#kellid

A recent portrait commission I did of an Undead Human Fighter.

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Kellids are the indigenous people of Avistan with deep history in North and South of the continent until they were driven up north by the Taldor Empire, which were largely made up by the descendants of Azlant. There are four broad cultural groups: the Isgeri who hold onto their cultural practices despite being absorbed by Taldans. The Palakari who some consider the most cosmopolitan of the Kellids and often identity as Taldan. Yuktiri are the 'embodiment of Kellid culture'  to outsiders and from the Realm of the Mammoth Lords (Amiri and Amang the Twice Born are Yuktiri). The Sakoris were akin to the Yukiri in having their own lands, but had more industry and permanent settlements.

One of which was Threshold, a prison for Arcane users, but I’ll get back to that. 

At present Kellids have a unified language and dense oral history but no written history, living in lands where agriculture is difficult to cultivate, and few Southern-style cultural centers. Due to a lack of written culture and a place for it to flourish, Kellid people in Sakoris and the Realm of the Mammoth Lords have no Arcane culture as like those who drove them out of the southern part of the continent. The closest they have are witches, which is a very complicated subject for the Yukiri and Sakoris.

Most Kellids distrusted the Irrisen Witches, a monarchy following the directives of Baba Yaga who have enslaved people and has her daughters or granddaughter control the nation every 100 years. (Yes, dudes wrote this particular bit of Pathfinder Lore). Forces of ice trolls and cold fey threatened the Mammoth Lords and Sakoris in the east of Sakoris throughout their history until the recent decades Post Worldwound where they established a truce.

However, there were many witches among the Kellids and including the Sakoris that served as Tribal Witches. Some were good, some were not, and unlike the witches in Irrisen, both men and women could be witches and have patrons that were fey, infernal, celestial, or abyssal.  While Sakorians would throw wizards or witches of evil partons into Threshold to have their work overseen by Druids and Shamans, many tribal witches of of the Sakoris were respected, notably in the South-East of the kingdom. During the fall of Sarkoris, many witches fought alongside with their tribes, shamans, and people to the bitter end.

As we come barreling in to 2018 the first day of the New Year falls on a Monday. And now that the peak season hiatus is over Monday's once again means randomly rolled character challenges return. For those of you who have played my other challenges like where I give you a race, class, alignment, and deity and ask you to make a character the Monday challenges is similar but with more detail.

So here are the rules

1) Check out the randomly rolled stats and the bits of background information on the blog

2) Write up a background that ties up all the bits and into a cohesive character.(length and depth aren't important do what you can this is for fun not homework

)3) Reblog your background here (and on the actual blog if you like)

4) Receive the adulation of your peers, or at the very least a gold star from me

One of two pieces that I contributed to the 16th issue of Wayfinder Fanzine You can get the issue for free soon here on the Paizo Website

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