Aetherial Warriors

Aetherial Heavy Warriors

Warriors in heavy armor or with heavy weaponry. Often in militaries. Knights.

E-ur
An eme-gir who wears armor made of primordial metals.

Golden Warrior
Warriors in eastern Palhuric mountains who use ma'dhahabi, bailaohu jinghua, kazaddarean, and mashaoaab to create powerful golden armor.

Green Knight
Warriors wearing wooden armor, caked in moss, wielding clubs and spears, and having vines attend them. They are wielders of prasinofos via bonding with forests, and it is said they can survive even having their heads removed.

Landsknecht
Pike, zweihander, and arquebus soldiers who serve the land. They are empowered by Tmakikan from the arable lands they protect.

Lesedian Guard
Warriors in mirrored armor wielding daggers made of shard of glass made from fragments of the Lesedian Mirror. They are the elite wielders of the bright who protect the Mirror.

Merguard
Warriors among the undersea folk, especially merfolk, who command conlueverant via tridents. They wear orichalcum or wyren gold armor and use it in their tridents as well.

Miqinchir
Asterian warriors who carry flat star-clubs made of asteroid stone and wield special rifles which fire beams of qeernariji.

Quattour
Warriors who use weapons and armor imbued with the four western ordinal elements: conflueverant, kazaddarean, kiiric yihi, and lahab al'qalb.

Zhanshi
Warriors of the dongxue nations who wield weapons made from the nine great metals, particularly lamellar armor and jian and dao swords. Their weapons and armor become nearly fluid as they wield them because of their power over metal.

Aetherial Martial Artists

Brachos
A martial artist of eastern Palhur whose actions match that of certain animals in a form of capoeira.

Outabokusa
A Tenzanese martial art that follows the flow of water and the tides.

Quanji Shou
The art of tai chi, or shadowboxing, which balances true shadow and the bright.

Si Ba Jian
Warriors who use weapons and armor imbued with the five ordinal elements of Dabusen: bailaohu jingua, conflueverant, kazaddarean, kiiric yihi, and prasinofos.

Wushu
Users of Unbulese martial arts who can command bailaohu jinghua.

Aetherial Melee Warriors

Distinguished from heavy warriors in that their armor is either lighter or that it is not definitive to their combat style. Common warriors.

Anuyakti
A warrior of far-southern Palhur who wields aetherial energies of the poles.

Aruki Nemu
A warrior of the [huaorani] people of eastern Palhur who wields viridian aether to protect from invaders.

Asheho'ma
Warriors of the Tcafa nation in Dunmarsh in Palhur who wield parfum de marais by wielding symbols like the saktce-ho'ma (red crawfish), their war symbol.

Bruellen
Warriors of central Jesenya who wear heavy furs and wield axes and spears, but their primary weapon is their voice, through which they unleash the power of sonic aether through great roars.

Caenean
A trans masculine warrior who trades sex with powerful beings who command the waters to become an invincible (transitioned) warrior.

Eme-gir
A warrior given a drink of anumun to grant them the powers of the world to fight to protect it.

Koa
Warriors from the southern Island Bridge who wield spears made from the wood and obsidian and allow them to focus ikehua lyua pele into the tip of their weapon. This gives them power over lava and water.

Matriadoman
One chosen by Mother Shem to embody all the aetherial energies and fight for her as her champion.

Mizraklad
Warriors of the taiga whose weapons are made from wood fallen from dying trees and adorned with animal and plant features of the huge forests. They wield TykvaVlast through these adornments and have barkskin.

Montu
Azeti warriors devoted to hunting the undead. They wield khopheses of mictlanium and know everything about killing undead, particularly any with corporeal forms. They are users of poarta.

Moonguard
Mostly female-assigned warriors who wield special crescent blades (like very long and curved sickles, almost circular) and longbows that are empowered by lunar focus. They run with wolves and can parry esoteric energies with their crescent blades.

Muharib
Warriors of the flames. Wielders of shamshirs whose dancing attacks command lahab al'qalb.

Shemguard
Elite warriors bonded to the World Tree who can create weapons and armor out of Genesis energy at will and channel viridian aether.

Aetherial Military

Warriors who only exist in the context of an official military.

Baurukh
Mostly chthonian warriors who wield axes made of stone, invoking the kazaddarean within them to make themselves stronger. They also wear stoneskin.

Mubarizun
Warriors with certain Mahadi armies who wield spears and swords bathed in ma'dhahabi and come forth as champions to fight a selected member of the opposing army to start the battle.

Shamsherbaz
Vimalan heavy infantry who wield shamshirs that cut through the bijalee inherit in the air around them, creating arcs of lightning. Often the first through the walls during a siege.

Aetherial Mounted Warriors

Some are cavalry, others simply from mounted cultures, or simply defined by their use of a steed or vehicle.

Bizsereg
Ranic horsewarriors who wear flowers for earrings that give them bee-swarm protectors. They wield sabres and are mostly female-assigned.

Equestrian - definitive mounted warriors
Masters of livadi who use their command of the plans to become the greatest riders of horses in the world. They carry horsebows and whips.

Gimeli Galabi
Camelry from eastern Taggarus who use the powers of hamasat al-sahra.

Gunrider
A kind of equestrian who uses rifles instead of horsebows, but is otherwise the same as a user of livadi.

Lu-ua
A mounted eme-gir, usually riding a primordial megachirella.

Maemd
See aetherial witches. Elephant riders.

Mujanah
Aerial cavalry.

Mutasabiq
See AetherialWranglers.

Aetherial Ranged Warriors

Thrown spears, javelins, darts; archers; arbalists; riflemen and gunslingers. Anything except artillery and siege engines.

Al-Siham
Makers and users of arrows fletched via hamsaat al-sahra by using glass from melted sand that is sharpened and smoothed by sands.

Artashir
Legendary archers who wield ma'dhahabi via solar focus, gathered to the point of their arrows and fired like solar winds.

Cupilin
Legendary elven archers who coat their arrows in argentflame and never kill unless it is to protect other life. They can sense heartbeats from miles away.

Dakait
Vimalan musketeers whose rifles are imbued with bijalee, making them fire thunder and lightning.

Dervish
Mendicant warriors who wander the desert and wield hamsaat al-sahra through their ecstatic dances and whirling. They are said to be able to perform miracles, fly, and command sandworms. They practice dhikr.

Ebonguard
Javelin- and pike-wielding guards of the Spirit Gate in Shadowdeep, mostly nightgaunts,, who draw shadow into their weapons via umbral focus, making them almost impossible to see.

Fireslinger
Demolitionist warriors who hurl fire via special glass slings imbued with lahab al'qalb.

Illar
An eme-gir who wields a bow.

Javelineer
Aerial warriors who hurl javelins from above, controlling them in flight with kiiric yihi. If they are avians, they wear talonguards.

Karahkwaka'aion-tha
Chonurian warriors who use clockwork rifles that work via temporal aether. Their role is to hunt rogue watchers.

Marine
Crossbow-wielding naval warriors who use the power of conflueverant to fire their bolts along the currents of battle

Mea Hoolei
Koa who specialize in throwing their spears. They wear palm fronds as headdresses that give them better focus.

Moonguard
Mostly female-assigned warriors who wield special crescent blades (like very long and curved sickles, almost circular) and longbows that are empowered by lunar focus. They run with wolves and can parry esoteric energies with their crescent blades.

Musketeer
Warriors who wield musket and rapier. Their muskets fire special bullets of stone imbued with kazaddarean, and they gain the patience of the stone for their waiting to fire.

Pitati
Archers of Azet who work in large groups and are known for wielding arrows that kill instantly because they are imbued with poarta by rubbing them with myrrh.

Refractor
Those who make and use rifles tipped with glass from the Lesedian Mirror, which focuses the bright into powerful beams.

Sheshou
Dongxue archers whose arrows are tipped with one of the nine great metals and controlled by power over bailaohu jinghua.

Shprots
Warriors who specialize in using slings that hurl stones imbued with Genesis energy. They are guerilla fighters who are devoted to taking down morags.

Snowguard
The elite guard of Snedronnig, the Snow Queen, who use spear and bow with the skill of brumal focus, which draws hvittdogg to the point of the weapon to create a missile of frost.

Tenebriant
Those who use special javelins that draw true shadow.

Aetherial Siege Warriors

Siege engines and artillery.

Baurhaug
Stone-slinging siege engines used by chthonian armies.

Ektoxeftis
Giants who pull great stones from the arable ground and launch them via catapults, using the inherent Tmakikan clinging to them to make them stronger.

Paoshou
Dongxue gunners who use artillery made from the nine great metals that are imbued with potent bailaohu jingua.

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Aetherial Heavy Warriors

Aetherial Martial Artists

Aetherial Melee Warriors

Aetherial Military

Aetherial Mounted Warriors

Aetherial Ranged Warriors

Aetherial Siege Warriors