Scarn

Kingdoms, queendoms, empires. Ruins. We've watched the world through fire through frost, from nations spring and their final winter. A wheel of a cycle that keeps spinning it's spiders weave. Malforming, corrupting and weakening the souls of creatures once valorous and honorable. Long have we waited, long have we suffered to know, what awaits us in the afterlife.
Finally, our patient whispers have been answered. So foolishly they forced the third eye open and tore appart the veil, thus unleash a terrible curse onto this world. Yet within this curse, beyond the gates of death he sent to us his ravens.
No longer shall we idly wait, as the time for action and valor draws close.
As the crow devours the spider, the age of lies is over and the cycle broken. Now beggin the age of legends, heroes and honour.
Soon the Aasar will be reborn, to free our souls from Arcath's darkness.

Basic Information

Anatomy

The Northerners share most common traits to humans, yet are significantly taller with at least twice the amount of muskles and harder, larger skulls.

Additional Information

Social Structure

The Northerners vaule strength above all else, but not necessarily always through physical force. A noble heart, a clever mind, a wise soul and an iron belly are all important pieces that can define the power of an individual. Even in lack of these traits, the strong of mind and will are always seen as powerfull and honorable individuals.

Uses, Products & Exploitation

Many have attempted to explot the Northerners for their powerfull will, working capabilities and resilence to pain and exhaustion. All have come to known that they do not fear death and welcome it with a bright smile, in the face of slavery.

Facial characteristics

Seen from human standards as brutish, weathered, veteran and/or handsome.

Geographic Origin and Distribution

Heavily concentrated to the northern Commonlands.

Average Intelligence

Wisened

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

Northerners share the same perception and sensual capabilities as their smaller human relatives, yet have an increased sensitivity to mysticism. There is really no biological explenation to why the race, often seen as less intelligent than other advances races, even surpass the elves in raw mystical prowess.

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

The Northerners have powerful, olden names deeply based in their old pagan faiths and ancestors. Surnames that end with Son or Dottir are therefor very common, and often starts with the parents name. An example is Hjaldir Torvarson or Astrid Tyrsdottir.

History

The Northerners name themselves the Aasar-Skjald, which means righteous children, or rightfull children in their language. The word is also based on the Aasar whom are believed to be a group of ancestral heroes, born inside the mystical realm, which they refeer to as a pathway between the different astral realms and reality.
These different champions would, if the stories are to be believed, have come from different existances and realities to fight a common enemy that fused all the realms into one massive cluster. This experiment came to be known as the universe, an empty void filled with bloody theaters of chaos, that is run by the souls of the different realities. These creatures that the souls inhabit, would play for the darkness amusement. Living, acting, dying and returning once more, to take a new form.
The heroes went first hand to this realm, and through ages of fighting managed to banish the foul entity, thus releasing his grip on the souls and allowing them their return to home. However, knowing that the darkness would soon return, they sacrificed their own souls and bound them to the universe as gates to protect the realms in all eternity.

Genetic Descendants

• Mankind
• Quarrn, Swampmen or Boglings.

Origin/Ancestry

Aasar

Lifespan

63-75 years

Average Height

2.3 - 2.5 m

Average Weight

115 - 150kg

Average Physique

Large, bulky and/or muscular.

Related Myths

• Ravnyr, Corvus champion

Ethnicities:

Scarn:

Vildr:

Goat Clan
Wyrdling
Wyvern Clan
Myrkling
Askmunding
Vildung
Ormunding
Worm Clan
Niflung

Aesir:

Vlandic:

Varangr:

Warbands:

The Deathsworn
The Fogscorn
The Waveraiders
The Frostbreakers
The Veilseer
The Bloodhymn
The Oakweavers
The Shieldmaidens
The Direhowl
The Forgekeepers
The Darkspeakers
The Helsworn
The Dragonflayers
The Ragespear
The Warbringers
The Grovewardens