Hashbrin

The original Hashbrin looked a lot like their Jhiriskan forbears, but had grey skin. As time passed, the average height increased and their tails shrank and lost the fur. The most significant difference though, was internal. Where Jhiriskan khaalnasi and lifeforce were dependent on the pure energy of the magic storm, the Hashbrinic khaalnas drew power from the individual’s soul, and their lifeforce was independent of the storm. As a result of this, they survived The Great Death while their Jhiriskan forbears did not. In truth, Jhiriska had been born with the mutation that resulted in a Hashbrin long before the 30th Century DA, but it was at this time that the Great Death began, and the Hashbrin were officially recognized as more than just “defects”. Though spread throughout the whole of Iuldar, their numbers were critically low, and they quickly went extinct locally in most regions. Where they managed to hold on, their numbers were low and they struggled to survive, falling back to stone age technology among the ruins of the old Jhiriskan cities. Eventually the Hashbrin everywhere except for Wiiramyl evolved into separate races. At around that time, the Hashbrin in Wiiramyl finally got around to rebuilding civilization. The civilization of Hashuran lasted for a long time, but was eventually torn asunder by civil war. The Hashbrin that dispersed from the destruction of Hashuran evolved further into a multitude of races, many of which were the ancestors of modern kindreds. The Hashbrinic magic system was the first example of the modern khaalnas. It generated power from the soul, processed it in a number of small organs called “nodes”, and released it from discharge points in the skin. Power was stored in capacitor nodes which would spill energy into a radius around the individual, called the aura. All these nodes were connected by a system of conduits that ran parallel to the nervous system. The Hashbrin and all their descendants can use field, cast, and elemental magic.