Lorath Physiology

The lorath are a monotreme species notable for their white hair, grey skin, black feathered wings on their back, and golden eyes.

• Impregnation leads to the formation of one or more egg which is laid by the female and incubated until the child hatches.
• Lorath develop quickly (iirc the turlista twins could speak fluently within a year of hatching).
• Lorath live to approx 250¹⁾.

General shape and size of the body, impression a general member of the species leaves on the viewer.

Lorath have a humanoid body with two arms and two legs, as well as a pair of wings emerging from their upper back.

Two arms, each one starting at a shoulder connected to the torso, a single elbow and wrist connecting to a hand with four fingers and a thumb.

Two legs starting at the hip travelling down to a knee, then ankle attached to a plantigrade foot with five toes of descending size from the inner most to outermost. Thigh muscles are notably well developed and are universally quite large.

A pair of black feathered wings a ball and socket joint connects them to the back near the shoulder blades, each one featuring a structure much like the arms with an 'elbow' and 'wrist' joint. Long fused 'fingers' form support for the wings. Notably in most of the population the wings are much too small to provide flight and could safely be considered vestigial.

Lorath naturally have smooth nearly hairless pale grey skin. Due to their prolonged time spent beneath the surface of their planet all lorath are born with a sensitivity to sunlight which irritates their skin in direct contact.

Hair grows on the tops, sides, and back of a Lorath's head, keeping off of their ears and the majority of their face save for their eyebrows. Male lorath are capable of growing full beards.

Lorath have two evenly spaced eyes on the front of their head flanking a bridge which leads down to their nose, a structure with two nostrils. Beneath this is a single mouth typically sealed by lips, which contains a set of teeth and a short prehensile tongue. On the left and right side of the head slightly below lorath eye level is an ear the exact shape of which is determined by the individual's caste.

Lorath have fairly good sight, with three color receptors and a separate set of cells for low light monochromatic vision. Their eyes have an iris which is typically golden in coloration restricts the light allowed to pass through the lens to be interpreted by the retina of the eye.

Twenty molars, four canine, eight incisors? Short prehensile tongue, salivary glands, lips, cheeks.

Lorath have a wide range of nuanced taste, however they are unable to detect capsaicin and it does not interact to any great effect with their physiology.

Where it is, what it's like, how big it is, whether it splatters nicely.

What they eat, how fast they digest it, how well its digested.

Mutations in the Lorath population are extremely uncommon due to the species wide eugenics program, medical screening during gestation, and widely available gene therapy. In the unlikely even a mutation occurs the Lorath would most likely correct it with medical procedures and corrective gene therapy.