Krish

Fast Facts

Height: 5'8"-6'4" Males, 5'4"-6'0" Females

Weight: 150-220(lbs) Males, 120-180(lbs) Females

Lifespan: Adult (18 years), Elder (180 years), Deathly (220 years)

Notable Features: Bronze/Olive/Light Green Skin, Sharp Ears (Often Serrated), Amber Eyes, Lean Bodies

Player Restrictions: None

Racial Ability: Dauntless: Krish can endure nearly any amount of pain and injury without it affecting their ability to move and fight. Muscle damage or other limb injuries can stop them, but even then they appear to be able to operate their bodies better than others. Additionally, they have improved stamina over the other races.

Population: 80,000,000 (within Outlands), 2,000,000 (on Atharen)

History

Some would say that the first Elven schism occurred not after the fall of Silor, but with the incursion of thousands of Elves into the Outlands, where they thought to find refuge for their heresy against the Creator-Gods. These Elves followed neither their makers nor the Eldashan, instead crafting their own savage idols and effigies, spiting and defiling the ones who made them. As the Elves continued to build their cult, growing it through time, the leader of these old Hyr'Norai began to conspire to herself become a God, taking captive the son of Venadak and murdering him in cold blood, feasting upon the filth that was his remains.

Of course, the God of Light was enraged by these ongoings. While the Gods had sworn not to intervene too much in mortal affairs, the murder of His own son out of spite drew the ire of the Light-God. His frustrations were channeled indirectly, creating countless enchanted beasts to roam the wilds around the Elves and their home, murdering them and isolating them further and further from the world. Decay set in within their tribe, and many left on their hands and knees, praying that Venadak allow them to pass. He did not; the beasts feasted upon the repentant sinners all the same, and their accursed souls likely went forth to the Dead Realm, even being denied the afterlife's release.

That same leader -- a powerful mage -- beseeched the Mark of Control to lead her to a new way. A path free from the stagnation of the Gods, and the weakness of their peers. She and her people had always wanted to be more; to not dwell beneath the God's light, crawling beneath the umbrage of malignant creators. While no such door opened to them in the realm of Elf and man, the woman found a doorway to a greater beyond - a plane she called ry'thiir - leading her people into that realm, one known to the Gods as the Outlands.

As the people from this tribe of apostates stepped through her door, they found themselves surrounded by naught but grey wastes and giant, floating stones the size of mountains. Moving to this foreign, hostile plane - one not made for them, nor engineered toward their survival - a great deal of them passed on, while others persevered. Hunting became their main source of sustenance for hundreds of years. The beasts of the Outlands were plentiful with meat, and more; strange nutrients that changed them over time, altering their blood and redirecting the course of their evolution. These old Elves became something entirely else, a race native to the plane, that belonged there. They started to call themselves the Kiras-Iliir, then the Krish as their tongue grew more guttural and harsh. They died younger, their skin changed tone and they decreased slightly in size, but they became hardened to their new world and became capable of enduring its many dangers and woes.

Hundreds of years into the migration of the Elves, they stood a new race, and one that had been divided into countless tribes by the need to forage and hunt, forming nomadic bands. Rather than savages, though, they were perhaps the most developed race of all. The countless materials within the Outlands proved effective for constructing advanced armor and weaponry. The beasts made incredible companions for the hunt, and the floating stones became their cities, and the basis of the technology that allowed them their ships. By the Third Age, the Krish had become a truly thriving race. The dominant life-form in the Outlands, they had forged an endless array of savage Kingdoms that warred with one another for dominance, subjugating all of the races truly native to the land. It was then that one of their Kings thought to return them to what they referred to as r'lisk, or Atharen, to seek out their divine rule.

Since then, invasions by the Krish have become a phenomena seemingly unimpeded by anything else, only adopting even a pause during the Sundering. They emerge from the Outlands nearly every year, often the warriors of a different tribe each time, sacking and razing cities wherever they can find them. Much of the history of the Krish upon entering the Outlands is unknown; they are a mysterious race. The one certainty around them is that they are hated, and reviled.

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