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SigmaRACE NAME: Crowe (plural form “Crowe”, adjective form “Crowe”)
RACE PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A species that for the most part appears rather human at base, from the face to the skin and the like, though with certain notable differences. The Crowe are innately magical beings themselves, whose long-past ancestor species migrated to the area they live in now. Yet in this case their bodies naturally evolved to produce magical energy by eating physical things as "fuel", and are rooted in fleshy physical forms.
Their bodies usually stand a distinctive size, ranging from 4’5” at shortest to 6’5” tall at largest by the time they become a fully-grown adult. Females are naturally in the tallest end of the spectrum, with the males trending naturally on the shortest end of the spectrum.
Their eyes are slitted and bestial in appearance, possessing keen night vision. Their eyes also are also sensitive to motion, to the point of being able to pick up on even very tiny/small motions in the environment (or from others beings) around them rather effectively within a 50 meter radius. The race’s eye colors tend to come in a range of gold, silver, crimson red, purple, and “mixed” combinations of two colors existing in the same eye (usually one being an outer ring of color and the other flaring out around the black slitted iris of the eye).
Instead of normal fingernails, tough tiny claws that can serve like fingernails are what the race possesses. Despite their size said claws are usually tough and relatively sharp to compensate for this, and are very useful in some general survival tasks in the wild.
Due to the higher altitude terrain they overall evolved lived in, their lungs have in turn evolutionarily developed to be much more efficient: greatly increasing their lung capacity/volume, increasing the ability of their blood and tissues to bind/acquire oxygen for breathing, notably increasing the amount of purple-blood cells (their version of red-blood cells, containing a more efficient variant of hemoglobin of a sorts that uses a different colored pigment) they possess, and being very well-adapted to the low atmospheric and partial oxygen pressures that exist at higher altitudes in general. Their blood is also a lighter purple when oxygenated, but turns a much darker purple when deoxygenated in turn.
POPULATION: 12
RACE BEHAVIOUR: The Crowe are a species that naturally unites into social groups composed of their own, with the largest female in the group taking up the leader position and organization of the group. Females tend to be the ones to go out to choose a mate, with males usually having to present themselves to attract a seeking female among their species.
Usually the hunters, leaders, and fighters out in the world among the race are the wide-hipped females, this merely being due to their size and naturally greater physical strength that helps them much more often than not survive childbirth in the wild. Males tend to be kept back home, to protect supplies, protect and help nurture the non-breastfeeding children, guard pregnant females, and keep the home front secure from predators or other enemies.
A community group/tribe is dedicated to their overall survival, though individual tendencies can be pronounced and visible as well among the members of a group/tribe.
HISTORY: TBD
CULTURE: TBD
TECHNOLOGIES:
RACE PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A species that for the most part appears rather human at base, from the face to the skin and the like, though with certain notable differences. The Crowe are innately magical beings themselves, whose long-past ancestor species migrated to the area they live in now. Yet in this case their bodies naturally evolved to produce magical energy by eating physical things as "fuel", and are rooted in fleshy physical forms.
Their bodies usually stand a distinctive size, ranging from 4’5” at shortest to 6’5” tall at largest by the time they become a fully-grown adult. Females are naturally in the tallest end of the spectrum, with the males trending naturally on the shortest end of the spectrum.
Their eyes are slitted and bestial in appearance, possessing keen night vision. Their eyes also are also sensitive to motion, to the point of being able to pick up on even very tiny/small motions in the environment (or from others beings) around them rather effectively within a 50 meter radius. The race’s eye colors tend to come in a range of gold, silver, crimson red, purple, and “mixed” combinations of two colors existing in the same eye (usually one being an outer ring of color and the other flaring out around the black slitted iris of the eye).
Instead of normal fingernails, tough tiny claws that can serve like fingernails are what the race possesses. Despite their size said claws are usually tough and relatively sharp to compensate for this, and are very useful in some general survival tasks in the wild.
Due to the higher altitude terrain they overall evolved lived in, their lungs have in turn evolutionarily developed to be much more efficient: greatly increasing their lung capacity/volume, increasing the ability of their blood and tissues to bind/acquire oxygen for breathing, notably increasing the amount of purple-blood cells (their version of red-blood cells, containing a more efficient variant of hemoglobin of a sorts that uses a different colored pigment) they possess, and being very well-adapted to the low atmospheric and partial oxygen pressures that exist at higher altitudes in general. Their blood is also a lighter purple when oxygenated, but turns a much darker purple when deoxygenated in turn.
They normally devour a very physical diet to sustain their bodies, consuming meat and plants and such as omnivores, with their bodies internally transforming it into the magical energy they require to sustain their lives (rather than relying on an array of natural nutrients). When a Crowe gets too low on magical energy reserves in their bodies, then, they become more tired physically, until they generally need to rest. Extreme overexertion might cause them to pass out cold, and thus be forced to wait and recover. Natural physical activities, such as eating, mating, and fighting, consume magical energy in their bodies much like another creature’s body might consume calories and nutrients for the same kinds of things.
Their bodies can consume fat stores and other tissues, in extreme emergency survival situations where the body has bene deprived of sustenance (food) for too long that is, in order to produce magical energy to sustain the user’s survival. Further, if they’ve generally been eating enough a Crowe’s tired body can recover more quickly for them. The more food-deprived they are, however, and the greater they overexerted the longer it takes for them to recover from such notable instances of overexertion. Just like with any nutrient-fed natural creature, pretty much, that doesn’t get enough of the right food and rest and such things.
These traits of their developed and adapted for the Crowe to survive in minimal-to-no magic areas, though they can still consume pure magical energy to absorb it...as well as get the same effect out of consuming the flesh or bodies of beings that also contain magical energy or are composed of it. It is just that their normal manner of feeding is far more efficient in the areas of minimal-to-no magic they now live in.
Their bodies can consume fat stores and other tissues, in extreme emergency survival situations where the body has bene deprived of sustenance (food) for too long that is, in order to produce magical energy to sustain the user’s survival. Further, if they’ve generally been eating enough a Crowe’s tired body can recover more quickly for them. The more food-deprived they are, however, and the greater they overexerted the longer it takes for them to recover from such notable instances of overexertion. Just like with any nutrient-fed natural creature, pretty much, that doesn’t get enough of the right food and rest and such things.
These traits of their developed and adapted for the Crowe to survive in minimal-to-no magic areas, though they can still consume pure magical energy to absorb it...as well as get the same effect out of consuming the flesh or bodies of beings that also contain magical energy or are composed of it. It is just that their normal manner of feeding is far more efficient in the areas of minimal-to-no magic they now live in.
Yet when they get into an intense enough emotional state (emotions for them producing very temporary/brief spikes in magical energy within them beyond normal levels), something strange happens. Their bodies transform into a stronger, warped, red-and-black colored humanoid monstrous form that appears “demonic” as a general theme. The appearance vary notably, however, despite its distinctly humanoid base physical form, though individuals in the same bloodline can have similar appearances in this form, if not inherit the same form as an ancestor.
It is a survival mechanism rooted in their innate magical nature, which also can trigger automatically in the face of a strong source of magical energy (such as the fey race), it isn’t anything they can even remotely control or harness at the start.
It is a survival mechanism rooted in their innate magical nature, which also can trigger automatically in the face of a strong source of magical energy (such as the fey race), it isn’t anything they can even remotely control or harness at the start.
The Crowe mate through sexual reproduction, though in this case each partner’s magical energy plays the main role in this. Male gametes are merely carriers of samples of the male’s magical energy, which during reproduction carry these samples into the female and merge with magical energy contained within her ovaries and uterus. This mixture of magical energies in the uterus/womb triggers a physiological reaction in the female, which causes the female’s body to secrete special cells into the uterus. When these cells are united with the mixture of magical energies in the uterus, this triggers the cells to form a body that will form a new child/children whose body will be sustained by the mixture of magical energies in the womb. Once the body/bodies reaches maturity and can survive outside of the womb, birth occurs, and the mother will initially feed her children breast milk that the baby’s body will convert into magical energy to sustain itself.
Each Crowe pregnancy results in normally 2-4 children. This can fluxuate to having less children (1) if the female is malnourished, or more of the female is in peak health. Further, two females can perform an exchange of magical energy in the absence of a male, which can still produce a child between the two of them. This latter thing is more a function the species developed in case of a severe numbers reduction to bolster the population, such as if disease or the like tears through their population, though it can still happen on the average at times.
Sometimes, if a female’s cells don’t secrete enough, or a partner’s magical energy fails to mix properly, it can take multiple tries for a copulating male-female or female-female pair to succeed in generating a pregnancy. This is natural for them, much like with any creatures that tries to get pregnant.
Each Crowe pregnancy results in normally 2-4 children. This can fluxuate to having less children (1) if the female is malnourished, or more of the female is in peak health. Further, two females can perform an exchange of magical energy in the absence of a male, which can still produce a child between the two of them. This latter thing is more a function the species developed in case of a severe numbers reduction to bolster the population, such as if disease or the like tears through their population, though it can still happen on the average at times.
Sometimes, if a female’s cells don’t secrete enough, or a partner’s magical energy fails to mix properly, it can take multiple tries for a copulating male-female or female-female pair to succeed in generating a pregnancy. This is natural for them, much like with any creatures that tries to get pregnant.
POPULATION: 12
RACE BEHAVIOUR: The Crowe are a species that naturally unites into social groups composed of their own, with the largest female in the group taking up the leader position and organization of the group. Females tend to be the ones to go out to choose a mate, with males usually having to present themselves to attract a seeking female among their species.
Usually the hunters, leaders, and fighters out in the world among the race are the wide-hipped females, this merely being due to their size and naturally greater physical strength that helps them much more often than not survive childbirth in the wild. Males tend to be kept back home, to protect supplies, protect and help nurture the non-breastfeeding children, guard pregnant females, and keep the home front secure from predators or other enemies.
A community group/tribe is dedicated to their overall survival, though individual tendencies can be pronounced and visible as well among the members of a group/tribe.
HISTORY: TBD
CULTURE: TBD
TECHNOLOGIES:
- - Basic Tools
- – Fire
- – (to be added once they discover it)
