The Maurani (Children of the Great Dragon, roughly translated) are an unusual race, by most standards - some are fae-tainted from the long alliance with Niskovia, and the resulting intermarriages, while other branches remain, at least ostensibly, human. Universally black haired, many of them share the Tzalteclan's copper skin as well, though fewer than are as ashen as their kingdom's name would imply, and, also like them (though in this case far more likely to be a coincidence) they carry themselves with pride.

Even more unusual, they also (to an extent) share an origin myth - they say that they are descended from a dragon as well, though they name him Maur, and title him "Great Dragon", venerating him as their chief deity; their religion states that it was his task to craft mortals, and, though his power was unreduced, his first success cooled his urgency, transmuting his skin from living flame to a layer of ash, constantly sloughed away by his sister, the serpent of the winds, but constantly renewing itself, and that this is what he used to craft them, the shed flesh of his own body; those with copper skin are thought to be ones born, like those first children, of the flame, either brought with him or crafted there, to be the flame to keep life burning here - and they say, too, .

How this came to pass is unclear - while they do not, as yet, know of the Tzalteclan, the similarities are certainly striking; it is possible that it is the result of some too-early ship bearing a Tzaltec crew, who mingled with those living here and combined their religion with the local tales... Or perhaps it is some memory of true draconic intervention. Who can tell? Certainly not the people themselves...