Bottom Right: A Deiroan Lorperor House Lord, heavily tattooed in imperial symbols and embellishments. Their horns are fused and allowed to grow large for maximum tattooing space and hierarchy recognition.
Bottom left: A Lorperor donning a winter coat. Northern Lorperor traditionally grow their horn crest shorter and wider to hang their hoods on.
Top: A Lorperor Great Pride Lord laying on a royal lounge and decked in extravagant facial paints. Great Prides exist when a Pride grows in numbers and settles for long enough to grow in infrastructure and power.
Great Pride Lords grow their horn crest as large as they can for maximum display of prowess, yet this often leaves them near immobile and cumbersome.
The Lorperor are the tall and semi-quadrupedal relatives of the Manavan people, hailing originally from the warm plains of Deiroa. They are famed for their speed and elegance as well as their strange beauty. Their long necks support a pair of crest-horns which can be docked, bound, and re-grown to suit the aesthetics of each Pride's (family) culture.
Common Lorperor will paint their pale faces with various, generally near-red, markings to define their lineage, profession, or personal expression. Masters of a pride may have massive horn-crest which are intricately painted to evoke a god or a primal force that they are supposed to embody.
The most well known Lorperian culture are those of the raiders from the Deiroan Empire who are of pure white skin and black hair, and bound their horn-crest into a single spade shaped crest. Instead of paint, they have their Pride symbols and lineage tattooed upon the crest, and over time add more symbols based on notable success.
Unfortunately the Lorperor of the Deiroan Empire paint a poor image of the species to most, with their raiders killing and stealing from many of the other peoples with great numbers and heinous ferocity.
Lorperor prides are generally large families ruled by a patriarch or matriarch known as a Pride Master. They have to often contest their place against rivals and up-start relatives either with poetic duels or violent combat trial, with only the strongest or most clever ruling the pride.
If an old Master is usurped, the new one will cull young offspring of their predecessor to ensure their own lineage, which are commonly submitted to this fate by their mothers. In some cases, a mother will risk temporary leave of the pride until their child is old enough to be considered useful and beyond the cull.
Prides will usually avoid other prides until seasonal festivals where youngsters can mingle in hopes of meeting a lover or Masters can boast and discuss issues with each other, trading secrets and knowledge.
The Lorperor are primarily carnivorous in their dietary choices, either snacking on smaller animals or hunting larger prey as a group. Hunters will wipe away their paint and replace it with camouflage with only a colourful dot or stripe to present hunting role. They are normally armed with spears and bows, while the strongest member will wield special hooks that they use to grapple and takedown prey for a final strike.
They will chew on specific roots and spices, but nearly all Lorperor will choose meat over vegetation.
The Lorperor have a complicated relationship with the other Speaking-Peoples. The common Lorperor groups will rarely interact with their smaller, more colourful bipedal Manavan cousins due to respecting bounds over generations. Some groups intermingle more readily, to the point of hybrid children existing named "Lormen", often either appearing like a colourful hornless Lorperor or a subtly horned and paler Manava.
In the times before the Deiomachy (the God-War) the Lorperor were occasionally picked by the gods to be their messengers due to their speed.
The Ascended Lorperor, blessed with grand power and to have their mortal form consumed and replaced by the Avian god of dominance, Prakura.
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