The Human Races of Roil - The Tulmarians

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The Human Races:
Belarans | Corlennians | Kaladians | Lornkirans | Tulmarians | Yindurins

The Dominant Tulmarian Races:
Dumarans | Lulmari | Tamarins

Tulmarians are a mixture of different human races. Most Tulmarians have tanned skin, with hair of red or blond, and eyes of amber. The men average about six feet in height. There is no apparent average weight for Tulmarian males. While many weigh about 200 pounds, there are also slender and obese subjects. The women are normally five to six feet in height, and weigh anywhere from 100 to 200 pounds.

Once, before their wars, the forested continent of Tulmaria boasted a very powerful and extensive civilization. The Tulmarians of this era were sages and scholars, mages and mathematicians. Their literary works, their charts of the continents of Roil, the great marble sphinxes, all still exist in the world today as silent tributes to this once fabulously advanced race. But even as the ancient Tulmarian explorers sailed the globe, their society crumbled from within. Their civil war destroyed the ancient and deteriorated Tulmarian culture, and freeing the new Kaladian colonies. From these ruins, three different clans of Tulmarians arose.

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Dumarans

Dumarans are the Tulmarians who remained upon the High Plateau following their civil war. These Tulmarians established the Ruthanland Empire which prospered for centuries, then evolved into the Ruthanic Imperium. Their culture continued on for another century before the Tulmarians from the south overran the weakened and declining society. Dumarans are common in Kaladia, particularly in the Cabraal Empire and other countries which were originally settled by these ancient Tulmarians.

Dumarans are a proud and haughty people. They are contemptuous toward all non-Dumaran humans and display open hatred toward any of non-Dumaran Tulmarian descent. They are a secular folk given to carnal acts and wild, worldly ways. The outright decadence which characterized the final years of the Ruthanic Imperium is still quite prevalent in Dumaran culture.

The Tulmarian Races

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Lulmari

Lulmari are the Tulmarians who were driven from the Marble Sphinxes and out of the High Plateau into the coastal regions of the south. They are a wild and savage race who retain little of their once proud civilization. Most of them are an emotional and passionate people prone to distinct and sudden mood swings ranging from quiet contemplation to volatile moments of raging anger. Many of the Lulmari who exist upon Kaladia today are descended from slaves brought by the Dumaran Tulmarians during the last years of the Ruthanic Imperium.

The Tulmarian Races

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Tamarins

Tamarins are the Tulmarians who migrated from the High Plateau to the forests of northern Tulmaria. Tamarins were the most widely respected and learned scholars of Tulmarian culture. They saw the wars, and the probable results, with clear vision. When their predictions and eventually their objections to the fighting went unheeded by the rival noble factions, they left the ancient society for the sanctuary of the northern forests.There they preserved what they considered to be the finest attributes of their declining culture, and disregarded the rest. During the early decades of the Ruthanic Imperium, some Tamarins returned from their seclusion. Most of these Tamarins acquired passage to the Kaladian colonies, and comprise the Tamarin presence on Kaladia today.

Most Tamarins are quiet, reserved people who are content to pursue their scholarly interests. They are rarely given to the emotional outbursts which commonly characterize the Lulmari and Dumarans.