The Draíochta (Pronounced Dry-Och-Ta, Dry-oct-ah)
Inter-species races: “Diabhal”
There are two variants of this race. The only major difference is their skin colour, while the tanish golden skinned are called Draíochta, the darker skinned are called Diabhal. For most however, Draíochta is the adoptive term used to describe them all, going into specifics is when you call the darker skinned Diabhal. So as an entire species, Draíochta is what they are called.
Famous For
Their extremely long lifespans, tanish gold skin, darker skin, unusual eye colour.
General Description
Overall Appearance
Their eyes are always a shade of purple for the females and red for the males. They stand with their shortest full grown adults at 6 ft, their tallest at 7'3. The females have very alluring and feministic voices, while the males usually have a deep and powerful voice. The Draíochta sleep for roughly 3 hours per every 24 hours. They eat a variety of foods, but due to their extremely powerful immune systems are capable of eating what would kill humans.
The Head
The females are fresh faced, unlined and look perfectly sculpted. That is not to say all the females are attractive, but their faces show no signs of flaw or error. Such as freckles, aging wrinkles or blotches. The features may not be attractive, but they are without physical flaw. Their hair depends on the individual but the Draíochta have very thin hair and so it is difficult to keep their hair in a specific style, as the weather can ruin it very easily. The city dwelling Draíochta keep their hair maintained and in a specific style that suits their needs. This usually means a ponytail, or loose but neat just below the shoulder length hair. As this is very easy to maintain. It is rare to see a Draíochta with flowing lush hair.
For the males, they usually keep their hair very short and unstyled. Their faces are chiselled and craggy, a difference from their female counterparts. They are unable to grow bears and so their faces always resemble a perfectly clean shaven man. The Draíochta are unable to grow body hair in general.
The Body
The males are usually fairly masculine, whether they are laboring workers or not. The females keep a somewhat slim athletic appearance, by nature and by their own doing. The females usually like to keep an attractive appearance for the same reasons as some human females. The males are fairly strong naturally and like to keep their athleticism. Their hands tend to grow short but sharp nails, almost like little claws. Only they protrude just past the finger and are triangular in shape, the end of the triangle being the nail. Their nails are fairly light or dark, dependent on variant of race, and extends sloping up above a normal human nail.
(What I'm trying to say is, where human nail is just flat, theirs slopes upward a little. Get me?)
Special
They do not grow body hair, females do not menstruate, they age much slower than humans and when they do get older in age their skin does not appear to age. Their skin heals without scar. Their immune systems are extremely strong, however they are at a great weakness when something is lodged into them. Even a small bit of rock getting stuck into their skin after going through an open cut can prove very problematic and hospitalize them, their body completely rejects it and if the rock is not forced out or surgically removed via a knife or other means, their heart could shut down and they could die of a serious blood infection.
Gods
The Draíochta do not have a cultural god, but they worship the god of their King. A fair few however are non believers, or they believe in gods of other cultures. Their culture has not created a god to worship of its own. This leads to many of the non-believing Draíochta to consider the believers of any race brainwashed into believing whatever gods they are taught to believe, since religion comes unnaturally to their race.
Specific Accomplishments
Inventions and Discoveries
The Draíochta have helped discover many cures and tonics to poisons for other cultures, which has well integrated them as an important contributor to society. They find out when something is poisonous in other races, and by using their cures on themselves and having this poison removed. To them it is something harmless being purged from their body, but to the other races it is lifesaving. Ways the poison comes out is usually by puking or bowel movements.
So they are not cures per se, but they do remove the poison in their system.
World View
Culture and Customs
There is no dominant workers in their culture, the males and females work just as much in most cases. There are no gender expectations, although sometimes one gender is predominantly better at an activity or job than the other. They are hard working for very long periods of time and then they have very long holidays as well, holidays which can exceed 10 years after working for 100.
Their marriage ceremonies are big outdoor celebrations, usually very fancy, regardless of class. Among the Draíochta weddings are a right that everyone has, if they cannot afford it everyone pitches in and contributes in their own way. Weddings are a sign of good faith for everyone involved, even the richest of their race have much of their own weddings contributed to by their fellow Draíochta.
Funerals are also outdoor, spiritually representing the freedom of the outdoors rather than the entrapment of closed in walls. The body is cremated in a huge fire for all to watch, and then the remains are scattered somewhere high up where the wind can take them.
Society
The Draíochta blend in well humans very well, the way they build their houses is fairly similar only the Draíochta build bigger houses for obvious reasons. The families usually are limited to a married pair and do not exceed 3 children. Draíochta women are unable to produce more than three babies as after this most become infertile. The record for most children among their kind is 5.
The Draíochta are an important part in keeping
Language
They do very well in picking up foreign languages and are very good readers of body language, they have integrated with the human society for a very long time and have stuck to the common tongue of the humans.
Combat
The Draíochta are generally a peaceful race and prefer to not be involved with any tournaments or unnecessary fighting, wars included. They do still learn fighting skills and spar like most others, but most do not like to use this to fight unnecessary fights. Hunting is an entirely different matter however.
Many of the Draíochta also resort to magic, as a whole their population has 85% of females knowing magic and 65% of males.
The one on the right, the darker one, is how I imagine the skin of the Diabhal. However they have a tint of purple with their dark skin. Ignore the Teifling from Neverwinter. This picture is for SKIN COLOUR ONLY. And it is not a perfect representation.