🧬 ORIGIN & DOMAIN

The Kasherni—also called Earth Elves—walk the ancient paths of northern Tanal and remote Varethuun. They are grovebuilders, spirit-healers, and smith-priests, grounded in dream and stone. They do not wander to escape, but to remember.

🩸 LINEAGE & BLOODLINES

Kasherni lineages are matriarchal, tracking beastform inheritance and spirit strength:

• Beastforms: Bear, wildcat, elk, hound—manifested in dreams or danger
• Name-Bond Awakening: A rite of fasting until the child hears their shape from the earth
• Cross-Blooded Clans: Many marry fire elves, Emserai tidewalkers, or demons, honoring shared memory over purity

🧊 APPEARANCE & STYLE

• Skin: Stone-toned; earthy bronze, ash-gray, or mossy-olive
• Eyes: Mud-brown, pale green, copper-gold
• Hair: Braided, ringed, or decorated with earth-beads and smoke-oils
• Clothing: Woven wraps, ritual paints, copper-threaded tunics, clan-forged adornments

🔮 MAGIC & BELIEF

Kasherni faith fuses earth, fire, and spirit:

• Deities: Rhakzuhl (Dragon God of Bone and Mountain), Kallan the Huntsoul
• Rituals: Carved shrines, copper etchings, smoke-sung rites, dream-seeding through soil offerings
• Magic: Spirit communion, soil-bound prophecy, memory-stone shaping

🛠️ ROLE / CRAFT / VOCATION

• Stone-Seers: interpreters of deep-earth dreams
• Forge-Tenders: smiths who hammer memory into blade
• Dream-Tenders: ritualists and spritelings’ guardians
• Root-Archivists: carry ancestral songstone and root-scrolls

🧬 KNOWN INDIVIDUALS / MODERN FIGURES

• Clan Tahlmira: Guardians of root-archives in Tanal cliffs
• Clan Vehran: Fire-elf-blooded smiths known for pact blades
• Clan Ashvale: Grove-dwellers in Nyrrahel who tame spritelings
• Thornik Vahl: The Rootwalker, monk-warrior of silence
• Saelra of Ashvale: Memory-seer bound to Ourea Kaelvyrn

🪞 MYTHOS MEMORIES

The Kasherni do not speak loudly—but the mountain remembers them. Their songs are in stone, their beasts in blood, their rites in silence. They carry root, fire, and dream. And when the world forgets, they set the bones to singing.

🏛️ CULTURE & STRUCTURE

Kasherni live in nomadic circles, connected by ancestral routes and ritual purpose:

• Smiths & Shamans: handmade things—blades, bread, beadwork—are sacred
• Steamroot Caravans: moving homes of smoke and copper gears
• Forges of Peace: fire is for warmth and creation—not war (unless provoked)

🎙️ LANGUAGE / TRADITIONS / RITES

• Language: Root-speech (Kashernic), smoke glyphs, bead-code
• Traditions: Earth-Beads at birth, Copper Rings for rites passed, Spice Paints for harvest/grief/joy
• Rites: Stonefasting, Beastform Dance, Memory Weaving