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- Rashemi are a short, hardy folk, built for strength rather than speed. Men grow beards but keep them trimmed short. Both sexes keep their hair long: The men wear a pair of thick braids, while the women have only one. The length of one's hair is a measure of status, in marked contrast to the shaven-headed Red Wizards.
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Rashemen was located just north of the Thayan Plateau, between the Great Dale and Narfell to the west and the Sunrise Mountains to the east. The northern border of Rashemen lay at the base of the frigid Icerim Mountains .
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Rashemi are a short, hardy folk, built for strength rather than speed. Men grow beards but keep them trimmed short. Both sexes keep their hair long: The men wear a pair of thick braids, while the women have only one. The length of one's hair is a measure of status, in marked contrast to the shaven-headed Red Wizards.
I saw in the comments of my last post that it interested a lot of people so here are the cultural equivalents of the Realms in my opinion. Some are pretty obvious but others are more subtle and maybe you have other opinions, in that case share them in the comments and maybe I'll revise my list. Aglarond.
The Sunrise Mountains and two small but thick forests divide Rashemen's lower third from the rest of the country, and most of its citizens inhabit this smaller portion. Although its size is comparable, Rashemen's harsh climate and remote location mean its population is less than half that of Cormyr.
Rashemen is south of Thay, and the Red Wizards constantly want to conquer it. They are only kept out by the hathran/wychlaran and the vremyonni, who are male spell casters who live lives of extreme recluses.
Rashemen actually does seem, like most of the Forgotten Realms, fairly diverse, so I'm not disagreeing. But the descriptions in wikis and other online repositories pin them as being generally darker-skinned -- not quite like Turami or Chultans, perhaps, but not Western European in looks.
A tribe of Raumviran humans ventured west from the Endless Wastes in -5000 DR, led by a man named Shemen. They found a region known then as the Lakelands, named for it's three large lakes, and settled there. [1] Thirty seven years later, Shemen died, and in his honor, his people renamed the Lakelands the "lands of Shemen" which in their tongue ...
