Mythic Vistas: SpirosBlaak - Property Is Theft!

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Arkanoclian Lands Arkanoclian dwarves may be found in their homeland of Nolmedron and in smaller communities throughout Sycleese’s Tears. Few Arkanoclian dwarves live beyond the gates of Nolmedron. Crafter Dwarf Racial Traits • +2 Strength, +2 Constitution, –2 Wisdom, –4 Charisma: Craer dwarves are as sturdy, if not more so, than their common cousins, though their isolationistic, dour (even for dwarves) aitude makes them difficult to get along with. • Medium: As Medium creatures, dwarves have no special bonuses or penalties due to size. • Dwarf base speed is 20 feet. However, dwarves can move this speed even when wearing medium or heavy armor or when carrying a medium or heavy load (unlike other creatures, whose speed is reduced in such situations). • Darkvision: Craer dwarves can see in the dark up to 60 feet. Darkvision is black and white only, but is otherwise like normal sight. Dwarves can function fine with no light at all. • Weapon Familiarity: Craer dwarves may treat dwarven waraxes and dwarven urgroshes as martial weapons, rather than exotic weapons. • Stability: Craer dwarves are exceptionally stable on their feet. A craer dwarf gains a +4 bonus on ability checks made to resist being bull rushed or tripped when standing on the ground (but not when climbing, flying, riding, or otherwise not standing firmly on the ground). • +2 racial bonus on saving throws against poison. • +1 racial bonus to aack rolls against orcs and goblinoids. • +4 dodge bonus against giants. • Mechanical Aptitude: Craer dwarves gain a +2 racial bonus to skill checks made when working with technological artifacts and mechanisms. This bonus applies to just about every aspect of the device, from figuring out what it does, to repairing it, or disarming it if it is a trap. This bonus does not apply to aack or damage rolls, however. The Craer dwarf may also use his Search skill to detect mechanical traps, as per a rogue. This does not apply to Cra checks for designing/building items; that is handled by the Innate Crasman ability. • Innate Crasman: Craer dwarves gain a +2 racial bonus to all Cra skill checks. They may work with improvised tools without penalty, and when they use masterwork artisan tools, they gain a +4 bonus instead of the standard +2. When making a cra check to determine progress, they may roll twice, taking the beer result of the two dice. • Automatic Languages: Dwarven and Common. Bonus Languages: Giant, Goblin, Lavayne, Orc, Terran, Undercommon. • Favored Class: Fighter. A multiclass craer dwarf's fighter class does not count when determining whether he takes an XP penalty for multiclassing (for details, see rules for multiclassing in the PHB). • Allowable Divine Heritage: Arkanocles, Logothos. Elves Elves, although more common in other regions of the continent, have been a rare sight in the Wildlands since they renounced the deity Spiros during the early days of colonization. Because of the renunciation, which the humans of <strong>SpirosBlaak</strong> saw as an abandonment of humanity during its time of troubles, elves are not welcome in the Archduchy, and those traveling the realm are treated unkindly. The reclusive, paranoid policies of several distant elven kingdoms, such as Verthage, have only worsened the general views of elves in this region. Those elves who do travel to the Wildlands Chapter Seven: Races 59 are typically merchants or other transients who have to overcome racial hostility. The elves admire the lavayne as magic given form, but they are jealous of the chosen race. They are on somewhat friendly terms with them, however, although they have difficulty bearing the lavaynes’ haughtiness. It is believed the western elven nations maintain relations with whatever lavayne kingdom (if any) remains beneath Fire Eye Mountain, although no one in living memory has ever seen the two races joined in conference. Elven Racial Traits Elves have all the elven racial traits as described in the PHB except as follows. • Allowable Divine Heritage: Optional Rule: Divine Heritage In the <strong>SpirosBlaak</strong> seing, the gods have fallen from grace and now interact with mortals, sometimes fathering or mothering children with them. This book includes two Divine Heritage feats to indicate that a character has a god-touched bloodline, however distantly. A character may choose the Lesser Gi of Divine Heritage feat at 1st level (and only at 1st level), allowing the character to later (at 6th level or higher) choose the Greater Gi of Divine Heritage feat. Each deity has only touched certain racial bloodlines, so allowable divine touches are detailed in each race’s racial traits section; more information may be found under the Lesser Gi of Divine Heritage and Greater Gi of Divine Heritage feats as described in Chapter Ten: Skills & Feats and descriptions of the deities appear in Chapter Two: Religion. GMs may alter these lists to suit their campaigns. GMs who prefer that their deities remain in the heavens should disallow these feats. Akrasia, Cinnoldis, Deledos, Eaovata, Gamia, Logothos, Phaetos, Spiros, and Sycleese. Gnomes Gnomes do not exist on the continent of Dracos. At the GM’s option, gnome player characters may be allowed, using the statistics presented in the PHB. Such gnomes could be planar travelers, lost offshoots of dwarves, or the result of dwarf and human unions. Goblins, Bakad (Hagglers) Bakad, or hagglers as many know them, are the dark extreme of the capitalist ideal and the bane of honorable merchants everywhere. When it comes to buying from or selling to the bakad, a customer would do well to count all of his fingers, toes, and children aerwards, just to be safe. Bakad always try to swing a deal, no maer the product, and push their luck and wits to the limits to make a profit, fairly or otherwise. They are not foolhardy or stupid, though, and only the promise of a big payoff makes them risk their necks by pushing a deal (or a customer) too far. Similarly, it is very rare for hagglers to resort to violence to make a sale: They view violence as the recourse of “lesser races.” For them, the art of negotiating a price and conning a customer is almost worth as much as the money itself. Personality Cowardly to be sure, bakad are a mixture of meek sycophant and pushy swindler. They are very fidgety and over expressive, having a tendency to talk with their hands and with contained, twitchy body movements in addition to their words. Physical Description Although possessing larger ears and paler skin, the bakad otherwise look like typical goblins. They wear finer raiment than so-called “wild” goblins, seeing fine clothing as a sign of their status. Relations Although most other races—even other goblins—despise hagglers, the bakad maintain close relationships with just about every community of the Archduchy. Bakad trading houses make up many
60 of the Archduchy’s more powerful merchants, money lenders, and well-informed information brokers; everyone does business with the hagglers eventually—whether they want to or not. Alignment There is morally very lile difference between the bakad and their primitive cousins. A haggler’s primary interest is his own well-being, and he does whatever necessary to come out ahead. Most bakad are neutral evil, although player characters can be of any alignment. Bakad Lands The bakad do have not communities of their own. Instead, they live in prosperous cities where money abounds, such as Dreĳ. The bakad live almost anywhere, but the city of Nolmedron forbids access to hagglers without good cause. Religion Gamia is the primary deity of the hagglers. The bakad believe Gamia redirected them from their Bakad Blessings The following are example blessings the bakad use when completing deals. “May Gamia’s wheel turn your way.” “May your purse overflow and your shadow not fall across nimble fingers.” “By Gamia’s will, let all your coppers be tarnished silver.” “Go with gold, blessed of Gamia.” “May your house be blessed and showered with gold coin.” wild kin’s path, seing them upon the path of the purer pursuit of gold and goods. Because of this, all hagglers complete their bargains with a short blessing to their patron goddess. To a lesser extent, the bakad pay tribute to other goblin deities, more out of a sense of tradition than anything else. Some bakad consider Akrasia to be a manifestation of Gamia, and so worship her as well. Divine Heritage The bakad may have divine heritage from the following gods: Akrasia, Biddethomia, Dooned, Gamia, Grĳj, Jestale, Mikret, Podenmol, Shivanos , Tennefron, and Zackria. Language Bakad speak Goblin among themselves or Bakad (Haggler), a secret racial language of twitches and facial gestures, and Common. Common, of course, is the language of trade in many lands. Chapter Seven: Races Names The most important aspect of a bakad’s name is his merchant house, which supplants the position occupied by the tribe among other goblins, and thus it is placed before their given names. Given names retain the guural harshness of their ancestors. Male Names Bikn, Fizz, Gizlor, Nek, Quin, Tanke, and Xyn are common male names. Female Names Biik, Cidina, Kkaa, Liddia, Niis, and Yeene are common female names. House Names Ardorn (“Clothweaver”), Diffdek (“Soulseller”), Garlnne’mom (“Taker of Dead Man’s Teeth”), Kiclin Boke Zyxxen (“Seller of Water to Fish”), and Uklenbore (“Sweet Claimer”) are all typical house names. Adventurers Bakad adventurers are practically unknown; most hagglers desperately avoid anything more exciting than the pursuit of the allmighty gold piece. Those few who do end up embroiled in adventure tend to be rogues or bards, careers that take good advantage of their skills and deviousness. Haggler warriors are extremely rare, with most such bakad being fighters, whereas paladins and clerics are almost unheard of. Bakad sorcerers and wizards are even less common, thanks to their innate ineptitude with arcane magic. Bakad (Haggler) Racial Traits • –2 Strength, –2 Constitution, +2 Intelligence, +2 Charisma. Physically unimpressive, the hagglers are as quick with their charm as they are with their considerable guile. • Small: As small creatures, hagglers gain a +1 size bonus to Armor Class, a +1 size bonus on aack rolls, and a +4 size bonus on Hide checks. Bakad use smaller weapons than humans use, and their liing and carrying limits are threequarters of those of a Medium character. • Haggler base speed is 30 feet; they are very quick for Small creatures. • Low-Light Vision: Hagglers can see twice as far as a human in poor illumination. They retain the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions. • +2 racial bonus to Diplomacy and Gather Information checks. • +4 racial bonus to any ability or skill check involving the buying or selling of goods. • +2 to Will saving throws against any kind of mind-affecting magic. • Magical Ineptitude: Hagglers have a natural (although unexplained) handicap when it comes to arcane magic. Any spell a haggler casts has a 10% chance of failure. This stacks with the chance of arcane spell failure from armor. In addition, they take a –2 racial penalty to Concentration and Use Magic Device checks. • Automatic Languages: Bakad, Common, and Goblin. Bonus Languages: Any (other than secret languages). • Favored Class: Rogue. A multiclass haggler’s rogue class does not count when determining whether he takes an XP penalty for multiclassing (for details, see rules for multiclassing in the PHB). • Allowable Divine Heritage: Akrasia, Biddethomia, Dooned, Gamia, Grĳj, Jestale, Mikret, Poden-mol, Shivanos, Tennefron, and Zackria.
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