Glassmen

By far the rarest of the factions, the Glassmen are considered atrocities by both Renders and Weavers alike and killed on sight. Born normal humans without being Blessed by Sol, Glassmen are capable of gaining great powers at a great cost: by sacrificing their own child, the fledgling Glassman absorbs their own progeny’s fleeting Breath. Through this abhorrent sin against Sol, the Glassman gains the ability to steal Breath from other living beings at will, the stolen Breath fueling great feats of strength, psychic ability and healing.

This theft of life makes the Glassmen equivalent to vampires, effectively immortal so long as they keep stealing new Breath since the fragments finally escape their bodies after about a month. Said to be the children of demonic Emets Vradra and Waer, Glassmen usually travel in pairs, a mentor teaching the novice how to hide from Renders and Weavers both. While their name may denote that their ranks are mainly male, the Glassmen are composed of an equal mix of men and women.

While Glassmen are mostly extinct in the Auld Lands, the people of the eastern Mynan Nations worship a much more bloodthirsty version of Sol, called Yerak, and participate in human sacrifice. Worshiping emets, their rulers are made up entirely of Glassmen which are considered a blessing rather than an abomination as in Newfield. As the state of Lacus used to belong to the Mynan Nation of Tlaplain, the practice of becoming a Glassman still exists somewhat in the eastern states of Newfield as a bit of Myna cultural drift and has not been entirely stamped out.