Ickin

The Ickin is a 'mixed human cultures' race that first appeared in Rathnir but moved to Eldham, first appearing in a small town called Bluefield in southern Yimmu-Audal, before it was raided.

Origins
By merely looking at an Ickin you may notice a few features that have been carried over from other races,. This is because The Ickin is a sort of mixture of multiple other races including the Valdic people, Huitca, many types of elves, goblins and other kind of folk. This happened due to the Ickin at first being nomads that travelled the world and bred with other cultures, taking the children with them on their travels.

Culture
The culture of the Ickin has recently been split, as two Ickin groups have established their own settlements, one settling in Eldham as a province of Aurea called Orthkehm, another in Bardonia called Lobopolis. The differences between the two groups come in form of architectural and religious differences, the Orthkehm people believing in the original worship of three main gods, while the Lobopolians only praise one of the three, Hjemu. The Orthkehm people also sport a unique curved, wooden style with overgrown, mossing, rounded roofs.

Religion
All Ickin used to worship the Kunikue, a small part of the huge pantheon in their religion of Ickism, although the Bardonic Ickin only praised one of the three, Hjemu, this was before Ickism was integrated into ancestralism. Although its unpopular by other's standard, human sacrifice was quite common within old Ickism, but since it was integrated into Ancestralism it has become rarer, as the Arktisian people are not as barbaric as the old Ickin.

Today the Ickin people follow the religion of Ancestralism, a combination between their old mythology of Ickism and the religious faith of the old ancestralism when the Ickin people arrived in Eldham.

Biology
The Ickin have many traits of other races, they are a little shorter due to dwarven blood, they have slightly pointed ears and are quite slim due to their Elven blood and a lot more that don't come from one specific race but have been picked up due to simple mutations, such as a fast heartbeat, the inability to cry and very strong immune system. But what you can very easely notice on every Ickin individual, is the red pigment in their skin, the cause of this however is unknown. Another very important note on the Ickin is that due to the amount of cross breeding they have endured, their genes are quite unstable making them prone to physical and mental mutations, this can go from small ones like having sharp teeth to ones that change their entire biology.