Orc Culture
Orcs are one of Vareth's oldest mortal peoples and one of its most martial cultures. Their traditional heartlands lie across Serenar, the Southern Drylands, where permanent settlements cluster around reliable water,...
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Cultures
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Troll Culture
Trolls are one of Vareth's three oldest mortal peoples. Their traditional populations are concentrated across the greener center and east of the continent, with northern populations and smaller island communities...
Ogre Culture
Ogres are one of Vareth's three oldest mortal peoples. They are the largest of the three related peoples and, in traditional material culture and political organization, generally the simplest. This does not make...
Goblin Culture
Goblins are one of the three peoples descended from the younger goblin–tsekesh–kobold ancestral branch. They are small, quick, adaptable generalists whose culture places unusually high value on opportunity,...
Tsekesh Culture
Tsekesh are one of the three peoples descended from the younger goblin–tsekesh–kobold ancestral branch. Their culture is strongly shaped by exceptional directional hearing, vibration sensitivity, low-light vision,...
Kobold Culture
Kobolds are one of the three peoples descended from the younger goblin–tsekesh–kobold ancestral branch. They are the smallest of the major mortal peoples and are especially adapted to tunnels, caves, ruins, shafts,...
Gnoll Culture
Gnolls are among Vareth's elder peoples, but they do not descend from either of the two major shared elder branches. Their traditional societies developed across broad open country: plains, dry grasslands, scrub,...
Akkari Culture
Akkari are one of Vareth's independent elder peoples. Their oldest communities developed across cliffs, islands, escarpments, mountain faces, and other regions where true powered flight offers a decisive advantage.
Ossur Culture
Ossur are one of Vareth's independent elder peoples. Their oldest communities developed through coastal waters, reefs, shelves, estuaries, submerged passages, islands, river mouths, and other places where land and...
Human Culture
Humans are the most culturally varied of Vareth's major peoples. There is no single human political system, religion, family structure, military tradition, or regional way of life. This file describes tendencies that...
Dwarven Culture
Dwarves are one of Vareth's three younger peoples. Their early communities moved into the northern uplands and mountains, where caves became permanent settlements, high valleys were fortified, mines expanded, and...
Elven Culture
Elves are one of Vareth's three younger peoples. Their early populations moved east through wooded uplands, river headwaters, and extensive forest country, where they eventually established settlements, alliances,...