Vorl Windborn
Vorl Windborn is a member of the dominant species from Aerie, Rigel VI. The planet has no mountain ranges to speak of, and the winds sweep uninterrupted around the globe, leading to the evolution of an ecology that spends just about all its time in the air.
The first thing that strikes you about Vorl are his huge, ten metre wide wings, formed from extremely attenuated collar-bones and shoulder-blades. The membrane between the bones is very tough, and as the Aerians almost never land on the surface of their planet, heals from any rip or tear extremely fast. Aerian bones are hollow, to save weight, and their legs have atrophied to mere stubs. Living, sleeping, mating, all are carried out in flight - children are born, and spend their first year, (until their wings are developed enough for flight), in huge balloon creches, endlessly circling the planet.
You'll never see Vorl off-world, except when he goes up to the orbital station - free-fall and his home planet are the only environments that he can really live in.
Callie MacHinery