Kiasyd

The kiasyd, also known as "wolf faeries", were the first fey species ever to be created.
Creation Story
Long ago, Amaroq interwove the body sidhe with the essence of fear drawn
from the Dreamlands and the vicious wolves that roamed the world’s darkest
forests. The resulting Kiasyd were the first fey to be born and the nightmare
god’s proudest creations.
 Personality
The Kiasyd mindset is complex
and nuanced, but most outsiders consider most of these beings to be primitive
savages who live only to hunt and slaughter the innocent. Wolf faeries believe
that the world belongs to their divinities, and that they must prepare it for
ultimate annihilation. Kiasyd have an intense disliking towards fire and
sunlight, and the use of wood to produce fire disgusts them. They possess
almost no sense of humour, being a dour and serious species focused upon their
goals. Despite this, they are a highly artistic people, who are inspired poets
and carvers of wood and bone. To terrorize another to the point of death gives
these fey a near-orgasmic rush.
Image
The kiasyd are a tall and slender people, and considered very attractive
by most other species. Both males and females are of similar size and possess
lean, toned muscles. Their bodies are lithe and supple, and they carry
themselves with a predatory poise which other species find intrinsically
intimidating. Kiasyd have large eyes and fair features, but their faces
typically have a wolfish gaze which can be intense and off-putting to others.
Their hair is almost universally grown long, and aside from their eyebrows and
scalp they are utterly hairless. Their smooth skin is typically alabaster white
to pale grey, and eye colours include yellow, orange and green. Those kiasyd
born with nyxad blood have purple-tinted skin and/or striking violet or indigo
eyes. The most terrifying feature of a kiasyd is its mouth. Behind pleasing
lips lie sharpened teeth and elongated canines, betraying the species’
carnivorous nature. The menacing snarl of a kiasyd that bares its fangs is
simultaneously beautiful and horrifying to behold.
 
Interspecies
Relations'''
 
History
 
Disposition
Five out of
the seven tribes have a strict social order, with strong bonds between kinsfolk
and a predatory outlook towards all other peoples. Two tribes, the Howling
Manslayers and the Tribe of Black Scales, are much wilder in nature, and while
certain members of the tribe (usually blood relatives) may have strong bonds,
most other tribesmen are considered competition for food and other resources.
While the Tribe of the Hunting Moon maintains the most tyrannical and brutal
social order, it still maintains a rigid hierarchy and loyalty to warlocks is
mandated.
Where in
the World'''
The following tribes dwell
within the Dark Forest within whose bowels they entered the world: The Tribe of
the Wolf, the Tribe of the Hunting Moon, the Tribe of Midnight’s Hands, the
Tribe of the Waking Dream and the Tribe of Black Scales. The Tribe of the
Howling Manslayers dwell within the snowy pine forests of Naen and the Wind
Jackals live within Tamaluk, on Vaishun. The Tribe of Midnight’s Hands also has
around half of its population living within the city of Tolnor.
 
Religion
Language(s)
Amarokan
Names
The kiasyd are divided into
tribes, and the tribal name is frequently given after the personal name, e.g.
“Vaekosa of the Tribe of the Wolf”. Personal names are given to them by the Arkala(s)
of their tribe at birth, and a second personal name may later be granted by
these same leaders upon the accomplishment of some great deed. These second
names typically end in “-da”. Those who have yet to earn this special attention
have only their birth-name. The second name might be based on an individual’s
vision quest, a great hunt, a kill or any other special feat.
Statistical
Modifications'''
Males and Females: +1 DEX, -1 VIG, +1 PRE
Occupations
 
Social
Structure'''
The Tribe of Midnight’s Hands
The group maintains a power base
both within the Dark Forest, ad within the city-state of Tolnor. Many cycles
past, they curried favour with the humans in order to bring the political and
economic structures to ruin and learn more of Oblivion’s enemies. The reason is
that this interloper species worships Manus who is perhaps the strongest god
still in service of the Light.
Within Tolnor, many kiasyd have
turned their backs upon the prophecy of annihilation, but many yet hold true to
their purpose within its walls and maintain communications with their
tribe-mates in the Dark Forest.
Excepting the warlocks within
the Tribe of the Hunting Moon, this tribe contains some of the greatest
intellects to be found within the kiasyd species.  Many of its ulfurs are scholars and
theologians of great repute. A significant number of this tribe have also
joined the clergy of Umbra.
The Tribe of the Hunting Moon
This tribe are the most
fanatical followers of Oblivion the world over – the worship of any other
divinity is forbidden under threat of execution. The children of this tribe are
raised to believe that the whole world around them is an illusion, that nothing
is real and that the hollow mockery that is creation must be brought down at
any cost. Most become cultists at a young age under the cruel tutelage of the
tribe’s many warlocks, who quickly slay any adolescent who is deemed too weak
to accept their orders without question.
All cultists within the tribe
must one day face the Song of Obliteration if they are to advance above a state
of essential slavery. Those who fail the test are broken and devoured by
demons, their names unrecorded and their memory forgotten forever.
The warlocks of this tribe
regard the members of other kiasyd tribes to be disturbingly irresolute in
their efforts to bring about annihilation. Any who do not serve Oblivion’s will
are worthy only of destruction, and only the mightiest among the clergy of
other dark divinities are accorded genuine respect. The Black Scales kiasyd are
seen as useful tools, utterly expendible, of course. The Hunting Moons know the
true attitude Zoor’Ztsh holds towards his followers among their species. There
is nothing that these fanatics will not do, no act too depraved in the cause of
bringing the world to an end. After all, no-one they betray, use, brutalise,
torture or slay was ever real in the first place, so why ever feel remorse?
Diet
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