Races: Tamiara

Tamiaras have an
agile and deft musculature providing them speed and fluidity of movement. As
they adapted to live in wooded areas, place that are often dangerous and
inaccessible, they developed an almost genetic attachment to the nature. Thanks to the wingsuits they usually wear, they can move from tree to
tree with the same agility of flying squirrels, the name by which they are
often identified by the other races.

The close contact with nature have made them real experts in outdoors
living, also modifying their physical appearance. The thick and olive-colored
skin is not scorched if it is exposed to the sun, it does not chap due to the
wind and it allows them to withstand the most variable temperatures.
The thin and slightly elongated shape of their eyes is due to the
continuous tightening of the eyelids for the focalization of any movement in
the woods. It gives them a perpetually attentive and absorbed expression. Their
continuous scanning saved them over the centuries from the dangers that the
forest sets aside and it helped them to overcome the lack of food and clothing.
Ears, with theslightly larger and elongated auricles if they are compared to
the Humans’ ones, allow them to catch every little noise. The curly and dark
hairs are usually styled in dreadlocks varying in size and shape, that males and females wear in the most
various ways.

Tia’Miara, the
capital city of Tamiara region, is placed, like all their cities, on the crowns
of towering Khun, the centuries-old trees of their forest, at the height of
about forty meters and built with hundreds of elegant aerial walkways
connecting the suspended platforms on which the villages are developed.
Tamiaras are reluctant to leave their green arboreal homes, but they do not
disdain contact with members of other races if these prove respectful of their
customs.

They are skilled carvers and tanners, but what makes them really famous
and respected is the mastery achieved in the woodcarving of Gata, the precious
wood extracted from Khun. It is hard like the steel and the light like the wood
and it is symbol of survival for the entire race. The Gata, through a process
that involves the use of fire and of a glue (also it is obtained from Khun),
provides flexible, light and very resistant weapons; the Tamiara particularly
prefer crossbows and bows decorated with melt metal inlays, but they do not
even disdain hand to hand weapons if these are made of Gata.

They like everything is plain and elegant, they disdain, for example,
the excessive Salkes’ ostentation and eccentricity, a more alien peolple, even
though geographically closer.

They are extremely bond to traditions and they consider indissoluble
every taken oath. At the death of one of their brothers, a new young small bush
is planted. In this manner the life can continue in nature.

Tamiaras like dressing with soft suede or leather. The clothes have an
elegant dressmaking and very fine finishing touches; the embroideries,
embellished with small pearls and wooden buttons, make their garments refined
clothing appreciated by the other races. They like the fine jewelry made in
Gata that skilled carvers can create, with mounted precious or rough stones and
fine embroidery made of liquid gold or varnish.

Despite their living in their forest, in the cities on the trees and in
close contact with nature, there is nothing distant from a ‘barbarian’ than a
Tamiara.

**OTHER RACES:**

- Damas

- Graunt

- Humans

- Salk

- Vampires