Topic: The Ssr'Kesir (OOC Race Info)

This Dark One

Date: 2009-01-16 19:44 EST
(This is where you find information on the Ssr'Kesir, be it their details, culture, religion or otherwise.)

Basic Information

Race - Ssr?Kesir.

Homeland - Zarcurgis.

Capital City - T?Barack Opalith.

Life Span - Minimum expectancy: 300 years, maximum expectancy: 900 years.

Languages - Elf, Common, and Infernal.

Physical Characteristics of the ?True Breed? Ssr?Kesir

Hair colour - Brown, blonde, black, or a mixture thereof. (Hair colour fades through age into paler versions of the aforementioned colours.)

Eye colour - bright blue, green, brown, or a mixture thereof.

Skin tone - a mixture of shades from a pale grey, to a dark tanned brown.

Stature - the overall shape of the true blooded Ssr?Kesir is of typical elfin characteristics. The shape of the body is either well toned or inclined to appear upon the verge of being anorexic. They too have rather elongated and pointed ears, an unnatural beauty and the sweetest of voices.

Height - from just below five foot, up to six feet tall. The men are almost always taller than their female counterparts, with no exceptions.

Physical Characteristics of the ?Half Breed? Ssr?Kesir.

Hair colour - Bright, vibrant colours of a wide range of the spectrum, though white is always the most common.

Eye colour - Silver, pale blue, gold, and red, or a mixture thereof.

Skin tone - Often or not, some have been known to take upon a dark and rather exotic skin tone of a Drow, though commonly are almost always very pale.

Stature - the overall shape of the Half bred Ssr?Kesir is - again - of typical elfin characteristics. Their ears take on a variety of shapes, from minor points to some sharper and longer than even their purer counterparts.

Height - from below four foot, to up to five feet tall. Although the men are taller than their females, there has been the recorded odd birth defect amongst the women that can make them significantly taller than the men by well over two feet in height.

This Dark One

Date: 2009-10-25 06:49 EST
The Ssr?Kesir Culture

Hierarchy - the below diagram expresses both the social position and the flow of command within the Ssr?Kesir?s community.

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This Dark One

Date: 2009-10-25 06:52 EST
The Fashion:
Everyday Clothing: (Can be split into subgroups based upon the social hierarchy table)

Peasant Class Attire - although drab, and lacking in quality, there is no code of attire for the civilian host to follow. In truth, they can wear whatever they want, as a vast majority of their attire is handmade from shards of cloth and looted clothing taken from raids of the surface world, offering a diverse range of colours and materials.

Lower Class Attire - populated entirely by the Berserker infantry class, the given attire for these blood lusted fanatics when not dressed in their own looted armours, is a uniform of loosely fitted black silks, resembling extravagant togas and cloaks often outlined in gold thread. Little flesh is rarely often revealed.

Upper Class Attire - consists of the entire Halfbred Ss'r Kesir population, including the Magus and the entirety of the Mantle of Light. Their clothing outside of the armour of battle and the scant robes worn during their Temple duties consists entirely of soft, malleable fabrics in pale whites and silvers. Every member of the Upper Class has some small pendant or piece of jewelry fashioned with some small, trace amount of Spine within it, to signify their belief in a pure connection with their chosen Goddess. The styles of the clothing are usually scant and made to seem to cover more than they do, the people preferring higher quality fabrics to better-concealing, lower quality pieces.

Noble Class Attire - with only three members, the noble class?s range of clothing is both vast in style and colour. Dependant on what they have scheduled, they may go through several sets of clothing for various meetings in a single day.

Royalty Class Attire - they wear what the hell they damn want. They?re the rulers. They often tend to stand out from the rest of the crowd, no?

This Dark One

Date: 2009-10-25 06:55 EST
The Religion: ?The Order of the Shade?

The Dogmas

The Core Doctrine - That the Ssr?Kesir?s souls be forever granted the gift of eternal life alongside their favoured Goddess, in the physical manifestation of the Duality?s divine affection.

The Second Doctrine - That all should share in the Light and the Darkness of the Duality, and that all other faiths are heresy fashioned by false Gods and fanatical, selfish Daemons of sin and ruin.

The Third Doctrine - To follow the teachings of she who stands next to the Goddesses as Oracle, who delivers the sacred words from the immortal lips of Duality to their mortal children, thus binding the two opposing elements into Harmony.

Origins:

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As taught by the Oracle, both Goddesses receive prayer and cover equal ground in the theistic beliefs and structuring of the society, though both are loved, feared, and respected.

The Goddesses clashed on a barren field, until the Darkness - a being of destruction and death - held Her great blade above the Light - a being of creation and life. In the Final Moment, the Darkness could not destroy the Light, for She had recognized within the other, Her perfect counterpart.

Teachings rise from trivial points that get big deals made out of them (i.e., the Final Moment) and thus the mythos takes hold.

Religious Phrases:

The Doctrines - The three founding dogmas that makeup the basis of the religion?s existence. These were first spoken by the Oracle who appeared before the Ssr?Kesir in the Duality?s name, preaching the divine importance of each and every one of the Doctrines, and what it teaches them.

Duality - Often is used to consolidate both the Goddess of the Dark and Light into one perfect being.

Harmony - The state of which the Duality perpetuates. The antonym of this state is Discord, which describes the impossibility, where one of the Goddesses falls from grace, of which is often described as the end of existence.

Prime Amalgamation - Refers to the battle between the Goddess of the Light and the Dark, upon the fields of End. It was here that the Dark Goddess found balance in the Light, and fell in love with its polar opposite. Thus creating Harmony.

Oracle - The mediator of the Duality, it is the Oracle?s position to combine the two halves of the Bitheisic religion in the eyes of the followers.

The Children - The affectionate title of the Ssr?Kesir disciples who worships the Order of the Shade?s dogmas, and its Duality.