The bokren were a theorized precursor race to the various Menic races. Evidence of their existence dates back to roughly 11,000 years PB, and were believed to have lived until roughly 2,000 years PB, when they were eradicated by a rival power. Descriptions of the race vary greatly, which has led some to label the bokren as the "placeholder" race, arguing that the race didn't ever exist in the capacity historians suggest, and that instead the ruins left by the bokren were the result of several different peoples who shared some degree of a connection between them, which is used to explain the similarities of their architecture and cultures.
Physical Appearance
The bokren are bipedal orthogradics whose descriptions share many traits with the various other Menic peoples, specifically humans and dwarves. Bokren are often depicted as having very pale skin, similar to that of a kalashtar.
Exact specifics of their appearance is limited, as very few depictions of the bokren exist. Bokreni culture frowned upon vanity and self-aggrandizing behaviors, and while some did break from those traditions, these works often exaggerated various aspects of the individual's appearance in ways that contradicted the exaggerations of other works.
Society
Bokreni society has stood out amongst historians and social theorists due to its unique evolutionary path. Unlike their contemporary civilizations, which formed as nomadic tribes before settling down in a certain region after a few centuries, the bokren remained semi-nomadic for their entire existence. The bokren would travel into a new region to establish settlements, only to abandon those settlements after a few generations, starting the process anew.
Bokreni settlements, as a result of their semi-nomadic culture, were often designed to be easily abandoned. Important goods were always kept in their carts, with the carts housed in large tent-like structures. The houses also lacked significant amounts of storage, with families keeping their belongings in family wagons passed down and maintained through the generations.
