The Tarnak are a nomadic people of the deep desert whose mastery of blood magic and communion with death has made them feared across the sands of Ulkevolm. Dark-skinned and adorned with precious jewelry that catches the desert light, they paint their faces and bodies with detailed patterns of their own blood mixed with sacred inks, a design in red and black that tells the story of their lineage and magical accomplishments. They are a people of the human, shaped by the blood-magic and desert-nomad traditions of Ulkevolm, not a separate biological lineage.
These desert shamans form deep bonds with great desert tigers that prowl alongside their caravans, hunting by night and resting in the shade of their tents by day. The Tarnak practice blood magic to commune with the spirits of the dead and divine the movements of fate through the patterns of life and death in the desert.
Their rituals and appearance make them deeply unsettling to outsiders, but the Tarnak see beauty in death as much as life, understanding it as part of the natural cycle that governs all existence.
Aspects
- Blood tells all stories
- Death is just another kind of life