The Moon People
Just recently, I stumbled upon some old posts where I’ve evidently done some brainstorming about some kind of fantasy race, that being the “Moon People”. There’s not much information here, but I’ll share what I have found and collated. Perhaps this will spark some inspiration for you, or be of other use in your own games.
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I envisage the “Moon People” as a race of tall, gaunt humanoids, with a blueish-grayish complexion, completely black eyes, and no body hair, sort of a combination of the classic “Grey alien” archetype, and the Harkonnens from Villeneuve’s Dune movies. I expect there would be very little sexual dimorphism amongst them, and no-one really knows how they reproduce. I imagine they’d be mainly nocturnal, and especially active when the moon is full.
Culture wise, I’m imagining that they’re all reclusive weirdos at this point, essentially hiding out on the shattered remnants of their destroyed home continent, which suffered a great catastrophe and sank beneath the waves (in the style of Atlantis, Valyria, Mu, etc) about 200 years prior to the “present day” of the campaign setting. The main “trait” for the Moon People (other than being skilled sorcerers) is that they’re notorious slavers, who see everyone (including other Moon People of lower caste) as literal livestock.
I’ve written up a few details about a city right on the edge of the south-west coast of my campaign setting’s mainland, with this city being the closest (geographically speaking) to the sunken continent where the Moon People used to live. This coastal city is fiercely anti-slavery, because they were one of the main targets for Moon People slavers, who would raid the coastal settlements, capture people, and then drag them back to their weird alien homeland further to the west, where they’d do all sorts of Drukhari / Melnibonean-esque stuff to their captives.
That’s all I have for this strange race of sorcerers, and at the time of writing, I haven’t used them in actual play yet. However, I expect that will soon change, so keep an eye out for the debut of the Moon People.