The Rhea were born where the Ezz flood met the elemental air, the same kind of meeting that produced the Neferati from fire, with the opposite result. Fire spreads and climbs. Air does the reverse: it thins, it empties, it draws everything toward a single still point. The Rhea came out of that marked all the way through. Their skin is a cool grayish blue that shimmers like morning mist, their heads bald but for wispy gray hair that drifts as though caught in a breeze no one else can feel, and their eyes are white and without pupil. They are unnaturally light for their size, light enough that a strong gust is something they plan around, and the lightness is not only in the body.
The same narrowing that empties their bodies empties their attention. A Rhea fixes on one thing and the rest falls away, and what falls away does not nag to come back. Where another person's interests scatter, a Rhea will give decades to a single pursuit and feel no pull toward a second. The air left that narrowing in them as surely as it left the lightness in their bones, and they have built their lives around it rather than against it. Their patience and their plain, unhurried teaching have trained some of the finest minds in the world's history, though the Rhea themselves rarely chase the fame, fame being one more thing outside the point they have fixed on.
A Rhea will answer your question in forty years, and the answer will be correct. — a remark among the students at Murth
They keep mostly to the mountain monasteries of Murth, where the air is thin enough to suit them and far enough from everything else to leave their concentration unbroken. A wide channel to Sulus, the air layer of the Elemental Planes, comes with the heritage, and an old Rhea handles the thin upper air with an ease the rest of the world spends years reaching for.
Aspects
- Focused mind, steady purpose
- Patience is the greatest teacher
Vitals
- Type: Race
- Size: Small
- Height: 4-5 feet
- Weight: 30-50 pounds
- ge: 50-70
Game mechanics
Airsoul
Passive ability. You gain an advanced attunement to air.
Body of Air
Passive ability Despite your size, you are unnaturally light. For this reason, your size is small. You take half damage from falling and can jump twice as high and far as normal.