Rour De Vrow (3.5e Race)

Rour De Vrow
Summary::Soul-eating monsters, the Rour De Vrow are often vicious and savage creatures with cruel and isolated cultures. However, this is only natural to them, considering their physiology.

Personality
A Rour De Vrow is often viscous and instinctual, and always seeking combat, for, you see, a Rour De Vrow does not eat food as most creatures do, but instead must consume recently deceased souls. The surest way to acquire these souls is to kill, naturally, and unfortunately, the more intelligent the being was, the more the Rour De Vrow gains from it's consumption. This leads directly to a race which is structured on murder and war as it's foundation. As a result, Rour De Vrow are most often chased away from any civilizations they might threaten, meaning they generally don't know any society other than their own. All these things together result in the average Rour De Vrow being savage, cruel, and ignorant.

Physical Description
Standing an average of 5 feet tall, a Rour De Vrow is an unassuming creature, encased in shining, almost porcelain skin that shifts from white in their young years to blue in their middle years, to indigo or, very rarely, dark red in their old years. Their faces look like normal, human faces, but are more akin to masks, with no moving parts, their voices telepathically imparted instead of spoken.

Relations
There are no relations with Rour De Vrow, not in the traditional sense. Either they are driven out by other races, or they successfully kill and consume every soul that opposes them before they move on. There are a few societies with which they can interact, however. Dark, loathsome places where slavery is a common trade, and a Rour De Vrow can set up flesh farms. Even in these place, a Rour De Vrow is not trusted, as they see anyone as intelligent as they are as a potential meal.

Alignment
Rour De Vrow are almost entirely evil, with a heavy bent towards chaotic. There are a rare few, however, which learn to consume souls of animals instead of the more "nutritional" intelligent races, and perhaps even find ways to be good or lawful.

Lands
Rour De Vrow are nomadic, roving about their lands in war bands, seeking anything intelligent so they can kill it and feed. They tend to gravitate towards deserts or beaches, with a few being found in dry mountains. There are a few cities with a small Rour De Vrow populations, and most all of these contain slave markets, which the Rour De Vrow often frequent.

Religion
Religion is often a thing beyond the Rour De Vrow. They have clearly been created by some demon or dark god, given their manner of eating, yet they worship nothing and no one. The closest they come to a religion is how they believe it is their place to consume who they want when they want.

Language
Rour De Vrow communicate to others via a strange form of telepathy, which works both ways. Thus, a Rour De Vrow has need of language only when it comes to reading and writing, and generally learns common, but nothing else.

Names
Rour De Vrow names are made up of exactly five words, each one syllable long, like Rel Hash Vott Ah Loul. Four words are the last words of different ancestor's name, most often father's father, father, mother's mother, and mother, in that order, except the last word itself, which belongs to the individual.