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Human

Humans are diverse in appearance, culture, and ambition, the great adaptors of Ardelûn. They are the largest population in the world by a good margin and can be found just about anywhere.

Human
Human
Type Humanoid
Lifespan Adult at 18, lives up to 80
Size Medium
Language Common (which is, not coincidentally, a human tongue)
Commonality Very Common — the most populous race in Ardelûn
Homeland Raetia originally; today, everywhere
Racial Trait Jack of All Trades

Overview

Humans are diverse in appearance, culture, and ambition — the great adaptors of Ardelûn. They are the largest population in the world by a good margin and can be found just about anywhere on the planet.

Racial Trait

Jack of All Trades — Add +1 to every Skill.

History

Humans awoke in Raetia at the beginning of the world and, during The Age of Colonization, founded the three sister-kingdoms: Raetia, Razoth, and Kelan. Short-lived by the standards of elves or dwarves, humans compensate with urgency; a human generation accomplishes what other peoples schedule.

Human history since has been enormous and everywhere: New Aerilon grew into the world's greatest city, human traders carried Dimedo's Calendar and the Spark-Lines across the continents, the conqueror Cayin — a human of Irenoch — nearly took the whole world, and human families like The Marcadian Fathers have founded entire nations with a signature.

Current Day

Humans are the plurality or majority in Raetia, Razoth, Marcadia, Layocana, Canavania, Arranat, Oppland, Irenoch, and the oasis cities of Sinovanya, and they are present everywhere else. Whatever a place produces, some human is trading it; whatever a faith teaches, some human has joined it; wherever a frontier opens, humans arrive first and argue about it immediately.