Slemmering

Standard information

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Physical appearance

Slemmering are tall humanoids that have very varied appearances. Their skin colour varies greatly from region to region and so does the colour of their hair and eyes. In short they look very much like humans?. They do not have large fangs and the men can have facial hair, but the woman do not. Their hair can be the length of elves or wavy or curly, or the men can be bold by nature. When slemmering grow old their skin gets wrinkled less than the Utgardian races but more so than the Asgardian races. They lose the pigment in their hair which gives the hair a grey colour. During their creation process Vanessa was particularly lazy. As with her Angels and Demons, she simply copied an existing race, added some touches here and their and looked what came out of it. Having inherited both the laziness and the gluttonous of Vanessa, the Slemmering are allot more fat than the average human. However, having also inherited her pride, Slemmering make sure they are normally not an ugly sight. Especially the face of slemmering usually does not mirror their fat bodies.

Not wishing to be mistaken for the fast living, hasty, and in their eyes "lesser" race of humans, some slemmering have taken it upon themselves to chance the race it's appearance. Some slemmering societies choose to permanently mark their members in some way to distinguish themselves from humans.

Active and dormant slemmering.

Slemmering have the extraordinary ability to sleep in a special trance like state. To an outsider this state is indistinguishable from normal sleep, however, if the slemmering is within this state he doesn't age, needs only a fraction of the food he normally needs, but is half conscious and scanning his surrounding for interesting things. This scanning happens primarily based on smell, and sound, however some slemmering have been known to "reverse blink" every day or so to get some visual input during this scanning process. This information is subconsciously processed by the slemmerings brain and in case of nearby danger, food, entertainment or even in some rare cases, business opportunities, the slemmering is able to wake up.

Please note that slemmering are still able to sleep normally (but they usually only do this when under the influence of sleep magic). Some slemmering however don't wake up from a sleep spell, and instead "shift" to trance sleep after the effect of the spell wears down.

Slemmering tend to stay dormant for years on end, sometimes waking for an hour or so each week to eat something. They wait for opportune moments to get rich, stuffed, entertained (this could in rare cases include adventure).... or even.

After they get the situation they what they stay active for years, still sleeping quite allot more than the other races do, enjoying their lives.

This results in the fact that active, happy slemmering live shorter lives then their dormant brothers and sisters who have not yet found what they are looking for in life.

Culture

Slemmering do not have any central culture. One of the few things they all have in common though is that they never forget who wronged them. Revenge is a strong motivation for a slemmering to get up and actually do something other than take good care of his own indulgence. However, most slemmering don't feel the need to indulge themselves in the revenge and sometimes "trade" their grudges. Slemmering don't like to travel and thus if some other revenge can be executed closer, but on somebody else, the slemmering is happy to give his revenge away to some slemmering who feels the same way. Sometimes rituals are used to exchange the actual anger and thus emotional need to perform the revenge. In some area's actual "revenge fairs" are held at secluded places on a regular basis to facilitate this. It isn't rare for slemmering to mate and feast during these fairs... they are together now anyway.

History

Slemmering do not have any central history. Two serious attempts have been made in history to create a slemmering kingdom. Both attempts have failed. The (active) slemmering are to rare, and to dispersed to create a central society.

Diet

Slemmering stomachs can process just about anything biological. Some slemmering have been known to sleep under a single tree, eating parts of it as they wake up sporadically. An active slemmering eats massive amounts of food in an incredibly short time, however a dormant slemmering only needs a fraction of the food a normal race needs and some slemmering have even been known to take small bites in their sleep, sustaining themselves and staying healthy, without waking up, on rotting food, roots, and anything else in the nearby meter or so. A dormant slemmering sleeping in a garbage dump for example is able to sustain himself many times over simply on the food people trow away.

The fact that a slemmering can survive healthy within such a condition is however not an excuse to actually do so. Most slemmering are way to proud to live in such dangerous conditions. However the fact that they can is a comforting thought to any slemmering.

Language

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Art, Music, Literature

Slemmering absolutely love entertainment. Quality of life is a high must for most Slemmering and their lust for entertainment is usually enough to lure them from slumber and dormant state even without the promise of food. For all their love for the Arts, slemmering performers are rare, the discipline to learn the skills necessary to create good art, music or stories is usually far above the discipline actually possessed by the slemmering.

Magic

Slemmering don't travel much and are spread out across all of heimr, and thus whether or not they posses the spark needed to learn magic is as varied as most wild races. If however they do posses the spark slemmering can be quite vigilant in training this talent. Magic, almost always guaranties a high income within Midgard and after the training it requires little time a day to actually gain this money. Beeing a mage is almost the ideal job for a slemmering and thus slemmering mages tend to live short lives, being active most of the time, enjoying their money and free time. Especially the sleight of hand spell, is popular among slemmering.

Religion

Slemmering generally "worship" Sin as a form of standard worship, this mostly involves dreaming or having intellectual discussions about the nature of laws, and how they fail. The secondary god of the slemmering is Vanessa, they worship her especially during mating. As humans, slemmering have a talent for adeptness, although their laziness ofter counters this, therefor they make moderate use of situational worship.

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