Emberlene's Daughter, The Jedi Generalist
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Name: Kerra Kesh
Designation: Sentient
Homeworld: Sekalus
Language: Basic
Average height of adults: 2m
Skin color: Standard human
Hair color: Dark shades
Breathes: Type I, Type 2
Strengths:
LTNF: Their bodies produce a special protein that is able to neutralize toxins and poisons.
Bite: Their incisors are in two parts, the visible ones and when they bite or eat, then a second for attacking prey snap into place like a rattlesnake. The second section of incisor is hollow and secretes a venom into bites that causes inhibition of blood clotting and intense pain. Their mouths themselves also contain several bacteria able to infect if left untreated or cause death. Shock from blood loss is a given if they are able to tear out larger chunks. (example is Komodo dragons only a lot less)
Venom is anti coagulant in nature to prevent clotting and allow those they bite to bleed out.
Weaknesses:
Heat Dispersion: Their bodies are unable to sweat and cool itself, as they get hotter their brains will slowly swell and cause seizures.
In extreme cases their heat death can lead to them seeking death to stop the pain.
Lack of Senses: The bodies possess no sense of taste or smell
Require Cold: As a species they dislike the heat and deserts. Being unable to process it and cool themselves down naturally they generally live in cold environments or wear cold suits.
Distinctions:
- Humanoid Appearance
- Dark shades of hair
- Cannot sweat
- Lay Eggs
- Males are rare but live longer lives
Races: There is only one species
Estimated Population: 1 billion
Diet: Meats, dairy, standard humanoid food
Communication: Vocal
Culture:
A product of the world and its varied species. Their lives are built around the worship and maintaining the ancient temples outside the last city on the planet. The children are taken from a young age into the jungle and trained when they are old enough to understand orders and carry their own backpack.
The chrysalis stage of their maturation is a trying time. With the onset of puberty they consume large quantities of food to molt several times and create a fleshy sack that clings to a moist wall within a cave or temple. The next several weeks their bodies alter and mature with the bones growing longer and stronger.
The training for the Kerra is intense teaching them through lessons in combat and education. Their skills within religious shamanism for reverence of their gods and the builders from the sky. The combat training centered around psychological manipulation and getting at the nerve of a being over just overpowering them in combat.
Art and music is not unheard of but it is rare to find real talent with it. All are encouraged to paint and play some sort of instrument but talent wise only a handful are truly gifted. Their sports are more ceremonial from a time when sacrifice was practiced and acceptable within the temples. Their rituals involving consuming of the heart.
Their care of the temples on the planets has become more or less outdated with the retreat and most species on the world going into the last city. The closest temples in the polar region serving as the only one outside of the city they reside in using the cold temperatures to regulate their bodies and protect themselves.
Technology level: Galactic standard with skills in temperature regulation and cryoban technology
General behavior:
With Each other: In Kerra society there is an emphasis on conflict but not to the death. They dislike killing each other and will gladly fight in deathless duels to settle arguments. Leaving what grievances they have on the arena sands.
Gladiator matches among the temples to prove supremacy as they share their riches and crystals. Working on their technology they developed cool suits that can keep them from overheating and it is generally an act of mercy to kill the ones who are succumbing to the dangers of heat stroke.
With Outsiders: With outsiders and ones who come to their world the Kerra are seen sometimes as advanced able to play off their bodies natural protein to neutralize toxins as the way or them being more advanced.
With the other species they face off against on their world they are the more careful, usually finding ways to out think the larger species and lure them into traps instead of trying to just face them. The technology is valued in some circles for advancements in cryoban gasses and utilizing them.
The Force: The Kerra regard the force as a part of life, the use it but try not to have it do the work they can do themselves. Force users are accepted but ones who are lazy because they have the talent to use the force are not.
Priestesses and Priests within the temples are highly regarded for their talents with the force and knowledge of how to teach the others. Care taking of them through the use of personal vassels that can relay messages from location to location.
History: Discovered on the world by the Rakata and taken away from their homes because of the unique traits. In the early days of the plague the Kerra were experimented on to try and find a way to use their genetic materials to make an anti virus to the Rakata decimating plague.
With no real progress on their front to try and cure the plague eventually the slaves were left on the world while it worked to rebel. THeir people and others finding a place on it as they took residence compared to most in the polar regions of the world. Being able to work with crystals and keeping themselves cool on the mostly hot jungle world.
The centuries went on and the local populations that were around slowly started to war and decline seeking solace in their larger cities with thick walls and only venturing out. More of the stranger species from the world started to find dominance and the Kerra retreated to places they didn't like near the artic circle of the planet. Es
establishing temples carved into the sides of mountains and vast ones carved into glaciers as they worked on making their technology more hospitable too venture across the world to trade. Meeting the other species on the planet gave them a few ideas but it wasn't until they developed ice suits that could keep them cold in the hot jungles they had progress.
With some trade established and seeing the ruins they left behind on the world outside their massive city the Kerra mostly established themselves on the fringes of the polar region. Not showing or saying where they were and only visiting to trade with the others. They could work their own mines while offering crystals harvested for some of the more exotic foods.
For many more centuries trade was a beneficial agreement between the two and while they might disagree invading their city would mean long months likely of being in the heat and marching through a desert. While vice versa they would be trying to invade a region of the world usually always in the grips of a blizzard and likely on foot.
Their encounters with the other local species of the world were stranger still as they managed to not be prey to some of the scarier ones but developed ways to combat them to penetrate the exoskeletons the species had. Their harder work in making locations of worship they could train and live in.
When more people came to the world to liberate it they were careful not to waste the opportunity to learn about them but stayed away until they came to the polar regions hunting crystals. They met with them and showed them around but remained mostly neutral as the beings disliked the cold weather around them. They retreated and headed home to observe the world from the main city leaving them alone.
Notable Player-Characters: N/A
Intent: To create a species per request that had some interesting traits
