The Temptari are a deeply spiritual people who have mastered the art of reading the subtle currents of time and weather. Through generations of religious devotion and seasonal rituals, they have developed an uncanny ability to sense what is about to unfold. Their monasteries dot the mountainous regions where the seasons change most dramatically, and their timemasters are sought after as advisors by rulers across Alaria. A Temptari never seems rushed or surprised—they move through life as if they've already lived it once before. The Temptari are a people of the human, shaped by generations of mountain-monastery spiritual practice, not a separate biological lineage.
Temptari settlements can be found in the high mountain passes and valleys where the seasons are most pronounced. They are renowned for their prophets, weather-readers, and the legendary timemasters who can glimpse moments yet to come.
The greatest of those timemasters rules the lowland theocracy of Avalon. Maurolin, the Grand Imperial Ecclesiarch, has read the futures of an entire nation from his throne at Tarolin for generations, kept young by a sphere of slowed time of his own making. He is the proof of what the Temptari gift can become when it is given a country to practice on, and a warning about the same thing.
Aspects
- Time flows differently for me
- The seasons speak to those who listen