Lake-Born

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 * synopsis = Lake-Born or Kyalamaj are a unique people native to the Mother of the Seven Snakes region deep within the Arcai Forest. Considered to be Goblins by the Tuskan Orks and a cross between humans and Elves by many other mannish races, it is not abundantly clear which group these people fit best with.


 * characteristics = Lake-Born are the same height as your average human. They have green skin and very small tusks - or perhaps just large lower canines - that barely poke past their lips. Lake-Born are a genderless people, and their procreation is not widely studied or known. Most look androgynous, with the green skin of Orks and the elegant features and pointed ears of elves. For this reason, many class Lake-Born as a half-breed people, but this is not typically how they define themselves.

Lifespan
Lake-Born are a long-lived people - exactly how long is hard to say. Some oral histories note ancestors that lived for hundreds of even thousands of years. Whether this is innate to the people or a feature of their unique environment, it is hard to say.


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Gender & Caste
The Lake-Born do not live within the constraints of gender or caste. Those within the tribe live on equal footing. Their needs are provided for by the land, and they, as a group, protect that land from outsiders. In this way, there is no division among the people, and those who separate themselves are no longer considered Lake-Born by the whole.

Language
The use of language among the Lake-Born has been heavily debated. Most missionaries that have brought them back insist they are uneducated savages, and few who learn common indicate that they speak another tongue.

On the other hand, the level of organization and coordination that the Lake-Born people display seems impossible without the aid of language or some higher communicative skill.

Unknown to external scholars, all Lake-Born raised within their lands are born and raised connected with one another, and rather than an audible language, they speak to one another with a kind of psychonautic telepathy.

Religion
Religion is specific to the traditions of many other people's across Ateon, but it does not necessarily reflect the way that Lake-Born see the world.

Kyala
Lake-Born view Kyala or the Mother of the Seven Snakes as their parent or creator figure. They are her children and they protect her from outsiders.

There is nothing else to them, and as far as they and even outsiders are separate from Kyala in any real sense... It is hard to tell from their oral traditions.

Animal Husbandry
Animal husbandry among the Lake-Born is somewhat common, and many keep reptiles, amphibians, birds, and even some Blue Tusks as companions. Lake-Born have very little presence in the histories of Ateon and none that is relevant with Templehelm. They are an isolated group. Their own histories, passed down orally from generation to generation, states that they, despite their name, hail from the Tuskas Mesa to the North. They identify with the goblin people's of that land and name the Tuskan Orks as their once conquerors and subjugators. Those who escaped made up the first Lake-Born and Kyala gave them a place to belong.
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The Mother Lake
Nearly all Lake-Born live along the coasts of the Mother Lake.

Tuskan Slaves & Escapees
There are scattered groups that live within the Tuskas Mesa stolen from the Arcai by raiding parties. Those who escaped often make new lives with the local goblins, close cousins with whom they share ancestors.

The Free Lands
Claudites Missionaries have - on more than one occasion - brought back Lake-Born to convert and educate with varying degrees of success. In more modern times, Claudites will liberate Lake-Born from Tuskan raiding parties whenever possible - few are caught from the main tribe.

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