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Approved Species Mgepah'bthnk | The Touched

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  • Name: Mgepah'bthnk | The Touched
  • Designation: Sentient
  • Origins: Wgah'nagl | The Dark Planet (Quarantine World 142)
  • Average Lifespan: 100-500 years (see below)
  • Estimated Population: Planetary
  • Description: The Touched is the most serpentine, cthulhoid/eldritch species that was previously created by either the Sith Sorcerers or supposedly Typhojem himself, the Sith god in his own image. Because of this, the species very often also has reptile-like traits, especially resembling snakes, or just any tentacle creature that they can hide by shape-shifting if necessary. Their appearance is equivalent to the subspecies, which also determines their place in society. It is a very religious race, but they are only found on this planet because they are underdeveloped on a technological level. Some have gotten out of the planet, but their numbers are negligible.
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  • Breathes: Type I. and II.
  • Average Height of Adults: 1,75-4 metres, the R'luhhor syha'h could be larger than this.
  • Average Length of Adults: 0-6 metres, the Ahog hafh'drn and the R'luhhor syha'h could be larger.
  • Skin color: Greenish or greyish.
  • Hair color: Variable, include black, grey, white, brown, or greenish.
  • Distinctions: At the same time, all of them have in common that they already seem to have some eldritch abominations. The lowest-ranking ones still look quite human-like, but even here their skin is greyish or greenish, their eyes are yellowish. As we move higher and higher in the hierarchy, the members of the Touched become more and more like eldritch horrors. They will have more and more tentacles, which can be in the form of a tentacle at the mouth or just at the foot. And those at the highest level (these are certainly Force Sensitive, or Force Users) may no longer resemble a human-like being at all, just an eldritch abomination/horror. In most cases, male and female individuals can be distinguished on the basis of the usual external features. In a higher social class, because of the distortions the genders may not be distinguishable by sight. Each has telepathic abilities. Details can be found in the race section below.
  • Races:
    • R'luhhor syha'h: Eternals, at least as they are called, are the least humanoids, and can usually already have huge wings in addition to tentacles. Their original size very often exceeds 4-5 meters, but they were already 10-15 meters high. they can very rarely be seen in their true form, they are almost legendary numbers even if there are enough of them inside. They usually disguise themselves as inferior (with shape-shifting) and control society and the planet from the shadows. Almost without exception, they are real masterminds and are considered almost demigods because, according to legends, they are very similar to Gnaiih ot N'ghftnahh. They are only fed on life-force and Dark Side energies, with an average lifespan of 500 years. They make up roughly less than 0.1% of the population and society.
    • Ahog hafh'drn: High Priests, they already have very significant lesions. This also means they are much more receptive to the effects of Force and Nexus. They can often be 3-4 meters high and are wide enough if they have tentacles. They often no longer resemble the humanoid life form, so they regularly use shape-shifting as well, as does feeding with Dark Side energies and feeding with life-force. As they get older they become better and better Force Users, they also treat it very well, most of them are mostly sorcerers and alchemists. Their numbers are already quite low, so they are in very high positions within the society and can live an average of 300-400 years. They make up roughly 0.3-0.5% of the population and society.
    • R'luhhnythogg: Magicians as they are called. They are the first and lowest rank among Force Users. Whatever external changes the Touched has, if it is able to use the Force, it falls into this subspecies. Their appearance can be anything from a simple to a more serious lesion that is not yet considered too large. They are all already working in the religious sphere and are highly esteemed members of society. They make up roughly 4-5% of the population and society. They are the first to live for roughly 150-200 years, thanks to the fact that they are already consuming life-force and/or dark side energies.
    • Kadishtuor: Scientists, they already have a lot of lesions, this is where octopus tentacles first appear instead of legs. Their physique doesn’t allow them to do any more serious physical work, but they’re smarter and smarter than their non-Force Sensitive peers. That is why they do the intellectual work and often help those above them by gathering information. They may already be working in churches, but they are typically scholars. They make up roughly 2% of the population and society. None are Force Sensitive.
    • Mgepahazath: The Changed, they occupy a rather special place in society. Their look can really be anything that fits into the eldritch. It is the creatures and persons who are transformed into eldritch by the higher Force-user members. “Sithspawn” also falls into this category, meaning more “Eldritchspawn” in their case. They are the ones who created it with alchemy, or Eldritch magic, transformed it. If there will be no Force Sensitive, they will be classified in this subspecies. That is why none are Force Sensitive. They make up roughly 3% of the population and society.
    • Ah'n'ghayar: Warriors, they are always born with greater physical strength and a more robust physique, in their case a height of 3-4 meters is not uncommon either. Their strength, their appearance, is what sets them out of society and enables them to serve in the military and combat. In many cases, they could even look like animals, but it still leaves a sentient lifestyle. It is important to note that this race always looks brutal. Their claws, teeth, and tentacles also serve the fight. They make up roughly 4,4% of the population and society. None are Force Sensitive but some are imbued with strange powers or mutations (generally of the murderous variety) by the High Priests.
    • Ah'gotha: Averages, They have a little more lesion, these are already visible as smaller tentacles on the body, or just a tail, possibly an extra mouth on the palm, or any other small, not very significant lesion. The third eye on the forehead, for example, is very common. They make up a significant part of society, accounting for roughly 75% of the population. They do the completely average, everyday work in society. None are Force Sensitive.
    • Uh'enah: Slaves, the most human-looking race of all. They are the ones who have essentially no or minimal changes. They are considered slaves anyway. In their case, it is mostly their skin and eye colour that reveals that they are members of the Touched race. They are the most despised subspecies, mostly genetic scraps, accounting for roughly 10% of the population. In essence, they don’t have many rights, anyone who stands above them can have them. They are the ones most capable of mammalian reproduction. But that’s why all the disadvantages affect them less, so are the benefits. None are Force Sensitive. (Details below)
  • Force Sensitivity: High, roughly the 5-6% of the population is considered Force Sensitive.
Strengths:
  • Shape-shifting: They all have some degree of deformation, but the higher they are in the social hierarchy (see races) the better it goes. The lowest ones can just hide their tentacles and features, but as they move higher and higher, they become more and more perfect.
  • Pheromones: They are able to produce pheromones to communicate with each other and to influence members of other species.
  • Knowledge: If other humanoid species are used for reproduction (information on reproductive habits can be read below) then they are able to inherit in part the knowledge and abilities of that individual.
  • Telepathy: All members of the species have telepathic abilities, as they can communicate with each other and be able to enchant animals and other living things. All of this is really very necessary for their mating habits.
  • Whispers: You keep hearing whispers that actually come from Netherworld and the dimension of Eldritch creatures. Some people with Magic are able to interpret these, thereby creating/conjuring new spells and alchemical sciences.
Weaknesses:
  • Temperature: They also have somewhat reptile traits, making them love the warm climate. In the cold, they slow down or even hibernate. And in the long-term extreme heat, they get heat stroke and can cook.
  • The Light: The creatures on the dark side and they live on the planet of a dark side Nexus, and this is ingrained in their being. This is why the Light side has a greater impact on them. It hurts them more, causes more pain, and so on.
  • The Curse: Because their entire being is imbued with the Dark Side, they are constantly thirsting for these energies, even those who are not Force Sensitive. If they are not exposed to such effects, withdrawal symptoms will occur first and they may die later.
  • Good Thoughts: Creatures of the Dark Side who feed on the dark side and bad thoughts. It is for this reason that pleasant, good and beautiful memories and thoughts cause pain and a strong migraine. In extreme cases (like the mind of a Jedi), it can lead to strokes and death.
  • Whispers: In addition to its advantages, it also has a very big disadvantage, it can drive those with weaker will into madness very easily. Thanks to the fact that they keep hearing the whisper, even if they accidentally leave the planet.
  • Without Force: For a significant part of the species, there is no physiological effect if the Force ceases, as they are not Force sensitive, they only live under the influence of the Dark Side / Eldritch nexus. If they are in a place where there is no Force, they will not hear the whisper, which can be bad, as they are all part of their whole lives, they may feel lonely, or even go crazy in the loneliness that this causes if they are exposed to such a place for a long time. And Force Users are unable to use Force in such circumstances.
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  • Diet: Omnivore and Vitalvore; Individuals of lower rank and even more human appearance are omnivores, eating plants (fruits, vegetables, grains), animals. Everything they can produce, hunt or collect. Those of higher rank who already have both Power and can use it are also energized by life force and dark side energies. Since pretty much everything on the planet is toxic, so they are resistant to local poisons, it would probably be deadly to others, but it could be consumed by them.
  • Communication: Traditionally, they speak to each other in words, but the higher social classes also communicate perfectly with the movement and body language of their tentacles, which the lower classes do not understand. Because they have telepathic abilities, they often communicate with each other in this way as well. In addition, they are all able to communicate with each other with pheromones released from their bodies.
  • Technology level: They are kept at a feudal level in technology. That is, machines do not yet exist, everything is produced by hand by themselves. They use archaic weapons that Magicians (Force Users) can make stronger. Oddly enough, however, they know the sciences that characterize Sith magic (they called it to Eldritch magic) and alchemy, which are Force-based. With the help of the Force, they are also able to summon eldritch-like creatures as well.
  • Religion/Beliefs: Gnaiih ot N'ghftnahh (Father of Shadows, Typhojem) is the central figure of their religion and also their only god. Thus they have monotheism. They do not know the real name of the deity, so it is called Father of Shadows. Their entire society is built around their religion, so this is of great importance to them. There are a lot of people who mutilate themselves when they reach adulthood, cutting off their right arms to make them more like their gods as a left-handed individual. More information in the religion submission.
  • General behaviour:
    • Social Structures: The Touched lives in a society similar to a very strict caste system. This society’s “caste system” is at once the hierarchy of their religion. Because ranks come from subspecies, everyone lives the same life they were born into. There is no possibility of advancement, at most Mgepahazath, or Changed, is available if one is chosen to be worthy of touching their god and to be partakers of this grace. Each subspecies has its own habits, rarely mixing with others. However, it is considered a deadly sin if a person of a lower subspecies surrenders to a subspecies of a higher rank. In such a case, the person will be executed immediately and no trial will take place. In the field of relationships, different races mixes are fully accepted due to their reproduction.
    • Reproduction: Their reproduction is very interesting, they are able to do it in two ways. One is traditional mammalian reproduction. All of them are capable of this, although only the very humanoids, and those with few lesions, are accustomed to, for whom the other method would be difficult. The other method is to put their offspring in a different living being like a parasite. Because they live in medieval society, it happens with Eldritch magic, alchemy (who understands it), or infection. An infection is a bite or wound in another life form and an egg selected from their own body is delivered to the victim. Usually, depending on the host, one or two offspring will be born, and these will drain the victim’s full life force during the several months of “pregnancy” and thus develop. Most of the time, they use a local animal similar to cattle and they breed it. But if someone from the outside world got lost here, then them, because in such a case the descendants of the other meaningful life form will be taken over by the successor. Both men and women are able to reproduce with the Infectious Method, but very often the offspring fail or the offspring are stillborn. Thus, it is possible that there are no large numbers of these beings on the planet. If two different subspecies are mated, there is a 50-50% chance of which subspecies the offspring will be born in. Both methods take a minimum of 5-6 months.
    • Childhood and Maturity: They still feed on vitality at fetal age, all species. In childhood, for the first few months, they get used to the vitality of the usual pasty food and milk, and then as their teeth grow, they will become omnivores. Every family raises a child on their own, as children are very important and are considered a divine gift as very few of them are born. Partly due to the level of underdeveloped technology. Kids start walking and talking around the age of one. From the age of four to five, they study in schools, according to their own caste. Schools are religious schools where they study the religion of Gnaiih ot N'ghftnahh and the history of their people. At the age of 9-10, they begin to study specifically in a direction appropriate to their own species. Although Force Sensitive (Magic Sensitive) has been learning from the Elders, the elders, since they were two or three years old. They become sexually mature at the age of 13-14, adulthood is only reached at the age of 15-18. And that depends on the Divine test.
    • The Rehearsal: City leaders decide when a child is ready for the test. They are also usually the religious leaders and educators of the place, so they know every child well. The test consists in proving that they are capable of great sacrifice for their god. Most people usually choose to cut off their arms to suit their god and become even more like him. He who has successfully passed the test, presents a suitable sacrifice, and survived is considered an adult from then on.
    • Build and Hunt: Since there are no machines on the planet, everything has to be done by the members of Touched. Construction sites, hunting, animal husbandry, crop production. Ah'gotha is a valued member of society even when they are of very low rank. Without them, life on the planet would stop, it will be decided at a young age who will deal with what. But there are also many skillful tradesmen and craftsmen among them. The Uh’enah is forced to do all the work as they have essentially no rights.
    • Interact with Others: This is a very interesting question, as they know very little about other species (they have met very little), so they are not primarily trying to communicate with them, but to gain information and knowledge through telepathy. They try to take shape to better understand them and learn from it. When they no longer know what to learn from these beings, they are used for reproduction. All of them, in order to acquire new knowledge, changes and abilities.
    • The Magic: They don’t know the term Force, so they call it Magic, or Eldritch’s Doctrine. Because they are at the forefront of the religious hierarchy, any person who possesses this aptitude is valued. In fact, they think they are the ones Gnaiih ot N'ghftnahh has personally touched. If one comes here as an outside world with the Force, it can only be used by R'luhhor syha'h for reproduction, not any other race. Within their own culture, all Magicians (regardless of race) are sacred and inviolable, one of the greatest sins if anyone uses violence against them.
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Unlike most species, the Touched is not that old. About ten thousand years ago, the predecessor of their species appeared through some genetic mutation. At the time, they still looked completely normal humanoids, not much different from humans. They could probably be called near-human. Unlike previous species, they became dominant and began to expand. Actual intelligence appeared in the species, as did standard communication. They began rudimentary farming, animal husbandry, and then building their civilization.

Roughly 7,900 years ago, during the Hundred-year darkness, a group of Sith, or just Typhojem himself, somehow reached and found the planet. It is not possible to know whether the deity himself was here or not. From the legends and narrative of the locals, it survives to be a left-handed figure with a strange monstrous look. That is why it was first given the name Father of Shadows and then later when their language was transformed into Gnaiih ot N'ghftnahh. Last but not least, they never knew the person’s real name or identity.

The group was doing research on the planet, which at the time had a very strong neutral Nexus. The group corrupted the Nexus, which turned to the Dark Side. After that, they left the planet, but left a fairly deep mark on the locals. The Nexus had an effect on the entire planet.

Decades, centuries, then millennia have passed. Slowly, over the centuries, the Nexus has transformed the entire planet, both flora and fauna. Everything has become toxic to outsiders here (except the air), and both flora and fauna are deadly. In fact, the place could be classified as a quarantine world. Over the centuries and millennia, all thoughts on the good and the Lide side have disappeared from the locals, only the evil, dark ones have remained.

The most striking change was that tentacles and external changes appeared in the population, this was also true for plants and animals, not just for sentient beings. They evolved from the local near-human race to the Eldritch-like Touched. Their civilization multiplied on the planet over the millennia, but they were not technologically advanced, they remained on a medieval, feudal level for the time being. Since the corruption of the Nexus, no one has really discovered the planet, they have been quite far from anything and everyone. Thus, both the lesions and the development could have been undisturbed, untouched.

Society is quite religious and is based on a caste system according to their appearance and subspecies. Left-handed people are also very important in their religion, which is why so many of the better guarantors choose to cut off their right arms in the test of adulthood so that they, like their god, Gnaiih ot N'ghftnahh, become left-handed individuals. They live by strict rules and laws, which also serves their survival.

Sometimes a few groups of expeditions reach the planet, in which case those who come here end up as victims, in most cases as a host for the new generation. Although some of the members of Touched have escaped the planet over the millennia, they have telepathically and with pheromones influenced those who strayed into this place. Their later fate is not really known. However, the locals were great here in their religious culture.

Because they do not know the concept of Force, they call it Magic, or Eldritch Magic, the Sithspawn, or any word in which the Sith would be involved, they call it Eldritch, such as Eldritchspawn. It is also true that when demons and eldritch creatures are summoned, they not only reach the Netherworld, but are also able to do so from another dimension, where eldritch creatures like them live.

And as for the great events of the Galaxy, even if those had any effect and influence on the locals, the people of the planet are unaware of it because of their isolation.
 
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Luca Donskoi Luca Donskoi | Ingrid L'lerim Ingrid L'lerim

This was a joy to read and very creative. I might suggest elaborating on:

The Light: The creatures on the dark side and they live on the planet of a dark side Nexus, and this is ingrained in their being. This is why the Light side has a greater impact on them. It hurts them more, causes more pain, and so on.

Completely Force-sensitive species may not start off with fully developed Force Powers. That is a matter of the individual, not the race. They are born force sensitive, but that is a potential, rather than an absolute. All Force-sensitive species may have passive abilities that do not require training (improved reflexes, low grade pre-cog, etc), but are prohibited from having active abilities (force lightning, telekinesis, etc). Exceptions are made for artificially engineered species (Sithspawn, etc), if they have been tailored for specific abilities. Racial abilities that are not affiliated with the Force (Ex. Zeltron Empathy/Pheromones) are exempted from this. These species should include appropriate weaknesses, such as difficulties with Force Null fields.

The "Light" seems to be taken into account, but, what about Force Null fields or Void Stones?

Also, Origins:


Origins: [ This can be a planet (canon or Chaos canon sub), a company's lab, a region of space, extra-galactic, etc. Provide a link if applicable. ]

So, wouldn't the Origin be the Quarantine World you linked?

Please take a look and give me a tag when you're ready.
 
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