In the temperate forests of M'Svyla, the Ix'Lorett are unlike their warlike cousins in almost every way. These iguana-like Lizardfolk move with deliberate slowness, their wrinkled scales and soft spines giving them an almost ancient appearance. Yet what they lack in speed and aggression, they make up for in wisdom and an incredible regenerative ability.
Ix'Lorett society centers around art, meditation, and the pursuit of inner peace. Their villages in the Crystal Mountains are adorned with detailed gemstone mosaics and painted murals that tell the stories of their people. They are philosophers and artists, spending decades perfecting a single painting or meditating on the nature of existence.
Their regenerative abilities are legendary. Lost limbs regrow over months, and wounds that would kill other races merely inconvenience them. This has led to a unique perspective on violence and conflict; when you can regrow from almost any injury, the urgency of combat fades. Many Ix'Lorett who become adventurers do so to see the world's beauty and understand its deeper meanings, not for glory or wealth.
The making
The Ix'Lorett can regrow a severed limb because a dying name-speaker of their line spent the last of her own life to put one clause into the clan's true name: what is taken comes back. Deoric is paid for in life, and the price of that clause was the speaker herself. They keep her name, Ixsovann, painted among the murals of the Crystal Mountains, and what she bought has held in every Ix'Lorett born since. The working did something she had not aimed at. A people who cannot be permanently maimed stop counting their days in losses, and a body that closes its own wounds is in no hurry about anything. The patience they are known for, the decades given to a single mural or a single question, grows straight out of this. When nothing can truly be taken from you, there is no reason to rush toward anything or away from it.
Vitals
- Height: 5-6 feet
- Weight: 150-250 pounds
Aspects
- Contemplative and peaceful
- Values beauty and patience