Even well into the modern age, there exists a grudge between highlanders and their smaller cousins, though the exact nature of it may as well have been lost to time. While a highlander may work for coin, their honor is of utmost importance, and those who earn their ire often earn it for life. As such, they are highly valued as mercenaries, bounty hunters, and even guards where their loyalty can be earned. Great contests and festivals celebrating one's skill with javelins, arrows, even thrown hatchets and knives are commonplace throughout the year and are but one of many reasons why any of the drifting clans might take reason to halt their travels for very long. Highlanders are natural warriors, rugged and hardy as they are, but they excel with ranged weaponry. To a traditional highlander, the comforts of city life are sure to make one soft, but as the call of the modern world reaches further and further, more and more of the younger generation find themselves tempted to see what adventure and opportunity awaits them. In great travelling caravans they swept across mountains and valleys and even the seas, driven by the divinations of the reclusive witch-folk, to whom the spirits of the natural world whisper their will. The ancestors of today's highlanders were all a nomadic folk, to whom no land was impassable. Strong of spirit and body, highlanders embody humanity's penchant for adaptability even in the most dire of climates. In terms of magical capabilities, humans are known for being relatively 'magic neutral' and adaptable to any magic they may attempt to learn, though, that doesn't mean it will be easy. Humans have a large range when it comes to height, being anywhere from 5'5' - 6'2' (1.67 - 1.89 meters) normally, with a life expectancy of 60-70 years at best. Humanity is as diverse as it is populous, with people of all shapes, sizes, and colors found in all parts of the world. To identify a single human culture is an act of futility, for families and lineages have mingled and mixed freely over the ages. Regardless, there is no question that despite comparatively short lives and a tumultuous history, humans have risen to greatness. Others yet insist it was these so-called highlanders who betrayed and abandoned their kin to seek pagan gods among the crags and snow. Some claim that the original humans were nearly titanic in stature and held dominion over the mountains, but were overthrown by trickery and made smaller and weaker by those who would ultimately be called lowlanders. HumanityвЂ™s own history is relatively fresh compared to that of their dwarven or orcish peers, but much of it has been muddied due to conflicting accounts from what were once warring clans.

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