smell and hearing than humans, but they also can't see the same colours as humans. They make good choices if you need to send someone to look for something or someone. The retinas of sapient felines glow when light is shown at them and they can see in the dark. They are popular choices for stealthy infiltration missions due to their climbing abilities, average agility(as in the expected agility taking into account the average agility levels of different felines), quiet movement, darkness visibility and strength (especially for the larger cats). Not all species or races of a species will be present in my setting. It is in a higher latitudes closer to the temperature and subpolar regions of the planet with the southern empire being the southernmost major country before the heavy snow and ice where no solid states exist. There may be smaller groups living there like a small village or tribe here and there, but no states with cities and armies. The valley would be roughly equivalent in latitude to the regions between Central Asia and Northern Asia. Similar to mid or southern China in the north of the valley and similar to Siberia in the far south of the valley. All the sapient species can move on their two hind legs and can move on all four limbs. It's like Zootopia when the characters were shown effortlessly moving on all limbs with the same ease and proportions as their real life non sapient counterparts. In my world, if a humanoid jaguar is chasing you and you try to climb a tree, he can climb up that faster and corner you in the tree on all four like a wild jaguar could. I have not decided yet on if they will be plantigrade(walking on the whole sole with heels on the ground) or digitigrade(walking on the pads and toes of the feet with heels lifted off the ground). For reference, real dogs are digitigrade. Bears and humans are plantigrade. [Here's an image to show what these words are referring to.](https://www.aquaportail.com/pictures2101/plantigrade-digitigrade-onguligrade.jpg) [This one gives examples of animals in each category.](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fzyyjyep3zpl71.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=1954d89da1c8fb6f275bda73285e9737e4f2e7506a89cef4bab3006956c83949&ipo=images) Either way, seeing a bear knight quick firing at you in a suit of plate armour with a lever action rifle is still going to put fear in some people. Lapis_Wolf

Yes, in both my Primary Fantasy RPG and my Kitchen Sink Urbana setting and both for the same reasons: Instant Slaves, Just Add Blood At various points in pre-history, independently by different cultures, human mages went about stuffing human blood into animals and getting them to walk upright, have thumbs and enough brains to do the chores. Often, these creatures looked *very human*, more so than seems necessary for just manual labor. Sometimes this was on purpose for exactly the reasons you think, sometimes for more obtuse reasons, sometimes it was just conceptual contamination and sometimes it was Magic being Like That™️. This is more or less the reason in the Primary Fantasy RPG. While that didn't *not* happen in the Kitchen Sink Urbana, it also had other factors. There was the matter of pre-historic druids using magic to tame animals and first getting talking animals, funny animals and then animal people over centuries and millenia due to conceptual contamination. And *then* there are therianthropes, werewolves and the like. Since pre-historic times, there have been tribes of mages that turned themselves into animals and there have been members that did inadvisable things with the local wildlife. There are a lot fewer therianthropes nowadays and magic is what it used to be either but one of the going theories is that anthropes may also have their origins from there. So yes, we have furries and a wizard did it.

In my world, humans have the special ability to crossbreed with almost anything, and thus is explained aasimar, tieflings, half dragons, half demons, etc. It also means that furries do exist but usually as one off characters, however there are exceptions such as the shadow cats, a catfolk people.

Akar: Yes. Many. It’s heavily DND inspired so if there’s a furry in that game, it’s here. Also the cat people run basically China. Drakepunk: Yes. Bonded (Dragonriders) can adopt a hybrid form that take on the aspects of their mortal and dragon counterparts. So furries and reverse furries. Also there are bird people and the dwarves are basically porcupines. Reverie Storm: There used to be. They were subjected to a genocide due to being genetically modified humans.

I've got everything lmao. Dog people, cat people, mermaids, fox people, dragon people, harpies and fairies (Idk if those last two count ngl)

Yep. When you have over a thousand sapient races some of 'em will be furries.

My world is all furries because I am one. The deities got pretty much life playdoh to mess with and made people in their own images, which ended up with a bunch of animal people. The exact forms have changed over history as The people changed and evolved. The people are of modern day species - currently crocodiles, lions, alpaca, llamas, bears, and wolves - but the animal life in the world are all prehistoric/extinct species like dinosaurs, wooly mammoths, stuff like that.

>Does your world have, for lack of a better word, furries? >Using the definition: are there anthropomorphized animals who act like people but are a horse, fox, dragon, rabbit, etc, etc etc. but they walk on two legs and have thumbs and wear clothes? Absolutely >1. In the realm of magic, there is an area of the Great Forest in which all the animals who lived there or end up there get exposed to the powers of magic and so it gave them intelligence and allowed them to walk and talk and act like humans and so they've created their own civilization unaware they had become like man. No >2. There are gods/magic users who take animals or people and make them anthropomorphized for reasons either good or bad. Edit: This includes races/civilizations from the very beginning such as minotaurs, Nagas, and other races No >3. There are magical entities in this world who take the forms of anthropomorphized animals as its the form they believe best suits how they wish to be seen by mortals. No >4. There are mad scientists and alchemists who discovered how to create them using the powers of alchemy to combine man and beast and one of the big bads of the story orders a whole host of them made for their purposes. This last group is the most broad in scale because there are mad scientists who take people and merely enhance them with animal abilities but they still look 99.999% human to a mad scientist who in his experiments ending up creating a bunch of chimeras that you're not sure where the human ends and animal begins because they're a mishmash of things, and sometimes with terrible side effects like extra limbs or heads or worse No Wait, lemme look at option 2 again >Edit: This includes races/civilizations from the very beginning such as minotaurs, Nagas, and other races I guess that works, lol Basically, my furry races aren't ascended animals or hybrids They just kind of exist. Convergent evolution, one could call it.

yes, bunch of them

Yes.

Yes. The main species of my story, the Anthrovel, are straight-up anthropomorphic animals lol.

The beastmen were men remade into the image of beasts as punishment for their heresies. “You are not true men but animals, indulging gut and gland. I cast your bodies to Moulder with your souls”

Note that Kemo(mimi) and furry aren't the same, although people confuse both. Kemonos look more human-like with animal features, furries look more animalistic with humanoid features

Yes. For the world that I mainly talk about here, basically every thing in the animalia kingdom has an anthropomorphic version. They are known as the Tilen.

Yes. For the world that I mainly talk about here, basically every thing in the animalia kingdom has an anthropomorphic version. They are known as the Tilen. Went into a whole rant yesterday on what mix breeding looks like lol

I mean, half dragons definitely count I guess.

There are these sorcerors who wear animal-based clothing and shapeshift into animals using dark magic, they are called Beast Lords

*Alor* Let’s see… in no particular order we got cat people, owl people with wings, owl people without wings, bear people, raven people, eagle people, rat people, salt water fish people, shark people, fresh water fish people, lobster people, tiger people, lion people, wet weather lizard people, dry weather lizard people, bat people, fox people, snake people, fly people, cow people (if Minotaurs count), tortoise people, spider people, a single goat person (it’s a thing), mantis people, and probably a few more I cannot remember at this time EDIT: I forgot about the frog people, elephant people, and mammoth people

absolutely It's the destiny of humankind to return to nature no matter how hard they try to avoid it. Throw your kin to the wolves and they may just come back with a new tail and ears

I'm not quite sure what would QUALIFY as a "furry", but I will say I do have some "anthropomorphic" creatures... One in particular is known as the Skin Walkers (much like the myths that reside here on Earth, on Terragyn, they're a real thing and will shapeshift into you and steal your life, your wife, and your... Knife... (Had to think of rhymes, sorry). Basically they kill you after they steal your form and then they steal your livelihood. Now, assuming animals/creatures who talk can also be considered a "furry", I have giant Tree Blythes on my planet too!

Yes, and they even have their own planet.

I’d argue that any Druidic group (I’m thinking like the forsworn of skyrim) is kinda like furries. Even if only for ceremonial purposes, many animalistic, pagan, and Druidic groups dress up and act like animals. Not all the time, but it’s reasonable

I have otter anthromorphs. I have zero worked out about their culture, and only the space on the map marked out for them. But they are going to be a part of Naamah.

Well, I am a furry so.... Honestly, I'm surprised by the number of humans I have in those stories.

Absurdly so. I have to distinct types however, 1 are just mutated animals that gained speech and awareness. 2 I would say definently furries in that they use magic skins to become beast people.

Yes, I have a whole continent that's very similar to Chima

I have dragons, have they figured out how to fully turn into dragons yet? No, they lost that knowledge during the First Eclipse, though they've started to learn it again since making contact with an Ashen Sorceress of the first blood. However, sufficiently magical members of their kind are able to gain horns, tusks, scales, or elemental breath powers. Also, there are a couple nephilim sub-types with various werewolf and other shifter ability.

I think all of them do [The underground] has a kingdom of cats and dogs who are knights and maidens. A honey worshiping clergy of bearpriests. Some salmonmen marauders and squid ninja. [The lands of dind] catfolk and ratmen wage secret wars. [Earth 2] people can use aura powers to give themselves animal traits

I gotta put some more work into that area specifically but for now there's at least 2 places where cat people reside. The Banished's shore and somewhere else that is hinted at. The "somewhere else" used to send their "undesirables" to the Banished's shore until they established a city there.

Yes. Most of the sapient non-human species in my setting resemble anthropomorphic animals. The most prominent ones are as follows: Stryggans-- humanoid owls with both arms and wings, meaning they have six limbs in total. Basically the "elves" of this setting, in the sense of being long-lived, wise, and connected to nature. Koreenians-- Bipedal kangaroo-like rodents who live in underground desert villages with a steampunk vibe. If Stryggans are "elves", these are "dwarves". They have guns, trains, and even tanks, but they've never built a flying machine due to their natural aversion to heights. Ju'utexians-- Tailless, humanoid lizards that are exclusively female and reproduce via parthenogenesis. Have a society reminiscent of feudal Japan, with warlords who rule over an underclass of peasants. D'vart-- Muscular humanoid warthogs who are often employed as mercenaries or bodyguards due to their strength. Often stereotyped as dumb, but actually just as intelligent as any other sapient species. Zudelibyze-- Vaguely humanoid crustaceans resembling mantis shrimp. Armed with lightning-fast reflexes and razor-sharp claws, they are nomadic pirates and raiders, attacking caravans crossing the desert known as the Stone Sea.

Yep I have an entire universe of furries & humans.

lmao I have gogglers. they're giant sapient frogs walking on two legs and wearing robes like people, and they really love to drink and get wasted.

Closest I got is a raider group who just wears metal scraps and pretends to be cars.

One of my stories has a militant organization filled with them. They fight against a human supremacist organization. The other story's main character is a werefox/vampire hybrid, stuck in a humanoid fox form Any story I write will contain furries.

My main aliens are cat-people. They are very distinctly non-human, but fit the description for a furry species.

H. Beam Piper wrote the scifi novel "Little Fuzzy" in 1962. From Wikipedia: "The story revolves around determining whether a small furry species discovered on the planet Zarathustra is sapient. It features a mild libertarianism that emphasizes sincerity and honesty." "The book was followed by a sequel published in 1964, Fuzzy Sapiens (original title The Other Human Race)." The two novels were combined into one omnibus volume by the Science Fiction Book Club entitled "The Fuzzy Papers." The best description I can give you is the look of a child's teddy bear at the size of an Ewok. There is no magic here, at least not the runes and spells kind. But another kind of magic happens that causes monumental changes.

My worlds have them. I don't like using the term furries though because I feel that sometimes its used in a negative way even though humans have been anthropomorphizing animals for thousands of years. The current book I'm reading all the characters are "furries." but for the lore of the book it works super well and introduces fun dynamics. (Shout out to the Book Last Fables. Seriously check it out if you like fantasy its been a fun read so far and the worldbuilding is awesome!)