Common Ethnic Traits:

• Suggested Naming Conventions: Celtic Languages (Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx)

• Hair Color: Red is the most common color for Scarlic hair. Black, brown, and strawberry blonde also exist, but those are not the colors people think of when they think of the Scarlics.

• Eye Colors: Green and red eyes are usually the colors Scarlics are known for.

• Complexion: Light-Fair, burns very easily, never tans. If not too pale, then Scarlics tend to have rosy tinted skin hues. Freckles tend to be more common in scarlic genes.

• Height Average: Scarlic men stand at an average of 175.0 cm (5 ft 9 in), and women, an average of 161.3 cm (5 ft 3 1⁄2 in)

• Fae Affinity and Scarilc Superstitions: The Fairies have always had a fondness for the humans and elves of Scarlough, and it shows in the Scarlic superstitions. For better or worse, the Scarlics have a connection with the Fae that they could never manage to shake. This of course gives them an edge when it comes to magic that involves enchanting and illusion, as well as various types of witchcraft and druidic traditions. But their superstitious nature often gets the better of them, as the scarlics practically worship luck as though it were a religion.

• Potential Sorcerer Bloodlines: Abyssal, Accursed, Daemon, Destined, Dreamspun, Fey, Imperious, Possessed, Shapechanger, Undead, Verdant

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Synopsis:

The Scarlics are the peoples of the North Western lands in Estellon. The peoples of the hills and highlands. The lakes and heaths. A colorful people, ever with a sharp, jovial quip on the tip of their tongues for friends and enemies alike. Theres is a culture which has never truly caught up from the past. Baring many time honored traditions, superstitions, and even oral lore immortalized in old proverbs and sayings. As quick to passion as any Ramacci, and as down to earth as any Tamian. The Scarlics thrive best in close knit communities. With friends and family to share in their daily adventurers. And with that old Scarlic luck, fortune always seems more than eager to pluck them from their comfort zone and toss them into a crazy tall tail when they least suspect it. Which is why any Scarlic worth his salt (A valuable thing to have when you suspect fey trickery, by the way.) will always claim to be on their toes, ready to adapt to anything. That said, however, Scarlics are not a paranoid peoples by nature. They present themselves with relaxed shoulders, and remain casual rather than cordial with foreigners to their shores. To a Scarlic, you are a friend until you are not. And Scarlics are just as comfortable dealing with enemies and rivals as they are with anyone else. In fact, many foreigners have come to wonder if they even regard the two as being different. After all, it may be hard for them to tell the difference between a friendly verbal jab and a sharp insult. But rest assured. "Enemy" is just what they call people they don't hate quite enough to want to kill. The latter of which, they refer to as dead. There are few things that true blooded Scarlics ask for in strangers. After all, when any stranger could be a shapeshifting fae, you don't want to make the mistake of asking for anything, but I digress. There is however one thing that no scarlic will ever let you get away with. Breaking an oath. You see, the Scarlic peoples take their oaths very seriously. And generally, if one asks you to make one, he/she is well beyond the point of light hearted banter. Should you break this oath? Well, lets just say that oath breakers who don't die on the spot, are generally cast from their communities, and driven into the wilds with nothing but perhaps the clothes on their back, and if the oath giver was feeling more sympathetic, a dagger to defend them. Although this dagger serves as a metaphor for the blade which has severed all ties of loyalty, friendship, or family. 

 

As a people who keep alive many ancient traditions, magic is always just on the tip of every community. To the Scarlics, magic exist in the very hills and rocks of their landscape. It is imbued into the home around them. And their regard for the land is about equal to that of their Tamian brothers, if not more so. Scarlic Druids and Witches tend to dwell the outskirts of villages and towns, never far from the daily affairs of the people who live there. And even in villages where Fosterist churches dominate local thought and belief, the clergy tends to be more willing to coexist with them than most. For practitioners of the old magics are seen as vital to the community's survival in the face of supernatural conflict. And the Scarlic peoples are nothing if not ever worried of the beings who dwell in the land. Any Scarlic cleric is a Scarlic first, and a cleric second. And any Scarlic who makes their home in the highlands and isles of their home knows full well that the fae have a profound fascination with their people. For good or ill, fairies love to interfere in their lives. They strike strange bargains with them, play pranks on them, and enchant them into various states of mind, leaving them bewildered and confused. This harassment from their otherworldly guests ranges from playful to deadly. And Scarlic druids and witches are the only types of people who have the traditions and training for dealing with their escapades. The church presence in the isles and highlands has a difficult time expressing to their mainland branches exactly why they need them, but has openly insisted upon it for centuries. This has lead to some increasing tensions between the Scarlic chapters and there foreign brothers, but as of yet, they don't appear willing to secede. After all, the peoples of Scarlough and Arland have married both faiths, and would not due with their priests becoming labeled excommunicated, or worse, heretics. Thus, they endure the tensions, even if it means they occasionally have to put some pressure on the old faiths to be a little less noisy.

 

Famous for their hot tempers, it is relatively easy to move a Scarlic to trade blows with another. But when blades are drawn, blood is drawn. When Scarlics go to war, it is rarely with outsiders, (save for the nation of Edren, but that only happens when they draw first blood, or hold onto lands that are by Scarlic definition, Scarlic.) but generally internal conflicts. Since many Scarlics still hold loyalties to their ancient clans, old rivalries and bad blood could be rekindled in an instant. Scarlics go into battle with their hearts, not with political agendas. Pride has been the downfall of many Scarlic clans, and while much of the old infighting has slowed down, as the Scarlics united into nations to help protect themselves against the outside world, it seems that all certain old clans need sometimes is an excuse. Then blood, mud, and pride become the song of the day. But this is just the soul of their people. They are a people who value camaraderie and pride above all else. And for all the faults commonly associated with the Scarlic peoples, this is often also their saving grace. Scarlics in ship crews and adventuring parties have an eye out for the heart of the group. If they manage to warm up to those around them, they are the most loyal, and bravest companions anyone could ask for. How do you know when you have made a friend with a Scarlic? When he punches the offender who called you a ninny bastard to your face into oblivion on what appears to be a reflexive impulse. That is when you know a Scarlic means well with the occasionally stinging jovial jabs. And they are always quick to fight their friends battles as personally as their own.