Vezhati

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Known for their ingenuity and hardiness, the Vezhati are an ancient race native to the sprawling deserts of Ometria. Created by the Rau'n Cerod, they are naturally very sensitive to the flow of time and the sole practitioners of a craft known as Timewalking. The Vezhati are also known for their superior technology and clockwork inventions, such as arquebuses and wind-up watches. A reclusive and secretive people, it is uncommon to see a Vezhati or their technology outside their home city of Zherut, and rarely beyond the borders of Ometria.
One of the Vezhati's most remarkable physical traits is their changing skin colors: lighter in the day, darkest at night. This makes any Vezhati a living timekeeping device. Outsiders occasionally refer to them as Timekeepers, or derisively, "Clinkets" in reference to their technology.
==History==
At the dawn of their existence, the Vezhati began as nomadic hunters, perfectly at home in the arid deserts and canyons that would later become the region of Ometria. Clever minded and extremely adaptable, the Vezhati had an easy edge over other desert-dwelling creatures. They became the first to domesticate wild animals for various purposes, such as dogs for hunting and tracking, the sandrunner bird (or Khuzet) for riding, and large animals called Bakret for meat and as beasts of burden.
At the end of the first age of mortals, the Vezhati population dominated the deserts, and gradually the different tribes merged into a single civilization with many permanent settlements. The largest of these settlements was called Rin'vezhati, nestled around the mouth of the Tekran River. As the Vezhati discovered pivotal new skills, such as forging brass and copper and melting sand into glass, Rin'vezhati rapidly grew into a vast, metal city. It became their cultural heart, a wealth of technological innovation, fed by foreign trade and beginning to expand across the entire desert.
Category:Races