The Shifti
The race of people that follow their god, the one who steals thy face, Khoui. After spending his many years in the library and finally coming to realize just who he was he came to find people who lived inside of a mountain. Not having a garden to call his own he decided that he shall reside here with them. They have watched their Exile cast many miracles in their eyes, but he is only lying to thier eyes. Yet his shapeshifting is what they soon fell to their knees over. Markings and carvings scattered through out the tunnel civilization of the giant centipede, the face stealer, their new god Khoui.
The Culture
The Shifti are not a people with much of their own, being a factor of pure survival instincts and being pushed to the edges. They send out many parties, scouts, theives as their god steals faces from all, they steal knowledge. A mystic race also, they believe in some of the most outlandish behaviors. They are vicious on the battlefield and witted in strategy. Their clothing is that of a leatherish material, and the gaves they live in have a foul wicked odor. Unlike their Exile they rejoice in the death of thei enemies, as they see as it is a chance to absorbe hsi essence to take in his soul and steal his strength, Khoui does not touch this subject as his many years in the library have taught him to take the power of the dead is a double edge blade. It is said they are just the spitting image of thier Exile. The Shifti the face stealers...
Food
A group of scavengers people that have not had much of their own and finding little food to eat found other sources. Under Khoui's teachings they felt that there was not a better source of food but that all around them. Soon their raiding parties on other near by villages became hunting parties. Silent stealthy families vanish in the night, battlefields of small wars watch as the bodies are cleared in the night. They do allow devour the mushrooms and other fungi that are in the lower tunnels that they have seemed to cultivate. Outside they have began to cultivate the slates of land that lead up their mountain into the mouth of thier growing city. Fields of rice making a slow appearance inviting to travallers sealing their own fate.
Military and Goverment
They are a people that use the woimen for little more than breeding and farming. That was until their Exile came, he taught them to use women in a most decieving way. A lone woman was to be the harbringer to all cities to find the suckling pig and lure them into a state of calm, then the wolf may strike. Being of a darker more cannibalistic nature and being called the face stealers their army wear the cured faces of their enemies over their own, it is said no Shifti wears the same face twice like their gods face always changing so must thiers. Their armor is cured leather a mix of animals and human flesh. Ruling over them are a council of their wisest and most cunning memebers appointed by Khoui himself.
The race of people that follow their god, the one who steals thy face, Khoui. After spending his many years in the library and finally coming to realize just who he was he came to find people who lived inside of a mountain. Not having a garden to call his own he decided that he shall reside here with them. They have watched their Exile cast many miracles in their eyes, but he is only lying to thier eyes. Yet his shapeshifting is what they soon fell to their knees over. Markings and carvings scattered through out the tunnel civilization of the giant centipede, the face stealer, their new god Khoui.
The Culture
The Shifti are not a people with much of their own, being a factor of pure survival instincts and being pushed to the edges. They send out many parties, scouts, theives as their god steals faces from all, they steal knowledge. A mystic race also, they believe in some of the most outlandish behaviors. They are vicious on the battlefield and witted in strategy. Their clothing is that of a leatherish material, and the gaves they live in have a foul wicked odor. Unlike their Exile they rejoice in the death of thei enemies, as they see as it is a chance to absorbe hsi essence to take in his soul and steal his strength, Khoui does not touch this subject as his many years in the library have taught him to take the power of the dead is a double edge blade. It is said they are just the spitting image of thier Exile. The Shifti the face stealers...
Food
A group of scavengers people that have not had much of their own and finding little food to eat found other sources. Under Khoui's teachings they felt that there was not a better source of food but that all around them. Soon their raiding parties on other near by villages became hunting parties. Silent stealthy families vanish in the night, battlefields of small wars watch as the bodies are cleared in the night. They do allow devour the mushrooms and other fungi that are in the lower tunnels that they have seemed to cultivate. Outside they have began to cultivate the slates of land that lead up their mountain into the mouth of thier growing city. Fields of rice making a slow appearance inviting to travallers sealing their own fate.
Military and Goverment
They are a people that use the woimen for little more than breeding and farming. That was until their Exile came, he taught them to use women in a most decieving way. A lone woman was to be the harbringer to all cities to find the suckling pig and lure them into a state of calm, then the wolf may strike. Being of a darker more cannibalistic nature and being called the face stealers their army wear the cured faces of their enemies over their own, it is said no Shifti wears the same face twice like their gods face always changing so must thiers. Their armor is cured leather a mix of animals and human flesh. Ruling over them are a council of their wisest and most cunning memebers appointed by Khoui himself.
