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This is a detailed and rather lengthy alphabetical introduction to Talis. It also tells you how to create your character and what I expect with character background and history. [For game flavor please see this link here]
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Adventurers: Traditionally people who quest either for hire or on their own to solve problems, meet new people and generally earn the right to have wonderous stories told about them. Although, adventurers a thought to be daft to go looking for trouble and injury, they are nevertheless well respected and enjoy beneficial status.

Alignments: There are no alignments. Evil is relative and usually interpreted as an enemy who intends harm. But do note the PCs are the good guys and true evil is obvious.
Resistance
Hopeless
Background: Most children are trained by their parents and caste to follow in their footsteps. Some children are sent away from home as an apprentice or fosterling---these are options for characters, but a reason why this indentured arrangement ended will need to be worked out.

Blood Payment: This is a standing demand of the Water Caste. Depending on the corruption of the officials, they may choose from the lowest castes or may make surgical selections for political gain or just to create terror. Blood payments can be bought and sold as a future or a direct trade.

Castes (pronounced "cast"): This is a very stratified culture expressed through castes, but it is one in which most castes freely mingle. Although the upper castes usually have slaves or underlings who move among the lessor castes for them. The following are some of the castes (I'm still working on this, and suspect that I may never be done).

- Untouchables
Slaves: owe water debt or have been sold into debt by family, caste or debtors.
Outlaws: the Solstistalis equivalent of "big game" with no bag limies
Undead: mostly zombies but others forms as well, mindless labor
There are no caste markings except for slaves who carry the ones of their owners

- Dirt Caste
Farm Labor: tasks too complex for the undead to perform
These caste markings are brown dots

- Farm Caste
Animal Labor: milking, slaughtering, etc.
Farmers: better labor then the Dirt Caste
These caste markings are black dots

- Service Caste
The Unseen: sewage cleaners, trash prickers
The Unheard: upper caste and wealthy servants
The Laughter: entertainers
The Unspoken: assassins, all things thievery
These caste markings are white dots

- Crafter Caste
Hand Labor: clay, mud bricks, weaving mats and cloth
Food Labor: processing, preparing and preservingfood
Cloth Labor: weaving spinning
Wicker Labor: baskets, many wood substitute objects
These caste marking are saffron dots

- Trader Caste
Travel Labor: caravans, porters
Legs: common messengers, street criers
These caste markings are red dots

- Administration Caste
Thought Labor: organizing, directing, recording
caste markings are green dots
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