World of Davric

  “We were the first, all the skins you are, we wore first.   The Shaper made as as the canvas on which elves, dwarves, humans, all were painted.   We remain hidden among you.   You divide, segregate yourselves, but from our hidden places, you are all the same.” Ayava, tamlin oracle. Tamlin claim to be the first race, their natural shapeshifting the result of the gods using them as the template to make the thinking races from.   Few tamlin communities exist on Davirc, as they integrate into other societies as water flows into the cracks in the earth.   To most, the tamlin are a myth, or a fairy tale of stolen babies and changelings.   They live among human, gnome, dwarf, elf and the other races, wearing their skins and engaging in their own agendas. Physical Description: Tamlin, in their natural forms, are a tall slender race, standing as tall as humans, but with much thinner bodies than humans.   Naturally hairless, tamlin skin color varies from light blue to dark grey, with s

 Note, this is a work in progress.                 Orcs.                   “We were the first. Where your cities stand, ours stood. Where your farms stand, we domesticated them first. All that you think of as yours. Was ours.   We will take it back.” – Thar Blacksands Orc skald.                 To the people of Davirc, orcs are savage monsters living in the wilds and in the near deeps. They attack in bands that are little more than organized mobs, killing and looting and burning and destroying.   They’re not far from the truth.                 They weren’t always that way.                 The Orcs, or Or’couri as they were originally known, were a once powerful expansionist civilization, commanding and binding spirits through their own magic.   Their magics were a fusion of arcane and occult methodology, long lost.   They were capable of binding spirits and fey into physical items using their souls to power self propelled wagons and flying citadels and other devices lost to th