Visualizing Zalanthas..

[ChibiTama]

I laughed waaaay too hard at this!

[nessalin]

If only they were still a playable race...

http://imgur.com/gallery/Emgy0

[BadSkeelz]

Bynners visiting the Tablelands

[Hauwke]

Yep that about sums it up doesnt it.

[Delirium]

Bynners visiting the Tablelands

[Riev]

Bynners visiting the Tablelands

Can confirm. Though I only got shot in the foot, and was -very- upset about it at the time.

[Hauwke]

Now that I think about it more, that image more than sums up Arm leadership as well.

[Feco]

Now that I think about it more, that image more than sums up Arm leadership as well.

shoot templar w

[Hauwke]

Well not even that, all the stories about everyone going in hooded and the Sargeant/leaders still being picked off first amongst a group that for all intents and purposes look the same.

[Bushranger]

Allanak's Bazaar

[Cayuga]

[Hauwke]

Interesting, but I always thought dwarves were a little bit taller than that myself. A max height dwarf is I think 4 foot 10 inches or something like that.

[Harmless]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtVGwHPzyNc

For those wanting to picture all the beasties in Zalanthas a bit better. 'Cept these were real.

[Melkor]

That was great, Harmless.

[nauta]

The terrible meme writing is not mine.  I just wanted the image.

[CodeMaster]

Gith are a race of hunched-over humanoids.  Gith share an apparent albeit distant ancestral origin with elves, sharing similar long-limbed frames, as well as exceptional degrees of agility and endurance.

Common folklore holds that the gith are a forgotten tribe of elves who lived beyond the Known World for some several aeons.  (For reference, the only other known beings documented as having their origins outside the Known include the Dragon, and the powerful, unnamed dark creature that allied with the Lord of Storms in in darker days).

We can only speculate as to what the gith had to contend with during their time "outside" -- but during this time they developed under extraordinarily harsh conditions into their present form -- gith skin has even been described as being scaly, suggesting some drastic but apparently successful mutation must have occurred.



Today, those gith that have taken up residence within the Known deal with few outsiders and prefer to slay and consume intruders instead.  There are old stories -- often scoffed at -- telling how how gith would occasionally deal with the now-extinct Red Fangs tribe, but their technology remains cruder than even the Zalanthan standard, and the quality of their wares is poor at best. Most items stained by gith usage, so-called "gith gear", are considered to be borderline worthless, due to the tell-tale stench and brutal wear and tear the gith lifestyle imparts.

Gith are generally recognized as dangerous nuisances outside city gates.  But even those who have never ventured outside city gates tend to recognize gith, since larger-scale attacks mounted against gith populations by civilized groups routinely result in enslaved bands joining the ranks of the arena population.  A healthy gith is a worrisome sight for any arena gladiator.

Gith occasionally attempt to expand their territory, and on several occasions, gith raiders have attacked Luir's outpost, only to be repelled (here demonstrating that the Outpost is one of the few outlying civilizations to be stable enough to support a regular population, despite the proximity of the gith threat).

[Dar]

This makes me realize that Gith are the actual masters of Zalanthas.  The known is just some weird enclave where humanity still survived. The rest of the planet is aaaaaaall gith.

[Melkor]

This makes me realize that Gith are the actual masters of Zalanthas.

Thems fightin words, friend.

[Melkor]

Dujat Worm

[CodeMaster]

Gith society is highly tribal, much like nomadic elves.  However, gith tribal culture is extremely ritualistic and rather cruel.

Symbolism, tradition, and attention to correct processes marks gith society apart from others (with the possible exception of mantis culture, from whom the gith may have learned).

As elves have their tests of loyalty, tests of merit by combat are common among gith, but other measures such as ritual performance are also frequently used to settle disputes.

Because of the hostile nature of gith culture to other demihumans, it has been almost impossible to compile any useful information on the language which they speak.  Heshrak appears to have been descended somehow from the Allundean tongue; most likely it descends from one of the proto-variants of Allundean that predate the Dragon's arrival.  Requiring a strong sense of culture to assist them in maintaining their lives in the face of a high death rate, their written language was greatly developed -- by Zalanthan standards.

[Harmless]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXSu68PmbKQ&list=PLsNB4peY6C6K4UFpK7JYS2e4Q68Klyk7f&t=55

Learn about Silphium, an ancient Greek plant that was a spiky-yellow flowered, effective 'mule mix'. Highly grown, farmed, and exported at the time. It was culturally directly connected to prostitution, also. The modern birth control section is not related.

[nessalin]

https://imgur.com/gallery/PrU6c

[Delirium]

holy shit that's awesome.

[Riev]

The Boiling, Roiling Silt Sea.

[Melkor]

WOAH!

That is incredible.