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Post by Proxy on Oct 14, 2009 16:33:18 GMT -5
My idea for a new species- I fixed it up. Thanks!
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( & Echani)
Planet of Origin:: They grow up on a small, snow covered planet called Cazna- it is always at freezing point. The Echani live in large underground settlements, and there are many different of the city for different ages of Echani (EG, the Echani elders live deeper underground then the younger- closer to the Gaia)
Echani, while traditionally warriors and guardians who lived by strict codes and ethics, have turn in their culture- one that was shunned by the elders of their community for centuries. They are still considered to be one of the most culturally defined species, but their elders suggest otherwise. The Echani are always in sync with the environment around them, and find it very easy to just tap into an energy that they call the Gaia, and draw upon skills, energy and wisdom- making them worthy opponents in a fight. -There is not much difference between male and female, except that the males are slightly more dominant, and are more protective of the race, rather then individual Echani members like the females do
-Because of their sensitivity to their surroundings, they find it very hard to work in large groups of other species; in an environment where the people around them are stressed, they will take on these
-All members of the Echani race look more or less the same- pale, white skin that seems to glow in the dark, with pupil/iris-less eyes that vary in colour depending on mood, short snow white hair that is always cropped short (it is disrespectful in Echani culture to have long hair) and considerably beautiful features, though none of them acnoledge their natural beauty, or try to enhance it.
-Values honour, pride and wisdom
-Are known to live to up to 600 years
-They have a very human stature, and usually grow to about two metres in height
-They usually have one or two glowing markings on their faces, arms or back. They vary in colour, shape and size.
Culture (Strong)
-Once you turn fifty years of age, you are considered a young adult. You would undergo a series of tests- commonly known to other species as the ‘Trials of Echani’. If you fail the trials, you are exiled from the race- a punishment that most Echani fear more then death.
-As a child in the community, you will not know your birth parents- you will be sent to live with another Echani, and they will become your master until the Trials- they will teach you everything from dress code to combat to history of the race.
-Attachment of any kind is prohibited in the Echani world- it is a weakness and it has the potential to hurt those around you without meaning to. Therefore, it is forbidden.
-An Echani will not own anything- have no possessions apart from one weapon of their choice/design/making that they create from relative scratch in their Trials.
-It is considered a sin of the deepest kind mating with any that are not of their type
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Post by Feather on Oct 15, 2009 15:27:28 GMT -5
Thank you for the species Proxy.
With your permission it will be added to the enyclopedia in the next few days.
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Post by Fiuth on Oct 31, 2009 22:11:20 GMT -5
AkiariPlanet of Origin:Carsen 4. The planet is a multi-sectioned place that has quadrants of forest, desert, iceland, ocean, barren, and volcanic waste. It looks like a patchwork quilt from above. [list/] [/li][li]The Akiari are an elemental race. Each indivual is comprised of water, ice, snow, magma, fire, rock, dust, tornadoes, fog, leaves and branches, wood, or metal. [/li][li]Each species has some control over a base element:water, wind, fire, or earth [/li][li]The more solid elements have a husky stature, while the more amorphous are leaner. There is no build difference in males and females. [/li][li]Their religion is that the spirit of their planet, Gaia, is the very nature itself. Gaia created each separate 'race' or 'species' of Akiari by taking bits of herslef and breathing life in the shells. For this reason, they have a deep respect for their planet, and despair of the humans. [/li][li] Akiari can live up to be 20 centuries old [/li][li]Akiari have no facial features, so they communicate by a sonar/telepathy mix, and they become aware of surroundings by the same process. [/li][li]All Akiari on a different planet wears a containment suit that hold in their substance, allow them to experience the 5 senses, allow them to speak, and hide their Akiari nature to other races. [/li][li]Akiari aren't born the normal way. Every few years, one will come out of an element, and start life on Carsen 4, although some have been reported of being born on Earth... [/li][li]If you look at an Akiari's coloring, you can tell if they are good or bad. The evil Akiari have a much more darker, rotten look than those that want to help - Akiari think themselves superior to most other races. As a consequence, some Akiari seek to help out the unfortunates, and help them achieve their perfect status; while others seek to keep their superiority and ruin the lives of the other races.
- They hold a species-wide celebration with a fair or party that lasts half a month, with the remaining month taken up by solitude and contemplation
- Akiari don't take life mates, unless the individuals behavior points in that direction. They can mix with certain species, but the child is usually left to be adopted.
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Post by Feather on Nov 1, 2009 15:34:13 GMT -5
Do they have eyes? Senses? What keeps them from being extremely dangerous on earth? How do they feel about mating, some cultural things need to added, as well as how they can pick things up~
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Post by Feather on Nov 20, 2009 20:24:19 GMT -5
Much better, now copy and paste the format from one of the canon species, and put in the required information.
Add in some holidays, and culture as well. Do they hate conflicting elements? How do they get around the universe?
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Post by Feather on Nov 22, 2009 22:36:25 GMT -5
*looks at giant walls of text*
1. You need to move the planet description up to PLANET OF ORIGIN
2. Try and divide the words into bullets like I did with appearance for the other species: - Have the general summary btu then like: - Made up of various elements - THEIR HEIGHT - OTHER BULLETS
Then in culture
Culture: - They dislike love - How long they live - Describe their religion - Describe family life - Describe gender roles//sexism//non-sexes
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Post by Fiuth on Nov 22, 2009 22:39:57 GMT -5
meh. You make a lazy bum like me haf ta work feath. You are evil incarnate.
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Post by Feather on Nov 22, 2009 22:48:10 GMT -5
^^ Don't worry, after you finish this species I will put up a format for anyone else who needs one.
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Post by Feather on Nov 26, 2009 21:33:02 GMT -5
Much better, just a few things I can edit myself.
Accepted.
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Post by Fiuth on Nov 26, 2009 21:36:22 GMT -5
Woot!
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Post by nyla on Nov 29, 2009 13:13:10 GMT -5
(Do I put this here...?) (& Mantriani)(& Matriani)Planet of Origin:: [Matridan] Matridan is 93 percent covered in water. They few continents they have are more like large islands. The largest of them is just a little smaller than Australia. These islands are covered in lush rainforests, and crisscrossed by watery canals. Due to the unique composition of the atmosphere, the sky is a pale purple, and the oceans reflecting the sky are deep violet. Generally called the Matri or the 'Triani by other extra-terrestrials, they are often seen as a rather old-fashioned race. They are a very nature-bound species, preferring to live in homes made of wood, mud, and bark, or tunnels dug into the banks of the canals. They have limited technology, but only because they feel they have no need for it. The small portion they do have though runs on water, due to the abundance of it on their planet.. - Eight limbs, four to walk and swim with, two for manipulating objects. Three joints in all limbs
- Figure looks a bit like a centaur with a long neck.
- Gills on the sides of their necks, for breathing underwater, as well as lungs for breathing air.
- Hands are human in looks, but with webbed, four-joined fingers.
- Two sets on eyelids that close vertically. The secondary set is clear, and is used to see underwater.
- Males have a finned ridge down their spine.
- Long tails with a trident-shaped fin on the end. males have a poisoned claw on the end.
- Reproduction is similar to plants, with the males releasing pollen from their tails, and the females catching it in a slit on their chest.
- Short rounded muzzle. Sharp teeth in the front, and grinding molars in the back.
- Their skin is smooth and moist. If they get too dry, their skin flakes and cracks.
Some Culture:- Diet consists mostly of fish, but they do enjoy plants and fruit as well. They don't understand the appeal of most human food. Especially gum and rice crispy treats.
- They believe that all living things, animals and plants alike, have a soul. However, that doesn't keep them from eating living things. They believe strongly in the 'circle of life'.
- They extremely dislike planet earth, but feel it is their duty to keep an eye on it. You can sometimes see a group of Triani planting trees, or collecting trash.
- A small band of rebel Triani have made their home on Touchdown, and spend their time getting piercings and partying.
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Post by Feather on Nov 29, 2009 15:46:32 GMT -5
I like them, and the fact that they are NOT human, or at least don't appear that way.
Question: How do they breathe on earth? XD That's it.
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Post by nyla on Nov 29, 2009 16:22:41 GMT -5
*Points* They have gills AND lungs for breathing air :D They're not so used to t dry air of Earth though, so they usually keep to places with swimming pools and ponds and the like.
I designed them with the thought 'let's make a not-human alien'! Their bone structure is very interesting. I'll draw you a skeleton some time.
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Post by zom on Nov 29, 2009 17:39:34 GMT -5
I figured I'd toss one up here, too. x] WALL OF TEXT INCOMING (and a picture for reference is soon to come!) SKASSI. Planet of Origin: Kuass. Kuass is a rather small and barren desert planet, originally serving as a prison for a now-extinct race from another planet. Creatures of that race were dumped unceremoniously onto the dry, harsh planet and left to rot. Instead of dying or suffering terribly on Kuass, they survived and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years, and built up an advanced society. All water on the planet is found beneath the surface, and must be dug for. The earth is an unpleasant shade of gray-brown, and most of the planet is sandy or rocky, though there are some muddy spots, and even some rare areas where shrubs and other plants manage to grow. Asides from in these spots, there are no plants, and all wildlife is either carnivorous or, curiously enough, capable of photosynthesis, and these creatures tend to sleep deeply, buried underground, during the dark and long nights. Cities on Kuass are large, sprawling, and seemingly chaotic, with extremely tall buildings of varying sizes and shapes (though most have sharp features and edges) scattered about in a way that appears almost haphazard. Every building and item is made primarily of metal, for Kuass is rich in minerals and ores that can be smelted down, but the buildings are strangely warm to the touch due to artificial heating systems, and the streets are contrastingly rock or dirt. There are no lights in Skassi cities, and since Kuass nights tend to be very long and nearly pitch-black, with daylight lasting only five hours or so each day and being dim as it is, the cities are tough to get around for most sight-dependent species. There isn't a terrible lot of advanced technology on Kuass (most of it is little more than public transportation, some sound/communication systems, and automated machinery in factories, and most Skassi technology has been engineered to produce heat), and what there is that cannot run on its own or without the use of eyes tend to be operated by non-Skassis. The only reason that Skassis have begun to branch out from their home planet and visit other worlds is due to being re-discovered by other races. - Covered in dark, metallic scales that have little sheen to them, and don't have much color variation from one Skassi to the next; they tend to be either blue, purple, black, gray, brown, or on very rare occasion a gray-white, though this is exceedingly rare. The only parts of a Skassi's body that are not scaled tend to be their reproductive organs, the lower halves of their faces, their ears (which are, curiously, covered in a coarse fur), and the pads of their hands and feet. Exposed skin is usually either gray, black, or brown, but may occasionally have a more white or purple undertone. Skassis are incapable of growing hair and their skulls are covered in scales as well.
- Have very wide mouths, filled with sharp needle-like teeth (two rows of them). Do not have eyes or noses, and smell with their long, tube-like tongues (which are not forked; they end at tapered, pointed tips) that flicker in and out of their mouths periodically. The tongues are black, as are their gums, though the tips of the tongues tend to fade to a dark blue or purple.
- Due to being blind, Skassis have extremely sharp senses of hearing and smell, and also have heat-sensitive organs in place of where their eyes would be that allow them to at least sense other (warm-blooded) creatures and have an idea of where others are. They also have an underdeveloped sort of method of echolocation, though it isn't very precise, and most Skassis on Earth have managed to figure out that shrieking every few seconds to know where things are makes others shy away from them, so they refrain from using it. To help them avoid colliding with things, they tend to use one set of arms to constantly feel around in front of them, and another set to feel around behind them or to their sides, the third set being used normally.
- Male Skassis grow a pair of sharp, small horns upon their heads. Females grow shorter, stubby ones.
- The reproductive organs of Skassis are similar to those of humans, and male and female Skassis can be distinguished from one-another primarily by comparing these organs (duh) or observing differences in their body sizes and shapes. (Females are smaller and more hunched than males.) Female Skassis do not, however, have breasts, for they don't produce milk for their young. Baby Skassis come out of the womb with teeth developed enough to tear into meat, and stomachs developed enough to digest it, so they just start out eating solid food.
- On that note, Skassis are carnivorous. They live pretty much entirely on meat, and require very little water to survive and function in a healthy manner. Vegetables upset their stomachs.
- Skassis have three pairs of long, skinny arms, with four-fingered hands at the end of each limb, and one pair of even longer and slightly bulkier legs. Their feet are flat and three-toed, and the toes are more like hard, sharp claws than digits. Their fingers are extremely long and slender and taper off to sharpened tips. Their torsos are hunched and tend to be bulky in the chest area to support the extra limbs. Skassis also have long, skinny, scaled, whip-like tails that tend to be about as long as they are tall -- which is, by the way, long, for Skassis on average tower over humans at seven to eight-and-a-half feet in height. (Females are usually six to seven feet tall.) Their necks are abnormally long, and their bodies tend to be very slender.
- Skassis are warm-blooded, but have a relatively low body temperature (an average 75.2 degrees Fahrenheit) and don't like hot climates. They also dislike bright lights, because while they're unable to see, they still have blind, small, useless and evolutionarily neglected eyes capable of sensing light, and they are very used to either pitch-black darkness or only faint illumination.
- They have large lungs that are capable of breathing oxygenated air, but since they don't have noses, they breathe with their mouths.
Some Culture: - Skassis on Kuass only very rarely wear clothing, and even then it's just during the winter months, as Kuass can get very cold and it's practical to cover up then. After all, why wear clothes when it's perfectly warm? On Earth, however, clothes are pretty much required for most humanoid races, and so Skassis reluctantly will wear pants, but not tops. They see no reason to wear tops. Since Skassis are very tall and skinny, most pairs of pants that they get tend to be both too short and too loose, unless tailored to fit.
- Skassis of course do not typically create paintings or sculptures or any forms of art like that, but they do very much enjoy poems or stories told aloud. They also love music, though their music tends to consist only of vocals and perhaps the tap of a drum or a foot to keep a beat. Either way, Skassi music is usually only enjoyed by Skassis, due to the high-pitched and wailing sound made by most Skassi vocalists, and it's hard for a non-Skassi to appreciate a myth told by a storyteller from Kuass thanks to the grating, hissing, throaty sound of most Skassi voices. They have very unpleasant accents even when their language is translated by the headsets, hissing their "s"s and saying "ch" sounds with in a harsh, throaty manner.
- Can live up to 300 years.
- Though they aren't religious and most don't worship any deities, Skassis are very superstitious and believe in all manner of beasts and curses that they tend to tell folk stories about. Some religions on Kuass have formed around these beliefs, but are not wide-spread.
- Skassi "families" are unique in that they do not typically consist of two mates and their offspring along with any relatives they may be staying with. Skassis are promiscuous and do not mate for life, nor do they attempt to. A female will seek out a male, they will have sex, she'll have his child, and he'll wander off on his merry way, the whole thing being rather impersonal. Then, when the child has grown to be twenty years old (the age at which Skassis are considered to be matured, though they will not be completely fully-grown until age 35), he or she leaves their mother and heads out into the world. Most Skassis will live in large buildings, called "hessas" in their native tongue, with a good number of other Skassis that may or may not have any relation to them at all. Usually the Skassis living in a hessa will be friends, but not related. Still, they consider those living with them in a hessa to be their family, for they collectively get food for the rest of the hessa and will often have large group meals where stories are told and songs are sung and poems are recited. Skassis in hessas tend to get very close with their hessa buddies. Young Skassis will live with in their mothers' hessas until old enough to find a hessa of their own.
- Skassis are very open about their emotions, opinions, and romances. As a result, some things that Skassis say may be considered rather rude by Earth standards.
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Post by nyla on Nov 29, 2009 18:23:04 GMT -5
Skassis sound super-awesome! I wanna roleplay one x3 And it sounds like (by human standards) the entire race is made up of perverts.
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