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====== Rolaan ====== | ====== Rolaan ====== | ||
- | Rolaan are a fossorial lizardlike species of sentient that have quick minds and even quicker feet. They' | + | |{{: |
+ | |Art by [[user/ | ||
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+ | Rolaan are a fossorial lizardlike | ||
===Abilities Shortlist=== | ===Abilities Shortlist=== | ||
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===Body Type=== | ===Body Type=== | ||
- | Rolaan are short and generally scrawny by mammalian standards, with smooth scales making them seem thinner than species with fuzzy hair sticking off of them. Females tend to have bigger hips but not always. Rolaan do not have breasts. They also have poor internal heat regulation, and often resort to using enchanted bands to keep their bodies within comfortable margins. | + | Rolaan are short and generally scrawny by mammalian standards, with smooth scales making them seem thinner than species with fuzzy hair sticking off of them. Females tend to have bigger hips but not always. Rolaan do not naturally possess breast tissue however exceptionally well fed, corpulent rolaan may develop fatty masses over their pectoral muscles which are visually similar to breasts. They also have poor internal heat regulation, and often resort to using enchanted bands to keep their bodies within comfortable margins. |
==Limbs== | ==Limbs== | ||
- | Rolaan have arms roughly one and a half times their torso length, and short digitigrade legs with thick, muscled thighs that keep them low to the ground and very bouncy on their feet. Their hands are four fingered (three and a thumb) but are capped with very thick and hard, nigh calcified claws meant for digging. | + | Rolaan have arms roughly one and a half times their torso length, and short digitigrade legs with thick, muscled thighs that keep them low to the ground and very bouncy on their feet. Their hands are four fingered (three and a thumb) but are capped with very thick and hard, nigh calcified claws meant for digging. Their feet are similarly equipped, though with three toes. |
==Average Height and Weight== | ==Average Height and Weight== | ||
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===Dermal=== | ===Dermal=== | ||
Rolaan are covered in scales, all very smooth and polished to the touch. The exact colouration varies from type and Rolaan to Rolaan, but your basic ones tend to be grassy or earthen tones with patches of bright colouration about the face. Males tend to have brighter colourations on their stomachs and inner legs, but otherwise look fairly similar to the females. | Rolaan are covered in scales, all very smooth and polished to the touch. The exact colouration varies from type and Rolaan to Rolaan, but your basic ones tend to be grassy or earthen tones with patches of bright colouration about the face. Males tend to have brighter colourations on their stomachs and inner legs, but otherwise look fairly similar to the females. | ||
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- | ===Pelage=== | ||
- | hair/fur, where it grows, what it is like | ||
===Head=== | ===Head=== | ||
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===Oral=== | ===Oral=== | ||
- | Their teeth are mostly sharp canines, with a few flatter teeth towards the back of their maws for chewing. They also have a very long tongue with a sticky endpoint. that they use to catch bugs with that escape their claws. | + | Their teeth are mostly sharp canines, with a few flatter teeth towards the back of their maws for chewing. They also have a very long tongue with a sticky endpoint that they use to catch bugs with that escape their claws. |
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- | ==Taste== | + | |
- | They have fewer taste buds than humans, owed to their mostly meat diet, but can still pick out sweet from sour - though they lack the ability to differentiate finer flavours. | + | |
==Vocalizations== | ==Vocalizations== | ||
Rolaan have a trilling quality to their voices, but often rely on their magic bands to autotranslate for them. | Rolaan have a trilling quality to their voices, but often rely on their magic bands to autotranslate for them. | ||
=====Internal Traits===== | =====Internal Traits===== | ||
+ | === Senses === | ||
+ | As previously mentioned, Rolaan are lacking in the vision department, and they have fewer taste buds than humans, owed to their mostly meat diet. Rolaan can still pick out sweet from sour - though they lack the ability to differentiate finer flavours. To make up for it, their smell and hearing are excellent. | ||
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=== Skeleton === | === Skeleton === | ||
Rolaan have a sturdy skeleton that allows them to take on the repetitive shock from digging through harder materials with a spongy marrow to assist, but are otherwise unremarkable. | Rolaan have a sturdy skeleton that allows them to take on the repetitive shock from digging through harder materials with a spongy marrow to assist, but are otherwise unremarkable. | ||
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===Diet=== | ===Diet=== | ||
- | Rolaan are obligate carnivores, with a side of insectivorousness, | + | Rolaan are obligate carnivores, with a side of insectivorousness, |
===Immunology=== | ===Immunology=== | ||
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==With Familiar== | ==With Familiar== | ||
Surprisingly, | Surprisingly, | ||
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+ | === Magic === | ||
+ | Rolaan are innate magic casters, and much of their ability thrives on their use of the rings. The bands, both a cultural and biological necessity, oftentimes serve as a focus for their magic and as their belief system. | ||
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+ | === Psionics === | ||
+ | While Rolaan are capable of psionics, they have no tradition of it due to the prevalence and usefulness of magic in their society. So, more often than not, a psionically sensitive rolaan may go their entire life without realizing it. | ||
=====Extra Varieties===== | =====Extra Varieties===== | ||
=== Desert === | === Desert === | ||
- | Desert Rolaan have much longer and thinner tails, with shorter and flatter claws than their more common bretheren. True to their environment, | + | Desert Rolaan have much longer and thinner tails, with shorter and flatter claws than their more common bretheren. True to their environment, |
=== Polar === | === Polar === | ||
- | Polar Rolaan are the rarest variety. They' | + | Polar Rolaan are the rarest variety. They' |