Humans

Humans are a playable race in the Arn Campaign setting. I'll add more to this later!

### **Human Player Characters**

When playing a human character in Arn, depending on where your character was raised, they will get a natural ***advantage*** in a certain skill. This is on top of choosing two ability points for the statistic of your choice.

## Human Ethnicity in Arn

Over the years, as travel has increased from one continent to the other, the ethnic differences in humans have become quite blurred. Still there are a few major regions with obvious overall differences in appearance, language, and culture. There are many smaller ethnic groups within these, but in general there are nine major regional ethnic groups in Arn and are as follows:

* **Alderian** - Humans from the lands of north & central Alderyon. Currently this includes Marasena, Ardenmore, Ellsmere, Boskfallow, Dunfell, and Kardath as well as both the Hidden Coast and Icebound Territories. There is a wide variation in height, skin and hair color but they tend towards fair to dusky skin with dark hair and eyes. Men here usually grow long beards. In the far north fairer skin tones and lighter eyes are more common.
* **Haelgathan** - Humans from southern Alderyon. This includes Fenara, Salmarch, Ilann, and Melifera. Haelgathans tend to be fairly tan to dark-skinned with dark hair. Considering that this area has become a melting pot, as time goes on this ethnicity will become utterly indistinct. Culturally, tattoos are extremely popular and hair is usually kept relatively short on both men and women.
* **Sehiri** - Humans from the desert region of Azanur and the Urukah Badlands. This includes Va'Sehir and Urukah. These people tend to be very tall, tan to dark skinned, and wear their black hair long with much ornamentation. Some have afro-textured hair as well. Eye colors tend towards brown but can be any color. Beards are also often grown long and braided. Many have a slight tilt to their ears.
* **Caernish** - Humans from the island of Caernwyd. Humans from this island tend to be quite short and stocky, and though they used to be known for their fair skin, this is not so universal anymore. Interestingly, people from this area also tend to have rather unusual eye colors which many believe is due to the strange number of plane-touched humans that are born or end up here.
* **Darag** - Humans from the Virid Coast and country of Daragwa. These humans tend to have dark skin and hair with wide variation in eye color. They generally have afro-textured hair which is often kept braided in many styles, as are beards.
* **Baosharan** - Humans from the lands of Baoshara. This includes Son Lhas, Son Dzon, Son Khal, Son Samm, or Sanctoril. Humans from Baoshara tend to resemble elves in many ways. They are typically short with bronze skin and very little body hair. Their hair is usually black and eye color usually ranges between green, brown, and hazel.
* **Ongolic** - Humans from the Ongol Flats. This includes Tuyen, Baman, Makoa, & Nidema. Humans from Ongol have much in common with their Baosharan neighbors except for that they tend to have darker skin and often have afro-textured hair inherited from their ancient ancestors from Daragwa. They still are reminiscent of elves in many ways, though they tend to be slightly taller.
* **Norvaskan** - Humans from the lands of Old Norvaska & Toranaar. This includes Norvaska, Llanath, Belstrad, Solvorn, Torravik, & Alvesund. Humans from this area tend to be wide ranging in skin tone and eye color, but do tend towards fair skin and lighter hair colors than their Alderian ancestors. Hair is usually curly and Norvaskan's often have a lot of body hair. Blue and Green eyes are very common. Red hair is fairly rare but found more often near the coast around the south sea.
* **Ostraskarian** - Humans from the Southsea Isles. This includes the five nations of Ostraskar, Eveskjer, and Jordenmar. Humans from the South Sea tend to be very fair with blond, light brown, or red hair. Red hair is fairly symbolic of them. Curly hair is very common.