Emberlene's Daughter, The Jedi Generalist
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
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- Links: Mythosaur
- Name: Ta-Wa-Ka
- Designation: Sentient
- Origins: Shri-tal
- Average Lifespan: 100-400
- Estimated Population: Scattered
- Description: Massive leviathans of the sea, destructive, dangerous and built to hunt. That is what they became after the species was transported off of Mandalore. A few by taungs escaping into the unknown regions of the galaxy. The ancient mythosaurs were impressive and underwater few things could match them. With thick scales and leathery skin, tusks and wide eyes. The taungs who took them away settling and fighting in a war as the surviving creatures were uplifted and evolved over tens of millions of years into a slimmer more humanoid form to survive. Scattered to the cosmic winds and disguising themselves as a means to survive. In their humanoid form they look like their prey and when aggrivated
- Breathes: Underwater, Type I
- Average Height of Adults: 20m
- Average Length of Adults: 100-200m
- Skin color: Brownish black scales
- Hair color: Browns, dark blues, blacks... depending on where they are it can darken or lighten to their environment.
- Distinctions:
- Razor sharp teeth
- Hard scales
- Hermaphriditic
- Races: N/A
- Force Sensitivity: Standard
- Transformation: Like Felacatians and a small handful of species, the species have a unique trait in that they can transform into large behemoths resembling ancient mythosaurs.
- Prenatural: Their speed, strength and senses are heightened even in their humanoid forms.
- Plates: When they are transformed the scales of their bodies are thick and strong lending their hide to be able to deflect blasters and even for a small time lightsabers.
- Shifting: While they can shift back and forth between their forms, it is not something that should be done instantly. The more often they do it the better they can get but attempting to do it several times can and will cause harm to the body... injuries from losing control are common and reverting to their humanoid form can hurt them.
- Feeling the Burn: While it is a natural thing among their people, transforming and maintaining it for long periods of time is consuming... their bodies burn energy and they need to eat which gives into instincts making them more dangerous the longer they are transformed without food.
- Blind: They have terrible eyesight living in deep water and coming to the surface to find food sources has exposed their white eyes to the sun usually eliminating what there might have been lelt.
- Diet: Plankton, smaller fish, each other, meats, fruits.
- Communication:
- Resonating sounds underwater like music
- Verbal Out of water
- Technology level: Galactic Standard
- Religion/Beliefs:
- Depicted in legends by the species of the Asobi system, these large and dangerous fish are deep sea creatures that dwell in the shadows and rarely go to the surface. The females are smaller then the males by several meters and highly territorial as they feed in their parts of the ocean. The males swim from female to female usually on a loop being able to mate and spawn more. The rare times these creatures have been found they were revered as gods and monsters before the different species learned more science and technology learning how to keep them away with sub sonic fences and to attract them with electromagnetic pulses. The creature is a dangerous and something big game hunters in the Beast Hunters guild would drool over.
- Meanwhile in secret they continued to change and adapted many of the things they encountered from the taungs. A sense of family and honor was important but they knew the words instead of the concepts. Calling a fight honorable or their goal honorable when they really were just doing something became commonplace enough... infighting among each other for leadership of small clans. THeir secretive nature to hide what they are leads them to adapt and adopt more like mirrors of people they are around. Becoming a stepford like version of the ones they are hiding among and trying to make their art, music and interests a higher version of what they see.
- General behavior: Mirroring the species and culture that they are around to sometimes an incanny degree. The species itself generally works to hide itself and stays near larger bodies of water. Offering food and sweets to those who come to see them and organizing among themselves larger night swims that sees them transform into their more beastial side and being in the water. THey like to meet people, to blend in, to show they have nothing to hide and always offer food or drink. Among each other they are a clan, the hatchlings are all siblings and the previous generations are all parents regardless. Names are less used and consindered more a human thing but when they are chosen the names are usually basic and more something akin to landmarks.
Noted in legendary illustrations and murals of the worlds. The monster fish are a dangerous thing from the dawn of the planet evolving very little except maybe getting smaller and being pushed down deeper into the oceans but that isn't something one can be sure about. They are simply something left over from the world when there were more primitive creatures and more dangerous species around. before natural selection and an ice age or two thinned out many.
The Go Nagai would hunt them as sport to feed an entire village and use the scales for defensive purposes, the Del-ya have hunted them for food as well as to try and understand the dangerous creatures. As time has continued forward and the worlds have evolved the dangerous fish are easier to keep away or attract to different areas. Their resort worlds have several fences to protect from the fish, the deep sea hunters who wish to try to catch the creatures for sport and show.
There was more to the creatures and the ones with stunted evolution by the Go Nagai and Taung evolved on other worlds they were transported to. Finding their way down into the underwater depths of some planets and with time developing their own society. Several of the species adopting humanoid features with the ability to change back between their forms. From large sea monsters to a more smaller form able to blend in and not be attacked by others. the main difference is that they have ridges on their head under the skin.
Their ability to transform and shift their body mass was an evolutionary trait that came and was needed to survive as many of them were being hunted down by the taungs and later the mandalorians. Off world they were scattered with small families surviving and coming together to intermingle. Others would go for larger territories and wait until the taungs were gone only to be replaced by the mandalorians themselves as a culture. THey have slowly been rediscovered with attacks on their homeworld by the sith and several clans scattered around the galaxy.
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