Phase 2:Rilpertiadanbur Kin'toni Clan

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The Rilpertiadanbur are adapted to the freezing, waterlogged, dense Whir Boreal Wetland. They are short, stocky and barrel chested of build, adapted to retain as much ambient environmental heat as possible. The limbs are short in order to lower surface area. Being compact and heavy means they also pack agility and speed, meaning they struggle to catch prey running on open ground. Their skin is mottled, translucent slate-gray in color. It has an oily, hydrophobic lipid coating in order to stop the freezing bog water numbing the skin.

The hair is a dark moss-green color, growing in dense, matted, greasy tufts on the shoulders and head, that looks like moss or peat. This acts as camouflage. Their eyes are amber in color, having an specialized dual-lens structure for filtering out the tan colored, murky light of iron-rich peat bogs to allow for clear underwater sight. These eyes have vision that is out of focus and blurred on dry, due to the specialized light-filtering lenses. The ears are small, thick and tight on the skull.

These ears have an specialized muscular flap that can seal the ear canal shut while underwater. The nose has wide, horizontal slits that like the ears, have muscular flaps that can seal shut to protect the sensitive inner olfactory membranes. The teeth are serrated along the rear edges, these teeth acting as hooks for gripping slippery wetland prey. The teeth also catch and trap fibrous debris easily due to their serrated edges. This forces them to clean their teeth or risk painful infections in the capillary channels.

The claws are thick, webbed and heavily curved, to act as grappling hooks in order to grip submerged logs or pulls themselves though the thick bog mud. These fingers are so webbed that they struggle with fine motor tasks or holding small objects. The feet are heavily webbed, flat and with rough, sandpaper-textured soles. These are adapted to have traction on slick mud and prevent them from sinking into the soft bog. These also lead to an loud, slapping gait when talking on dry, hard surfaces, making silent movement outside the mash hard.

Inside, they have hepatic cell structures that are able to produce an natural glycerol compound for lowing the freezing point of their blood. This allows the blood to flow well, even in sub-zero water. The RNA packets have adapted to move iron and calcium into their bones, making the bones dense, allowing them to wade along the bottom of the bogs. These bones are so heavy that these kin'toni lack natural buoyancy, making surfacing quickly hard. The totipotent stem cells have adapted to use anaerobic (oxygen-free) metabolic pathways.

These allow the kin'toni to heal, even in stagnant mud.. Inside the face are specialized facial nerve networks that are integrated into the sinuses. These allow the kin'toni to detect micro-vibrations and pressure waves in the murky water, allowing them to map the underwater surroundings without sight. This abilty is only useful in still or nearly still water, as if there are violent water currents, waves or heavy splashing storms, it is overloaded. If that happens, the kin'toni's sense is blinded.

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