The open emotions of halflings, gnomes, and xephs confuse maenads, who have a hard time understanding living in such a capricious and carefree fashion. Maenads are typically distant towards other races, although they are most comfortable with humans, who have various temperaments that are not very different from their own. In some villages, this ritualization can take over, where every aspect of life is defined by a ritual that must be followed, although this sort of extreme situation is uncommon among the race as a whole.Ī maenad psychic warrior participates in a battle. Many maenads turn to tradition and ritual as ways to control their emotions. Most maenad villages tend to be no larger than a few hundred residents. As a result, much of maenad society revolves around the ocean: fishing, sailing, and swimming are the main activities of a maenad society. The nature of the ocean tends to soothe the internal turmoil of the maenad mind, for the calm waters that can turn to a deadly tidal wave are something to which a maenad can relate.
The children were next, but some of the children developed a resistance to the psionic crystal. In about five generations, the ability to create psychic crystals in the skin was developed and the first Maenads were born. Eventually, the race gravitated to the sea and became seafarers almost as great as the Phoenicians.Īs a primarily sea-faring race, maenads tend to live either in coastal regions, or on islands and archipelagos. The first generation of adults were almost wiped out by the fallout.
First from radiation sickness and next to trying to get the crystal out of their bodies by excreting it through the skin. The psionic fallout made a lot of people sick. The lich perished in the blast, but tiny pieces of the crystal came down as fallout. However, the people, in order to preserve their freedom, fought against this lich and their emotions of anger and indignation overwhelmed the Crystal, causing it to explode in a spectacular fashion that was not unlike an atomic bomb. The crystal responded to emotions, and can cause things to happen according to the emotion near it. That lich found a crystal in a lake with which it could try to take over the whole region and form an Empire as great as one of the early Empires that it fled from. However everything changed when someone woke up a lich. They lived a simple life, putting bones into ostuaries and worshiping the spirits through a religion called Atraru.
They were stone age hunter and gatherers living on the Continent, amid virgin forest and virgin growth, eking out an existence. Oh it's true, they were at one time, human.