Bar
Towering, massively built, and engineered for high-load work and vertical terrain, the Bar are the strength line. When still they feel immovable; when moving, unstoppable. The name itself means "strength, courage."
Key traits
- Towering humanoids, heavily muscled on thick, dense skeletons, with a low grounded stance; roughly 230 to 260 cm.
- Skin in bronze, ochre, bark-brown, and deep rust, marked by symmetrical lineage mottling across torso and limbs.
- Hardened horn-spikes along the shoulders and upper arms, used in display and to focus sound; their bone is the densest of any people.
- A natural lifespan of up to 200 years.
- A deep, resonant, booming voice, slow and deliberate, well suited to oratory, ritual, and command.
- Red is the Bar colour of blood and nobility, worn by those of rank or significance.
- A living naming custom: a name grows with deeds, identified by clan or river of origin, and an elder may grant a second name in later life.
- Settled on the forested island of Baramma Place Baramma The great jungle island east of Tarkdaara, separated from the mainland by the Bram Sea and home to the Bar..