Zion

No great event brought the Zion into the world. There was no war, no curse, no star; only, it is thought, a company of clever people who lived apart for a very long time and thought hard, and whose heads grew to hold it.

A Zion does not speak aloud, except to be polite. The words arrive, and that is all; and it is this, more than the high skull, that makes the simpler peoples draw back and make a sign with their fingers. In the cities they are respected. They are found in temples and in libraries, patient and wise and soon tired by a staircase, and of a will so strong that nobody has been known to stare a Zion down. Whether they hear more than is said to them, they have never told.

Details

• +1 wisdom, -1 constitution.
• Communicates with telepathic powers.
• As all humans: speaks common.