Phase 2:Cutiausk Kin'toni Clan

Kin'toni Clan

Clan Name:

Cutiausk Kin'toni Clan

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Parent Groups:

None

Descended Groups:

None

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Areas Controlled:

Catalvar City

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Date Founded:

4E 380

Date Disbanded:

N/A

Biology

The Cutiausk are adapted to the dark, cramped and damp Catalvar City. They are compact, dense, and heavily muscled of build, and built to rushing forces and navigate tight tunnels efficiently. The downside of this that they are slow and cumbersomeness in open space. The skin is pigment-less, white in color and covered in a keratinous, semi-flexible armor plating. This allows them to resist scrapes and falling debris. The downside of this heavy plating is that their dexterity and thermal sensitivity is limited.

Their hair is coarse and sparse, repurposed into bristles concentrated on the limbs and face,. These allow them to sense air currents and find obstacles in pitch darkness. Their eyes are blind, recessed and vestigial. The eyes are covered by an opaque, thickened membrane, protecting the eyes, but also rendering them sightless. Their ears are small and close to the skull, but the inner eyes are hyper-optimized to hear subtle echoes and vibrations traveling through solid stone. The downside of this is that loud noises can overwhelm their sensitive hearing.

Their noses are very large, and vascularized, with highly specialized chemoreceptors capable of detecting subtle gaseous leaks and blood from a great range, but can be overwhelmed by strong smells. Their teeth are thick, short and rounded, adapted for crushing small bone fragments or mineral deposits for supplementing their high calcium/iron needs, but due to this, they are inefficient for making clean, deep piercing wounds. The clan uses controlled, low-frequency guttural sounds as a form of echolocation.

The echolocation works well in confined spaces such as their city, but not so well in open spaces such as outside. The claws are blunt, spade like, and non retractable. They are reinforced with mineral deposits and are adapted for digging and bracing, but they struggle with fine manipulation or delicate tasks. Their elbows and knees possess a limited secondary joint lock. This allows them maintain rigid positions for extended periods while bracing heavy weight or tunnel collapse. The downside of this is that it sacrifices the fluid, dynamic movement needed for pursuit or evasion.

The hands and feet have specialized nerve endings and highly sensitive bone-receptor, via vibrations, they can have advanced warning of cave-ins, shifts, or large, approaching entities. The downside of this is that sensmic activity can overwhelm it. Their blood vessels are positioned deep within the muscle and bone mass for protection and lowering heat loss. The skeleton is very dense and thick, for resistance to heavy impacts and falls.The downside of this is that they are slow and with very low buoyancy.

The digestive tract has evolved temporary storage sacs to hold a small, emergency reserve of iron-rich fluid/sludge. The sacs are located next to major blood vessels as to allow for quick intake via the bloodstream. This allows them to endure periods of low-nutrition prey availability for days. The downside of this is that it is an weak point in their biology, and if damaged, it can lead to large amounts of bleeding.

Miscellany

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