HUMANS

 

Unless otherwise specified, there are no significant changes to Humans over the core Player's Handbook. The majority of the content here will be fluff oriented vs. crunch

 

Personality: Humans are far too varied to summize their personalities in a simple parapgraph.

Religion: See the section on Religion.

Physical Description: See notes under each separate culture.

Life Span: Human life span Is approximately 80-90 years. It Is rumored that at the time of the Great Sundering,      humans lived for hundreds of years.

Life Expectancy: Human life expectancy in StormWorld is about 40-45. Varying from culture to culture and with      social station. Age of majority Is usually somewhere around 15.

Relations: Humans love everyone, hate everyone, get along with everyone, use everyone…...

Human Lands: Humans can be found through out the varying climates and regions of StormWorld

Language: Humans speak regional versions of the common tongue. All characters begin play speaking their regional      tongue.

Names: Human names vary greatly from culture to culture. Human culture, being more diverse than other purley      racialy based cultures, no human names are truly typical. Human naming practices tend to be more a      funtion of social status rather than culture.

Adventurers: of all races, Humans are the ones most likely too seek a life as an adventurer.

*Eventually all cultures will have “cultural templates” that will define available regional feats, languages and any modifications to classes.

 

Current Known Cultures:

Ahroun (Similar to modern day Arabia)

     The People of Ahroun are very religious folk that live in a matriarchal society based around the Ahroun religion. This religion basically states that this world is a trial by which one enters heaven. One can only enter heaven by living a life dedicated to serving God. While a very religious people, Ahrouish cities are not big on temples. Religion is a family matter and usually is centered around the authority if the oldest woman in that particular family. The only exception being that each city has a single temple dedicated to the “famliy” that is the city and then each of the 12 tribes of Ahround have there own chief temple.

     The Ahroun people tend to have a neutral attitude towards magic and science. They consider these things as tools of the test to be used for good or evil.

Physical Description: Ahroun people have dark complections with brown eyes and black hair. They average about 5’8”-6’ tall and weigh around 150-185lbs.

Religion: Ahroun people practice the Ahroun faith. They consider themselves to be the chosen of god and consider all other religions to be the work of satan or at best foolhardy quackery hoisted upon the ignorant (read non-Ahrouish) folk of the world.

Language: the Ahroun people speak the Ahrouish tongue. Literacy is fairly good amongst its people.

Relations: TBD

 

Caledonian (an amalgamation of western europe)

     The Caledonian people are an amalgamation of several city states and multitudes of wandering barbarian tribes and small settelements of people in South Eastern Parlandrian continent..

Physical Description: Caledonian folk range in skin tone from very pale to darker and ruddier tones. Hair and eye color are also all over the chart.

Religion: all various faiths are present with in Caledonia despite the fact the that the religious seat of the reformist church is located here.

Language: Caledonians speak Parlandrian and a multitude of barbaric tongues.

Relations:

 

Kyojn (Similar to modern day orient)

     The Kyojn people are an amalgamation of several cultures currently under the sway of the fuedal Kyoton Empire.

Physical Description: Kyojn people have a yellowish skin tone with slanted eyes and black hair. Eye color is usually brown or black though the occasional blue or green does occur. They stand roughly 5’6”-5’-10” and weigh around 135-175lbs.

Religion: for the most part, the Kyojn people are an enlightened people practicing a form of religion centered on self enlightnement and shamanism. Because of this Monks are more common among the Kyojn then Priests. There are some Kyojn people that pratice other divine religions and some that pratice ancestral worship or shaminism.

Language: the Kyojn speak both low and high Kyanjii, depending upon station, with most literacy concentrated around the upper classes of society.

Relations:

 

Tithian (Simliar to modern day Caribean if they had formed a Roman sized empire)

The Tithian are usually reffered to by non-tithians with clenched teeth and unflattering phrasology. After the Sundering, the Tithian people were some of the first to thrive from the destrcution. Largely based in their damnable archipelago they thrive as traders across all of Ias. What they have to trade is what makes them so in demand. ShadowSteel. A very rare metal that is very hard and completely un-enchantable. It is only found in Tith and they keep the locations of the mines a heavily guarded secret.

They ar a brash people that hold personal liberty above all else.

Physical Description: Tithians average between 5’6” and 6’4” and weigh between 150-220lbs. Skin complextion ranges from light brown to dark ebony. Hair is usually dark browns and reds and very coarse and curly. Eye color is usally brown but blue is not unheard of.

Religion: Religion among Tithinas runs the spectrum of conservative god worship to servitude, shamanism and worship of demon princes.

Language: Tithians speak a regional form of common called tithian, a decendant of Imperial common.

Relations:

Suune (similar to modern Egypt)

The Suune people are known the world over as the servants of the dead as ther whole society is based around the servitude and worship of their undead “god”.

Physical Description: Suune people have an olive complection with black hair and dark eyes..

Religion: the entire society of Suune is based aroun the worship of their undead god, Horus.

Language: the Suune people speak Imperial common in its uncoruppted form.

Relations:

 

Known Barbarian clans

Grey Mist

Landmar

Parati

Sargothi