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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 1571158" data-attributes="member: 386">Hmmm... good question.  Could they read each other's thoughts as well?  Probably.  I guess they'd have small societies - like wolves or lions or something, where everyone falls into a rigid heirarchy and knows their place.  Males wander around.  Things would get too complex if too many of these guys hung out together, because then everyone would get jealous and/or threatened, and they'd fight over resources.  Or maybe I'm a pessimist, and they'd all love each other.  Nah... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  If they did have societies, they'd have to be really rigid, full of rules to keep people in line and full of rituals for everything from resolving disputes to talking about the weather.  They'd probably have a large "personal space" and completely cover themselves when in public (if you use the Sense Motive variant) or completely avoid looking at each other (if you use Detect Thoughts, or something like that).This is just all wild speculation, but it sounds different from most fantasy races and interesting to play.  I guess that all adds up to a Lawful race.I don't think they would have a concept of deceit.  Well, it would be a foreign, abstract concept.  They might laugh and snicker at other races who try to conceal motives from them (and others).They might sell their services as "negotiators" who help merchants bargain for prices, or to detect false testimony in court, or help kings with treaties - all that kind of stuff.  They'd be great spies.  Really good in the service industry because they know what the customer wants (sometimes better than the customer himself).Probably untrusted by most other races.  Tolerated because of their usefulness, but not well liked because they can steal secrets.Just a few ideas.  Hope you get some inspiration.</blockquote>

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