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The Call inhabiting the south of Callodo, either in the Northern Montreks or the lands on the costal plains to the west of that, are ethnically different than their northern neighbors and have many cultural differences. The Southern Call are mariners and farmers both, and while this is characteristic of their northern cousins, the southern Call are far more organized and sophisticated, carving out small, but stable nations that have endured many centuries of peace and prosperity. The Southern Call also have some minor but widespread interbreeding with the Faal, and combined with their warmer climate, are usually a bit tanner than the northerners and their white hair as a slight gold tint to it. | The Call inhabiting the south of Callodo, either in the Northern Montreks or the lands on the costal plains to the west of that, are ethnically different than their northern neighbors and have many cultural differences. The Southern Call are mariners and farmers both, and while this is characteristic of their northern cousins, the southern Call are far more organized and sophisticated, carving out small, but stable nations that have endured many centuries of peace and prosperity. The Southern Call also have some minor but widespread interbreeding with the Faal, and combined with their warmer climate, are usually a bit tanner than the northerners and their white hair as a slight gold tint to it. | ||
*Diserk | |||
The Diserk are the dark skinned peoples to the south of the Rheghenda Desert and Ollintaq, who built many of the greatest achievements of ancient Mathenite architecture, but were beset by war and conflict for most of their history following their own version of the 'Bronze Age Collapse'. The different Diserk peoples then developed at vastly disparate levels, with some of the inland tribes only recently brought out of a nomadic lifestyle, and with a keen interest in Academia, did not lead to grand conquests or large political entities. The Diserk are largely considered (and perhaps correctly) to be the most indecisive and wary of the Mathenite racial groups, and do not have any sort of tradition of cooperation either among themselves or with other populations. The Diserk possess various degrees of dark skin, with golden hair and the most diverse range of eye colors among any of the Mathenite races. | |||
*The Rheld & The Kard | |||
Closely related genetically, the Rheld and the Kard inhabit the continent of Kardema and the sub-continent of Rheldon, though are not one distinct racial or ethnic group. The Rheld are pale skinned, dark haired, and amber eyed, while the Kard are swarthy skinned and light eyed, and they have very few (but some noticeable) cultural similarities. It is also a point of contention as to which group is older, which genetic testing and historical analysis has failed to find an conclusive evidence either way. The two peoples also have a common history of subjugation by other empires, but where the Kard threw off their oppressors early on, the Rheld suffered for centuries under Faal domination. The Rheld are often seen by not just the Kard, but by the rest of the Mathenites as a plain, simple, and weak people, who are intensely religious and wary of scientific advancement. The Kard on the other hand, were the first people to achieve interstellar flight, to circumnavigate the world, and to establish an offworld colony (albeit a failed one) and have long been at the forefront of technological advancement, like the Faal. | |||
The Rheld form a single nation, gifted to them when the Faal Empires divested themselves from Rheldon. The Kard on Kardema form six distinct political entities, but the North is entire encompassed by the Republic of Qcin. | |||
*Withesta & Island Natives | |||
Subjected to conquests from Dantehvon, Callodo and Kardema, the natives of the continent of Withesta and the surrounding islands are largely a multi-racial people with the only 'pure' strains of native blood being found in inland Withesta and the island chain of Ollessan, though these are two completely different groups. The natives of Withesta have a phenotype similar to the Call but have much darker hair and skin, though have similar eye shape and color. The Ollessan natives are almost exactly like the Call but have jet black hair and are slightly shorter. | |||
*The Rheghenda Natives | |||
Technically two distinct peoples, the northerners being a Faal off-shoot and the southerners being a Diserk descended people, the Rheghenda Desert Natives are closely tied by shared cultural traditions of their desert homeland. They share a religion, many social customs and there is no tradition of rivalry or prejudice being based on skin color or other physical features. They both inhabit the same cities (what few there are) and are marked both by a strong will to survive and a compassionate edge, with a fiercely independent streak. It is this camaraderie between two outwardly dissimilar peoples that kept Empires from Evieteria and southern Rheghenda from conquering the Desert and exploiting its resources and people. | |||
The Rheghenda are still divided into tribes and city states, but all collectively meet together in a 'moot' to decide matters of regional importance. They are largely disinterested in the world beyond the Desert and have only cautiously embraced technological advancement, with the tribes still living a nomadic and simplistic existence, and those inhabiting the cities living a comfortable if traditional one. | |||
The Northern Rheghenda are physically differentiated from the Faal by their chalk white skin, black hair and blue eyes and the southern Rheghenda are known by their angular features, light brown skin and darker eyes. | |||
==Physiology== | ==Physiology== | ||