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I'll make a sheet for an actual character later. I figured I'd get my larger faction and some other background stuff accepted first.

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The Levintines are a tribal people who are most notably characterised by their lose relationship with dire wolves. Dire wolves have long served an important role in Levintine society, acting as companions for the Levintines and viewed as servants of the deity Maurarim. For centuries dire wolves have aided the Levintines in war, hunting, and numerous other activities.

Originating in the Rainlands, the Levintines were forced out of their ancestral lands by Salished expansion and Salished desire for dire wolf pelts. This has forced the Levintines to migrate to the west an into a nomadic lifestyle.

Normally a peaceful people, when pushed into combat Levintines make for fierce enemies. As one Salished soldier commented “The Levintines are slow to draw their blades, but once drawn they are like a force of nature.” Most Levintine warriors paint their faces before entering battle, but some of their more dedicated warriors will tattoo their faces to show they are always prepared for battle.

Levintine warriors are typically outfitted with light leather armor and bows or spears as well as their traditional kukris. Occasionally a Levintine warrior may bring a falcata into battle, although the comparative expense of making these blades makes them a relative rarity. The Levintines have been noted as excelling as skirmishers, scouts, light infantry, and even light cavalry on rare occasions (as some of their dire wolves, called vargs, are actually large enough to ride). Perhaps more importantly Levintine warriors have been sought more for their foraging abilities than anything else.
Race: Human, fair skinned and commonly brown and fair haired
Type: Tribal
Faction/Unit: Neutral, but aligned against Salished

A species of wolf native to the Rainlands, dire wolves are highly intelligent, arguably as intelligent as humans in some cases, and notably larger than most other species of wolves. They tend to be half again as large as other species of wolves, although members of the species have been noted as growing to be much larger, in which case they are referred to as vargs.

While native to the Rainlands, the desire for the pelts has caused them to be hunted extensively, severely limiting their numbers. Currently the largest collection of dire wolves in a single location is with the Levintine tribe.

Vargs are, to put it simply, extremely large dire wolves that rival horses in size. They are very rare and all attempts to breed their sizes into the general population of dire wolves has failed, meaning that their appearance is either purely random or created by some kind of divine intervention. Vargs, much like their smaller brothers, are highly intelligent creatures and are worshipped by the Levintine people as servants of the diety Maurarim.

A traditional tool of the Levintine people, kukri are large knives characterised by their forward curving blade.They are especially good for chopping and were originally used widely of cutting wood, building, clearing fields, and killing animals.

A more combat oriented version of the kukri, the Levintine people started producing these forward curving swords when the Salished Empire begin pushing into their traditional lands. These blades are fairly rare now, due to the Levintine tribe’s inability to gather the materials needed to produce many, but the tribe’s greatest warriors are still outfitted with these blades. They often serve both a combat and ceremonial purposes and the blades are noted as being especially beautiful due to the runes and inscriptions etched into their blades.
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