The Calarii are a proud warrior clan that prides themselves as being
effecient and elite warriors. They train as warriors at a very young
age. When a Calarii reaches adulthood, the Calarii becomes a trained
warrior. This training happens for both men and women of the society.
Even in times of peace, the Calarii train themselves for excellence
in physical and mental shape, and in the art of warefare. The Calarii
go through rigorous physical exercise and they discipline their minds
through strategy games and puzzles.
The word of a Calarii will always be honored. The Calarii pride themselves
as being honorable and thus it is a worse fate than death to default
on one's promise or word. A Calarii would gladly give up his life if
this means to keep one's word. To break one's word as a Calarii is to
disgrace oneself, one's family and clan, and one's race.
The Calarii believe that the eventual goal in warfare is to defeat
an opponent. Any means through personal combat to accomplish this goal
of defeating the opponent is acceptable. This includes both ranged weapons
and magical spells. However the Calarii disdain from using poison and
indirect ways to defeat an opponent. On the battle field, the Calarii
would prefer not to use traps, or magical spells which indirectly attack
an opponent. They will use spells that weaken an opponent, enhance themselves,
or to attack an opponent directly.
The Calarii as with other elves, share a deep appreciation for life,
especially their own. A Calarii warrior will not foolishly risk ones
life. A Calarii warrior almost never puts oneself into the center of
combat or draws unnecessary attention to themselves. The Calarii would
never dare take a life of another elf unless in the most dire of circumstances,
such as saving the lives of many elves. The Calarii make an effort to
not destroy life unnecessarily, but they do understand that this is
sometimes necessary for the greater good of all life. As part of the
Calarii training, it is understood that it takes more courage and honor
not to destroy life. The more trained and skilled a warrior has become,
it is easier not to take life.
In their vision to find excellence in the art of combat, the Calarii
will seek to develop and adopt more advanced weapons and forms of combat.
If the Calarii were to find a more efficient weapon than the long sword,
this weapon would be almost immediately adopted into their society.
If the Calarii found new ways to use a weapon or a form of unarmed combat,
the Calarii would blend this into their training and culture. The Calarii
are both humble and eager to learn news ways of combat. Thus some Calarii
are observant of Gnomish inventions such as the arquebus. The Calarii
sometimes travel the world as adventurers in hopes to find new techniques.
The Calarii have developed a new magic style called Battle Magic which
reduces the somatic components of the spell and increases the casting
time of a spell. When using Battle Magic, the Calarii may cast spells
while wearing armor and decreases the casting time by 2 segments, for
a minimum of 1 segment. The favored type of spells are combat spells
such as shocking grasp or spells which enhance the combat ability. In
order to receive these bonuses, the Calarii must learn this magic from
another Calarii, as Battle Magic spells are different from other spells.
The Calarii may learn spells normally from scrolls or non-Calarii spell
books, but these spells do not afford the bonuses that come with Battle
Magic. As with all elven spells, the spells are inscribed in ancient
Elven Glyphs, which requires a Read/Write profiency in additon to the
normal Read/Write Elven.
Calarii do not obsessed acquiring wealth like Humans and Dwarves. To
acquire wealth will only slow one down. The Calarii however do understand
the need for money in the human world, thus they take what they need
and give the rest to their clan. The clan uses this money to improve
weapon technology and magic as well as the total benefit of the entire
clan. The Calarii promote mutual cooperation with Duke Stefan of Karameikos.
The Calarii are indifferent towards humans. They do not concern themselves
in the affairs of human tribes or nations. The Calarii consider the
humans to be very disorderly and disorganized. Despite their indifference
the Calarii always wish to maintain peaceful relationships with the
humans. They have been on good terms with the Traldar for years leaving
each other alone in their perspective isolation, but recently the political
environment has changed. Now the lands are conquered by the Thyatian
Empire. The Calarii hope to still maintain good relations with the new
government, or any government for that matter. The Calarii promote mutual
cooperation with Duke Stefan Karameikos and they actually have a garrison
of troops to protect the parks at Specularuam, later called Mirros.
The Calarii admire the Order of Griffen and to some extent the Church
of Karameikos, as bring order to the lands. Any organization that establishes
order cannot be all that bad.
As the Calarii are a well order and organized society their alignments
tend to be Lawful good and Lawful neutral. Any Calarii that exhibits
chaotic behavior will be banished from the clan.
The Calarii are mostly warriors and they typically are either Fighters
or Fighter/Mages. However there are some in there society that have
priestly magic which is considered a waste of time by many. These rare
scholars will be either Fighter/Clerics or Fighter/Mage/Clerics.
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