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Chur'An
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The Chur'An are an offshot of the same peoples that would eventually become the
Kaer-Na. The Chur'An nestled into a fold between the Dursha Mountains and the Shorlian
Channel on the eastern edge of the Danoshorvas continent, and have held it against
all comers for untold millenia.
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The Chur'An are typically dusky skinned people and dress in thick wool overgarments
and leathers to ward off the stark weather of their lands. The Chur'An use bronze
weapons and armor, due to a cultural taboo against Iron dating back to their seriture
to the Haelfinan. For ornamentation they use carved stone and bronze adornments.
They wear their hair short, even the women, and like the Kaer-Na the men folk are
not prone to beards.
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The Chur'An have remained close allies with the Island realm of the Haelfinan on
Iandras across the Shorlian Channel in perpetuity. Every five years the best ten
men and ten women, as determined by highly ritualized contests of strength and wit
called collectively the Cystadleuaeth (kis-todd-LEW-aith), are chosen by the Haelfinan
and taken to Iandras and joined with Haelfinan mates as part of an ongoing attempt
by the Haelfinan to increase their dwindling numbers. In return twenty halfblooded
Haelfinan come to live among the Chur'An to find Human mates. In this fashion the
Chur'An maintain their Aeldenaren bloodlines, and have the greatest number of Aeldenari
of all the Eld folk in the modern day as a direct consequence of this arrangement.
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Like the Kaer-Na the Chur'An are nature worshippers; they believe in great animal
spirit Totems. However, the Chur'An favor symbolic totems of creatures created by
the Haelfinan in their war against the Var over naturally occuring animals. The
Totemic Shaman Magic System is used for Chur'An but they use the Optional Fantasy
Totems instead of (not in addition to) the standard Animal Totems. The Totem Warrior
and Totem Shaman Packages are both appropriate for Chur'Anese characters.
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