The Ra

## **Description**

The Ra'shen are a serpent like races with a slight human appearance as most of there scales are on the lower part of there bodies and there tails are retractable while there upper half look almost completely human except they lack pupils due to most of there race being blind and relying on tasting the air with there tongue as a way to see like snakes do. There are two variants of the Ra with the second being call the Ra'shar whose only differences is the reverse in appearance as they have a more snake like upper body complete with a fork tongue an sharp teeth but a human lower half with no tail. The Ra'shen are the most common to find of the Ra race

## **Abilities**

Poison Resistance: The Ra are somewhat immune to poison due to there physiology sharing some similarities to snake of rather poisonous ancestry despite them not carrying any poison of there own.

Disease Resistance: The Ra are know to have a rather strong immune system that many of them believe came as a result of a blessing from there god Ra'Sharlei as there resilient to most illness and plagues. it even believe there blood is divine enough in nature to be use as a cure for illness but it effectiveness as a cure varies a lot for other races.

Scale armor: the scales of the Ra are said to be as hard as stone and difficult to break acting as a sort of Armor to protect the Ra from danger. the scales also grow back and heal over time when damage

Nature magic: the Ra can bend plant life to their will and are know as great gardener because of this as they can even revive dead plants.

heighten taste: the Ra rely on there sense of taste heavily to see the area around them through tasting the air and it use by them to track, hunt, cook, and identify threats. There tongue are said to be difficult to fool even if you cut them off as most Ra'shen tongues are rough and as hard to cut as there scales an grows back in a few months. They are also know to neutralize most liquid base poison that touch there tongues through method most Ra don't understand.

## Personality

The Ra tend to like warm climate areas and have a disdain for colder ones as there body simple can't produce enough heat to survive in colder areas so they tend to die faster in the cold then others.

The Ra tend to stay to themselves preferring living in the swamps always from others mostly to avoid trouble as they rarely trust outsiders of there tribe or different races especially the Ra'Shar as they look down on all none Ra races an tend to be more vocal and violent about there disdain for others compare to most Ra'shen who will at least act civil to those they don't like while trying to kick you out with as little conflict as possible.

however in a case of tribe pride or blasphemy made about there god were to happen which is seen as a declaration of war to them all the Ra will glad give there lives too defend there god honor and kill the heretics who dare to insult there god.

Ra'shen have rare dealing with other races but the few rare encounters that do happen tends to send waves through most members of the tribe as word of mouth is a common thing for the Ra'shen since they see each other as family and do there best to stay connected and up to date on there daily lives because of this view compare to Ra'shar who have a more individual view making them less likely to share too many things of minor important with the tribe as quickly or as happily as a Ra'shen.

should they see someone not of there tribe or race as a friend of even one member of the tribe most Ra'shen will glad treat you as if your one of them while most Ra'shar will reframe from picking a fight with you but still act rather cold towards you and act more passive aggressive.

**Lifecycle**

The average lifespan of a Ra is 120 years, there methods of breeding are the same as humans and the baby even comes out looking like a human child for the first twenty years of it life until it turns twenty-one which is when scales start growing as part of there skin, they gain a bit more height, and their sense of taste they use to see start to develop more allowing them to get a better look at there surrounding. Ra'shen born with a parent of a different race tends to look nothing like the Ra'shen parent and more like the other parent regardless if there the mother or father; they share no characteristic of the Ra race until they hit there middle ages of there lifespan when there more Ra aspects start to set in slowly and they start to look more like them. children of other races born with Ra'shen ancestry are know to live slightly longer lives then even the Ra but only by a few years. The Ra'shar are know to come out looking more reptile like and start slowly losing scales as well as the tail they are born with as they grow older and gain a more human lower half and are know to be unable to bear children with other races beside there own.

## **Diet**

The diet of a Ra'shen consist mostly of meat at the start of there life as there body isn't use to eating plants and it take them almost fifty years to develop a taste for vegetable or even fruit. most Ra'shen however can eat poisonous plants very early in life and it often use in there cooking to season there food. Ra'shar however are strict meat eaters as there bodies can't handle other types of food expect for the same poisonous plant as there Ra'shen counter parts but most Ra'shar would prefer to eat meat especially while it still alive as most Ra'shar see it as a honor to devour a still breathing animal or person.

## **Combat**

The Ra fight using spears that they fashion themselves and lace with poison of there own making at the tip and use there own tail sometimes as a club to smack there enemies with in times of desperation. The Ra-shar however have sharp razor like teeth and are know for attacking with clubs or trying to eat there enemy and rip large chucks of flesh off of them in the middle of combat. The Ra tend to use more gorilla tactics when dealing with threats by sending the Ra-shar in first as shock troops to hit the enemy hard and fast in the hopes they kill and eat as many of them as they can before it time to call them in to retreat so the Ra-shen can come in and pick off what left with poison spears as well as kidnap a few of them to test more painful ways of tearing apart and killing there foe before feeding them to the Ra-shar. some Ra-shen however are know to in times of war facing a larger army to use there nature magic to animate the trees around them to fight for them but this is know to take a great amount of magic and is use only as a last resort due to the heavy strain it put on them.

## **Societies**

The Ra live in small building made out of animal fur and mud at least the ones that live in swamps as some mostly Ra'shar are sometimes know to create small community underground in a stone hut. most Ra are hunters gathers for the tribe but when there not hunting the Ra are know to sing song of there past ancestors, occasionally dabble in nature magic bending and twisting the very plant life around them to suit there needs in ways or craving the stories of there life into tree bark to be pass down as part of there history to another Ra'shen or Ra'shar later in life. The Ra speak a language of there own that consist mostly of hisses, tongue flicks and tail movements which can be confusing for those not of Ra origin. The Ra also speak a second language mostly to breach the language barrier slightly as it is part of there religious belief that complete ignorance is a unexscuable sin to there god Ra'Sharlei eyes that must be fix or you may suffer his wrath which many Ra fear so they learn more then one language through spying or other means as a way to breach a understand with other races that happen upon them to better clear ignorance while at the same time shooing the other away as quickly and polity as possible but of course there understand of the different languages tends to be a bit broken and most Ra'shar tend to hiss a lot when speaking a different language while Ra'shen tail tend to be more active when speak a different language. The Ra work under the rule of a chieftain and his three advisor, a shaman, a priest, and a War master who each delegate the day to day function of the rest of the tribe making big decisions on thing with the Chieftain having of course the last say in anything. The Ra while not heavily advance in most area of tech are pretty advance in the creation of medicine as well as the use of nature magic. The Ra as a whole celebrate a day know as the dance of the great serpent of Mawashi which is a festival celebrating the great war of the Ra'shen against the Ra'shar that happen long ago but eventually ended when Mawashi in his last bid for peace and unity between the two race of Ra gave his life to save his own brother who had been born Ra'shar and was fighting against him in the war that was learn to have been cause later by proxy by a outsider tribe we later wipe them out for there treachery. Few Ra'shen are know to mate with those not of there races or consider at least a very close friend of the tribe but the few they do mate with often bear children the Ra don't recognize as one of them until there much older and start to grow scales or prove themselves to the tribe in some way but even then they are still regarded as a outsider even if they were raise with the Ra,

## **Homelands**

Ra live in areas like the Meshial Swamp a small swamp hidden within the depths of the Meishawa forest. Tibenours a bright savanna plain far to the east. Delmanous relos a underground cave system that mostly many Ra-shar call home. https://game-of-adventuring.fandom.com/wiki/Meshial\_Swamp , https://game-of-adventuring.fandom.com/wiki/Delmanous\_Relos , https://game-of-adventuring.fandom.com/wiki/Tibernours?venotify=created

## **History**

No one knows how the Ra came to be not even the Ra are completely sure how it happen but it is believe that they were brought into existent by there god blood as there is a story pass down from generations about a evil all consuming serpent that devour magic and light from the world to leave it a barren frozen wasteland until the day Ra'Sharlei came to bring his light to warm the world and the snake came for him and they fought for several hundred years spilling blood over parts of the earth and as there blood soak into the soil it one day gave birth to the Ra who were only alive at the tail end of the fight when Ra'sharlei kill the serpent. He buried it body deep below the earth with his sword still embed in the serpent head before proceeding to then shine his life giving light across the world turning the frozen wasteland into a warm life giving land for everyone.

## **Trivia**

The crest symbol of the Ra races is a serpent eating itself similar to Ouroboros but with a sword through it head.

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