Mamalar

The Mamalars are a Human ethnicity that dwell in Akatar. They are tribal nomads, merchants and warriors that were migrated to the country over 2,000 years ago. At that point in time, the Catfolk were more nomadic and wild than they are today. The Mamalars quickly found themselves to be outnumbered by the Cats, which breed at a 7 to 1 ratio. The human settlers found themselves at war within a hundred years of arriving in the desert, and fought bravely for fifty years before becoming slaves.
A peace accord was struck, with the Catfolk demanding every 1 of 25 Mamalar born, belong to them.
In 1672 after the War of the Crown in Vedania. King Hollyroot kept his word to demand that the Mamalar people be freed.
Mamalars are shorter and more lithe than most of ethnicities. Standing from 5’5-5’11. With dark brown hair and brown eyes.
Racial Rules: +2 Dexterity, -2 Charisma (replaces human bonus feat), favored weapon halberd and scimitar, +2 survival, bonus language Ahk'm.

Culture

Common Dress code

Loose clothing, turbans, veils

Common Customs, traditions and rituals

Mamalars upon meeting someone new, will offer them a traditional desert dinner.

Birth & Baptismal Rites

New borns are buried in the sand from the chest down, while the elders perform a ceremony.

Funerary and Memorial customs

Funeral pyre, ashes spread in the desert.

Ideals

Beauty Ideals

Tattoos that represent important moments in a Mamalars life.

Encompassed species

• Human