Phase 2:Kalraku Kin'toni Clan

Kin'toni Clan

Clan Name:

Kalraku Kin'toni Clan

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Parent Groups:

Unknown

Descended Groups:

Unknown

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Areas Controlled:

Oria Dry Mountain

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Date Founded:

4E 377

Date Disbanded:

N/A

Biology

The Kalraku are adapted to the hyper-arid highlands of the Oria Dry Mountain. They are elongated, spindly, and skeletal of build, as to have more surface area for rapid heat dissipation. These thin, long limbs have a lack of muscle leverage. This makes them poor at wrestling and dealing with high-impact physical strikes. The skin is ash-white in color, with thick, overlapping, keratinized plates that contain reflective mineral ash to reflect away heat. The downside of this is a lack of skin flexibility.

This means their skin can tear open painfully if pulled too far. They lack all hair, having just bald flesh with micro-grooved epidermal ridges. These ridges are for funneling sparse morning dew toward absorbing pores. The eyes are yellow, and deeply recessed inside heavy brow ridges. The eyes have an vertical slit pupil that can constrict completely in order to protect from blinding high-altitude glare. The outside of the ears are huge, thin, and with large amounts of veins that act as biological radiators to dump unneeded heat into the wind.

Their skulls and clavicles are adapted to have hollow, honeycombed acoustic chambers, that along with their adapted inner ears, act as amplifier chambers for low-frequency sound waves. These bones are fragile, and lead to the bones being easy to break. The nose has a nasal passages lined with specialized dry-mucosa scales. These are adapted to reclaim water from the blood they feed on in order to stop respiratory fluid loss. The downside of this is an lower ability to track less-noticeable airborne scent trails over long distances.

The teeth are adapted to be short, flat and broad, and are adapted to scrape even the last drops of blood off bones and rocks and to crush hard shells. The teeth lack long fangs and therefore are unable to dig well into soft targets. The claws are long, needle sharp and hard. They are made of dense keratin, and are adapted for climbing solid granite crevices. These claws are easy to break in tight spaces and made walking on flat surfaces clumsy and awkward. The feet have adapted into cloven hooves, with rough, high-friction undersides.

These hooves struggle in soft terrain and lead to the kin'toni sinking in mud and loose sand. The limbs are adapted to have specialized bypass loops for moving the warm core blood into the ears and limbs for cooling.The bones are adapted to have a large amount of iron in the bones, making them heavy and mineralized in order to anchor them against high mountain winds. This weight makes them unable to swim, leading them to have to walk along the bottom. The digestive tract and lymphatic filters have changed in order to take as much water out of food as possible.

This water is stored in large sacs in the back as water reserves. These sacs are vulnerable to damage, and busting them is both painful and damaging. The body is able to trigger a state of daytime cryogenic-like torpor using their modified mitochondria. This state shuts down all unneeded cellular functions to save on blood, water and energy. This daytime torpor makes them helpless and unconscious.

Miscellany

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