Cruentai

History
A race of vampires native to the world of Ceciderunt Dea. They evolved from tribal humans 3,000 years prior the arrival of the angels and demons. Fangs for sucking blood, and while blood is necessary to their survival, they can sustain themselves on the blood of animals. They don't spontaneously burst into flames with exposure to direct sunlight, but it will cause immense pain immediately, and slowly roast them with prolonged exposure. 10 minutes is usually enough to put them into a state of shock, 15 to kill one. Having lived in amongst the mountains and caves, they have plenty of experience in collecting and refining a wide variety of mineral resources. Prior to the arrival of the Caelist and Dalimos, they were avid traders with native human settlements, trading metals and gems for drained blood, having long since deemed feeding off of humans unsustainable in the long run. After the age of Heaven Fall, they approached the angels with an offer of Alliance, knowing the angels at least wouldn't destroy the human settlements whose farms and butchers they have grown dependent on.

Appearance
Often tall and slim in appearance, ranging from 5'10" to 7'8" for male and female adults, their slender appearance belies their true strength and perhaps overstates their agility. While they can move fast, they don't move quite as fast as they look they should. Skin ranges from alabaster to pale peach. Hair colors include black, browns and reds. Eye colors are predominantly varying shades of Yellows, Greens or Blues. They reach physical maturity at age 20, and can live as long as 200 years.

Class System
The Cruentai and the humans who live among them live with a class defined society.

Aristocracy: At the top are the Aristocrats. Very successful traders, gem cutters, bankers and other people who have accrued much wealth are counted among them. With exception to artists, musicians and artisan crafters, they are often disliked by the greater part of the society for their vanity. The Artists, musicians and crafters however, are highly respected even by the peasantry and the Caelist for their pursuit of beauty and the generosity they are known to display.

Merchant Class: Considered the face of the Cruentai Society, most interaction by outsiders with the Cruentai is through them. They provide a means to get raw and refined goods to friends and allies. Trade of some goods are allowed even to the Dalimos, though such trade is heavily regulated.

War Class: A relatively new class to their society, built from the law enforcement branches of the now lower "Labor Class", these include both the Nightwatch and the Sun Stalker organizations. They handle law enforcement and peace keeping within the borders of the Cruentai nation by day and night and lend aid to the Caelist in patrolling the borders with Dalimos aligned territories by night. Many predict that the War Class could soon overtake the Merchant Class in stature within the Cruentai Society.


 * ​ The Nightwatch : Cruentai Vampires who have taken to patrolling the streets and roads that fall under their care, policing both violent vampires from harming weaker humans and keeping watch of the borders for suspicious activity from Dalimos, they wear mostly dark grey and black attire. Typically armed with a short sword for dangerous fugitives and a heavy wooden bo staff for general enforcement and mediation duty.


 * The Sunstalkers : A policing force formed after several incidents involving Vampires in heavy clothing attacking humans in broad day light in attempt to avoid intervention by the Nightwatch. They too wear heavy clothing and tinted goggles to protect themselves from the sun when on duty. Taken and trained from the elite of the Nightwatch, with special care taken in maintaining their agility to avoid damage to their protective clothing. They don't often take up patrolling the borders like their Nightwatch brethren do at night since Angels do so. Armed with a long sword, a steel bo staff and a buckler. Patrol Uniform is a thick white tunic, dark leather boots and gloves and a mask that covers all but their eyes. Over their eyes is a large set of tinted goggles to cover the remaining skin and protect their eyes from the sun. Over their uniform are a grid pattern arrangement of steel buttons, providing minor protection from edged weapons, but their primary purpose being to provide a quick means to attach a scrap of cloth over any opening on the uniform to protect the skin from exposure to the sun through combat or incidental damage to their uniform.

Labor Class: Miners, minor craftsmen, logistical support, farmers and other heavy lifters in the society. They work primarily in the collecting, transportation and initial refinement of raw goods. Humans of the labor class are primarily farmers, while the vampires make up the majority of the people who work the mineral mines. Have seen a boom in prosperity since the Alliance with the Caelist provided steady business.

Peasantry: The lowest class, and relative to the rest of their society, are the poorest. However. They most often handle town level entertainment for the Laborers and Merchants through bars, theater and brothels as well as running bakeries and other businesses involved in providing the most basic necessities. Like Laborers, they too benefited greatly from an economic boom stemming from the Caelist alliance.

Locations
Ferrocor : Ancestral home of the Cruentai in the times before they reached out to civilized humans in ancient times. It is now a stone and steel city built into the side of a mountain where the Cruentai first mined ores and gems for trade with humanity. Street level buildings have heavy duty blinds to block out the sunlight during the day. Cruentai Population, 400,000, Human Population 50,000. Notable land marks include the Soul Cave Fortress, a solid granite structure carved from the mountainside itself and serving as the headquarters of the Nightwatch and Sunstalker organizations; the Pit, the heart of their metalworks; and the Zodiac Spires, a set of 13 towers set throughout the city at the top of which are enormous gemstones that are lit with magic to provide light to the city street after dark.

The North Crescent Bay : A massive Caldera measure 200 miles across, it's southern walls 70 miles northwest of the Cruentai capital, the northern wall of the crater was pounded by the ocean until it fell, filling the center of the Caldera with water. Mines have been built throughout the rim to access the rich gem and precious metal deposits found throughout the region. Gems with dimensions measurable by meters are known to come from these mines and the sea floor in the bay and the debris of the collapsed wall.