Northern Erg
The green-skinned Erg of the northern island of Rafadin, once the guardians 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.
- 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.
- Engineered as administrators and enforcers; the people-name Erg means "perfection." Titles are earned, never claimed.