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Physical Traits

Body: Their robust and well-proportioned body allows them the opportunity to work in all facets of every day life. Their skin ranges from pale to brown. They have thick hair on their head and depending on individual tastes sometimes also have beards and mustaches, those these are rarely as elaborate as the StoneHammer's. Their bodies allow for a range of different builds, from thick and powerful to thin and lean, this tends to be determined by the profession of individual Ylians.
Height: They are on average between 1.60 m to 1.85 m tall.
Eyes: Their eye color can be blue, brown, black or green.
Hair: Their hair color can be black, brown, blonde or red.
Age: They live about 70 years.
Starting stats: Strength 60, Endurance 55, Agility 64, Intelligence 58, Will 58, Charisma 55.



Social Structure and Organization

The Ylians believe they were the first men to see the Blue Sun. They took the name Ylian, from an ancient etching, to celebrate the beginning of their new life. The tightly packed and heavily populated homeworld of Ylians, Ghinnori, forced them to be able to develop friendly relations with their neighbors. Thanks to this ability they are often first to take up political and diplomatic roles.
The Ylians moved here in response to a calamity in their old homeland. During the long time spent in the Stone Labyrinths many people died from the pure danger of the place. The survivors had many different skills. Many people were needed in vital trades and crafts. In order to survive, many people adapted to learn other necessary trades. Since then Ylians have embraced adaptation and compromise therefore they are very versatile.
Even today, Ylians might change professions two or three times during their lifetimes to adapt to the changing needs of their society.
No man or woman is considered an adult until they wed another. This usually happens in their late teens. The new couple will move out of their family's homes and start a new family. Marriages are lifelong and divorce is heavily frowned upon.

Religion
The Ylian's natural friendliness was at first subverted thanks to the manner of their arrival and it's similarity to passages in their religious text, The Tome of Woes and Joy. In the prophecy described in the book, Yliakum was by rights theirs, bestowed by the gods and to be shared with others only as they saw fit. This caused friction between Ylians and the other races, most notably the Enkidukai. After the fall of Ylon Dynari, Talad's intervention in the Enkidukai/Ylian War, and their move to Hydlaa, the Ylian's turned towards Talad. The Tome was largely abandoned, and with it a major portion of the Ylian's sense of ownership of Yliakum. For the most part, the Ylians gradually abandoned the Tome of Woes and Joy, since no written copies survived the journey from Ghinnori and its prophecies ended with the discovery of Yliakum. The Ylians naturally turned to worshiping Talad, the first god they met after exiting the portal, but given their eclectic nature, they developed affinity towards all other gods.

Nutrition
They have no preferences on meals. Ylians eat meat, vegetables, fishes, etc. Due to the final disaster that struck them while in Ghinnori, a good many Ylians avoid dishes that contain fungus of any sort. While this prejudice may fade in time, it is still prevalent at the time this is being written. Other than this exception, Ylians are not at all picky about food. Some believe this stems from their trials in Ghinnori, when food was scarce and anything that provided nourishment was welcome.

Abilities and fields of interest

Discipline: Ylians are a practical and disciplined race filled with fighters, sorcerers, merchants and politicians. They tend to learn a little of everything without choosing a preferred profession. The Ylians have an excellent sense of self-control and discipline. These traits were possibly enhanced by their trials in Ghinnori, the last one most of all. To be stripped of ones sense and go careening into a new world without a conscious decision to do so might well make one crave structure that much more.

Teachers: After they abandoned the Tome, their natural leadership skills were soon turned to various branches of government instead of being used as a tool of subjugation. Ylians are also known as excellent teachers of crafts and skills, using their gregarious nature to encourage their pupils onward.

Land men: Since Ghinnori had only one landmass, and its sea was quite small, there are few Ylians who take up seafaring.

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Homeworld
Homeworld name: Ghinnori

Description of Home World: Ghinnori was a moonless world, its surface comprised of one large landmass with a small sea at the northern pole. The climate varied greatly. The north was temperate, the central regions contained broad swaths of forest, and the southern quarter was too cold for most life. Since wood was so plentiful, most Ylian structures were made from it, from houses to walls to fences. Daily loads came from bustling logging towns in the central regions to fill the need. The Ylians' greatest crop was grisil, a pale green grain whose kernels were used for bread and whose stalks were used for vessels of all kinds. The northern regions contained plentiful game darting about the hills and shrub lands. A myriad of small streams in the north and central regions provided fish. Fruits and vegetables were grown in small quantities as a treat for the middle and upper classes, since they were seen as taking field space away from the all-important grisil.

Social structure and organization: No notable differences from the one in Yliakum, see above.

Reason for Leaving Home World: When the Ylians still lived in Ghinnori, their main spiritual guide was the Desert Prophecy, a text of prophecy written on the stone by the Gods themselves. It was present in an holy part of the planet, a large desert dedicated to the gods. Only pilgrimages were admitted in the desert and none could establish a home there. The desert was very special in its own way because you could find many unique rocks, writings and remains left by the gods. It was in constant evolution, and at every big event in the Ylian society, people were going to see if the gods left a message for them. Around 270 AY The Desert Prophecy, in constant evolution started to speak about the near future and the hardships that the Ylians would endure in Ghinnori, and the Abundant Realm that would be revealed to them after their trials. Sadly for the Ylians, all of the hardships did indeed come to pass. They started to understand the gods have chosen them for some higher role in the history of their world, and so they took the challenge with the right spirit.


Three tests were layed out by the gods on the Ylians:


After these tests they visited the holy desert again and a glowing portal was standing there. They understood the time was come, and decided to pass through it.

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