Kalashtar

Refugees from the shadowfell, a Kalashtars mind is as sharp as a vorpal sword.

Basics
 Kalashtar have a diversity of appearance, possessing the same variety of skin, hair, and eye colors found among humans. They are usually slimmer and taller than humans, although short or stocky kalashtar exist. Kalashtar physically develop at the same rate as humans do and have similar life spans. A kalashtar child passes for human at first glance, but a few minutes of observation reveals the key difference. All kalashtar have a manner that is graceful, serene, and serious because of the fragment of quori soul bound within them. While human children run, laugh, and play, kalashtar children engage in the same meditative exercises, martial training, and telepathic conversations as adult kalashtar. For a kalashtar, growing up is a physical process, not a mental or emotional one.

Kalashtar are descendant from a group of seventy five shades who were being hunted by the first king of Elbereth, Elbereth himself. They took refuge in a monastary on a remote isle, and  convinced the monks to undergoe a transformation and accept into themselves the soul of the shades. The kalashtar were a result of this. Kalashtar struggle to integrate the thoughts and sensibilities of their human halves with the strange, intangible memories of their shade souls. Kalashtar flirt with madness. Occasionally, a kalashtar’s serene countenance drops to reveal crazed and baffling behavior that is inappropriate or even dangerous.