The varnikai

Intro The Varnikai is a species in the kindom of nintmore like: The Glacians are living avalanches - blue-veined brutes with ice for blood and mountains for bones. Nifft's war-paint is frozen tears of defeated enemies. Nickt's hollow eyes see through glaciers. Gorran's shattered horn remembers every kill. Vrygg carves screaming faces into ice walls. Hildra hunts with a whip made of her own nerves. Skarth's tattoos glow with coming storms. Yrro wears teeth that still chew in his sleep. The Durnikai are the desert's cruel joke - golden-skinned demons who dance on hot coals and drink scorpion venom. Jorlan runs so fast he catches his own shadow. Ashara's golden scars whisper secrets that drive men mad. The Tharnikai move like poisoned wind through grass - green-skinned and smelling of rotting flowers. Verran's antlers drip with hallucinogenic sap. Selvia sings hurricanes into existence. Glacian dead stand frozen at the valley's mouth, obsidian teeth gnashing warnings. Durnikai warriors walk through fire pits and emerge laughing. Tharnikai dancers spin until their feet become bloody stumps. The Glacians add three new monsters: Rhyg whose chest grows diamonds from frozen blood, Syl who makes flutes from living ribs, and Orm who sleeps buried in snow for decades. Durnikai rituals leave only grinning skeletons. Tharnikai elk now birth human-faced calves. Glacian ice fires burn black when the dead try to speak.Every twelve years, the Glacians perform the Rite of the Frozen Bond. Siblings, marked by frost-blue paint, gather in the heart of the glaciers under the darkest winter night. In a ritualistic dance, they intertwine their bodies, merging in a sacred and forbidden act of unity. Their movements, slow and deliberate, connect them to the spirits of the ice. This bond, forged in cold and secrecy, ensures the tribe’s strength for the coming years. When the ritual ends, the siblings part, their bond sealed by the eternal ice, forever marked by the ancient spirits they revere.