The mannish Kataletia are the offspring of the unity granted by the Grecydan Empire, a state which notably provided both stability and a homogeneity to its belonging people. As the Grecydan Empire united all of Grecyda, so too were the Kataletia’s ancestors in culture, such that they might blend and become one people. Thus, the Kataletian descriptor was born, which allowed them to emerge as the imperial people of the Grecydan Empire. Later, however, the Grecydan Empire would fall, and regardless of this descent into an unstable time, the Kataletia still bore some resemblance to the others of their kind.

The Kataletia are descendants of the tribal Ethetia who, earlier, had been expelled from the fertile lands of Tradarda upon the unification of the Nephara into a new state, though the Kataletia did not identify themselves as such upon this event; instead, it took an age for the many peoples of Grecyda to unite, and so the Kataletia themselves have many places of origin throughout the vast, desert region of Grecyda. Accordingly, their people descend from many different cultures of being, and only with the stability and law granted by the empire could they become identifiably similar in custom and tradition.

Of these tribes, there were six whose word and legends remain known into the present age, and these are professed by scholars to be the Teletia, the Vespetia, the Minetia, the Aldetia, the Najetia, and the Fajraetia. From the Teletia came a certain architectural sophistication as they had built their civilization on the ruins of the Makhetia; from the Vespetia, came the acknowledgement of beauty and their females as desiring, lustful creatures; the Minetia, nautical affairs and diplomacy; the Aldetia, warcraft; the Najetia, astronomy; and most importantly, from the Fajraetia came tradition and the worship of the Elohad.

The Kataletia, as a set of collective peoples, believe in the divinity of the sun as that which had given rise and plenitude to the land of Ethrekas in ancient times. From the sun was crowned Solara, and it was her life force and energy that had descended onto the mortal plane so that it might prosper with abundance. Then, Solara sanctified six other spirits of the world she had bore so that they might know her light, and these became the Elohad; from the Elohad, there was founded a worship of them among the ancestors of the Kataletia, all ways of entrance into the light as a result of the goddess of the sun having given a path of ascension to these spirits. Thus, the Kataletia were allowed to ascend too, and they could know Solara for themselves.

The Avetad, the most powerful of those rebellious spirits who, true to their nature, had refused to bow before Solara, sought instead for humanity to be led astray, and they professed that Solara’s dominion was unfounded, and that it could not properly order the cosmos which Solara had given rise to. The Avetad were thus those devils whose worship was to be admonished by the greater Kataletia, though worship of such beings was founded in some obscure parts of Grecyda, and especially, in its fall.

Upon the Grecydan Empire’s unification of all of Grecyda, the Kataletia, or alternatively, their ancestors, would adopt strict and primary worship of the Elohad, and all other objects of worship were effectively outlawed. It was developed instead by these of the empire that the Fajraetia had the correct reverence, and thus, they sought to imitate that people so that their own people and empire might become blessed by Solara herself as well. Thus, they invoked the members of the Elohad on many occasions, though selecting a particular one for more specific and contextual reasons, such as invoking the righteous fury of Aldrath when engaging in war with elven interlopers.

Such worship and reverence for external, higher powers was commonplace among those of the Kataletia, and, among them, there were some who maintained a spirituality and propensity for the worship and gaze of Solara. Though this may have been the case throughout Grecyda, many still rejected magic and the arcane arts of which the elven peoples partook of, and sought to eliminate it from society as acts that offended the divinity and will of the Elohad. Many of the Kataletian people who display an inherent propensity for soothsaying or prophetic ability are not thought to be holy, and thus, any progress that could have been made from the original sacred texts that ironically were founded by the same kind of people was halted as it developed, and these individuals were either cast out of cities or, in cases of perceived profanity against the gods, executed.

Yet, as those nobles held private knowledge of the affairs of the gods through privileged means, they had the sole ability to identify people who might bear a prophecy or vision, and so they often collaborated with such individuals behind a veil of privacy. Commoners, however, had no such knowledge, and they accordingly thought that such people bore the mark of the Avetad themselves. As these people were spiritual, they were in greater tune with the powers of spirits, and among these spirits were the Avetad, in addition to the Elohad. Thus, nobility held that such people were to be guided correctly into the path of priesthood and clerical work, and stripped specifically of their ability to reproduce and operate under different assumptions than that of the unifying and supposedly holy government.

As the Kataletia are known for such offenses against these spiritually inclined people, they are seen as a generally stubborn race of man who yet manage to bend their knee to the empire so that order might be achieved; the Kataletia certainly have a fixity for righteousness, and the majority believe that the empire is a gift from the heavens. After the fall of the empire, however, many individuals of the local nobility of townships and cities could emerge as rulers of new countries and, upon doing so, founded a set of rules that had been practiced by the tribes of ages past, before the Grecydan Empire, and which had been more covertly practiced among them. Thus, the Kataletia were again heterogeneous, and encompassed many cultures of a strange and prominent variability, though the influence of the empire was still evident, and many had not completely abandoned worship of the national religion of the Elohad.

The Kataletian phenotype is varied and yet, surprisingly similar, especially upon the union of the empire and the lasting peace which it provided among its people. As descendants of the six tribes of the Second Era, the Kataletia took a resemblance to them; they possessed a shade of a tanned brown within their skin, and within the eyes there remained a deep brown. These shades did exist alongside a spectrum, however, as some managed to inherit a lighter skin tone of a simple golden with yellowish undertones, and many had light brown eyes that had traces of amber within them, if not being completely amber. The hair, then, was either a very dark brown or, in its lightest versions, a simple mouse brown that was matched with other lighter features. Many of the Kataletia had curly hair, and this was thought to ward off pestilence and dirtiness as its function.

Of the northern Kataletia, there was found an epicanthic fold in quite a few of them, and many who traveled south could find that their people did not bear this trait. Thus, throughout the days of empire, the northern Kataletia could be identified in this way, though the cultural and political lines of separation were mostly abolished upon the founding of the Grecydan Empire.

Among the southern Kataletian people, who are thought to have descended mainly from the Minetian people, there could be observed not the presence of an epicanthic fold, but straight hair, and this was praised among the earlier Minetian people. Straight hair was seen throughout the empire as an indicator of being the original people of the empire, and thus, were seen as somewhat more sophisticated than others of the Kataletia.

Their heights, on the other hand, were very distinguished among the males and females, and females often stood at a full four inches less than their male counterparts. Though this may have been the case, the profiles of height patterns were often very distinguished among themselves and the according regions; in the south, both men and women tended to be shorter than their northern counterparts, standing at about 5’5” for the men, and appropriately four inches shorter among the women. In the north, however, the heights of men ranged most commonly from about 5’9” to 6’1”, and this was thought to be related to their distinct prowess in battle as an aggressive people. On the western of Grecyda, there could be found many of these heights, most especially in the region of Alardel, such that individuals could still be recognized as having a certain descent, but still appropriately residing there.