High Erruni

HIGH ERRUN

–4 Charisma, –2 Intelligence, +4 Constitution, +6 Wisdom
Medium: As Medium creatures, High Erruni have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Fleet of Foot: High Errun base land speed is 40 feet.
Low-Light Vision: A High Errun can see twice as far as a human in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of poor illumination. She retains the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions.
Vulnerability to Lightning: High Erruni take 150% damage from lightning, magical or otherwise.
Weapon Proficiency: High Erruni receive Exotic Weapon Proficiency (two-bladed swords) as a bonus feat.
High Erruni receive Psionic Meditation and Unconditional Power as bonus feats.
Immunity to morale penalties, and a +2 racial saving throw bonus against enchantment effects.
High Erruni require two hours of sleep daily, but spellcasters and psionicists must still rest a full 8 hours.
–8 racial penalty to Diplomacy checks.
Psi-like abilities: 1/day—Deceleration and Force Screen, manifester level equal to character level. Save DCs are Wisdom-based, where applicable.
Naturally Psionic: High Erruni gain 2 bonus power points at 1st level. This benefit does not grant them the ability to manifest powers unless they gain that ability through another source, such as levels in a psionic class.
Repletion (Su): A High Errun can sustain her body without need of food or water. If she spends 1 power point, she does not need to eat or drink for 24 hours.
Automatic Languages: Draconic, Sylvan. Bonus Languages: Aquan, Auran, Common, Elven, Ignan, Terran.
Favored Class: Psychic Warrior. A High Errun’s psychic warrior levels do not count when determining whether or not she takes an experience point penalty.
Alignment: usually lawful.
Level Adjustment: +2.

The High Erruni are an ancient, tradition-bound warrior race believed to be unique to Mori. High Erruni resemble very tall, pale-skinned elves, with many of the fine features that elves have. Their skin color is an entirely bloodless white that has occasionally resulted in their being mistaken for the undead. All High Erruni encountered thus far have been female. No explanation has ever been given for this. Unlike their Erruni cousins, High Erruni disdain other races and do not intermarry; there are no known instances of mixed children. Many High Erruni go so far as to extend this contempt to the blue-skinned Erruni, whom they refer to as "low Erruni."

High Erruni choose their leaders in accord with ancient tradition. These decisions are based not on martial prowess, as with most barbaric and monstrous humanoid cultures, or on diplomatic and oratory prowess, as is true of most demihuman cultures, but instead on the basis of complex and archaic codes of honor. Sages suspect that the High Errun honor code is not even fully understood by most High Erruni, and that only the elders and leaders of the race truly grasp its workings. However, suggesting this to a High Errun is apparently a grave insult, and has often resulted in a painful death for the speaker.

The High Erruni have a repuation throughout Mori for managing to appear both elegant and grimly efficient. Most who have had a chance to know them report that they are highly honorable, though a High Errun's idea of what is honorable differs greatly from that of other races.