Aperusa

Aperusa were an itinerant human people group common to wildspace.

Description
A handsome race, Aperusa had dusky skin and stood between about 5 and 6 feet tall (150 and 180 cm). They tended to be in prime physical condition.

Both men and women usually dressed in flamboyant, colorful, silken clothes and wore a good deal of jewelry. They were never seen wearing armor of any kind.

Abilities
Aperusa had several abilities that were either trained from an early age or inherited after generations of wildspace survival. Nearly all Aperusa were skilled in a variety of skills typically associated with thieves.

Long exposure to wildspace had somehow given them a mild resistance to magic, and they were immune to mind-reading magics and nearly immune to other detection magics. (This also prevented them from becoming psionicists.)

Aperusa required much less oxygen than other humans and so could survive for longer in situations where an air envelope was depleted. They also had learned a way to fake death, almost entering a state of hibernation. They could remain in such a state for multiple days.

Notable Aperusa
The most famous of the Aperusa clans were the Astralausians, the Phlogestos, and the Wildjammers.

Rozloom was an aperusa man who traveled with the Cloakmaster Teldin Moore during the events of the Second Unhuman War. He was the leader of the Astralusian Clan. He ultimately made an agreement with the Elven Imperial Fleet to perform a suicide mission to the planet Radole, during which he assassinated a group of orcish witch doctors to release the primary witchlight marauder that they had there trapped in stasis. It was generally presumed that the witchlight marauder so freed eventually caused the full annihilation of all life on the Ice World, causing an irrecoverable blow to scro and their allies in the war.

Appearances

 * The Maelstrom's Eye
 * The Radiant Dragon