Celestial Spirit Folk

Fey beings and others based on celestial or popular stories and legends.

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Deolchaire

Tall folk who embody the bounty of the world.

• Lifespan : 500 years
• Diet: Vegetarian
• Habitat: Pastoral
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppresssed

Deolchaire (Dyolcharay) appear to be 6' tall amber-skinned beings with hair like cornsilk, eyes like glowing motes of sunlight, and golden bones.

Deolchaire have the power to multiply any food that they have grown and prepared themselves, but only enough to nourish and feed those who need it. Thus, they only multiply food when handing it to someone. They cannot create new food out of nothing, nor can they multiply food prepared or grown by someone else, with one exception - if they food the person they are trying to feed is not something that can be grown or prepared by means the deolchaire has. In these exceptional circumstances, it is much, much more difficult to multiply the food, and it takes more energy out of the deolchaire.

They cannot multiply any kind of meat.

If someone starves because a deolchaire refused to feed them, the deolchaire will die within a year and a day.

Deolchaire live in great farming communities, and their lives revolve around the harvest festival. They have a culture that honors the sun, the bounty of the earth, and the bringrs of harvest and nourishment. In the empires, they were conquered and enslaved for their powers, forced to work massive farms, and now they live as an oppressed nation.

PRO 8 ATH 8 STR 10 AWA 8 WIL 8 PRS 9 STH 7 ESS 9

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Free Folk

Free folk are empowered by resistance to tyranny, conquest, and oppression.

• Lifespan : 200 years

• Diet: Common fey fare

• Habitat: Tropical rain forests

• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Free folk appear to be 5’ to 6’ tall, olive- or green-skinned fey beings with pointed ears, black straight hair, and eyes that glow fulvous orange. They have thin insectoid wings.

All free folk are empowered by the fact that they have never been conquered as a culture or species. Individuals who are enslaved, imprisoned, oppressed, exploited, or abused are weakened in the powers gained from this, but retain them so long as there is any culture or nation of free folk who remain free.

They gain some of the following powers:

• Unchained eye: their eyes can leave their heads and travel up to 3000’ around them; any person they see, they can see their class status.

• Free heart: they have an empathic sense that allows them to sense what others are feeling, but also to sense if someone has committed an act of exploitation, enslavement, imprisoning, abuse, exploitation, unprovoked violence, sexual assault, manipulation, repression, or oppression.

• Outrageous roar: they can channel all of their outrage into a deafening roar that stuns any oppressors or their agents within range.

• Liberating song: they can sing and infuse their music with uplifting power that helps anyone who is oppressed, enslaved, exploited, or abused fight against their oppression.

• Flame of resistance: if they act in resistance to conquest or oppression, they may draw flames from their own emotions and use them to fight infernal or imperial powers.

Many other powers are possible.

Free folk come from a distant, southeastern continent, but there are tribes and nations of them all over the world, embedded among other unconquered pre-class cultures. There are many among the smaller communities of the local natives, and many others enslaved among the empires.

PRO 9 ATH 9 STR 8 AWA 9 WIL 9 PRS 9 STH 7

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Malinaw

Fey whose skin and hair is made of all-seeing glass.

• Lifespan: 150 years
• Diet: Energy
• Habitat: The sky
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Malinaws appear to be 5’ tall fey with skin and hair made of colorful glass. Their eyes are shimmering marbles.

All malinaws can see out of every part of their body that is glass. They see in all directions and do not turn off their sense of sight at any time, except when it is covered by something. They can focus their vision in one direction at will. They can absorb esoteric energies or refract them as they please. With a little effort, they can also make parts of their bodies reflective.

In their own cultures, they do not wear clothing, but they take it on easily in other cultures. The obscuring of their vision that occurs is not complete enough to block out their incredibly potent senses. They live in small communities on sky islands, led by small elected councils, and often live near or with the eximi or other sky species who are similarly aligned.

Imperials view them as demonic.

PRO 8 ATH 8 STR 7 AWA 17 WIL 8 PRS 8 STH 6 ESS 9

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Maxandi

Tall fey folk empowered by gratitude.

• Lifespan : 200 years

• Diet: Light fey fare

• Habitat: Temperate grasslands and hills

• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Maxandis are 6’ to 7’ tall fey beings with pointed ears, hair of amber and gold, skin like wheat and maize (in color), and eyes like black pits of darkness and shadow. They all have one hand with four fingers and one hand with five.

Maxandis gain magical power from having others be grateful to them, but only if it is sincere and not derived from manipulation or for acts that unjustly harm others. This complex source of magic gives them the ability to nourish with a touch, supernatural strength, healing powers, and resistance to infernal energies. Other powers may be possible.

Maxandis live in classless communities led by small groups of elders, and they are common among the local native nations. However, they are often enslaved and exploited, and they are treated as foolish and naive by imperials.

PRO 7 ATH 8 STR 9 AWA 8 WIL 8 PRS 8 STH 8 ESS 9

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Temiltil

Subterranean fey folk who can sense celestial metals.

• Lifespan : 200 years

• Diet: Metals

• Habitat: Subterranean Realm

• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Temiltils are 6’ tall fey beings with skin like various metals, eyes like motes of blue light, and clawed hands. They have no hair and are often confused with the dongxue.

Temtiltils can sense metals, especially celestial metals, with a sixth sense. They can consume metals of any kind except infernal as sustenance, and their claws can cut through stone more easily than flesh. They are able to shape mundane or celestial metals into rudimentary forms if they have eaten a full meal of metal within the last hour. They are resistant to cold, can see in the dark, and know their way around in caves.

The culture of temiltils is one of gathering and survival deep underground. Those that are in the city0states are mostly there as slaves, exploited for their senses.

PRO 8 ATH 8 STR 9 AWA 9 WIL 8 PRS 8 STH 9