Highlanders
Native Literacy: None. Highlanders and Celts do not have a written language, preferring to pass down their history orally.
Category: Human • Highlanders and Celts
Upland mountain people of the Wolfskael Mountains, led by Druids and Shanahee storytellers, bound by a personal Geasa.
Advantages
- Can purchase the Rage skill
Disadvantages
- Has a personal Geasa which must be chosen at character creation.
- Cannot learn any Literacy skills until Level 5
Costume & Roleplaying Requirements
- The player must speak in a Scottish Brogue.
- The player must wear any color of Scottish Tartan as either a kilt, skirt, dress or trews
Additional Rulebook Notes
The Geasa is a personal superstitious code chosen at character creation (e.g. 'Must not walk alone at night', 'Never accept a drink for free'). Should a character willingly break their Geasa: their Body Point total is reduced to half until the character atones, the character may only use passive or defensive skills, and the character can only swing their weapon's Base Damage, regardless of any Strength Bonus or Damage Bonus they may have. Being compelled by a mind-controlling effect does not break the Geasa.
Other Highlanders and Celts
Canonical Source Citations
Rulebook — Page 28 (Character Races and Tribes - Humans - Highlanders and Celts - Highlanders / The Geasa)
[Rulebook, p. 28]