Phase 2:Kin-ver Kin'toni Clan

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The Kin-ver are adapted to the cold, dark aquatic environment of the Rymit Boreal Lake. They are very streamlined, barrel chested and dense of build to aid their bottom dwelling lifestyle. The thick heavy bones leads them to be slow, clumsy and awkward of land. The skin is mottled dark teal and muddy brown in color, adapted to blend with the decaying plants and rocks of the lake bottom. This waterproof skin dries out and cracks quickly in the open air, leading to pain and infection.

The skin also produces an oil coating as to lower drag. They lack all hair, as to lower underwater drag. The eyes have dark blue in color, with jet back scleras and large lenses to capture the absolute minimum light in the dark lake bottom. These eyes, being hyper dilated are easy to blind with flashes of light and during fall moons. They lack external ears, having in replacement slit like ear openings with a dense layer of water repealing cilla. These ears are good at detecting underwater vibrations, but poor at pinpointing sounds in the open ear,

The inner ears are adapted to be enlarged, dense and sensitive, in order to maintain a perfect sense of "up" and "down" in pitch-black water. These ears are also prone to motion sickness if forced to move quickly. The nostrils are tight muscular valves able to seal full while submerged as to stop water flooding the sinuses. The teeth are thin needle points with an backwards angle as to be able to catch slippery, scaled aquatic prey and prevent them from wriggling free. The teeth are fragile, and struggle to bite though leathery land animal hides.

The claws are short, flat and heavy to act as anchor hooks to aid in pulling their bodies on the lake floor against currants. These claws lack a sharp edge, making them poor weapons. The feet have become long, with long, thickly webbed toes to aid in maximize propulsion through the water. These feet make them clumsy on dry land. Under the skin, there is an specialized internal gland network that moves antifreeze glycoproteins through the skin in order to stop their outer tissues from freezing in cold water.

This heavy protective mucus is heavy on metabolic energy, needing more feeding to sustain it. The sinus cavities are adapted to have massive blood reservoirs for trapping and warming blood. This is done using dense vascular clusters. The digestive tract has enlarged iron-binding glands specialized in taking the nutrients from the cold food of fish, allowing them to live on fish blood. Due to being hyper specialized, they have systems that are highly intolerant to the richer, warmer blood of mammals.

Such blood makes them throw up or suffer from diarrhea. They have hepatic cell clots adapted for filtering out the heavy tannins, rotting plant toxins and rotting animal remains of the breal waters. In the chest, the collarbones and rib junctions have dense iron-infused calcium plates adapted to anchor the heavy muscle groups for powerful swimming stokes. The torso also contains a set of thick-walled, fluid-regulated ballast chambers to let them control their depth without using energy swimming.

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