Seltien

Summary

God

Nioss, god of inspiration.

Description

In the times of the Astral Crusades, Nioss, the god of inspiration, made three separate legions, each of which had the goal of supporting and inspiring the other legions in their own unique ways. Each of these legions would become a separate strain of Seltien with an appearance and set of Mannerisms based on their original design, all united by the goal of searching the world for inspiration to share with the inhabitants of Tor'Saarn. Each of these sub-species can travel the world for decades, returning to their homes only to catalogue their sources of inspiration for a short few years before setting out into the vast reaches of Tor'Saarn once again.
They live much longer lives than most sentient species, with Herost-Seltien and Celcene-Seltien typically living for over 400 years, and Aior-Seltien can live to be almost 600. The older members of the Seltien species are seen as quite valuable by societies across Tor'Saarn, and find themselves in positions of power that allow them to make use of their vast wealth of knowledge and ideas.
The Seltien Subspecies (as are currently accepted by scholars) are:
The Herost-Seltien (Mind-finders)
The Celcene-Seltien (Heart-finders)
The Aior-Seltien (Way-finders)

Cultures

Their cultures adapt to the philosophy and cultures they find the most alluring to them, and thus have a rich, but difficult to follow culture. The most obvious commonality between the different sub-cultures is their thirst for inspirations and knowledge, and the adventurous nature that desire requires to quench. The Seltien are travelers by nature, seldom staying in one place for long. However their meditation period requires a stable home, and as such they spend much of the brief years in their homeland not spent meditating building and maintaining the durable stone structures that make up the towns and cities of their lands.
Many of their homelands are today found in Hyeros, as at the end of the Sethiri conflicts many of the displaced Seltien were welcomed into Kilric's land as an act of friendship by the Godcaster. However before their displacement at the hands of the Tiorath Hierarchy they lived in the lands now known as the Barren hills.

History

The Seltien were created during the Astral crusades, and helped the gods to design the Realms of the Gods alongside their master Nioss. They were one of the earliest races to make their way into the realms of the gods, arriving not long after the Kiari.
In times of antiquity they once maintained a large empire joined by common objective rather than conquest, however due to their nomadic nature their homeland was sparsely inhabited during Tiorath's conquest of the region. The Tiorath Hierarchy's arrival in this land sparked the beginning of genuine violence in Tiorath's conquest of Tor'Saarn and intense battles that would only be matched by the stalemate in Felsaed.
Before the arrival of Tiorathan forces the lands were known as the Harmadi Elran, and was made up of four kingdoms separated by now dried up rivers that fed the long dead forests of the kingdoms, of which one remains, Melnir, and is under the Vassalage of Hyeros.