Visardi

General Overview
The visardi are a cold-blooded race of lizard-like people whose most important goal in life is the accumulation of knowledge. They possess a voracious appetite for learning but may also hide much of what they discover, prefering to keep it to themselves. Visardi are known to have highly-developed and intensely focused intellects and are incredibly adept at magecraft and sorcery.

Societal Structure
Visardi have no care for beauty and aesthetics in their society, finding them either fleeting or unimportant. They instead value knowledge and learning as signs of status and tend to be secretive with the information they gain. Visardi range from teachers to hoarders of information, but all members of the race view knowledge as the most precious commodity in the world. As a result, visardi are willing to make great sacrifices, pay staggering prices, or trample others underfoot to obtain knowledge. They are disdainful of the grothtalians’ inability to use most magic.

Physical Characteristics
Short, squat, and vaguely reptilian, visardi are not a physically strong race, and only a small number usually survive to maturity. Their small, gangly bodies are around three to four feet in height, and weigh from 50 to 70 pounds. Most visardi are a collection of spindly bones and flesh housed by thick skin. Their skin comes in a range of colors and textures, from dry and loose to slick and smooth. The Visardi are a long lived race, and it’s not surprising for one to spend the bulk of its 400 year existence doing nothing but studying and thinking. Visardi have a low fertility rate and choose their partners carefully for intelligence, often only laying one or two eggs in a lifetime.

Allowed Classes: shifter, enchanter, necromancer, shaman, druid, cleric
Allowed Alignments: good, neutral, evil
Allowed Ethos: lawful, neutral, chaotic

Racial Skill: ALL LANGUAGES
Racial Resist: ENERGY
Racial Vuln: ICE

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