Elithren Cultures
The Elithren are a very graceful and noble race. They normally live in the forests and prefer to build their houses in the tops of trees, without damaging them. Elithren love trees and would not hurt a tree without a very good reason. Rumours say that some of them even can communicate with trees. As they live in harmony with nature, they hate if anything disturbs that harmony. They are very famous healers and their knowledge about nature makes them very good mages. Due to their weak looking bodies most other races (especially the Drakh Nor) underestimate their fighting abilities. The various Elithren cultures generally have no contact with other races, some groups do not even have contact with other groups of Elithren. Their talents are not focused on one specific area, but they excel in all arts and professions. So there is a good variety of Elithren fighters, healers and mages in the world. Elithren are famous for their arts. They have written many famous poems and ballads and created many sculptures and paintings. They call themselves “Children of the sun” and live in harmony with nature. The Elithren strongly dislike the Urdar. Many wars have been fought between these races and it is very unusual that Elithren and Urdar fight together as a team.

• Wood Elithren:
  The Tau’ron, as they are called in the Elithren language, live in big ancient woods. They live in harmony with nature and use its powers. They nearly have no contact with other races.
  
  
• Ice Elithren:
  The Rh’ing are the strangest culture of the Elithren. They live isolated in the cold and icy parts of the lands. Their culture differs, partly due to the harsh environment they life in, very strongly from the other Elithren cultures. There are more fighters among them than in the other Elithren cultures.
  
  
• High Elithren:
  The Luar are the oldest culture of the Elithren. There are very few of them wandering through the lands these days. The focus of their lives is knowledge. They collect ancient books, old myth and similar things. Most of them a very powerful mages.
  
  
• Grass Elithren:
  The Par’th live in the grasslands. They are the only Elithren that have frequent contacts to other races, as they life often very close to the settlements of Honestu and Hamini.
  
  
• Moon Elithren:
  The It’hil are a special group of Elithren. They are called the “Children of the moon” and have been fighting against the “Children of the sun” for ages.
  

Urdar Cultures
The Urdar are a small race that lives mainly in the mountains. They are famous for their skills in stone carving, working with iron and finding gems. The most popular product of the Urdar though, is beer. They make the best beer and like to drink it themselves. Not only because their innate dislike of sharing beer, but also because they are very hard negotiators it is said that Urdar are very greedy. They are a very social race though, but also very stubborn. Urdar are very strong and very enduring, which makes them very good fighters. It is rare for an Urdar to become a healer or a mage, but history tells about some powerful Urdar healers and mages. Other races sometimes say that the Urdar don't smell very good, something that no Urdar understands.

• Gem Urdar:
  The „Masters of the Gems“ are the best jewellers of the Urdar. No one can beat them at creating jewellery. Many nobles of other races ordered jewellery from the Masters of the Gems (and paid quiet much for them). As they are used in working with crystals one can find quiet some mages among them.
  
  
• Stone Urdar:
  The “Masters of the Stone” are the best builders and stone carvers. They are masters of creating stone buildings, statues, etc. Many ancient buildings and statues were made by the Stone Urdar. They are also very famous technicians and know how to build locks and secret traps. Some of them are wandering through the lands, trying to learn from ancient artworks, repairing destroyed ones and creating new works.
  
  
• Metal Urdar:
  The “Masters of the Metal” are the best blacksmiths among the Urdar. They create the best armour, weapons and tools made out of metal.They love their weapons as much as the Drakh Nor and they are formidable fighters.
  
  
• Fire Urdar:
  The “Fierce Fighters” live hidden in the deepest caves of the mountains. For ages they have been living in war with the other Urdar cultures. No one has seen them lately and some Urdar believe that they were just an invention of old grandmas to scare the kids.
  

Hamini Cultures
The Hamini are a very shy and peaceful race. They love to live in peace, do their work, drink a beer and smoke. One of their favourite activities are large festivals. They always find a reason to invite their friends and celebrate. As they are not very interested in war and fighting, most of them prefer to help other people and to become healers. They are very fond of songs and poems. Their poetry is very different from the Elithren poetry. They like to sing about the merry side of live, many of there songs treat about parties, beer and laziness. The Hamini very quickly made friends with all the races they've met. That's mainly because of their merriness and the good festivities they love to celebrate. They are famous for their gardens and are trading vegetables with most other races, especially the Lepori.

• Strongfoot Hamini:
  The Strongfoot are famous for their endurance. They love to wander around in the wilderness, exploring new regions or visiting their preferred resting places. Most of the Hamini fighters belong to this group.
  
  
• Greenhand Hamini:
  The Greenhand are very famous for their cooking and brewing. They are excellent hunters and gardeners. The not only work in their own gardens, many of them believe that the whole world can be seen as a garden and has to be protected.
  

Maqua Cultures
The Maqua are a very peaceful race of sailors. They normally live near the water, either the ocean or lakes. They are famous for their intelligence and knowledge. Just as any hunting group should have a Nor fighter, they also should have a Maqua healer among them. They are very peaceful and avoid fighting if possible, but if they are forced to fight they can be dangerous enemies. Not very much is known about the live of Maquas. It is said that they pass the first weeks (or even month) of their lives under water, and that they have to bath in water frequently. In their houses you will always find a bowl of water or even a river or small lake.

• Sea Maquas:
  The largest group of Maquas live close to the ocean, some of them even spend their whole lives on boats. They normally don't have to fight because they always can flee onto the ocean, where no enemy can chase them. That's why one will find mostly healers and maybe some mages in this group.
  
  
• Lake Maquas:
  Some of the Maquas left the seas in ancient times and settled on the shores of lakes and big rivers. They can be often found wandering around visiting lakes and rivers. As they lost the protection of the ocean, there can be found more fighters among them.
  
  
• The others:
  None of the other Maqua cultures like to speak about them, but there exists a Maqua culture that specialized in fighting. They live mostly on small islands deep in the oceans and are feared by all seafarers.
  

Honestu Cultures
The Honestu are the biggest race in numbers. They are spread over the hole know world and have contacts to most other races. The other races arranged with the Honestu and there are trading relationships between them. It is said that they are egoistic and believe to be the most important race in the world.

• Northlanders:
  Living in the cold and hard northern coasts, they are sailors and fighters. They are very strong and rough people. They like to drink very much and start fights with no reason. Other Honestu try to keep away from the Northlanders, as no one knows how to treat them right.
  
  
• Arilianer:
  The largest culture of the Honestu is the most common one, which can be found nearly every where in the lands. They are mostly merchants, but there can also be found many bards among them.
  
  
• Wild Honestu:
  This group of Honestu lives in tends in the great plains. They will only stay for a short time in one place. Some of them are farmer and merchants, but many clans are dreaded robbers. They have good connections to the Drakh Nor of the People of the Axe.
  
  
• Desertpeople:
  Very few of the Honestu prefer the hostile desert to the other lands. Most of them are nomads, wandering around together with their herds, but there are also rumours of large palaces hidden in nearly unreachable places. If they choose a profession, they try to become a real master in it.
  

Kyttyn Cultures
For other races, the Kyttyn are hard to understand. Sometimes they seem to be lazy and sleepy the hole day, but from one second to the other they will jump up and start acting fast as a lightning. They are strong, fast and enduring, but also very intelligent. The only thing they fear is water - maybe that is the reason for their dislike of the Maqua race. Most Kyttyn are fighters, but there can be also found many healers and mages among them. Other races say that the Kyttyn are a very snobbish race. They are proud and behave very aristocratic. Most Kyttyn very very expensive clothes with high boots and their preferred weapon is the rapier.

 

• Jungle Kyttyns:
  Living in the hot and wet jungle areas, these Kyttyn are the ones who are mostly used to water, which doesn't mean that they love it. They know how to move and fight in very dense environments. As they are very good protected by their natural habitat there are not too many fighters among them.
  
  
• Wood Kyttyns:
  The clans of the Wood Kyttyns are well know as very fierce fighters. They are famous for their fast attacks and they can disappear even faster. Especially Nors hate this way of fighting.
  
  
• Desert Kyttyns:
  A very special, but also very rare Kyttyn culture are the Desert Kyttyns. In contrast to the other cultures, they prefer to live in Rocks instead of trees. They hate water even more than the other Kyttyn.

Drakh Nor Cultures
The Drakh Nor is a very proud and very strong race. With their huge size and strength they are born fighters. From early childhood on they learn how to fight with different weapons, practice their strength and endurance and learn how to maintain their weapons. Rumours say, that they love their weapons more than their partners. Most other races think of the Drakh Nor as a very strong but not very intelligent race. They are always looking for adventures. They love to explore the lands, but not to find new regions or secrets, but to find unknown dangers. If a group of hunters gets into trouble, it is normally very good if they have at least one Nor among them. The problem of inviting Nors to a hunt is, that they are mostly the reason why the group gets into that danger.
 

• People of the sun:
  A very proud Nor culture which normally live in very hot desert areas. Thy love colourful clothes and houses and are known to be great artists (well, as long as you don't ask the other races about the quality of their art).
  
  
• People of the stone:
  These Nors normally live in the higher plains of the mountains. They love cold areas. There are very good relationships to the Urdar. In exchange for the famous Urdar weapons, the people of the stone will help the Urdar in all things that require larger bodies than the Urdar have.
  
  
• People of the Axe:
  While the other Nor cultures prefer to live in larger clans and in special terrains, the people of the axe mostly live alone and are spread over large parts of the world. They are larger and stronger than other Nors and are well know for their excellent fighting abilities.
  

Azcatl Cultures
The Azcatl are a strictly organized race . They can be found in many different regions and normally live in large underground cities. Despite their fierce appearance, they are not a nation of fighters. Azcatl are very famous for their healers, but of course there also many tales about great fighters. In former times each culture had its special profession and the cultures could be distinguished by the colours of their skin. These differences disappeared over time, but the cultures are still named after these ancient orders.

• Reds:
  They were the fighter class in ancient days and members of this culture are still famous for their fighting abilities. Nowadays they are mostly explorers and hunters.
  
  
• Browns:
  The former working class, with famous architects and builders. As the strict separation between the cultures disappeared, the group of the browns got smaller and smaller.
  
  
• Greys:
  This cultures is the largest Azcatl culture these days. Until today they are famous healers who try to help everybody. They are very important for the Azcatl race because only high ranked members of the culture of the greys know the secret why Azcatl can get healed so easy.
  
  
• Blacks:
  They are the only class that never mixed up with the other classes. They are still an elite fighting class, who live for fighting and killing. they separated from the other Azcatl cultures ages ago.
  

Sirrush Cultures
The Sirrush are a very impressive race. Their hard skin and the large tail give them a remarkable appearance. This also helps them during fights, which make them good fighters. They prefer a warm climate and seem to move slower if it gets colder. That is also the reason why you can see Sirrush sitting in the sun for hours. Sirrush can be found in many of the warm regions of the world, from the deserts to the hot jungles.

• Common Sirrush:
  Most of the Sirrush belong to the Common Sirrush, a name the other races gave them, because the Sirrush are very social and normally don't form special groups.
  
  
• Cave Sirrush:
  A very special group of Sirrush prefer to live in specific caves. These cave have to be very warm, that is why they normally can be found near hot springs or volcanoes. They have very few contacts to the other Sirrush cultures.
  
  
• Water Sirrush:
  The Water Sirrush can be found near rivers or lakes. They love swimming and normally live on small islands near the shores.
  

Lepori Cultures
The Lepori are a very new race - or at least the other races did not notice them for a long time. Maybe they were discovered that late because they are very agile and can move very fast. There are only few of them living in the world, but they prefer to live in rather large groups and there are rumours that once there were families with over hundred members living together in a burrow. The traditional housing of the Lepori are holes in the ground, much deeper and with more branches than the houses of the Hamini. Most of them are vegetarians and seem to be crazy about carrots. There seem to be some kind of love-hate- relationship between Lepori and Hamini. The Hamini gardeners love Lepori as theirs customers, but at the same time tell everyone the they always steal their carrots. They have a natural talent for the mastery of magical energies. They are a very cheerful and funny race, who always laugh and do funny things. Even their mages laugh and make jokes most of the time, in contrast to the ones of other races.

• No special cultures have formed yet.