Neth are thoughtful and inscrutable, and place a high emphasis on community, ancestry, and wind. It is easy to misinterpret a Neth's silence at a joke as boredom or even worse, anger, but if you look carefully, you may see a glint in their eyes, and they will soon fire back a joke of their own, all while never breaking a smile. The Neth are a people of the human, bound by ancestral-communion tradition and northern tundra life, not a separate biological lineage.
Neth are best known for their ability to speak with the wind, allowing them to communicate with the deceased members of their communities to gather advice. The advice and secrets of their ancestors is central to the longevity and power of the many Neth-composed tribes that cover the northern tundras. For this reason, maintaining good relation with one's family, and community are critical to Neth culture, an outlook and behavior that extends to friends they meet who become close.
A soothsayer's communion answers most readily when Auris rides full, so the wealthier tribes no longer leave that timing to tradition. They buy precise calendar tables from the Velthari of Ilthenvar, whose accountants chart the Auris and Nyxara cycles against the fixed positions of the celestial glass and sell the timing worked out to the day. It gives a tribe that can afford the tables a season's lead over one that still reads the sky by eye.
Neth can be found across the North Reach, along the coast, and in the north-eastern regions above Atyeska, and are famous for their sages, soothsayers, and resilient warriors.
Aspects
- Inscrutable
- If you look after nature, nature will look after you