Taeli Raaf
Bookworm
Tsûkda Maiaiyita Berserker preparing to charge
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To submit a new warrior race Sithspawn for use by the Sith and other aligned factions
- Image Credit:
- https://scryfall.com/card/znr/150/moraug-fury-of-akoum - Tsûkda Maiaiyita Berserker preparing to charge
- https://scryfall.com/card/grn/116/smelt-ward-minotaur - Tsûkda Maiaiyita Gladiator on Amaltanna bellowing out their challenge to their opponent
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- Name: Tsûkda Maiaiyita
- Tsûkda Maiaiyita is ur-Kittat, the language of the Sith, for Maze Bull.
- Designation: Sentient
- Origins:
- Average Lifespan:
- Given the average lifespans of the Iktotchi species is roughly 90 Galactic Standard Years, combined with the genetics of the Tarsunt and Reek species and augmented through Sith alchemy and sorcery, the species as a whole are expected to have a lifespan of roughly 120 Galactic Standard Years.
- Estimated Population: Planetary
- The vast majority of the species are concentrated on Amaltanna, given it is the world where they were originally created, specifically they have carved out settlements for themselves in both the Maladi Wastes and the Gloam Depths. A small population was imported to Korriban to help protect the Valley of the Dark Lords and other important cultural structures and sites to the Sith.
- Description:
- A species of Sithspawn that have been created for combat, the Tsûkda Maiaiyita are all massive in size and covered in rippling muscles to better batter down enemies. Covered in fur and adorned with trophies of their victory, the newest sentient Sithspawn of Amaltanna have carved out through own domain through their strength, their fiery tempers and powers, and their massive horns that can easily cut through stone and metal, let alone flesh and blood.
- Breathes: Type I
- Average Height of Adults:
- Typically, adults of the species average 3 meters, although some members of the species have been observed growing to heights approaching 4 meters.
- Average Length of Adults: N/A
- Skin color:
- While their skin color is mostly obscured by their fur, underneath and across their faces and palms, their skin color can vary widely between various shades of gray to ruddy browns and reds.
- Hair color:
- Much like their skin color, their hair color, specifically the fur that covers their bodies, can be various shades although the typical specimen will appear with some sort of fur that is between tan and brown.
- Distinctions:
- The most distinctive physical characteristics of the species, besides the shaggy fur that covers their bodies, are the pair of horns that both males and females sport and their massive battle-ready bodies. Males typically develop larger horns than females, while females grow smaller nubs in their place.
- Races: No other races at present
- Force Sensitivity: All
- Due to the creation process of the species involving manipulating and combining Iktotchi specimens with Tarsunt and Reek genetics through Sith alchemy and sorcery, each member of the species is sensitive to the Force, specifically the dark side of the Force due to their Sithspawn nature. Through their creation, the Lady of Secrets and her cadre of alchemists and sorcerers imprinted innate knowledge of certain Force techniques within the species that they can utilize even untrained, although those actually trained in the ways of the Force can utilize these innate abilities far more potently.
- As the most distinctive physical trait, the horns of the Tsûkda Maiaiyita were modified and enhanced through Sith alchemy by the Lady of Secrets and her alchemists. Hardened and enhanced to the quality of a Sith sword, the horns can gouge through stone and most metals with ease, allowing them to engage fortifications and light armored vehicles and completely tear their way through infantry. Combined with their strength and the running momentum they can get with a charge; a group of the creatures can scatter and destroy entire columns of enemy forces.
- As the other side of their physical traits, the Tsûkda Maiaiyita are incredibly strong due to their muscular bodies and further enhancements through Sith alchemy and combination with reek DNA structures. When compared against Wookiee specimens, themselves praised throughout the galaxy for their strength and endurance, the Tsûkda Maiaiyita were roughly four times as strong as the famous sentient of Kashyyyk, making them easily capable of tearing apart opponents with their bare hands or lifting incredibly heavy objects and throwing them a respectable distance.
- Developed and enhanced through Sith sorcery and alchemy, the Tsûkda Maiaiyita have an innate precognition that is born from their Iktotchi origins. This precognition manifests in the ability to always know what direction their enemies or opponents are, and as an uncanny ability to track enemies through buildings and across terrain. For members of the species that have been focused on enhancing their connection to the dark side, this ability can further evolve to grant them visions of the future and other hints of their surroundings and intentions of opponents they face.
- Gifted through the knowledge of the Lady of Secrets and her followers, each member of the species has three innate Force abilities they can call upon:
- Force Rage - Used to further augment their physical capabilities
- Convection - Typically used in conjunction with their weapons and horns, the creatures will channel massive amounts of heat and fire to scorch and burn their enemies.
- Pyrokinesis - Typically used as a projectile attack against enemies too far away from their weapons and horns, Tsûkda Maiaiyita will throw small fireballs that form in their hands at those opponents.
- While their horns are incredibly potent weapons enhanced through Sith alchemy for increased strength and durability, they can be damaged if subjected to repeated attacks or punishment. If broken, it can deprive the Tsûkda Maiaiyita of a potent weapon in their arsenal and can take weeks if not months for the damaged horn to regrow and weakne their position within their society or combat unit.
- While their strength is incredible and once they get charging, their speed can tear through combat units with ease, they are not agile creatures in the slightest. As large warriors, they make for easy targets at long range and they have difficulty in changing directions once they begin charging, their momentum too strong to change easily.
- Their precognitive abilities from their Iktotchi origins, while useful, can be fooled by proficient mentalist opponents, especially those Force users that are specifically trained in combating psychic abilities or enemies that are immune to mental abilities such as Epicanthix. The abilities also aren't foolproof as the future is always in motion and a canny opponent can trick their tracking abilities if they are sufficiently skilled.
- While they have innate Force abilities, if the creatures pass through a Force nullification zone such as in an ysalamiri void bubble or a void stone field, they can't utilize those abilities and their precognition is extremely limited if not outright suppressed.
Tsûkda Maiaiyita Gladiator on Amaltanna bellowing out their challenge to their opponent
CULTURE
- Diet:
- Tsûkda Maiaiyita are omnivorous creatures, although males and females have different diets with males taking vastly higher quantities of meat in their diets and females reversing that with their intake of vegetation.
- Communication:
- Tsûkda Maiaiyita can speak Galactic Basic, if spoken in guttural and deep tones, and ur-Kittat. They have also developed their own form of communicating with other members of their species through unarticulated rumbles and grumbles.
- Technology level:
- As a fully sentient Sithspawn species, they can wield Galactic Standard technologies but prefer the use of armor and weapons forged by their own hands and then enhanced through Sith alchemy by one of their own shamans that was trained in the art or by a Sith artificer they trust. Other than that, because of their size, other pieces of technology needed to be adapted for their hands and bulk for their use.
- Religion/Beliefs:
- As a species that respect strength through martial skill and their twisting by the dark side, many of the Tsûkda Maiaiyita have come to venerate Sith Lords that have proven themselves as mighty warriors and conquerors. Of the ancient Sith Lords, shamans and tribes have gravitated their veneration towards Sith such as Marka Ragnos while the most prolific modern Sith worshipped are Darth Carnifex as the Butcher King and Iron Tyrant, Kezeroth as the Lord of Rage, Darth Moridin as the Conqueror, and Darth Arcis as the Emperor of Battle. Some shamans also include the creator of their species, Darth Arcanix, in the pantheon of their worship as the Mother.
- General behavior:
- The Tsûkda Maiaiyita have grouped themselves in a tribal society, centered around a warlord and shaman that jointly command the tribe. The proud warriors engage frequently in contests of battle and war, with gladiatorial games being favored by males of the species to achieve honor and glory. For the species, the pursuit of such laurels is everything as their standing within the tribe is determined by their victories over opponents in battle and the quality of such fights. This is especially true for the tribes on Amaltanna, but for the tribes on Korriban, the honor and glory are found within the ability to protect the tombs and sacred places of the Sith from looters and the unworthy. It is not uncommon for the Tsûkda Maiaiyita on Korriban to display the hands or skulls of thieves as trophies on their battle harnesses, all the better to intimidate potential thieves that have broken into the tombs.
As the continuing projects on Amaltanna and the orbiting moon Misic, the scientists of Spaarti Creations and the alchemists of the Order of Arcane Syn began working on the next sentient Sithspawn species of their Uplift Program. Having taken captive members of the Tarsunt species and members of the Iktotchi, the alchemists began warping and combining the two through specialized fusion and blood rituals of Sith alchemy, along with DNA strands of reek specimens held in captivity in the facilities on Misic. Guided by the alchemy of the Sith, along with oversight and direct input from Darth Arcanix, the new species that emerged from the blood chrysalises were monstrous warriors of fiery tempers and incredible strength with horns to match.
The new species, dubbed the Tsûkda Maiaiyita or Maze Bulls in the language of the Sith, were quickly able to carve out their place on Amaltanna through strength of arms and fiery war. The creatures and their tribes, as observed by the Order of Arcane Syn, have developed a fearsome reputation on the planet and were even imported into the nearby Stygian Caldera to act as guards of the tombs and sacred locations of the Sith on Korriban due to their innate ability to navigate the maze-like tombs and burial valleys.
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