The Ashari

While the boundaries between the planes are generally strong, there are some places across Olcari where the Veil is thin and occasionally sundered entirely. There are places in the world where the Elemental planes bleed into the Material Plane, scarring the land with their primordial power and threatening all surrounding life. During one Celestial Solstice - a time when the planar boundaries grow weakest - elemental rifts of untold proportions burst open across the plane. Fires and earthquakes ravaged the lands, and the people of the world struggled to combat the elemental monsters that poured forth from the rift. The tide of elementals was eventually stemmed, but the world was gripped by fear - what would happen on the next solstice?
In the wake of planar disturbance, a society of druidic masters called the Ashari made a covenant to divide and form four separate tribes to seal and watch over the sources of these unleashed energies. The Pyrah Ashari left for Vucari and the Vesrah Ashari left for a island off of Sæven. The Terrah and Zephrah Ashari remained in Olcari near the respected elemental rifts. Several generations later, the Ashari still hold watch over these tumultuous locations.

Public Agenda

Each Ashari Tribe is tasked with guarding a tear in the planes between the elemental planes and the material ones. Here, they strive to understand, master, and ultimately subdue to ever-escaping elemental forces. They attempt to bring balance to the surrounding lands and heal the rift over time, through recurring cosmic events tend to reopen these wounds. The Zephraph tribe keep the air elemental Rift near the Grey Summit, whilst the Terrah tribe stands over the earth elemental Rift in the southern side of the Elbron Mountian Range.

Due to the isolated nature of each tribe, they find it nessacary to maintain contact and influence with each other. Each is led by a single elemental master, a title that is passed on by blood or honor for generations. As every new generation comes of age, the young leader-to-be must take up an Aramente , or "noble odyssey". They must set out and travel between all other Ashri tribes, meet with their leaders, and train until an understaning and respect is earned from the hosting tribe.

Upon returning, they ascend to the head of their tribe, while the elder retires. This journey often takes years, and should such chosen Ashari not return within a resonable period, a next-of-kin is chosen of the same family or an allied bloodline to take up the Aramente

Type

Druidic Circle