Hello there. I'm from the same group as Shienvien and ASTA. I'd also like to enquire about the possibility of playing a character.

This character would be of a new race, by your leave.

The Éireannach are an ethnicity of humans who live in the far western lands, even further than the fearsome Xhurl-njok. The Éireannach are often considered to be analogous to barbarians by most civilised races, living as they do on the move much of the time and with very few settlements, preferring to instead live off of the lands surrounding their few permanent settlements. The tales of fierce warriors painted in red and white patterns (similar in style to the Britons on Earth, for an example) mostly originate from the regions surrounding Laighean, the main region of the Éireannach homelands. Raiding surrounding countryside for food and often plunder, the Éireannach most often are seen fighting in unorganised morasses of warriors, descending upon the hapless townsfolk of the small villages and towns outside of Laighean. The Éireannach's main claim to fame is the fall of the Kingdom of Thessaleia, which used to be the last bastion between the civilised world and the Éireannach. After a two-month long siege of the city of Larissa, the Éireannach stormed and sacked the city and murdered thousands upon thousands of the inhabitants.

However, domestically, the Éireannach operate surprisingly orderly. Though they are not a truly 'unified' nation, the Éireannach have different 'areas' or as they call them, contaetha. Contae Laighean is the main area of habitation, in and around the city of Cathair Dhoire, which has a population of 11,000 people. The other counties of Gaillimhe, Garman and Chorcaí are all organised around their respective 'capital cities', which are Láirge, Ros Comáin and Leifear, with populations of 2630, 1895 and 1446 in that order. The Contaetha are loosely organised as a confederation which elects the King or Queen of the Éireannach, though they operate as separate 'kingdoms' for all other purposes. The most powerful Contae is, of course, Laighean, which controls the few trade lanes that the Éireannach operate into 'civilised' lands beyond the frontier, as well as being the most populous. Each Contae is ruled by a Bíocúnta, or count, and the King/Queen is chosen from the counts of the Contaetha. Surprisingly, literacy is common amongst townsfolk, but that is more to do with the deep sense of community within most Éireannach towns, being as they are small in size, and the town or village elders will teach the children of the settlement how to read and write in the Éireannach language, and basic numeracy. The more intelligent of the children will progress to learn leadership and survival skills in preparation for succeeding the village elders in their position and for leading the Éireannach armies to war, whilst the less intelligent will learn a particular occupation, be it trading, farming, blacksmithing or mining.

Unlike other ethnicities of humans, sexual diversity in the Éireannach is arguably less noticeable - women and men are almost equally capable, which has given rise to a feeling of resentment the Éireannach have for more 'civilised' nations that view women (or men) as property, or second-class citizens. In Éireannach history, the struggle to survive has led to an interdependence between the sexes, and the lack of diversity between the two sexes has inhibited the rise of either a patriarchal system or a matriarchal system, as both genders worked together to form a stable community and to defend the contaetha from external invaders. As such, female warriors in Éireannach armies are a common sight - there are no 'limits' to which role a person may take in an army.

Sound OK?