Genasi

The Genasi are a dichotomy of contradictions. They are material and elemental, neither one nor the other, but something else entirely. They are at once strangers in the material plane and yet feel completely at home. However, this at-home feeling does not preclude the attachment they feel to the elemental planes. As such, most Genasi choose to live their isolated lifestyle as they have for thousands of years far to the north, near the North Pole, where the connection to the elemental planes is strongest for some reason. 
The Genasi consider themselves one race, while also exiting in four distinct groups based on the elemental plane of their origin. There are water Genasi, earth Genasi, fire Genasi, and air Genasi. These Genasi all have unique cultures and architectures. It is known from traveling Genasi that they have cities somewhere in the remote north, but no native of the material plane has ever been there. As such, there are many strange and wild tales about where the cities are and where they could be located. 
Beyond their hidden cities, Genasi live as normally as anyone else from the material plane. Genasi live in the cities to the south among humans or elves or Aurelians, they have businesses and shops, and they raise families. But within every single Genasi is a strange instinctual sense of The Balance, that mythical belief in the pristine balance that all things must have to exist in the universe. They are a strange people to be sure, but perhaps they see us as the strange ones as well.

Naming Traditions

Unisex names

Genasi names usually represent some aspect of being both material and elemental. As such, they will usually have two names merged together into their own, one name representing their element, and the other being a name from the material plane.

Culture

Major language groups and dialects

Primordial: Primordial is the holy language of the Genasi, only spoken by the clerics and priests of the Four Pillars. Few lay-genasi ever learn to speak Primordial.
Primordial Dialects: Primordial split into four distinct dialects, and each of these dialects became so distinct as to become languages of their own. The primordial dialects are Aquan (Water Genasi), Terran (Earth Genasi), Ignan (Fire Genasi), and Avan (Air Genasi). Some of these languages are also spoken by the other races of the world, such as Tritons and Tortles speaking Aquan and Aaracokra speaking Avan.

Major organizations

Al-Djinn-San