Races: Damas

The Damas, ‘*The People of the Chasm*‘, is the race that more than
any other adapts to the physical strain.

Broad shoulders, muscular limbs, wide chest, short and mighty stature
are features they have been developed with the work done in their mines, as
well as the pink skin and color light eyes because they are not used to seeing
the sun’s rays. Their faces, with rounded and childish traits, are often
accompanied by shaved or very short hairs, this is a common practice among
females too. Probably it is due to the the miners’ old attitude to cut their
hair to avoid them to hinder visibility at work or set them on fire by the small candles placed on the
helmets used in the mine before the advent of electricity.

The Damas live inside the Chasm, a huge crevice opened on a flat area
surrounded by rugged mountains enveloped by a perpetual sunrise. Two huge
mechanical platforms are the only two accesses to the bottom of the Chasm. Here
the center of Ravanes, that’s the capital, comes into view. The city is the
starting point for an endless series of large galleries. These galleries are
links to the residential areas of the city and from there to other Damas’
cities. Large metal portals can be sealed to isolate and protect the main
caverns and all lower levels. In the depths of the tunnels, it hides the
primary Damas sustenance source: the steam.

The Damas constantly dig, looking for new geysers in order to use them
for electricity production. They
are the only population, along with Humans and Vampires, who uses it, but they are the only ones to have made technological development their reason of
live. They are viscerally lovers of mechanics and they apply this expertise to
every aspect of daily life: from work clothes protected by metal plates to
gloves with retractable overlays for the fingers, from miner colorful and
monocles-equipped helmets, magnifying glasses and small fans to belts with
hanging multitude of tools, until the construction of more complex machinery
such as steam backpacks, covered with wires and tubes, besides the transport of
objects, are used to cool water, to warm cold food or more often to provide
energy to weapons.

These, very rare, are renowned for their firepower and precision
shooting, but what makes them really famous, often penalizing them in
commercial exchanges, are the intense puffs of steam and the strident noises
that they emit during their use. There are rumors that, thanks to their
continuous research in science, the Damas have come to create tesla weapons. To
work they need a current generator or a very long power cable.

They are open to other races and to new ideas, they are sociable and
very skilled in conversation. They don’t have the cult of the past and all that
matters is the future and technological progress.

Due to their nature of inventors they are able to recycle any object and
to destinate it to a new use independently from its original function. This has
originated an expression very much in vogue among the Salkes and that now is
widespread among all races: “*If you do not know what is it for, sell it to
a Damas*“.

**OTHER RACES:**

- Graunt

- Humans

- Salk

- Tamiara

- Vampires