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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 4769140" data-attributes="member: 21938">I have a good connection, this would be good, thanks.Salsham'ai is good, but we're only at 3rd level at the moment so you'll need to adjust accordingly.I realise that this is for a 5th level character, but there are too many magic items here for Conclave. Probably adjusting average loot to a 3rd level character will remove some of them, but as far as I'm aware none of the other characters have a magic weapon or armour. Scrolls and potions are fine, plus perhaps one miscellaneous type item.Salsham'ai, with their prehensile toes, do not wear boots. Usual salsham'ai footwear is something like a reinforced fingerless cycling glove. Possible origin would be in the cloud forests to the north of the salsham'ai homeland, that climb the flanks of the mountains bordering human lands. The cloud salsham'ai are similar to their lowland cousins, and I quote "One such subculture are the Susar, who live in the cloud forest upland regions where the braashak climbs the mountain borders with Denra-Lyr. The Susar are sometimes called Cloud or Mountain salsham'ai. They are similar to their lowland cousins except that they do not revere Themnass and Shroma but have a closer association with the smaller spirits. Mist spirits are very popular, coming at dawn to bring fertility to their mountain home. The Susar have also taken up the practise of terrace farming on the mountain slopes above the borders of the braashak. They have their own dialect, Susaran, related to Themnassic but distinct enough to cause misunderstanding. Nevertheless, relationships between Thalsan and Susar salsham'ai are cordial and fairly open." An albino in this area might be thought of as touched by spirits, as (a) the area is home to plentiful mist spirits and (b) the human neighbours (the Denra-Lyr) associate albinism with latent magical power.Greed is rare is salsham'ai, but not unheard of. There are no dwarves or elves in this setting. The salsham'ai have several fighting techniques of their own, notably the Skill of Raindrops (which focuses on precise, deceptively gentle, strikes to "meridians" to cause a range of effects) and Spider in Amber, which is a wrestling technique that takes advantage of the salsham'ais small size. Feel free to invent other techniques, the salsham'ai tend towards defence or ambush over frontal assault, and non-lethal over lethal, but this is not 100% limiting.Horses and ponies are rare in Conclave, except for the Khazarate of Vaarta. Possible alternatives would be a <a href="http://www.creativeconclave.co.uk/domesticanimals.html" target="_blank">shandix</a> (a light riding antelope) or a <a href="http://www.creativeconclave.co.uk/matoo.html" target="_blank">matoo</a> (riding apes reared by the salsham'ai).</blockquote>

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