Idolei

Also known as the “Hooded Ones” the Idolei are a race and a species all to themselves. It is unknown where they came from but it is known that they were discovered during Ordain’s Northern expansion period. The territory now known as Silvyan is currently the holdings of this mysterious race. Their society is noted as being extremely quiet and each Idolei walk without sound, and it seems they have perfect balance at all times. While always being cloaked in heavy robes the few that have seen the bodies of these creatures describe it as quite bat like with several differences to a normal bat.

While their face features are quite bat like their entire skin is made up of dark hard scales. Their arms are short and wavy, almost like branches on a tree, although they are flexible. Their fingers are more like claws and are also a dark color. Their legs are probably the oddest feature about the Idolei. They are in the form of an Ostrich with the scales like their upper body. However this provides for tremendous kicking power and speed.

Idolei society has changed over the past seven hundred years. Their lands have slowly fallen to the corruption of the Lycan forces from the east and all that remains is a small group in the very north of Silvyan and at the very southern tip of Silvyan. They have been forced underground and as such carve out vast underground strongholds of small narrow passageways to limit the Lycan movement. They are secretive creatures and often sleep through the day and go to the surface at night when the air is cooler and the sky is dark.

Each Idolei hold or barrow is run by a council of elders situated at the very base of the barrow. The elders are often the eldest and wisest of the community and are counted on to give orders and teach the young. Adults are expected to protect and provide for the community and spend much of their time on the dangerous surface doing just that.

However societies for the two Idolei nations differ. The Idolei of the north have grown to accept the power that the shadow brings, and have since launched themselves into the magical arts, an ancient taboo for Idolei. They have shunned nature and have embraced the destructive power of magic fully, integrating it into their living structure. While however crude it is greatly effective against the Lycan hordes and the northern Idolei have since begun to regain some of their lost land, which is often destroyed utterly in the process.

The southern Idolei however have stayed true to nature and the body, and as a reward have been given more power by the gods to fight back against the Lycans. Their monks are deadly combatants, their druids are effective support and with such they too have started to push back the tide of corruption.