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==Kelet Kin'toni Clan==

The Kelet Kin'toni Clan are adapted to the subarctic, rocky, tree covered Wyrra Taiga Hills. They are lean, highly muscled, and long limbed of build. The torso is longer then normal. They are adapted for high-speed endurance running across uneven terrain. This elongated, high-leverage body makes them prone to getting stuck in dense bush or other small spaces. The skin is charcoal-gray in color to blend in with the trees, and it is  heavily reinforced using an  matrix of cross-linked collagen fibers  to lower the risk of tearing.

The  hyper-dense, leathery hide lacks flexibility, making it even harder for them to fit into small spaces. The hair is steel grey and coarse in texture, and is an a long, shaggy mane going down their spines. It is adapted to shed freezing rain and heavy snowfall from their bodies. Their eyes are t emerald-green, and have an massive, horizontally elongated pupil in each eye. This gives them a wide view of the forest floor while running but also  severely limits their vertical field of vision.


This leaves them vulnerable to foes dropping from the high canopy. Their ears are long, pointed and very mobile with specialized internal muscular rings  to lock that ears in diffident positions to track prey. The nose has a  specialized dual-valved vestibule  for trapping and recycling exhaled moisture in order to keep the olfactory lining wet in the cold, dry air. The  teeth are very long, slender and backward curved for sinking into and holding the thick furred taiga prey. These teeth are very brittle and prone to snapping if they hit bone. 

Their claws are short, thick and wedge shaped. These  non-retractable claws act as track spikes for gripping wet clay  clay and slippery needles. The claws are blunt, and cannot be used as a weapon. The feet are digitigrade and with flexible, independent outer toes for stabilizing themselves on the gravel slopes. These toe joints are hyperflexable but lack rigid structural support, making their toes easy to dislocate on flat hard ground. Inside, the blood vessels have  microscopic bypass valves that contain an thick, glucose-heavy protein fluid.


By moving this fluid to their limbs, it stops their muscles from freezing. Thest chests contain air filled multi chambered shock absorber sacs for cushioning their internal organs. These protect from  violent impacts such as falling. The hepatic cell clots have adapted to  rapidly extract dietary iron from prey blood as an adaption to deal with cold, sluggish prey blood. The extreme iron concentration is also a metabolic burden that leads to  rapid, toxic organ failure, and this can only be stopped by flushing their system with fresh blood.

The rib cage is interlocked and overlapping like roof riles as to protect the  thoracic cavity from impacts. Due to its interlocking structure, they have limited flexibility, and cannot bend or arch the upper body deeply. They are able to survive sudden, unexpected temperature drops  such as during blizzards using an temporary reduction in cellular energy expenditure. The blood vessels have  high-pressure, muscular contraction-points that can clamp shut to stop bleeding of fluids, but it also traps waste in the rest of the body. This leads to painful swelling and bruising. 

==Kelnysi Kin'toni Clan==

The Kelnysi are adapted to the  high-altitude, sub-zero, windy [[Isbelbur Autumnal Mountains Ridge]]. They are very lean, long-limbed and lightweight of build, with wing like shoulder blades, covered in a membrane of skin that stretches  to the buttocks. Being lightweight and fragile, they are easy to break with bone shattering trauma from bunt force and falls. They are mottled with deep amber and burnt orange, to hide along the fallen leaves and with fine, hydrophobic scales to stop the forest from sticking.

Their hair is fiery copper-red color, and is a mane of long fur covering the head, neck and upper back to keep the brain and carotid arteries warm in the freezing alpine winds. This hair is very flammable, and acts as tinder making them easy to set alight. The eyes are amber gold in color, and have an  massive, spherical lens to allow them to see even the slightest shifts in high-altitude movement across long distances. These eyes are sensitive to sudden light, due to an lack of protective tinting, leading to short term blindness.


Their ears are long, asymmetrical and very mobile, adapted for allowing them to calculate the exact elevation and distance of a sound echoing off the canyon walls. Insider the nose is an advanced internal humidity-reclaiming valve to allow them to reclaim water from their exhaled breaths to keep their olfactory membranes wet, even in the bone dry mountain air. They have long, slender, needle sharp teeth for piercing the thick wool-like coats of mountain prey to reach veins. These fangs are brittle and prone to snapping on bone and armor.

Their claws are long, deeply hooked and needle sharp to act as permanent climbing anchors in sheer limestone crevices. These claws make flat ground running clumsy, given that they interfere with movement. Their feet are prehensile and wide, their toes long and splayed with  soft, spongy undersides in order to muffle them walking on leaves.  Lacking thick, protective callouses means on sharp terrain they are prone to wounds on their feet. Around the chest are  a series of interconnected, air-filled internal chambers.


These are adapted to act as shock absorbent pads to save the internal organs from damage from violent high-altitude tumbles. Their lower cerebellum has been permanently expanded using their  totipotent stem cells. This grants them an  hyper-accurate, three-dimensional spatial awareness allowing them to calculates wind drift and slope angles with very little thinking. This also compresses the adjacent occipital lobes, leading to an dulled ability to see stationary objects that lack high-contrast movement.

Inside the carotid arteries is an system of  expanded clusters of pressure-sensing baroreceptors. These are adapted to  adjust cranial blood pressure while the kin'toni is leaping and dropping across deep mountain ravines. The shoulder blades are muscled and the upper thoracic vertebrate are fused in order to anchor the gliding-wings from the violet cross winds. These wings are movable by the kin'toni in order to fit though smaller spaces and act like another pair of arms. The skin itself is thin and easy to tear, and so has to be carefully treated. 

==Keris Kin'toni Clan==

The Keris are adapted to the  sun-scorched, arid grasslands of the [[Waress Dry Field]], They are  very tall, thin and lean of build, with very long lower legs to make their walking stride and their heat dissipation as efficient as possible. This thin build is fagile, lacking  dense muscle shielding and easy to snap by blunt force. Their skin is dusty pale clay-yellow in color to camouflage in the dead grasses. This skin is highly leathery with creases and micro grooves for trapping evening moisture.

This lack of deep pigment leads to  almost zero natural defense against UV radiation and leading to a painful, quick death if caught in sunlight. They have dry straw blond hair that is changed into short, needle like and coarse bristles. These lay flat on the scalp and deflect dust and wind-blown grit. The eyes are amber, with an  narrow, horizontal slit pupil. This pupil maximize side to side sight and tracking in the flat open horizon. This also  severely limits their vertical field of view.


Due to this, they struggle to see threats attacking from elevated trees or ridges. These eyes also have an thick, nictitating membrane in order to sweep away the dust of the grasslands. Their ears are very large, thin and with heavy veins to biological cooling radiators. These shed the heat of the body into the cooler night air. The nose has a system of dry, scaly turbinate baffles in order to extract and reclaim moisture from both the dry air and their own breath to stop dehydration and lower the amount of water they need to drink. 

Their teeth are short, flat and broad, and are adapted to slice through the tough, fibrous, or leathery hides of the local wildlife. With an lack of deep puncturing fangs, they struggle  to lock onto or anchor themselves on large, struggling targets.  The claws are short, straight and heavily blunted as these caws work as rigid digging spikes to scrape into hard, baked clay. Lacking sharpness, means the claws are poor weapons. Their feet are very long, and with broad calloused toes for distributing weight on the loose sandy soul of the Dry Field. 


Inside, their blood vessels have specialized muscular bypass loops for redirecting warm blood out for cooling. The torso features an  dry, cellular wax lattice system of internal moisture-trapping chambers that can trap fluids and moisture sacs adapted to hold excess drinking water  throughout the torso, as an adaption to drought. The largest is located in next to the stomach. In the blood, the hepatic cell clots are adapted for taking molecule of moisture from drunk blood, what is stored in their moisture sacs. 

The lymphatic filters are hyper-efficient and are able to extract any left over water and excrete waste as dry, uric acid pellets. This also  buildup of thick, sluggish metabolic byproducts that can only be flushed with water or blood. Build ups lead to the kin'toni sickening. Inside the skeletal muscles are large amounts of iron-rich myoglobin, able to store immense amounts of oxygen inside the tissue. The large amount of internal iron also makes them  susceptible to heavy electrical damage, as their muscle tissue is highly conductive. 

==Kimetdar Kin'toni Clan==

The Kimetdar are adapted to the sheer, vertical drops of the [[Rysas Emerald Cliffs]]. They are hyper-compact and muscular build of with long forearms and a broad, low-centered pelvic structure. Being adapted for  climbing means they are slow, awkward and unaerodynamic on flat ground. Their skin is mottled forest-green and slate-grey tone to blend in to the moss and cliffs. The skin is also covered  in an  hydrophobic, micro-grooved lipid layer  that stops the heavy mist of the cliffs from waterlogging the skin and stopping  cutaneous oxygen absorption.

Their hair is sparse, coarse and needle like, and dark green in color. It grows as downward angled tracts in order to channel air the rain and  coastal condensation from their eyes. This also leaves their epidermal layers exposed to the  abrasive gusts due to their lack of dense, insulating coat. The oversized eyes are dark color in color, with pupils as horizontal slits in order to accurately judge depth and vertical distance  on the high cliffs.  The ears are short, thick and backward curved with internal acoustic ridges.


These ridges filter out the loud roars and crashes of the coastal waves and winds.  The nose has downward facing slits of nostrils that have fleshy, muscular valves. These valves can seal tightly to deal with the wind-driven sea spray, but while these valves are sealed, they lack an sense of smell. Without their enhanced sense of small,  they struggle to track prey. The teeth are hook like with backward-curved serrations, angled for locking onto the slippery and face moving prey of the cliffs. 

The claws are long, needle sharp and semi retractable talons containing  high-iron keratin, adapted for gripping into the cracks in the cliffs. These teeth are long enough and curved enough to make manual dexterity hard, making fine work impossible. The feet are  prehensile, hand-like structures, with opposable toes and high-friction suction pads on both toes and soles. These feet make running on flat surfaces hard. The inner eyes and sinus cavities have enlarged, fluid-filled equilibrium chambers to grant both absolute spatial awareness and an immunity to vertigo.


This system is sensitive to sudden atmospheric pressure drops, such as those on coastal storm. This leads to the massive chambers swelling and severe disorientation and temporary loss of balance. Their tendons are able to look into place using an  specialized reflex loop to be able to hang in place for days. The vascular system has heavy muscular valves able to divert blood flow to the skin to maximize oxygen intake. The  peripheral blood routing is high pressure enough that even shallow slashes leads to rapid, explosive bleeding.

The blood is sense with cryoprotectant proteins in order to survive the freezing, damp shadows of deep cliff fissures and winter nights by fully stopping cellular freezing. This blood, being thick and sludge like, moves slowly though the body. This leads the stem cells to move more slowly and slowed healing in the limbs. The body's hepatic cell clots have adapted to quickly filter and  neutralize marine toxins and salt form their marine and coastal prey. It is adapted for marine and coastal toxins and so has no effect on other toxins. 

==Kin'ire Kin'toni Clan==

The Kin'ire are adapted to the extreme wind-scoured plains, baking daytime heat and freezing night temperatures of the [[Inawar Barren Lands]]. The clan are very lean, lanky and long limbed of build in order to become highly efficient at running long distances on the flat terrain. Due to lacking dense muscle mass, they are physically weak in close-quarters grappling or wrestling. The skin is a very dense, leathery  white color, and adapted to eflect as much ambient light and heat as it can.

This skin lacks no natural UV-blocking pigments, leading to a swift death if caught in the daytime sun. The clan lacks all hair, to stop the  desert grit from trapping moisture and to stop hair chafing on their skin during their long treks. The eyes have a horizontally sweeping. semi-transparent, secondary nictitating membrane to keep dust out of their eyes. This thick, protective membrane means their fine detail vision is blurred meaning they struggle to see  camouflaged prey or subtle terrain hazards in their long range sight.


The ears are small, flat and pinned to the skull. These ears can seal tightly using specialized muscular flaps. The nasal passages are adapted to be highly elongated and tortuous. These act as a form of  counter-current moisture exchanger in order to trap and keep water vapor from the ambient airflow. The front incisors and canines are interlocking, serrated, and razor-sharp. These are adapted for cutting quickly though tough, leathery desert hides. The teeth's  delicate, thin serrations are prone to snapping off if they hit bone or mineral crusts. 

The claws are long, flat and spade like for digging quickly into the dirt or sand for underground shelter. These claws are too wide and blunt to be used for climbing. The feet are broad, long and with thick, calloused soles that act as built in snow shoes by spreading  their weight on shifting sands. These feet lead to loud footfalls on soild ground given their massive feet. Inside, they have blood that each night, is flooded with  specialized, low-temperature proteins to stop cell freezing.


Under the skin are pockets of dense fat to act as a form of buffering for the core from the  extreme, rapid temperature swings of the wastes. These fat deposits bulge from the skin in such a way that it gets in the way of movement.  The digestive tract is adapted to be an compressed, dry, highly efficient system for stripping the water from prey. It is able to filter even the smallest amount of fluid from their prey. The urine and feces comes out as hard dry pellets instead of a liquid from a fused cloaca. 

The  hepatic 'cell clots' are much bigger then normal, also swelling the liver to an huge size. This allows them to sore vast amounts of metabolic waste, meaning they can go weeks without a need to purge stored toxins. This liver is swollen and toxin heavy and takes up a lot of abdominal space. This compresses the other organs, leading to a lower amount of stamina. The spleen is enlarged and muscular, and stores highly oxygenated, iron-rich blood cells. These blood cells are released only when needed, signaled by an hormone rush such as during hunting or combat. 

==Kin-ver Kin'toni Clan==

The Kin-ver are adapted to the cold, dark aquatic environment of the [[Rymit Boreal Lake]].  They are very streamlined, barrel chested and dense of build to aid their bottom dwelling lifestyle. The thick heavy bones leads them to be slow, clumsy and awkward of land. The skin is mottled dark teal and muddy brown in color, adapted to blend with the decaying plants and rocks of the lake bottom. This waterproof skin dries out and cracks quickly in the open air, leading to pain and infection. 

The skin also produces an oil coating as to lower drag. They lack all hair, as to lower underwater drag. The eyes have dark blue in color, with jet back scleras and large lenses to capture the absolute minimum light  in the dark lake bottom. These eyes, being hyper dilated are easy to blind with flashes of light and during fall moons. They lack external ears, having in replacement slit like ear openings with a dense layer of water repealing cilla. These ears are good at detecting underwater vibrations, but poor at pinpointing sounds in the open ear,


The inner ears are adapted to be enlarged, dense and sensitive, in order to maintain a perfect sense of "up" and "down" in pitch-black water. These ears are also prone to motion sickness if forced to move quickly. The nostrils are tight muscular valves able to seal full while submerged as to stop water flooding the sinuses. The teeth are thin needle points with an backwards angle as to be able to catch   slippery, scaled aquatic prey and prevent them from wriggling free. The teeth are fragile, and struggle to bite though leathery land animal hides. 

The claws are short, flat and heavy to act as anchor hooks to aid in pulling their bodies on the lake floor against currants. These claws lack a sharp edge, making them poor weapons. The feet have become long, with long, thickly webbed toes to aid in maximize propulsion through the water. These feet make them clumsy on dry land. Under the skin, there is an  specialized internal gland network that moves antifreeze glycoproteins through the skin in order to stop their outer tissues from freezing in cold water. 


This heavy protective mucus is heavy on metabolic energy, needing more feeding to sustain it. The sinus cavities are adapted to have  massive blood reservoirs for trapping and warming blood. This is done using dense vascular clusters. The  digestive tract has  enlarged iron-binding glands specialized in taking the nutrients from the cold food of fish, allowing them to live on fish blood. Due to being hyper specialized, they have systems that are  highly intolerant to the richer, warmer blood of mammals. 

Such blood makes them throw up or suffer from diarrhea. They have hepatic cell clots adapted for filtering out the heavy tannins, rotting plant toxins and rotting animal remains of the breal waters. In the chest, the collarbones and rib junctions  have dense iron-infused calcium plates adapted to anchor the heavy muscle groups for powerful swimming stokes. The torso also contains a set of thick-walled, fluid-regulated ballast chambers to let them control their depth without using energy swimming. 

==Kinper Kin'toni Clan==

The Kinper are adapted to the dense, humid woodlands of the [[Samgh Forest Hill]]. They are compact, with an  highly flexible skeletal frame and  shortened, powerfully built limbs. These are adapted to allow for swift movement though even the dense underbrush. These short limbs mean they have very short strides, and a struggle to keep up with their prey in wide open spaces. The skin is mottled in shades of bark brown and lichen grey for breaking up their outline in the tree trunks. The hair is dense, moss like and dark green in color.

It grows on the head, shoulders and upper back. This hair is thick and sponge like and therefore retains moisture from the wet hair and is so a breeding ground for fungi. The eyes are large, black and  spherical, the pupils hypersensitive slits for tracking horizontal movement in the dense trees. These eyes are massive enough that they are highly vulnerable to wounds like scratches and blinding. The ears are wide, leaf shaped and having thin, highly vascularized skin adapted for hearing even the rustling of leaves and small game. 
 

The nostrils are wide and flared, with  hyper-developed nasal turbinates for filtering and isolating scents in the forest ait, but these wide, open nasal passages are also vulnerable to toxic spores, often used as weapons. The teeth are adapted to be sharp shearing blades for cutting though tough animal hides and sinew. These teeth are unable to crush of grind. The claws are short, thick and retractable, for climbing though trees or gripping. But these claws are also costly on the localized metabolic energy due to the complex muscular mechanism required.

This leas to finger cramp if gripping is used for too long. The toes are long, flexible and hand like with opposable toes for grasping branches and roots. This also means that flat, rocky terrain is painful to walk on due to the unnatural angles the digit are forced into. 



Internal Adaptations
Hyper-Flexible Rib Cage: Their ribs are connected by highly elastic, rubbery cartilage joints that allow the entire chest cavity to compress safely when squeezing through tight tree hollows.

Weakness: This lack of rigid bone protection leaves their internal organs highly vulnerable to being crushed or punctured by direct blunt-force impacts.

Enlarged Vestibular Balance Maculae: The balance centers of their inner ears feature expanded, fluid-filled chambers that provide a flawless sense of orientation while leaping through the canopy.

Weakness: Sudden, violent head shakes or falls create lingering fluid turbulence in these large chambers, causing long-lasting vertigo and nausea.

Modified Hemoglobin Recycling Glands: Their atrophied digestive tract is optimized to rapidly break down and assimilate the thick, hormone-rich blood of woodland mammals.

Weakness: Their system lacks the enzymes to process the cold, low-iron blood of amphibians or reptiles, which causes violent internal rejection and cramping.

Hepatic Tannin Filters: Their hepatic 'cell clots' are uniquely adapted to neutralize the high levels of toxic tannins and plant alkaloids picked up from forest water sources.

Weakness: This heavy specialization drastically reduces the liver's ability to process synthetic poisons or chemical toxins introduced by advanced weapons.

Subcutaneous Oxygen-Storing Plexus: They have repurposed pockets of stem cells along their flanks into rich, oxygen-storing vascular networks to sustain muscle power during silent, breathless stalks.

Weakness: These highly concentrated blood pockets form major internal hot spots that bleed uncontrollably if the flank is pierced or gashed.




==Litara Kin'toni Clan==

==Luserkel Kin'toni Clan==

==Ninal Kin'toni Clan== 

==Nyale Kin'toni Clan==

==Rilpertiadanbur Kin'toni Clan==

==Swutonsul Kin'toni Clan==

==Undmos Kin'toni Clan==

==Untburpol Kin'toni Clan==

==Urayachay Kin'toni Clan==

==Ustsulunt Kin'toni Clan==

==Wan'rila Kin'toni Clan==

==Wor'ardi Kin'toni Clan==

==Wyta Kin'toni Clan==

==Yoush Kin'toni Clan==


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