Selkie (Race)
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Race Name: Selkie Homeland: The Ocean, including the waters between Cenril, Rynvale Island and Chartsend. Average Height: 6ft in seal form, around 5”5 in human form Average Weight: Around 290lbs in seal form at least Preferred Classes: Bard, thief Classes this race can be: N/A Preferred Alignment: Neutral, Good Preferred Weapons: Rocks, daggers, wit and speed Aggression Level: Mostly passive, but can be aggressive when pushed Intelligence Level: Moderate, they are inquisitive creatures Magic Rating: High Strength Rating: High to mid Weak Against: Fire, heat, dehydration, possibly ice Strong Against: Water Related Races: Kelpies Allied Races: N/A Enemy Races: Humans
Selkie Physiology
When a selkie assumes a humanoid form, they are equivalent to the average human height while having an athletic and sinewy build. The majority of selkies sport dark hair and large dark almost puppy-dog like eyes in addition to rather fair skin. While in human form, all selkies have rough and callused hands regardless of any occupation or lack thereof which serves as a tell-tale indicator of who might really be a selkie. While amicable and friendly, most selkies have a curious nature although they are wary about coming to land for too long in the fear that someone will find their seal-skin pelt and keep it: forcing the selkie to live on land and forever wish for a home they cannot return to.
All selkies have a natural love for their ocean home and devoted to the protections and preservation of all marine life, habitats and precious resources/relics. The selkies pride themselves on never taking more than is necessary; using every inch of what they do take in order to avoid being wasteful. Though they can be skittish, they are generally warm, kind and playful: just as seals can be. Yet with the local legends and rumours that surround them, they are wary of the two-legged folk who dwell on land as they know the wealth that can be made from their precious and magical seal-skin pelts. Although they regard those in land with healthy suspicion, the male selkies are given a little more freedom than the womenfolk.
Seaborn Psychology
Seaborns and landwalkers live in vastly different worlds, which has translated to them having extremely different cultures. There are many things about the landwalkers world that Seaborn do not have a deep understanding of, which has led to many humans judging them has not being exceptionally clever.
They are very protective of not only their territory, but also each other. It is this faithfulness that binds them as a society. If an attack or threat is perceived by one, it is addressed by all. Krakens are typically a peaceful subspecies, but once they go on attack, precious little can be done to stop them until their anger is sated.
They are highly aggressive against all races, though humans have been the race with whom they’ve had the most interaction. Having been hunted by them in the past, for pelts or scales, as trophies, they attack without provocation. Some seaborn who have allied themselves with the outside world have found themselves excommunicated from seaborn society and forced to live with their new allies, and away from their long-time watery homes.
Seaborn Society
The seaborn self-govern themselves. There is a hierarchy amongst the various races. All respect the kraken and see the kraken as a great protector of the seas. For a kraken to go after a human ship, it is to mark that ship as having committed a grievous sin against the seaborn.
Mermaids respect the kraken and themselves. They tolerate the other seakind, but understand themselves to be relatively high in the internal pecking order.
Selkies are generally known to be cautiously social and not as ruthless or vicious when it comes to interacting with races outside their own. They are more independent than the merfolk which is a bone of contention between the two races on occasion, but for the most part, they are the peacemakers of the sea.
Kelpies do whatever they want without rhyme or reason.
There is no governing authority in the sea, no king or queen, no reigning monarch. The sea is not claimable. Early on, the seaborn, having witnessed the wars over land and sky, swore that their new home, depthless and boundless as it was, would have no master.
Seaborn & Religion
Seaborn religion typically revolves around the goddess Selene, although some seaborn are fond of Cyela and Daedria, as both the lesser goddesses’ temples are within the bounds of the sea they call home. They are not especially pious creatures, but they have a deep reverence for the gods, along with the very sea itself. Any affront to the ocean is seen as a direct offense to the gods who created it, and the seaborn are swift to enact retribution for any perceived slight.
Places of Worship
- Selene – Holy Temple of Selene
Seaborn History
The seaborn have long been a mysterious force within the land. Very little is known about their history, which has only been communicated orally and never officially put to paper.
Little has been known up to this point regarding the emergence of the seaborn as a race. They’ve chosen to remain closed off from the rest of the world until now. From some estimates, they were born during the saurian empire collapse, when some creatures took to the seas for escape and solace.
Throughout the following years, they kept themselves completely cut off from the rest of population, content to only be known through legend and rumor. Even sailors report few interactions with the species. But any reports are not usually favorable ones.
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