Art by Terry Maranda

In the heights of the Ta-Teer Mountains the peaceful Ta-Heil’s live a solemn scholars life in their high rising Temple Libraries guiding and studying the people of Daedonas. These highly advanced gastropod’s are considered the teachers of the Crescent Lands and their wise advice and philisophical reasonings guide many leaders and people of the lands. 

The Sages pursue knowledge and understanding for the most of their long four century life, studying the past and predicting the future. Compiling tomb upon tomb of literature in their vast libraries they record all stages of the Crescent Land’s history and withhold all it’s secrets. Entrance into the temple libraries are highly selective and only through extensive interrogation would one be able to, for in their deep vaults they hold the greatest tools of destruction and creation, the last of the soulroot artifacts.

The Ta-Heil are an asexual gastropod race that live in few numbers at the highest altitudes. They have very many unique characteristics that define their race; They float through the air using a complex system of inflatable hydrogen bladders. Two methods control their movement, by filtering out the hydrogen from the oxygen in the air they maintain their buoyancy, and they control their direction by the use of minisicule valves expelling the gas. The Ta-Heil’s tough fibrous body has very little feeling to the cold high altitude climate and the their sphincter like mouths allow quick powerful intakes of air to fuel that levitation. And lastly, their long coarse beards are sensitive to the most minute changes in the weather to better gauge where the wind will take them and how best to work with it.

I also have a few head sketches, they’re for future Daedonas Denizens and I’m itching to do some more personal artwork, but freelancing comes first. I’ll have an update on what I’ve been doing for White Wolf in about a week.