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== Safir ==
{{quote |An ćaté Tèqagisan au vwontás nerỳmāiþ kānivǧa.*|An katae Teqagis eu vwontà nerymais kaniaþ.*
|orig= Meteli Ìneǧae Iliu Suizan, former archon of Nesta-Palo
|src=''Fertile Conversations''<br>* “The Awakened mind is the bedrock of society.”
=== Tall and Alluring ===
With their beautiful exquisite figures , graceful motion, and reserved, yet empathic, nature, safir appear hauntingly, yet extraordinarily, beautiful to humans and to more than a few other races. Safir are well-known for their blue blood, and for the light blue hue that it imparts upon their skin.
Safir are unique among the known sentient races in that they have three sexes: female, male, and a sort of in-between known as '''azhar''', who, while looking outwardly female, can sire children as well as bear them. They are also unique in their unequal sex distribution: for every 36 children, on average, there are 25 females, 5 azhar, and 6 males. As well, the resting body temperature of safir is lower than humans; however, they can consciously modulate their body temperature via meditation. Male safir are rarely seen in public, due to their scarcity and their closely protected nature, while, aside from height, it is difficult for an outsider to tell an azhar safir apart from a female one.
Safir, by their psychic nature, are flexible and pragmatic, loath to let themselves become affected by petty happenstance and desirous to resolve conflicts diplomatically before raising a sword, or a mind, against their sisters. To this end, their cities are well fortified by means yet unknown to the Unawakened, and many a prospective raiding party have found themselves suddenly lost, back where they started, or turned against themselves when marching thereon. Should, however, the need arise to defend themselves, the safir are keen inheritrices of a proud martial tradition that has persisted for untold millennia.
It is not unheard of for a safir to go her entire life without speaking a single word. Those that do speak, however, do so in a mellifluous, enchanting language called AirumàliĀirumāli, or in one called Īnēmāli, which vacillates between a mere language isolate and is more akin to birdsong than any other known language.
{{Underbar|A Distant, Haunting Melody
=== Laiendada Silmaringi ===
The most common reason for safir to take up adventuring is out of wanderlust, and a desire to explore and discover. They also enjoy exercising their martial and supernatural power, and adventuring grants them the ability to do so at often minimal risk to others. Safir greatly, too, despite the collectivist nature of their society, value freedom, so they will often take up careers that allow them to travel and set their own hoursschedule. For the same reason, it is not uncommon to see them taking up arms against oppression, corruption, and decay, or what they perceive thereas.
=== Safir Names ===
Safir are considered children until initiation, the details of which are a tightly guarded secret, aside from that it takes place in the child's teenage years, usually on or shortly after its sixteenth birthday, and involves its first, and sometimes only, haircut. Child safir names are as often meaningless babble as they are words, but adult names, and especially adult female names, are meaningful, closely treasured throughout the generations, and often long-winded.
Various safir societies may also impart on their members, in some combination or order, a family name, a matronymic, a caste name, and a locative. The given name(s) usually come(s) lastafter the family name and/or matronymic.
'''Male Female Names:''' Matêu Endoré (of a snowstormcrescent moon), Níraso Seóni (opallacquerware doll), Mismar Mitēuřamae (anchorthe name of a weapon from safir mythology), Tarin Valōra (close friendbutterfly), Žegán Lakuná (silvery or whitedreamscape), Āran Āstraja (blessedguardian spirit)<br>'''Gender-Neutral Names:''' Mismar (anchor), Lornar (wheel), Vraissaþr (truth), Tāriel (rose), Selén (a velvet-like fabric), Imar (cloud) <br>'''Female Male Names:''' Endoré Matēu (crescent moondependable), Seoni Níraso (lacquerware dollopal), Mitēuřamae Dyneþīłū (the name of a weapon from safir mythologysoft, freshly fallen snow), Valôra Ŵecù (butterflybell), Lakuná Neþu (dreamscapeleaf), Āstraja Nenu (guardian spiritmoss)<br>'''Family Names:''' Matronymics (the name of an individual's mother, with the suffix ''-ei'' added) are far more common than all other kinds of surname combined among safir. That said, some examples of the latter are Ansin (tree), Arvin (merchant), Ilāþrikan (angelborne), Jaīnakan (novaborne), Leido (crossroads), Neital (emerald), Rai Raí (holy light), Syvre Sývrè (ocean), and Telemnai (Seeker).
=== Safir Traits ===
