Sload
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For millenia, the hulking, slug like creatures, notorious for their necromantic mastery terrorized the Altmer, conjuring sea monsters along the coast and laying siege to Skywatch.
[edit] Life Cycle
As Juvenile they are disgusting, little amorphous grubs. Once they become adolescents thay are soft, squishy octopuslike things that cannot emerge onto land. Adults have no apparent limit to age or size. Sload seen on land in Tamriel tend to be older, corpulent adults. The trait of greed is common in these individuals, and they excel as merchants and smuggling entrepreneurs. Younger adults lack essential surface survival skills, and are rarely seen on land. Older adults collapse under their own weight unless buoyed by water.
[edit] Gifts
The Sload have perfect memory. They cannot read or write, but they remember everything they see or hear.
They are also magically adept. All land traveling Sload know the Recall spell at a high level of skill, and use it casually and frequently as the default mode of travel. It also provides the best defense. They can teleport out of danger instantly. Anyone fighting the Sload must be on their feet.
[edit] Liabilities
The Sload have poor grasping ability, which means they have weak tool use. The Sload slowly adapt their outer integument to conform with surfaces and objects, permitting them to pick things up or climb things like disgusting slugs. They are very slow. They think very quickly, but never enough to suit their careful, deliberate personalities. They move slowly and act slowly. It takes them a long time to come to decisions. They can answer questions quickly, if they choose to, but they seldom do.
The Sload are very cautious. They have no word in their language for adventure. The closest equivalent means tragic disaster. All of their heroic myths are about individuals who sit around and think for years and years, consulting cautiously with wise Sload, until they finally act, always deliberately, always successfully. All of their mythic villains act quickly and always fail.
The Sload are also morally repugnant. Every Sload individual encountered has been a grasping, callous, godless, self loving schemer. They do not seem to experience any familiar human emotions, though they are skilled diplomats and actors, and produce gross, exaggerated parodies of human behavior. They have no compunctions about blasphemy, theft, torture, kidnapping, murder, or genocide. They break laws whenever they calculate it to be in their best interests. They do not perceive honor, friendship, or loyalty in the familiar human terms, except for a cheerful affinity for those who defeat them or trick them in any endeavor. The adult form does not apparently reproduce, and shows no interest in the fate of its offspring.
| Humans | Breton • Imperial • Kothringi • Nede • Nord • Redguard |
| Mer | Aldmer • Altmer • Ayleid • Bosmer • Chimer • Dunmer • Dwemer • Falmer • Left-Handed Elves • Maormer • Orsimer |
| Beast | Argonian • Imga • Khajiit • Sload |
| Akaviri | Ka Po' Tun • Kamal • Tang Mo • Tsaesci |
| Divine | Aedra • Daedra |
