Havren

Havren An isolationist race of craftsmen and warriors who have carved great citadels into the mountains far above the underdark they used to call their home. From the Citadels rule the Citadel Lords and their grand council who wearily safe guard their sacred refuges from threats above and below. Their craftsmen and artists fill their halls with intraciate machines of war and works of art to show the beauty and destruction metallurgy can bring. Their archetects plan the continued expansion of their defensive network above ground to house the continued growth of their race. Their lesser nobles, merchant lords in their function and Dubbed the Aristocrat Houses fan out establishing trade with surrounding civilizations in an effort to gain prestige leveraging the wealth of the Citadels to aquire exotic goods and works of craftsmanship. The Aristocratic Houses have subdued their surrounding overland neighbors through diplomacy, bribes, mercanaries or trade pressure to ever safeguard their sacred refuges.

Society Havren society is seperated into various casts based on profession. In Havren society mastery of craft is of the highest social import and the most prestegious craft to master are those of craftsmanship. The craftsmen of Havren society push ever onward with what they are capable of aiming to create the best made, most beautiful and intricate designes. This practice has rapidly advanced their humble beginnings of crude many limbed rock bodies to the almost lifelike metalic bodies the Aristocrats wear now to blend in to the social norms of other races, and the great guardians of the citadel, monstrosities of metal cabable of halting enemies of the citadel at great distances. The Havren Citadels are resplendant with statues and works of art displaying the might and culture of the race. Despite the great honor and laurels given unto the craftsment the nominal rulers of the Citadel remain the Citadel lords, nobles and the armies they lead. Due to a constant threat from below the majority of the army and nobles live near the bottom of the Citadels deep down where the constant threat of the underdark keeps the powerful armies of Havren kind ever looking downward. This warrior class spends most time not fighting back the monsters of the deep in training or testing out the new ideas of the engineers to better push back the menace from below. Some of the nobles and soldiers volunteer to be bound to the rites of the Guardians being forever bound to be warmachines protecting the Citadel everlasting past where the madness should have destroyed their minds from age. The Citadel Lords unlike the nobles protect the Havren Citadels as a whole and maintain communication between the citadels to protect them from above and below.

Separate from the Havren of the Citadels the Aristocratic Houses are nobles who operate in the way of merchant lords operating the overland routs between the Citadels and other nations and leveraging their control over the outward flow of goods from the Citadels to establish trade enclaves in the foreign nations. The Havren of Aristocratic Houses are an oddity of Havren kind being the only group brave enough to tempt fate to live outside the walls and interact with the races out in the world outside. The Aristocratic Houses are dipomats, craftsmen, adventurers, warriors and traders who under the rule of the Aristocrats spread out into the world in a spiderlke network of roads connecting the citadels to the cities and towns of the outside world. As their name suggests broken up into various familial houses that each operate seperate trade routs within which they dominating the trade between citis and town through guile and diplomacy. At each town they have dealings with the Aristocratic House will buld a fortified enclave from which they keep their private residences offices local crafting facilites and outward facing shops. From these fortified enclaves the Aristocratic houes do business with the locals giving them access to trade goods from across their trade rout and from the Havren Citadels. Like other Havren they have an innate need for security and restrict access of other races to themselves within their residential districts and take great offense to any wouldbe trespasser or thief. Unlike the Havren of the Citadel other races can be found in their employ often as mercenaries, craftsmen, diplomats or administrators. Often upon finding especially skilled individuals an Aristocrat will try to employ the individual attempting to lure them in with offers of their extensive facilites, resources and diplomatic pull. Failing that they otherwise try to give patronage to such skilled individuals in the hope to otherwise benefit from their work.

Relations Havren are all at some level distrusful of other races viewing them as potential threats to their safety.
Citadel dwelling Havren have no contact with outside races their only interaction with any outside race are by proxy with the foreign art the Aristocratic houses bring to the citadel.
Aristocratic House Havren are much more sociable than their Citadel brethren they still keep other races only at the distance at that of a business or diplomatic relationship. Havren Aristocrats are greatly interested in cultures who hold art and craftsmanship as highly as themselves. Havren Aristocrats get along with more militant cultures so long as they can be bargained with and often hires such people as mercenaries to guard their caravans. They are uncomfortable with cultures that use necromancy but as long as its not used on one of them will still try to get along with them.

Ethics and Morality What are their values, good, bad, unacceptable, tabboo
Havren value artistic ventures whether it is through great feats of craftsmanship, art or archetecture and hold such objects and people in high esteem. In general Havren view the honing of skill as a laudable goal be it skill with a blade, word or thought.
Havren generally view other cultures with detachment viewing them more as curiousities to study and are reluctant to intervene in the relations between other people unless it would directly effect themselves or other Havren.
As indifferent as the Citadel Havren seem and as guileful as the Aritocrat house Havren tend be Havren extraodinarily wrathful should their ires be roused. Aristocrat Havren strongly police the trade the control hunting down any would be raider. Anyone found tresspassing the residential are of their fortified enclaves are summarily charged and killed as an attempted murderer. Necromancers discovered to have desecrated Havren dead find the region trade blockaded until the culprite is killed and the desecreated corpse retrieved, the House sometimes 'forgetting' to end the blockade for months at a time. Worst of all should someone not granted access by the Citadel Lord trespass upon their hollowed grounds or worse yet somthing be stolen or someone killed the Citadel Lord will call a crusade. Mobilizing the might of the Citadel's army to punish the nation of the transgressor laying waste to it in retributive fury.
Adventurers It is rare but not unheard of for a member of one of the Aristocratic Houses to travel alone or with an entourage to find exotic cultures for future trade, to hone or expand their skills. It is rare for Havren to completely cut themselves off from their House finding it easy to stay in contact as the Havren trade network is expansive.

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Social Structure

Havren society is seperated into various casts based on profession. In Havren society mastery of craft is of the highest social import and the most prestegious craft to master are those of craftsmanship. The craftsmen of Havren society push ever onward with what they are capable of aiming to create the best made, most beautiful and intricate designes. This practice has rapidly advanced their humble beginnings of crude many limbed rock bodies to the almost lifelike metalic bodies the Aristocrats wear now to blend in to the social norms of other races, and the great guardians of the citadel, monstrosities of metal cabable of halting enemies of the citadel at great distances. The Havren Citadels are resplendant with statues and works of art displaying the might and culture of the race. Despite the great honor and laurels given unto the craftsment the nominal rulers of the Citadel remain the Citadel lords, nobles and the armies they lead. Due to a constant threat from below the majority of the army and nobles live near the bottom of the Citadels deep down where the constant threat of the underdark keeps the powerful armies of Havren kind ever looking downward. This warrior class spends most time not fighting back the monsters of the deep in training or testing out the new ideas of the engineers to better push back the menace from below. Some of the nobles and soldiers volunteer to be bound to the rites of the Guardians being forever bound to be warmachines protecting the Citadel everlasting past where the madness should have destroyed their minds from age. The Citadel Lords unlike the nobles protect the Havren Citadels as a whole and maintain communication between the citadels to protect them from above and below.
Separate from the Havren of the Citadels the Aristocratic Houses are nobles who operate in the way of merchant lords operating the overland routs between the Citadels and other nations and leveraging their control over the outward flow of goods from the Citadels to establish trade enclaves in the foreign nations. The Havren of Aristocratic Houses are an oddity of Havren kind being the only group brave enough to tempt fate to live outside the walls and interact with the races out in the world outside. The Aristocratic Houses are dipomats, craftsmen, adventurers, warriors and traders who under the rule of the Aristocrats spread out into the world in a spiderlke network of roads connecting the citadels to the cities and towns of the outside world. As their name suggests broken up into various familial houses that each operate seperate trade routs within which they dominating the trade between citis and town through guile and diplomacy. At each town they have dealings with the Aristocratic House will buld a fortified enclave from which they keep their private residences offices local crafting facilites and outward facing shops. From these fortified enclaves the Aristocratic houes do business with the locals giving them access to trade goods from across their trade rout and from the Havren Citadels. Like other Havren they have an innate need for security and restrict access of other races to themselves within their residential districts and take great offense to any wouldbe trespasser or thief. Unlike the Havren of the Citadel other races can be found in their employ often as mercenaries, craftsmen, diplomats or administrators. Often upon finding especially skilled individuals an Aristocrat will try to employ the individual attempting to lure them in with offers of their extensive facilites, resources and diplomatic pull. Failing that they otherwise try to give patronage to such skilled individuals in the hope to otherwise benefit from their work.

Civilization and Culture

Average Technological Level

Industrial Age

Common Etiquette Rules

Havren value artistic ventures whether it is through great feats of craftsmanship, art or archetecture and hold such objects and people in high esteem. In general Havren view the honing of skill as a laudable goal be it skill with a blade, word or thought.
Havren generally view other cultures with detachment viewing them more as curiousities to study and are reluctant to intervene in the relations between other people unless it would directly effect themselves or other Havren.
As indifferent as the Citadel Havren seem and as guileful as the Aritocrat house Havren tend be Havren extraodinarily wrathful should their ires be roused. Aristocrat Havren strongly police the trade the control hunting down any would be raider. Anyone found tresspassing the residential are of their fortified enclaves are summarily charged and killed as an attempted murderer. Necromancers discovered to have desecrated Havren dead find the region trade blockaded until the culprite is killed and the desecreated corpse retrieved, the House sometimes 'forgetting' to end the blockade for months at a time. Worst of all should someone not granted access by the Citadel Lord trespass upon their hollowed grounds or worse yet something be stolen or someone killed the Citadel Lord will call a crusade. Mobilizing the might of the Citadel's army to punish the nation of the transgressor laying waste to it in retributive fury.

Common Customs, Traditions and Rituals

It is rare but not unheard of for a member of one of the Aristocratic Houses to travel alone or with an entourage to find exotic cultures for future trade, to hone or expand their skills. It is rare for Havren to completely cut themselves off from their House finding it easy to stay in contact as the Havren trade network is expansive.

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

Havren are all at some level distrusful of other races viewing them as potential threats to their safety. Citadel dwelling Havren have no contact with outside races their only interaction with any outside race are by proxy with the foreign art the Aristocratic houses bring to the citadel.
Aristocratic House Havren are much more sociable than their Citadel brethren they still keep other races only at the distance at that of a business or diplomatic relationship. Havren Aristocrats are greatly interested in cultures who hold art and craftsmanship as highly as themselves. Havren Aristocrats get along with more militant cultures so long as they can be bargained with and often hires such people as mercenaries to guard their caravans. They are uncomfortable with cultures that use necromancy but as long as its not used on one of them will still try to get along with them.