Phase 2:Vali Kin'toni Clan

Kin'toni Clan

Clan Name:

Vali Kin'toni Clan

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Parent Groups:

Eladlye Kin'toni Clan

Descended Groups:

N/A

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Areas Controlled:

Hyriss Fungi Forest

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Date Founded:

4E 70

Date Disbanded:

N/A

Biology

The Vaili are adapted to the damp, low light, bioluminescent Hyriss Fungi Forest. They are slender, with an light, flexible skeleton. They are elongated of build, with limbs that are disproportionately long. This allows them to be good at climbing and uneven fungal terrain. The downside of this is being prone to broken bones and bruising from blunt force trauma. The skin is mottled, in shades of violets and browns. This skin has an slick, almost waxy sheen to repel moisture and an secretion of a mild anti-fungal compound via the pores.

This stops parasitic spores from taking hold on their flesh. The downside of this adaptation is quicker dehydration in dry environments. The skin has the ability to draw trace amounts of water vapor directly from the constantly humid forest air to supplement their fluid levels. Under the skin is pockets of fat that act as an final defense barrier if poisons breach the bloodstream. This fat requires an intake of blood to maintain and replenish. They also have specialized skin folds, that alongside their hair absorb high-frequency sound waves, effectively dampening any noise made by their movement through the dense undergrowth.

The hair is wiry, sparse, coarse tufts that look like fungal rhizoids. This hair has an hydrophobic coating on individual hair shafts to rapidly get rid of dampness and prevent mold growth. The eyes are black and reflective with light-gathering pigments in the retinal tissues to capture the faint fungal luminescence. These eyes are easy to blind with bright light. Their ears are large and fan like, and appear almost like a shelf fungus. They have flat noses with large, flared nostrils that have internal branching coated in a fine dark fuzz.

The nose has chemoreceptors able to tell apart complex fungal spore trails and organic compounds in the air for tracking. The fine dark fuzz are adapted hairs for filtering out fungal spores in the air. The teeth are needle-like and with very fine tips for quickly taking blood from under the protective layers of armored prey. These teeth are easy to blunt and chip. Claws are flat, broad and with chisel like edges. These claws are hyper-ossifed, and adapted for digging through tough fungal mycelial mats and soft, damp earth.

The fingertips and palms have developed finely ridged pads that adhere slightly to massive fungal stalks and caps. These are an adaption to aid climbing. The feet are slight webbed and enlarged for weight spreading on mycelium-rich mire on the forest floor. These also lead to poor balance on narrow, solid ledges or branches. The clan's members have tails. These are used for gripping and supporting their weight on the tangled fungal shelves and caps for added stability. They have an set of specialized glands in their kidneys that are for breaking down common fungal byproducts and waste materials found in their diet.

This allows them to eat prey that are exposed to such things. The downside of this is a higher water requirement as there is a need to urinate to purge the by products.

Miscellany

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