Phase 2:Ewther Kin'toni Clan

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The Ewther are adapted to the dark, cold, deep Inland Sea of Gha'rar. They are dense, and torpedo shaped of build, with an powerful tail-like pelvis and thick torso. This adaption is for power for underwater propulsion. Due to this, their movement on land is slow and clumsy and they are too heavy to climb. The skin is thick, rubbery and in shades of dark blue and grey, with counter-shading. The skin is covered in a layer of specialized dermal cells that produce an anti-freeze glycoprotein.

This allows them withstand near-freezing deep-sea temperatures without cell damage. The downside of this is a lessened sense of touch. The hair and skin is hairless, besides for specialized, stiff sensory vibrissae (whiskers) along their jawline and forearms. These are for detecting small changes in water current and pressure that nearby prey causes. The downside of this is that they can be vulnerable to disorientation in turbulent water. The eyes are large and nearly spherical, with an pressure-stabilized cornea and a reflective tapetum lucidum.

This allows them to have great vision in the permanent pitch blackness of the deep water, but are very sensitive to light, and can be blinded even low surface light conditions. They lack outer eyes, and the auditory canals are almost completely closed. The auditory canals are protected by an dense bony ridge to protect from high water pressure during deep dive. The downside of this is that it significantly dulls their hearing range in air and land. They lack an outer nose, having just two holes that can be closed with muscle shields.

They also have specialized, highly efficient dermal gills on their necks, chests and underarms, to extract trace oxygen directly from the water. This allows them to breathe well underwater. The downside is that the gills are an weak point in combat. The teeth are small, identical and peg-like, adapted for grasping and holding slippery, scaled prey such as fish. These teeth are bad for tearing thick flesh or penetrating tough hides on large prey. The hands and feet are thicky webbed, extending between short fingers and toes.

These are adapted for being paddles or swimming, not for grasping small objects or climbing. The bones are very calcified and exceptionally dense as to aid deep diving. It also limits jumping height and overall agility outside of water. Inside, they have an n internal, non-gaseous lipid organ with the ability to rapidly adjust its oil content to fine-tune their neutral buoyancy at varying depths. They also have glands that release a viscous, protective mucous when stressed or injured. This acts as an well to seal wounds and deter predators.

The spinal column is exceptionally flexible for power side to side movements for swimming. They have metabolisms adapted to function efficiently at low oxygen and high pressure. This allows them to remain active deep underwater for extended periods. Given that they are adapted for the deep sea, their metabolisms function badly on surface pressures and oxidation levels. They are adapted to process the nutrients of deep-sea marine life, but they are incapable of efficiently processing the blood of land-dwelling mammals.

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