Korrigan

Where the Ursians build for permanence and the Jutons reshape the land through simple force, the Korrigan reshape it through design—a people of stocky, powerful build, standing shorter than humans but considerably denser through bone and muscle, as though they were shaped from the same stone they have spent every age of the world learning to master. Their skin runs in tones of weathered clay, granite-grey, and deep earthen brown, often marked with the fine pale scarring that comes from a lifetime spent close to stone, fire, and the tools that shape both. Beards, grown long and often woven or clasped with metal fittings that double as both ornament and small, functional tools, are worn by Korrigan of every kind with evident pride, and it is considered no small insult among their kind to speak carelessly of another's beard-work.

The Korrigan are not, first and foremost, a people of the sword and forge in the manner other tellings of the world might expect, though they are perfectly capable with both when the need arises. The tome records them instead as Dúnamhar's foremost engineers, architects, and miners—a people whose deepest cultural pride lies not in what they can destroy but in what they can build to outlast them, and whose true weapon, when it comes to shaping the world, is patient and exacting calculation rather than brute strength alone. Where a Juton might simply move a mountain, a Korrigan will spend a generation tunneling through it precisely, and take considerably more satisfaction in the result.

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• LOW LIGHT VISION: Korrigan eyes are accustomed to the dark of the underearth. They ignore penalties for Dim and Dark Illumination.
• SIZE −1: Adult Korrigan are typically four feet tall, reducing their Size and Toughness by 1.
• REDUCED PACE: Korrigan have short legs compared to most races. Decrease their Pace by 1 and their running die one die type.
• TOUGH: Korrigan are stout and tough. They start with a d6 Vigor instead of a d4. This increases maximum Vigor to d12+1.