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Pronunciation: crust-ah-shi
Classification: Meriac
Subraces: None
Common Nicknames: Coral, Sea Dakkar, Sea Bugs
Languages: Xltwon
Naming Customs: polynesian but with extra ticks and consonants
Racial Traits
Distinctions: Large crustacean like people often with coral on their hides and allar-like faces. Breathing underwater, hard shells, Crab-like claws, Six legs for female, two legs for male. Low light vision
Expanded more in physical characteristics.
Maximum Age: none
Body Types: Can sometimes be around lanky but 90% are either stocky or strongman
Height: 6-8 feet
Weight: 750-1000 lbs
Eye Colors: Pinkish-yellow iris with yellow sclera
Hair Colors: No hair
Skin Tones: red to dark purple
Significant Demographics:
Solangerian oceans
The crustashi are an oddity debated over scholars and a unique specimen. These brutes rival dakkar and orc in terms of strength and have an odd and unknown history that they can't seem to remember. While being known as sea creatures, they show allar and yanar characteristics while showing heavy relation to circci. They are one unique creature showing a very interesting time. While secluded from a lot of history, they seem to be very old and knowledgeable while having odd memory occurrences now and then. They often show us a key into our past and have a very strange culture.
Physical Characteristics:
The crustashi are a large race standing at 8 feet tall at their tallest and at 6 feet tall at their shortest. They are incredibly muscular and compare to dakkar and orc in terms of strength. They have odd mouths allowing them to speak like the mekket and understand X'ota. Their heads are very similar to allar heads and they often grow a horn out of coral on the tip of their snouts going up. They have large arms and large crab-like claws at the end that are very sharp. These claws are sharp enough to cut bone and strong enough to break through bone. Though, they are often very slow opening and closing making them very difficult to use in combat. They grow coral all over their body and have a sensitive soft pink skin underneath. Said coral grows similar to minerals on the dakkar but more frequent and plates all over the body. Upon staying largely out of salt water for 6 months will result in them shedding their coral and remain with their soft pink skin for 2 weeks. After said two week period, the Crustashi will start to grow a hard skin over their pink skin similar to that of a crab's skin which can range from red to dark purple. Upon this happening, the crustashi bones will grow larger and stronger. Their eyes are literally exactly the same as the Circci as well are their organs. They can breath air or water without a problem. The women have six legs, 3 sprouting from where each leg would normally be. Women have no feet but stubs and their legs are very skinny. Men have regular legs as the normal person would have. Whereas most Crustashi are large, some can come in very short and small as a grunt, these are generally outcasted. The Crustashi have the ability to see in low light levels adapted from years at the bottom of the sea. They have no armor on their sides where the extra arms would be on a cirrci, making that a large weakness. They have no age limit and aren't really affected by age. They lose their memory every 200 besides identity, basic friendships, their culture… and their age. Every 6 months or so they get a dreamy flashback of a large bright flash.
Mental Characteristics:
The crustashi are an odd race in their beliefs. They are a stout people taking pride in the average duel. They are often very friendly as well. They believe in the ideals of honor through friendship. Most Crustashi are hemophobes as well, hating the sight of blood and dead bodies and organs. They have an increased ability to cast magic for some odd reason. They have the same magic presence as most maiar do. Though, upon making a void, exist, or primal connection, they shed their coral as they would from staying out of salt water for too long and they decrease in height and strength drastically. They are pumped with adrenalin around every winter, causing them to be more aggressive and dramatic. This is because this is seen as mating season in their culture. During mating season, they often find themselves dueling over females though, their female population is so great, feuds are often not found from said duels. Females often have a DIY attitude and don't let their gender affect them. They keep up the wulong tendencies of friendship and family as well, often protecting their friends at high costs.
History:
The crustashi have only recently surfaced and have scholars scratching their heads. They are often asked where they came from and most scratch their heads back at the scholars and say "I don't know." Due to their similarities to the circci internals they are considered Meriac by scholars.
The first encounter of Crustashi was one day when a curios Crustashi took a walk and decided to sit on a large anchor shaped object. Upon this, the anchor had been raised and the above ship took the crustashi to the nearest scholar for recording. Over the next few years, more and more started appearing in fishing nets and anchors all over Solangeria shorelines. Before this, the Crustashi didn't have the swimming power or want to make it to the surface.
The Crustashi history underwater is completely unknown. Few scholars theorize that they were a colony of larger Meriac who went underground into stasis to survive the Void Invasion in solangerian coasts who were then submerged by massive earthquake. Then, how the bugs crawled into the Circci Stasis, many crustaceans had traveled into the stasis chambers and mutated the Crustashi. Though this is just a theory.
Society:
Crustashi society is a very tribal like culture with little to no technology and absolutely no political system.
Politics:
Crustashi have no organized form of structure. Women gain higher importance in winter months when men often duel over them though, the loser will likely mate, just with a less attractive female. All people are important, except for those who are born excesively small, which are abandoned after puberty at age 12 showing that they will not grow larger.
Culture:
Culture is one of the few things that the Crustashi seem to remember. The Crustashi have a tribal culture. One of great intelligence is highly respected in that society and those who have mated are highly respected. All are treated as equal and outsiders are always welcomed. Food is mostly plants eaten off of the sea floor and whatever seems to sink its way down to the sea floor. They do not wear clothing but they do have marriage traditions. If two Crustashi wish to mate, the female must create a large pillar of bones and shells of which then, several Crustashi, along with the male, will all croud around the pillar and duel for the female. Upon this happening, the winner of the duel will get to marry the female and mate with her for the rest of their lives. Unmarried female have men duel over her one-on-one and the winner gets to mate with her.
Religion:
The Crustashi oddly worship sea serpents identically to the maiar. They see the sea serpents the same way the maiar do and worship them the exact same way the maiar do. They don't remember why they worship the sea serpents but they just do it.
Economy and Technology:
The Crustashi use labor as a form of currency. Though, much labor isn't needed as the crustachi have no natural enemies, being out of sea serpent waters, and spend all day either sleeping, eating, dueling, or mating. They also take high value in collecting fancy sea shells and bones and trade those around quite often (several tiny shells=1 large shells). They have little to no technology as they have barely any need for so. They basically only eat all day and have little need for any sort of weaponry. Crustashi language is often reffered to as Xltwon as it is largely similar to x'ota and largely related to hwlon. At first, the Crustashi spoke X'ota though it was horrifyingly difficult to understand underwater. They heard the maiar speech through the water and started comprehending it and speaking it though combining it with their X'ota and odd mouth organs to create Xltwon. Xltwon is basically hwlon that can be spoken above and underwater. It operates on an odd frequency inaudible to all races other than Cirrci, Crustashi, and Maiar. Likewise, only Circci, Crustashi, and Maiar, are able to understand it. Though, only Crustashi can speak it. Xltwon has no written form and the Crustashi do not write.
Combat and Warfare:
The crustashi have no war within their culture. They are always friends with their own kind and they don't interact with others other than the occasional maiar. They don't use any sort of weaponry and don't cut others when dueling for mates. Most of the times, it is a charge and a few punches thrown. Other than that they are mainly peaceful.
Trivia:
- Crustashi cannot breath fresh water. They can only breath air and salt water.
- Shed Crustashi coral slowly disintegrates over a period of 4 weeks after shed.
- Crustashi have the exact same internal setup as the circci, the purpose is unknown.
- Crustashi females often have a tendency to sleep all day and stay awake all night, though, most Crustashi live so deep that it is hard to tell the difference.
- While magic is not discouraged in Crustashi society, it is a foreign concept. What discourages Crustashi from becoming mages is the fact that they lose physical ability, which decreases popularity in Crustashi colonies.
Crustashi Seedling:
- Same physical proportions as Sa-Allar
- Antlers grow upon the temples
- Mantle of moss grows around neck
- Cannot breath water but have large wooden claws similar to those of the Crustashi.
- When Bred with Circci makes a maiar seedling.
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