Artist Guidelines (Merchant)

Animals by rarity:

• Eastern red-backed salamander [Common]
• Eastern cotton tail (Rabbit) [Common]
• Northern cardinal (Bird) [Uncommon]
• White tailed deer [Rare]
• Eastern fence lizards [Very rare, almost only the royal family]
  

Is the culture based on or inspired by existing cultures or concepts?

• No.
  

General Style of Clothing:

• Short, light clothing
• often expose their stomachs or arms, but prefer to keep their entire legs covered
• same colors as decorations usually, dark green and brownish-red

Coloring Scheme

• prefer darker shades of green or browns
• use (brownish-)red for contrast, used less than green

General Design of Classes:

• Fighters and Healers prefer the lighter clothing common to their people
• But healers usually wear lighter green colors, and prefer to have their faces covered
• Rangers cover their entire bodies to blend in with the environment

Preferred classes (sorted by rarity):

• Rangers [Common]
• Healers [Slightly uncommon]
• Fighters [Uncommon]
• Mages [None]

Style of Architecture:

• Prefer to build wide, not tall
• Their older buildings used to be very stylistic, but they started to build with a more utilitarian style
• Prefer to incorporate the surroundings instead of changing it to suit the buildings
• Usually build in the shadows of large objects like big trees or cliffs
• Building hidden from sight because of smaller bushes and similar flora
• Buildings use dark wood preferably, and sometimes stone if its available
• Decoration use dark green and brownish-red

Main Biome (Biome that makes up the majority of their territory):

• Enormous trees
• thick bushes, often thorned
• predominantly larger flora, and often vines ranking around buildings, trees or cliffs
• often foggy, lots of moss

Naming Conventions:

• The name of their faction is "Republic of the Undergrowth"
• They call themselves the "Shaded People"
• Names of places usually either reference Shadows or the Undergrowth