Leklek

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Leklek facial features are extremely refined, well-proportioned and expressive.
They often have large, wide set eyes that vary widely in color from bright blue
to dark brown. Most of them sport button noses though a very few families have
large, prominent noses. (Unsurprisingly, one of the largest perfumery leklek
families in Primordiax is marked by bulbous noses.) Lekleks have slender limbs
and a rounded torso. Leklek females are often slimmer, shorter and more
curvaceous than their male counterparts.

Leklek coloring tends to run towards very warm colors. Blond, auburn, and brown
hair are all extremely common to the race. Brown, hazel and green eyes are seen
more than any other color, though a very few lekleks will have amethyst eyes.
Male lekleks can grow a beard, but they cannot grow mustaches. Most are clean
shaven, though elderly lekleks will begin growing beards when they hit their
sixtieth year of life.

Most lekleks do not sport any tattoos due to a cultural taboo towards
permanency. They do, however, love to adorn themselves with gems, jewelry,
and face paints. Clothes and decorative scarves are also in high demand
for most lekleks. Any leklek worth his weight in primordium has a
different outfit for every single occasion that might come his way.

memorized the Encyclopedia Etiquetta, a collection of ten volumes detailing over
one thousand years of leklek customs and etiquette practices compiled by the
Argentine Collegia and Science Museum.

Lekleks normally live in large communities that thrive on barter and trade.
These people are natural, but tasteful, pack rats due to their curious and
innovative natures. Their culture promotes exploration and education, often to
excess, and invention becomes a natural hobby for most lekleks. Wherever magical
experiments, an expedition into the wilds, or interesting battles can be found,
lekleks are also there.

Everything in a leklek's domicile is scaled to their size for convenience as
well as in tribute to their great love for everything miniature. All the great
nobles of history have had doll houses or miniature armies created by renown
leklek toy makers. The lekleks' love for detail and for all things small
translates into some of the most precious toys and board game pieces available to
humanity. Great war generals have ordered full scale models from these toy makers
as part of their strategic planning, ensuring that lekleks, despite their small
stature, often play an important role in the greatest battles on the face of
Primordiax. Within their own homes, lekleks meticulously decorate everything
that they can, using vivid colors and complimenting materials to enhance their
space. A leklek's home is a piece of art.

Most leklek houses are built on stilts to allow for airflow under the house. The
wide doorways and windows also keep their houses cool during the hotter seasons.
A very small group of lekleks live in the colder regions as servants or
caretakers in trulloc or human towns. Their generous nature allows them to live
happily as servants or lords, for they find interesting aspects in all works.

Almost all lekleks come from huge extended families with more aunts, uncles,
great-uncles twice removed and children than can be counted without the aid of
massive charts. A few lekleks will rebel, finding the close family confines to
be too much, and leave their ties behind. The majority, however, often take
great pride in the size of their families, sometimes to the point of pulling out
large genealogical charts and family trees to show to all their friends, lekleks
and non-lekleks alike. The average leklek household often has five to eleven
children in a course of a lifetime, and those children are heavily encouraged to
procreate. Lekleks are the fastest growing singular population on Primordiax.

### History

Historical accounts on the origins of lekleks contradict more than any
other race on Primordiax. All accounts, however, agree that lekleks did
not exist before 2900 BU or before the Sundering. In fact they suddenly
appeared on Primordiax in mass numbers, living in drab, dirt huts on the
continent of Katayvan. They appeared as if dropped from the sky by the
hands of a god. What a god it must have been, for the lekleks came into
being with a vengeance. They immediately began to construct homes for
themselves from anything they could use. In the beginning, they built with
mud and straw, but they soon progressed to using wood and stone. Also,
they began trading with several tribes of nearby salamae and humans.
The leklek population flourished, but it truly boomed when the first leklek
sailor, Jitamo Redhat, took his family on his [[Voyage to the Edge of the
World]]. Instead of reaching the world's end, Jitamo discovered the
continent of Mitralon and established trade with a mining village there.
With an influx of metal into their society, lekleks began producing
exquisite jewelry. Out went the jewelry and in came fresh grain, milk, and
produce for the villages.

In 998 BU the lekleks built one of the greatest masterpieces of the realm;
the statue of [[Phinaou Boss], possibly the greatest leklek tinker to ever
live, stood nearly 200 rands tall upon completion. Unfortunately, the
great quake of 512 BU reduced the grand statue to rubble, sending pieces of
it flying to the sea. Amateur archaeologists still supposedly find chunks
of Phinaou Boss from time to time, though no one knows exactly where the
original statue stood. (At last count, Phinaou had twenty-nine toes, over
fifty fingers, and fifteen ears. More are being found every day.) Lekleks
continued to build and innovate until, finally, they built the great temple
city of Troj in the middle of a tropical jungle with the aid of several
tribes of salamaes. Soon, they began to attract other races to populate
the city while some of the lekleks who lived there moved on to other
projects. Troj is still considered the greatest building project performed
by any one group of people.

### Racial Bonuses

+ tinkering

+ dexterity

+ perception

SEE ALSO: Races