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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.