Black Sha’al

Physiology

Black Sha’al have black scales and yellow to green eyes. They gain no benefits from moving on all four limbs.

Psychology

Culture

The Sha’ál Shadas are the nobles and leaders of their race. Their orders are unquestioned among the lower castes. The Black Sha’al are at the pinnacle of the life-death cycle of reincarnation, and are due all honors deserved of those that have reached lofty birth. Though not as large as Striped Sha’al, the Sha’al Shadas are the nearly equal in size. The Striped Sha’al are normally more massive.

It is the goal of the Sha’ál Shadas is to command and serve their people. Excellent and loved leaders, at their time of death are given a complex ritual to offer the soul of the deceased Sha’al to its patron god. The lavishness of the ceremony is believed to reflect the people’s love for the leader. If the soul is accepted, then the soul is assumed into heaven and escapes the mortal life and birth cycle. This is an uncommon event, but the goal of most Black Sha’al. If no ceremony is held for the deceased, the creature must begin the life and death cycle from the beginning, having failed.

Many Black Sha’al are spiritual leaders in their communities. Black Sha’al are typically aristocrats, priests, craftsmen, or warriors.

The Black and Red Sha’al are vegetarian. Black Sha’al can eat meat but choose not to at pain of death, for fear of disrupting the life-death cycle of other creatures. Lesser Sha’al are not required to, nor do they practice this abnegation.

Language

The Black Sha’al of Tassèrus speak the common Shalambh, and an additional dialect specific to their sub-race.

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Nomenclature: Sha’al Shadas Dekàlic: Sha’ál Shadas (subrace), Sha’áli Shàdas (pertaining to), Sha’ályn Shàdas (individual), Sha’ályr Shàdas (people), Shalàmbh Shadas (dialect of Shalambh)