Hyarmenians

## Southern Humans

Names & Nicknames: The race of Hyarmenian Humans are also known as "Southerners," "Imperial Citizens," "Imperials," or the "South Men."

Age: Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and typically live less than a century.

Size: Humans vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.

Languages: Most Southern Humans speak Common, while some Imperial nobles have been trying to create a new court language of mixing high elvish and common together.

### **Details**

The Southern Humans, while decedents of the first men of Minya, have several distinct differences other then distance being a factor. Those from the Holy Hyarmenian Empire have a disdain for their long distant cousins in the North, typically calling them slurs such as "Uncivilized Nords," "Wolf Pups," or complimenting their scent of stereotypical manure.

Imperials can be differed from the Free Folk if genetically evaluated; while the free peoples can differ from themselves in almost every way, Imperials tend to have darker hair, longer features, and can trace their heritage to an elf or two, wild or high elven.

These humans have a fierce reputation of loving order and hating chaos. Imperials have little concern for those they put under voluntary servitude, believing that they (beastmen, wild elves, halflings, or otherwise) are destined to serve the human race to ascend into an even greater civilization. On top of that, must Hyarmenians can be attributed to being more fervent of their saints, often going to crusades more often then their Northern counterparts.

Most Hyarmenians fall under the Holy Hyarmenian Empire, and are thus attributed to the name "Imperials," or "Imps" as a greater slur as "demons." Their employment of mass "voluntary servitude" of other races do not aid to lessen this slur.

### **Saints**

The most common saints worshiped are the Saints of the Spear, Water, Salt, Moon, Stars and Fate.

While the Sword Saint is very much revered in the south, much of the Imperial Courts have influenced the Hyarmenian population to adopt the Spear Saint instead, promoting him as the "Spearhead of Empire and Religion." Several artifacts are showcased at the Royal Court and the top generals are rumored to each bear a Spear Saint-arms. The current spear saint has no negative opinion about slavery, rather always wanting to push for the future instead of the present.

Being separated by a strait of rapid-flowing water, and being on effectively two peninsulas, the Water Saint is especially important to the Hyarmen people. The Water Saint is, perhaps, historically one of the most controversial figures in religious texts; while older texts explain the first and second Water Saints to be a proponent of love and freedom, the future saints seem like the opposite, practicing the behavior of conforming, like water going with the flow, and always rushing towards a path. Whether the future path is a good or bad path remains to be seen, but it is something that is spoken about in high debates between religious leaders.

Having way less fertile farm land then their northern counterparts, most of the people have taken to the Saint of Salt to bless their food with long lasting preservatives and flavor, especially when it comes to salted fish. The reverence of the Salt Saint has caused a need for enrichment in life; worshipers of the current Salt Saint feel a need to have a variety of options such as wine or meats, and have a taste of supporting expansion, even if it means "forced" servitude or war.

The upper class of the Hyarmen populace have long worshipped the Saint of the Moon, Stars, and Fate, revering knowledge, power, and the potential to have greatness in their destiny. As such, the most powerful saint, contending only with the Sword Saint, would be the Saint of Fate. However, when the last Saint of Fate led a crusade against the Demon King eighty-five years ago, she vanished after having fought him into a stalemate. Despite the such, prayers towards her has only increased of late. While the Moon Saint encouraged finding secrets of the dark and mortal realms, and the Star Saint charting the secrets of the stars and sea, The Saint of Fate was responsible for allowing the Royal Imperial Dynasty to rule the entirety of the Holy Hyarmenian Empire with ease, as it was their destiny. Without the Saint of Fate, every Hyarmen man and women have started doubting the future.