Marius
Of House Mereel
A typical armor worn by the Teresmen when in combat, in this rare capture of a Teres warrior the man wields a sword. Most common weapon for the Teresmen were the spears.
Credits to artist: Sash4all @ DeviantArt
Name: Teresmen a.k.a Sons and Daughters of Teres
Designation: Sentient
Homeworld: Nomads, but their ancestral planet will be created in the planet creation subforum as soon as this gets hopefully approved.
Language: Teresan which also has 3 distinctive dialects of its own. Basic is usually taught when a Teres child is the age of 10, also the age when Teresmen acquire their literacy. It is to be noted that Basic is taught only if the parent supports that.
Average height of adults: 1.90m (Marius is considered short as he is only 1.83m)
Skin color: Caucaussian white is the sole color of the Teresmen ethnicity.
Hair color: The predominant is dark brown. The second common would be black, right after it blonde and lightbrown. A dozen have been recorded to have unnatural red hair. While there are no recorded gingers amongst the Teresmen.
Breathes: Same as Human.
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Strengths:
- Physically more gifted: Their average height is much higher than typical human average height, and their generic build is athletic. The average Teresmen would be a much better athlete or fighter in any case compared to the average human. Whether that has always been such or the result of generations constantly waging war is unknown.
- Battleborn: Their tradition for thousands of generations to wage war and conquer has made them innertly more receptive and capable in waging war. This includes awareness and perception in singular combat, and better comprehension and formulation of war strategies. Moreover, it includes that while being quite disabled at utilizing any technology to an average level, Teresmen acquire the knowledge for use of technology for battle better (e.g blasters, functional armors, etc..) than any other type of technology, yet they still prefer not to use such technologyBeing labelled as barbarians has also served them for an advantage as the enemies underestimate the Teresmen's intelligence for waging war and winning battles.
- Immune to radiation: Living for hundreds of generations on spaceships, the Teresmen have grown accustomed to the constant solar radiation and as such have developed an immunity in their DNA to usually deadly levels of radiation.
Weaknesses:
- Technophobes: Teresmen, although utilizing technology such as piloting a shuttle down on a planet, or shooting with a blaster in life threatening situations, are quite the technophobic people. They abhore technology, and only utilize it for some convencience, such as piloting their nomadic ships. Additionally, they are way below the average skill anyone might have in any sort of technology. They look like cavemen on computers.
- Socially awkward: Very rare are the occassions where a Teresmen has been born with a gift in socializing skills. Teresmen are quite asocial and find their way of communicating in battle. They totally can not catch sarcasm at its plainest form, nor irony, nor idioms nor any other twist to meaning of words. As such in the rare occassions they are amongst others than their own and they are not fighting them, Teresmen prefer to be silent.
Distinctions: Teresmen tend to have a tattoo somewhere on their bodies with the symbol of Teresmen - A typical Teresmen helmet (Credits to: Wikipedia)
Average Lifespan: 78 - Men || 84 - Women (Results based only on natural caused deaths)
Races: None. Just one.
Estimated Population: ~1,500
Diet: Omnivore, same as humans but with more focus on meat.
Communication: Verbal and written.
Culture:
Way of Teres:
The Sons and Daughters of Teres or Children of Teres (Sinovi i Sherkovi Teresa ; Cheda Teresa) believe in following the 'Way of Teres' (Put Teresa [the U in put is read as the u in but] ), a fatherly figure, patron to the Teresmen. They believe all of them are his children. The Way of Teres explained in the most simplistic way is proving worth in the heat of combat. Similiar to the Mandalorian culture where honor and worth is proven in combat. Unlike the Mandalorian culture, Teresmen are technophobes and also more dependant to the common cause of the Teresmen, whereas Mandalorian are more independent in nature.
Teresmen do acknowledge birthdays but do not celebrate them, instead they celebrate namedays. Namedays in Teresmen culture are not the dates on which a child is named but fixed dates that belong to a certain name or variations of such names (Such as the real life Christian Orthodox namedays).
Teresmen have their own alphabet (Pismo Teresa) along with language (Rech Teresa) that has nothing to do with Basic. It is a completely distintictive language. They feel great pride in their possession of an own alphabet and writing system, and as such some really prideful parents tend to forbid their child from learning Basic usually quoting an old Teres saying:
"If they do not speak the language of Teres, they will speak the language of the blade."
Despite having a language of their own, it is quite poor in sarcasm, irony and such expressions of speech. They do have their own sayings and a few idioms but they are totally different from those that exist in the Basic language.
The Children of Teres' also have engraved in their culture a very strong patriotic sense, always demonstrating pride of their heritage and upbringing. Although they are quite primitive in the sense of the galaxy's development, Teresmen have never practiced any racist actions and never judged any species by looks are way of life. They accept all sorts of cultures as well, as such they wouldn't mock or insult a race due to its peaceful way of life or due to any other reason. Yet, they are very reluctant of admitting someone who was not born as a Teresman. Only a handful of occassions in the history of the Teresmen has such happenings occured.
Technology level: Quite primitive, although dozen of Teresmen have the skills to operate the ships they used to use for transport and maintain them in the most basic way possible, the typical Teresmen would not know how at all to pilot a speeder let alone a ship. What remains of repairing such technology? Teresmen feel very awkward in the presence of droids and do not understand how to make sense of them. Their most prominent and common use of technology is their weapons - only melee and most are vibroswords. Maintaining and making vibro-weapons has been their only above average technological skill. The Teresmen are found to be generally very good at forging weapons.
General behavior:
Unlike common beliefs, the Children of Teres are not bloodthirsty monsters, and do not kill everything in sight. They have ancient codes of combat where all without weapons are to be spared, all offering no resistance to be spared, only permission to use lethal force on those who show resistance. Teresmen never kill without a purpose, which more or less is defending their lives.
They tend to be silent, almost being judged as mute amongst foreigners. They are much more open to talk with their own kin. Teresmen also despise using technology and as such feel disgusted when they are forced to use such, such as shooting a blaster in a life-threatening situation. Usually, they would use their time to better their combat capabilities as they are devoted to the 'Way of Teres' or maintain their weapons and equipment. They prefer sleeping when they have nothing to do and more than often one could see a Teresman dozing off in the middle of a conversation he finds boring or useless. Due to that they rarely pay attention to things that do not directly concern them or regard as unimportant. In the rare occassions someone can have a dialogue with a Teresman, it is usually a monolgue for the other one. Unless, the conversation is something about that geniuinely interests the Teresman. Otherwise, the Teresmen are very bad at feinting any sort of emotion and that makes them unbelievably honest in their talks and body languages. They very rarely think twice when speaking, always directly saying whats on their mind with no regard of the situation. This has often been one of the reasons to why they are labelled uncivillized or without manners.
History:
The history of the Teresmen begins thousands of years before on a planet, which's name is Trakya. This is the only record left by the Teresmen of their ancestral heritage apart from their culture, of course. It is believed that there are fragments of the Teresmen's history spread around the galaxy such as lost writings of past explorers, travelling historians and such. None have been gathered yet.
It is unknown when and why did the Teresmen take to space and never return, considering also their technophobic culture. Marius believes a common legend that the ships had belonged to colonists and they had been slaughtered by the Teresmen. When asked why would the Teresmen take the ships and leave with them, which makes no sense, Marius would simply shrug.
Whatever the reason and the method of acquiring these ships, the Teresmen had the basic knowledge or maybe have gained it eventually of operating this ships on a basic level. Not even being able to travel into hyperspace, the Teresmen utilized the ships only in sublight speed and began raiding neighboring planets.
They have not recorded all events up to their genocide, only major ones that are usually once in a decade or sometimes a century.
The demise of the Teresmen arrived when a much more technologically advanced fleet, presumably slavers or pirates, engaged the Teresmen in naval and eventually boarding combat. Having the advantage of a far superior technology the Teresmen were crushed, most were annihiliated while others were sold away as slaves.
Notable Player-Characters:
Intent: The plan is to give Marius a purpose for other roleplays than those extending the cause of the Mandalorians, something more personal for his character development. In a way to have an 'own' IC life apart from being just another Mandalorian, if this makes sense. It also opens so much more options for developing this character as a personality and create new IC events - such as finding the Teresmen's planet and eventually dotting it on the Galactic Map making it available for factions to conquer, or filling gaps in the Teresmen's history. To make this culture's existance not just some background story to a character but to be part of everyone's IC. Like the example of the planet stated above.
The purpose of why I've left their history to be vague is that to give the opportunity not only for Marius but for others also to fill the gap with creativity rather than having a finished product up for grabs. An example would be ICly finding fragments of a weapon that was used by the Teresmen and realizing the potency of the metal it was made from. Of course this is just an example to clarify what I am trying to say. I hope all this makes sense, and would love to hear your review and remarks on this application.
EDIT: I also plan, if this gets approved, to adding more in the culture as Marius or others (if interested) find historical fragments that describe anything about the Teresmen.
