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===Physical Description===

Apiz are giant bees, and like actual bees their biology is stratified across by function.  There are worker bees, drones, warriors, and the queen bee to a hive, and save for the drones, the vast majority of them are female.  For the purposes of PCs, the apiz race covers everything except the queen bee, who is generally immobile and subject to the duty of being the literal mother of a hive.

As bees, they have insectile bodies with wings and fuzzy yellow and black fur, large compound eyes, and stingers.  The stinger is not used, due to its fatal results, except by the warrior class who can employ it without problem.  They walk on all six feet, but are capable of standing on four legs to use their feet as manipulators.  Otherwise, complicated mandibles double as hands.  They have stingers, but they are purely vestigial, tiny and decorative with no real function or serious use as a natural weapon.  It was the belief in their creator goddess that this would help show their peaceful intent.  It was also a terrible idea.

Apiz have their larva young in great hives tended by the queen bee, who is the only fertile one within the hive.  If the queen dies, worker bees begin to transform into queen bees and scatter until hives are re-established.

Apiz consume a diet of nectar, plants, and rarely insects, generally avoiding actual meat.
Author	Eiji-kun +
Effective Character Level	1 +
Favored Class	Ranger (drone) +, Fighter (warriors) + and or Bard (worker) +
Identifier	3.5e Race +
Level Adjustment	0 +
Racial Ability Adjustments	-2 Strength +, +2 Dexterity +, +2 Constitution + and -2 Charisma +
Rated By	Qwertyu63 +
Rating	Rating Pending +
Size	Small +
Summary	A race of giant sentient bees from another world, these community minded helpers are on the run from the dangerous predators of their world. +
Title	Apiz +
Type	Magical Beast +