Ashalan tattoo

The Ashalan tattoos were a trademark of the Ashalan race.

Original tattoos
The Ashalan used the tattoos to express themselves, as a maturity ritual. They simbolyzed who bore them had experience enough to join the leading group.

Magical
In the Day of Wrath the tattoos drew part of the magic unleashed this day, but it had a drawback. Their wielders suffered under the wrath of Shilah, the Sun. They became powerful sahir but they should cover them from the sun light or risk death. The energy which had been imbued inside the tattos drifted toward the sun, and the process stole the vital life of the Ashalan.

The tatoos shifted and took the form which better suit with the Ashalan. A warrior had tattoos which ressembled him as a feared beast as a lion. The newborn Ashalan bore the magical tattos since their birth, and after generations their lineage could be traced seeing them.