I decided to use the format presented in the netbook of races. It’s not that I may present this to them, but it seemed a logical format to use. The first post on the Gainarii (or Gainar) can be found here.

Gainarii
Little is known about the Gainarii socially, but it is evident to many that they are one of the few groups of people that thrive in both magical and non-magical lands. Unlike many other races and ethnic groups, they do not choose to live in one area or the other. Wherever they live, they are possessed of a keen mathematical ability that they use to make a living. In magical lands, they are great wizards able to control the force of magic with unparalled precision. Their mathematical prowess enables these wizards to understand magic in more detail than any other race or ethnic group of wizard, including the elves. In non-magical lands, they are given to mechanical or merchant trades. As merchants, they are able to deal with all kinds of rare materials and maintain profitability.

Personality: In general, they are perceived as serious and stern. Their almost fanatical work ethic is one of the main reasons they are successful in any undertaking.

Physical description:Gainarii appear very similar to humans in most regards. Their noses are more flat than most humans with two v-shaped ridges just above the nostrils. Their ears are also slightly higher on their head, but are round and small like human ears. At the midpoint of their spine, there is two ‘double ribs’ on their back, one on each side, each protruding about two inches. They appear to be similar to the collarbone, but smaller. They also curve more toward the rib cage ending in two small knobs. All known Gainarii are pale and clean-shaven. Their eyes range from brown to grey but a special few are born with either two yellow eyes or one green and one brown eye. Within their culture, these special few are considered to be of exotic ancestry.
They dress in whatever clothes are fashionable to the area they live. They are known to live in any area where there is human civilization, and a few other areas where other races and ethnic groups have developed an urban area.

Relations:The Gainarii are not unfriendly, but are also not overly cordial. In many respects, they go to great lengths to maintain and separate their culture from other cultures. Intermarriage is strictly taboo, even with humans. They have no racial or ethnic dislike of anyone, in fact, they seem to be able to do business with anyone including the sook. Gainarii seem to slightly prefer the company of humans of all other races and secretly mistrust elves of all kinds.

Alignment: Gainarii prize order and sequence, especially when it comes to abstract thought. As a result, almost all Gainarii are Lawful. Those rare few that are not Lawful are usually those that have lived separately from other Gainarii, or those of extremely high intelligence. There are no Chaotic Gainarii. Their devotion to mathematics has also made most Neutral in terms of Good and Evil. It is especially convienent to be Neutral when you sell goods and services to all people without prejudice. However, those that are not in the merchant business can have good or evil tendencies.

Gainarii lands and society: At home and anywhere other than in business endeavours, only their native language is spoken. All Gainarii are educated in their own system that emphasizes mathematics and language arts. Their society is little known, but appears to outsiders as conformist in nature. There is also a complex caste system, but because of mobility between the castes, only the Gainarii know how it works.
The Gainarii do not have a homeland, pro se. There are no predominantly Gainarii cities. They do have a very strong sense of identity that is reinforced through their private education system. Gainarii schools are not secret and will even admit humans from time to time. The humans take only mathematics and language arts in human languages: they are not allowed to take Gainarii language, history, or religion classes.

Religion: The Gainarii religion is based on an event called “The Awakening”. According to their creation story, the world was already populated with various sentient beings when a benevelont being came and gave the gift of knowledge to their people. Shortly after his arrival, those that chose to continue their learning left their homes and settled in a new area. Apparently, a malevolent being came and stirred dissension amongst their people causing a great civil war. The benevolent being was quickly victorious, but the divisions were too deep to overcome so quickly. After many years, a peace was achieved, but only at the accidental deaths of the two kings that ruled each faction. According to the story, they met to discuss the terms of peace in a neutral place, but the ignorant peoples in that land were frightened by the the kings. In fear, they struck them down, though the wise kings tried in vain to reason with them. Having fought for so many years, they were few in number, thus were forced to live in cities that they did not build. Some religious leaders of the Gainarii speak of a ‘return to the homeland’, but even the Gainarii do not know where such a mtyhical place could be.

Language: The Gainarii language is tonal and inflected. This makes the language complex, but extremely compact. Through the study of their own great poets, they search for greater economy within their language. Amonst other people, some of the Gainarii merchants have developed the habit of repeating themselves to each other in order for their language to sound more closely to other languages. It is thought that the economy of their language creates mistrust among the customers. However, when they speak other languages, they have no discernable accent. Those merchants that repeat themselves, however, tend to be verbose in other languages.

Names: More to come
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