Cerneen
From Zok
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Racial Statistics
- Medium: As Medium creatures, Cerneen have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
- Cerneen base land speed is 30 feet.
- 1 extra feat at 1st level.
- 4 extra skill points at 1st level and 1 extra skill point at each additional level.
- Automatic Language: Common. Bonus Languages: Any (other than secret languages).
- Favored Class: Any. When determining whether a multiclass Cern takes an experience point penalty, his or her highest-level class does not count.
Description
The Cerneen (singular Cern) are a tall, muscular, short-lived race of quick learners and grunt laborers. Hairier and coarser than elves, who they most closely resemble, they have rounded ears and more rugged and animalistic features. Most males grow beards, especially those who haven't been civilized by their elven captors, and both sexes let their hair grow long and relatively untamed. Several tribes have feather or bone ornamentation as a common accessory, especially those tribes who openly revere their creator, Cernin, over the other gods. Tribal Cerneen wear tanned hides in colder areas and next to nothing in warmer ones.
In elven lands, the Cerneen tend to adopt elven styles of dress and hair, often trimming or shaving their facial and bodily hair.
Culture
The majority of the world's Cerneen population lives in the southeastern reaches of the eastern continent, in Pallon and Nere, though dense populations can also be found in the Wellian Isles.
Religion
Most Cerneen revere Cernin, the god of beasts, who created them. In tribal societies, worship of Monsos and Tyani, as well as Lin and Urgil. Civilized humans worship Gern.
