Kiern Vale Handbook

Chapter 2: The Races of Melestra

Introduction

As in other fantasy worlds, Melestra is home to a variety of intelligent races, many of who either established their own civilization or were subordinated to other, larger, civilizations in Melestra's history. The various human races are the most common, but they are not alone. Over the ages, the human races engaged in many bloody wars, but also the occasional alliance or collaboration, with their demi-human and humanoid neighbors.

Among the well-known demi-humans are the delicate Mistweavers, with their sophisticated and intricate culture and the brutal ogres who still remember the days when they ruled a vast empire, which left legends about wild magic-gods and wizard-emperors. Another common race is the green-skinned Gurg, small in size and slippery, who are believed to have been created by ancient ogre sorcerers in a distant age as a slave race, which later developed free will and fled their masters of old.

At the peak of its power, the En'mirian Empire ruled a myriad of human, demi-human and humanoid races. However, at the time of the default campaign, two generations after the Great Shattering, many parts of the former empire have been rendered desolate, with surviving fragments of civilization left to fester in isolation, separated by vast tracts of twisted forests crawling with monstrosities, barren wastelands and numerous other deadly barriers. Regardless, Kiern Vale is home to only a small sample of human and demi-human races, who are ignorant of what races may yet dwell in distant lands, and were not seen in the vale for decades.

The playable races described in the Beginner Player Handbook includes two human races: The En'mirian and the Far'lil, and two Demi-human races: Mistweavers and Gurg. This book also includes Ogres, which will be portrayed in the Advanced Player Guide, and the exotic Ral'krilg, also known as "Dust fairies", who dwell in the distant Western Continent of Narlirdrea.

Other human and demi-human races will be added in future expansions.

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