Torin, more in depth

It's been a while since I've touched on Ronar, getting all caught up in procedural content and all. Let's look a little more in-depth at one o the races, the Torin.

Torin were one of the races created after humans, and they were created with a mindset to preserve the world around them rather than to expand and develop wantonly. Hard-wired as naturalists, this instinct influences nearly every aspect of Torin life, although as is always the case different individuals take such a cause quite differently.

Most Torin have the view that one should live in harmony with nature, taking what you need and giving back in turn what you can. They do not hunt for sport, they do not cut down great trees to build their structures (Most often they will grow Rowan trees for this purpose, as they grow very large branches). They do not accept collateral damage in their fights and overall live a very peaceful, calm lifestyle. This also means that most Torin cities are reasonably small, to prevent the over-use of natural resourcesm unlike human cities that simply change the resources available to fit their expanding cities.

However, not every Torin is average. There are entire groups of Torins that view their proclaimed ward of nature as a calling to eliminate all creatures that abuse it. Humans, of course, are their prime goal, and these oft-fanatical sects will attack human cities, destroying as much as they can and murdering without pause especially when human settlements attempt to expand or grow beyond what they consider to be an acceptable size.

Some Torin, too, take it upon themselves to attempt to convert human cities over to their way of life, although few are particularly successful. These are few and far between, as most Torin feel that the humans and them are far too different to see eye to eye on such matters, which was why the gods created them seperately.

Torin and Human often see close enough eye-to-eye that they find each other attractive. Being the most similar two of the intelligent races, in the Age of mortals, Half-torin half-human children became easily the most dominant of the half-breed races. They appear mostly human, though they have pointed ears and a light fuzz often giving their skin odd colorings. They rarely have the tails that Torin have, apparently it not being a particularly dominant trait. These have-breeds strike a strong stance between the two races, expanding at a decent rate, but not abusing the resources of the world. It is unlikely they will ever become as dominant as either of their parent races, but the merging of traits andboth physical and cultural is truly a positive force in Ronar.