Phase 2:Kalor Kin'toni Clan

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The Kalor are adapted to the Yryna Old Coniferous Forest. They are bulk, endomorphic, and compact of build, with shortened limbs as to minimize surface-area-to-mass ratio. This build significantly reduces their overall agility and flexibility, leading them to be poor at climbing. Their skin is white in color, thick, and covered in a dense layer of specialized sebaceous glands. This allows them to make an a thick, tallow-like wax to seal out freezing moisture.This skin struggles with direct oxygen absorption, making them rely on their lungs more.

This happens due to the heavy, waxy lipid barrier severely clogging the cutaneous pores. Their hair is an thick, double coat of coarse, hollow, white hair strands. These are for trapping the stagnant air pockets for maximum structural insulation, to deal with cold winds and sub zero temperatures. The coat is highly flammable, and acts like tinder, leading them being weak to fire and burns. Their eyes are dark brown in color, with an permanent, thick nictitating membrane. The permanent, thick nictitating membrane works as an polarized lens.

This allows them to not get slow blindness from night UV glare. The downside of this is an clouding of fine, close-range depth perception. The ears are small, and flat against the skull. These ears have thick, dense, oily fur as stop the ear canal from freezing. They have long, highly vascularized nasal passages to act as a form of heat exchange to warm the air they breathe. The teeth are shout, wedge shaped and with deep iron-mineralized roots. These teeth are adapted to crack through frozen flesh and bone.

The downside of this is a lack of sharper edges to sear though soft flesh flesh such as rival kin'toni. The claws are thick, straight and shade like, being broad and unable to retract. The claws act as climbing crampons on hard ice. The claws are pool at gripping or grasping, leading them to be bad at fine mortar tasks. Their feet are huge, and very padded, having stiff, splayed toes to act as snowshoes for spreading weight over deep snowdrifts. Inside, their livers and bloodstreams make a large amount of specialized thermal-hysteresis proteins.

These proteins aggressively lower the freezing point of cellular water. These allow them to not freeze in the cold forest. This high viscosity, protein dense blood leads to an circulatory system having to work under great constant hydraulic pressure. This means they are more likely to have heart attacks and strokes. Around their internal organs, is an dry cellular fat lattice, that also contains air. This acts as an thermal buffer protecting the vital organs. Their modified lymphatic filters are hyper-developed in order to hoard iron.

The iron is deposited into the bones to make them denser and more frost resistant. The vascular contraction-points are heavily muscularized. These are able to stop blood flow to the limbs if needed to preserve core fluid pressure., lowing the risk of death from blood loss or frostbite. The downside, is that if a limb is cut off for too long, it is likely to develop necrosis, needing it to be removed. They have altered mitochondria for generating explosive bursts of cellular kinetic energy in order to help with muscular binding in the cold.

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