Ashlan Remnant
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To make a reindeer to add the planet of Lur
- Image Credit: The economist
- Canon: n/a
- Permissions: n/a
- Links: n/a
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Name: Lurrite Reindeer
- Designation: Non-sentient
- Origins: Planer of Lur
- Average Lifespan: around 20-30 years in the wild
- Estimated Population: Planetary
PHYSICAL INFORMATION
- Breathes: Type 1 Atmosphere
- Average Height of Adults: around 1.8-2.2m for females and 2.3-2.8m for males
- Average Length of Adults: around 2.5m for females and 3m for males
- Skin color: dark brown to grey colour but covered in thick hair
- Hair color: thick while to off white hair
- Distinctions:
- Able to survive very cold climate of Lur by a combination of thick fur and a body that hordes fat reserves.
- Almost invisible on thermal optics to due effective heat conservation.
- Three stomachs, able to extract rhe maximum nutrients from hardy winter plants.
- Large antlers that can be used for attracting mates and for ritual combat between males. Typically shed after mating season in late autumn.
- Races: n/a
- Force Sensitivity: Non-Sensitive
Strengths:- Efficient nutrient capture
- Camouflaged
- Heat conservation
Weaknesses:- Popular with hunters
- Limited intelligence
CULTURE
- Diet: Herbivore
- Typical diet of winter plants of low nutrient value requiring the animals to constantly forage or walk long distances for food.
- Rare cases of reindeer feeding on carrion, eggs and refuse during exceptionally difficult periods.
- Communication: barks, grunts and body language
- Technology level: none
- Religion/Beliefs: none
- General behavior:
- Live in large herds sometimes numbering a thousand or more individuals
- Migrate to equatorial regions during winter months before returning to forests to breed the summer.
- Very timid alone but more confident and sometimes aggressive whilst in a herd or if cornered.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Simple but beautiful creatures, the Lurrite Reindeer are well evolved to handle the fiercely cold Lurrite temperatures. They walk they graze and they breed, there is very little to their lives. They eat any vegetation they can find, enjoying lush grasses during brief thawing seasons, but mostly subsisting on mosses and hardy winter plants. They use their multiple stomachs to extract the most amount of nutrients from the food before depositing very little waste.
Their majestic horns grow once a year and are used for attacking a mate and for fighting off rivals, in later autumn they shed the horns.
