Phase 2:Keris Kin'toni Clan

Kin'toni Clan

Clan Name:

Keris Kin'toni Clan

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Parent Groups:

Unknown

Descended Groups:

Unknown

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Areas Controlled:

Waress Dry Field

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Date Founded:

4E 213

Date Disbanded:

N/A

Biology

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.

Miscellany

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