Rito

The Rito (do not call them mere “birds”) assume the very highest peaks and cliffs above the Goron mountains, where the misty air wraps very thin and chilly. They maintain their roost from ages of tradition, resolute and unmoving despite the changing age about them. They do, however, acclimate to the shifting political climate in their own discrete ways.

History
They are proud, dignified, and sure. After hundreds and hundreds of years, they saw no reason to change their living accommodations or their ceremonial practices. Their spiralling aerie stacks rooms upon rooms, utilizing the often hollow mountaintops for their base of operations. Because of their many necessary wide windows and stretching balconies, Rito roosts jut from the horizon conspicuously, like termite mounds atop hills. As their homes span many eras, so does their worship of the great Dragon of Lore, Valoo. Within lore he remains, having left this earth long ago, but his kind live on with the Rito. [TBC] Their annual festival celebrates his power and relationship with the Goddesses and incorporates singing, flying, and as much gold adornment as they can possibly wear.

The Rito still chiefly deliver mail across the land and all the way to New Hyrule, serving residents and royalty alike to this day. Along with mail, they upgraded their services to delivering machine parts, other wares, and—if you ask the right messenger and happen to be the right client—specific information. To succeed, they formulated technical advancements considered innovative for the industrial age. Paper mail still exists, yet pales in comparison to audio message recordings and, for a pretty rupee, projection recordings, bringing the messenger to the receptor directly.

Alliances
They make no stranger of the different species, human and nonhuman alike, and expand their services by expanding their mode of transportation—metal wing extensions, clippable and versatile, signal the first forays into future flying endeavours. The Rito cater to different needs among different peoples, yet get on with some species better than others. They deliver the most machine parts to Lorule, the most trading wares to Surface nations, and the most mail (especially of that secretive sort) to New Hyrule. They avoid the Gorons.

No one knows how long the intricate balance may last between Rito and Human. For the time being, their slippery impartiality holds in the name of committing to their duty…and to their own private plans.