Phase 2:Kin'ire Kin'toni Clan

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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.

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