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Doge
Seeker
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 Posted - 09 Aug 2013 : 10:36:41
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Shining South states that Crinti come from a wide variety of bloodlines. Nine in ten come from drow/human pairings and one in ten, and the ones with the highest status, come from descendants of half-elf priestesses of Loviatar. It also states that present day Crinti has a convoluted lineage that incorporates several different drow houses, plus humans, half-drow, and occasionally a half-elf priestess of Loviatar.
So basically being a Crinti means belonging to a social class and not a race at all. It only generalizes Crinti as half drow since they are the majority of the social class.
So you could be a human Crinti with some sort of drow/half-elf ancestor, a half-drow Crinti, a drow Crinti, or a half-elf priestess of Loviatar Crinti with no drow blood whatsoever.
Am I correct or am I wrong?
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silverwolfer
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 09 Aug 2013 : 11:19:49
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crinti are a tribe, you see them in a book called the magehound or wars, one of those things, and is a trilogy.
If you read deeper into the shining south, look up the horse rider PRC that is in that book , should give you greater insights.
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BadCatMan
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Australia
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Posted - 09 Aug 2013 : 11:59:01
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Yes, that's exactly right. As long as they are descended from either the original half-elf priestesses of Loviatar (the First) or the drow of T'Lindhet, then they are Crinti. Dark skinned or light, silver-haired or dark, pointed ears or not. The Crinti pursue two strands of noble blood: the First and drow.
Take Baroness Selanith L'baros of Herath for example. She's only 1/32nd drow and human-looking (but statted as half-drow for some reason), but took a male drow consort to have slightly move than half-blooded drow children.
In my game, a PC is visiting a group of Crinti (the Dambrathan equestrian team at the Thulbanian Games) and I'm having fun switching in and out the different layers of the society: the common humans working for the half-drow-looking nobility, in turn abused around by an visibly non-drow half-elf priestess, then lorded over by the thoroughly human-looking Selanith, with a full-blooded drow male as a rather put-upon husband. The introduction of the PC, a mostly drow Eilistraeen, is mixing the system up a bit. |
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Crinti clarification.
