[quote=@Fabulous Knight]
[@BBeast]I'm going to go ahead and say my head-canon is that they're giant armadillos. And I won't let anyone stop me.

Side note: now that a sentient race has been developed, how fast are we going to move through time? I reckon we've got about two to one hundred thousand years until the Hain independently develop civilisation.
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I'm unsure if it has been decided that we're not developing humans on Galbar - if we haven't, then the hain will be an interesting species to play around with and evolve into various sub-species over a period of some 200,000 years. Though note that they are not very war-like and we are going to have to be mindful of that fact when playing their development.
For some reason, after reading the Urtelem sheet, I had the sudden notion that they seem like the kind of species that the hain would choose to develop around/stay near. That can protect them and also ensure that intelligent Ashlings don't develop xP