Northern Erg
The green-skinned Erg of the northern island of Rafadin Place Rafadin The island province promised to the Ergs by the AC 1 war council and now administered by the Iru of Iruel in name more than in justice., once the guardians Place The Guardians The southern mountain wall of Baramma, a rampart of dark peaks standing between the Saremma Plain and the southern sea. of the Inarin administration's sacred codes. In the present age they are fragmented and semi-assimilated, holding the old forms under Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. rule and Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age. supervision, the discipline kept even as the world it served has gone.
Key traits
- Greenish to olive skin, deepening toward the joints, spine, and neck.
- Blunt, heavy features: a broad nose, a thick jaw, and pronounced brow ridges; an expression solid rather than sharp.
- A long, exact memory for discipline, ritual, doctrine, and written law.
- Hardy and watchful, enduring and sharp-eyed in equal measure.
- Settled on the captive island province of Rafadin, south of Iruel Place Iruel The island homeland of the Iru, the last sovereign Iru realm, ruled by King Thaare II from the twin capitals of Orelo and Ekree under the breath-law of the Ooliran Sovereign Bre....
- Keepers of an inherited rigour: the old codes upheld, performed, and defended.
- A natural lifespan of roughly 60 to 70 years; a clipped, consonant-dense voice tuned for command.
- Quick to mature in the body, like the Bar People Bar Towering, massively built, and engineered for high-load work and vertical terrain, the Bar are the strength line.: grown-looking by the early teens, though adult standing is earned by rite, not reached by age.
- Engineered as administrators and enforcers; the people-name Erg means "perfection." Titles are earned, never claimed.