Tinkers
The Tinkers hail from the Chinait Province of the empire. They are highly advanced and highly curious about the world around them. They are scholars and, as the name suggests, innovators.
Basic Information
Anatomy
Tinkers are a humanoid race with no distinctly unique physical features.
Dietary Needs and Habits
They have developed the ability to subsist on less food over an extended period of time. This means that they will have bursts of eating huge amounts, sometimes double their body weight, and then go for up to two weeks without food. This is thought to be an evolution due to their tendency to forget their basic needs when working on a project.
Additional Information
Social Structure
Tinker society is determined by election and by one's contributions to innovation, science, and magic. Every year they hold summits to discuss each other's projects, advancements, and achievements. From there they can nominate each other for positions of power and prestige in the various organizations or in government, after which a vote is held to determine the new power structure or if things remain the same.
Facial characteristics
While their features vary wildly most have a tendency towards stronger set features. Though this is often aided by scars and the almost constant presence of oil, grease, soot, or some other byproduct of their work. Their eyes also vary in color though tend towards pastels. Their eyes do unnerve some as they tend to give the feeling of either looking through others or analyzing and breaking them down to their basic components.
Geographic Origin and Distribution
Tinkers tend to stay in Chinait primarily because of the great labs that have been built there as well as the trade that passes through. They can however be found in large concentrations in the capital of Etherian, as well every major hub of research across the empire.
Average Intelligence
They generally surpass the Imperial average as they have a near compulsive need to learn more about everything.
Perception and Sensory Capabilities
They have incredible eyesight able to see things that are too small for most others to perceive without aid.
Civilization and Culture
Beauty Ideals
Tinkers tend to notice, of all things, scars first. To them these are considered signs of hard work and perseverance that are found highly attractive. They also notice the eyes, or technically the determination and drive they can often see in the eyes of others.
Gender Ideals
In Tinker society there is no time for things like gender ideals, they don't much care for the differences in one's biology from another preferring to focus on other aspects of personage.
Courtship Ideals
The key to courtship among the Tinkers is in collaboration and the gifting of personalized trinkets and inventions to make the other either smile or their life easier.
Relationship Ideals
Their ideal in a romantic partnership is to find someone with whom they can grow with and who pushes them to even greater heights of discovery.
Average Technological Level
They are the leading the leading innovators in the empire and the driving force behind magical and scientific research and advancement. Their largest project so far has been in the attempt to make airships that can survive the journey across the entirety of the empire.
Common Dress Code
They tend towards practical and functional clothing made of sturdy materials. This includes pants that have many pockets and pouches, utility belts of custom design, and sleeveless shirts with thick leather vests for added protection.
Culture and Cultural Heritage
Tinker culture is both ancient and new, it has evolved over the years to keep up with the advancements made and the things discovered and yet it still rooted in traditions that are ages old. While the original name of the race has been lost, and the knowledge of how exactly their ancestors created a self sufficient sapient race, they do have some surviving pieces. Like the rites of passage, in which one is not considered an adult until they have made at least one personal invention that in some way helps make life easier on someone. That said theirs is also a culture of vast celebration.
Interspecies Relations and Assumptions
Tinkers have a unique position in the empire of being considered too important to cross. Especially as they are the ones that produce most of the machinery and technology that the other races rely on for various things.
Genetic Descendants
Lifespan
250
Average Height
Four and a half feet to five and a half feet is the standard range for them.
Average Physique
Tinkers are mostly a slim and agile people, something they pride themselves in as it allows them to better work on heavy machinery and in tight spaces. They are stronger than most would think as well.
Body Tint, Colouring and Marking
Tinker's natural coloration is pale, however, this is hard to tell on most adults due to the tans they typically develop from working so long on large projects or in front of furnaces and artificial suns.
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