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====Brag====
Small but strongly muscled, with a work-hard, play hard attitude towards life, the Brag are effectively the Arak equivalent to the [[Dwarf]]. Keenly interested in the fields of craft, especially architecture and other feats of engineering, as well as related fields like stonework and carpentry, the brag serve the denizens of the Shadow Rift as its builders and laborers. Every fey palace or manor was ultimately built by the efforts of one or more brags. When they deign to rest, they spend their time drinking like there's no tomorrow and telling amusing tales.

A brag stands between thirty and thirty-six inches in height, and physically resembles a human with equine ears - a hint at their ability to assume the form of horses, ponies and mules. Except for its hair, eyes and fingernails, which are solid black, a brag is completely pale white, something they emphasize by dressing in contrasting shades of black and white, with the occasional bit of gray for highlighting. This serves as the source of their most common nickname; "Whitemen" (or "Whitewomen" for the females). A brag in equine form can be distinguished by its jet black hooves and mane contrasting its pale white coat.

Brags are not a particularly mischievous breed, but have been known to bedevil mortals by attempting to pilfer work supplies and tools; a brag's pride compels it to finish any masonry or carpentry task it begins, no matter what it must do. Other times, they sneak onto the sites of construction work; depending on how impressed the brag is, it often either lends a helping hand (if it finds the work respectable) or else sabotages the worksite in disgust at the original worker's ineptitude.  Cairns often mark the boundaries of a brag’s property, although low stone fences are not uncommon. All brag stonework is unmortared. The best way to befriend a brag is to show it an architectural secret it did not know before – for example, how a flying buttress works. They reward their friends with very potent brag ale.

Earning their respect, though, is not without its risks; like all Arak, in their own twisted minds, the greatest demonstration of that respect is to offer a mortal the "gift" of immortality as a [[changeling]]. Bragkin spend the rest of eternity assisting brag in their labors.

If motivated to join battle, brags are quite dangerous. Surprisingly nimble, which gives them an uncanny ability to dodge attacks, they also hit like an angry bear - worse, anyone struck by a brag can be temporarily driven mad, overwhelmed by an unshakable delusion that they are, in fact, a horse. Fortunately, this wears off after 24 hours. Brags can also induce sleep in anyone who meets their gaze. They cannot be harmed by weapons made of wood, and are likewise immune to temperature-based attacks - ice and cold in AD&D, fire in 3e. However, they do have one key weakness: perhaps because of their symbolic tie to horses and mules, weapons made of leather can pierce their supernatural resilience, meaning one can quite literally flog them to death with a horse whip.

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