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- Name: Verinth
- Designation: Non-Sentient
- Homeworld: Rattatak
- Language: Growls, Hisses.
- Average height of adults: 1.5 meters
- Average length of adults: 4.5 meters
- Average length of Tail: 1 meter
- Average length of Whiptails: 2 meters
- Skin color: Black
- Hair color: Black
- Breathes: Type I
- Strengths:
[+]Whip-Tails: The other unique thing that the Verinth has about it that were purposefully bred into it, the two “Whip-Tails” protruding from its back. These two long whip like appendages average in length at about 2 meters. Both tails are prehensile and end in large flat patches of skin covered in spike like teeth. These two flat patches are in fact nearly pure muscle and the Verinth is able to “flex” them in order to close and grip objects much like a jaw. When the Verinth fights it usually lashes out with these Whip-Tails in order to catch prey off guard before delivering a killing blow with its powerful jaws.
[+]Enhanced Vornskr Attributes: The Verinth's primary genetic donor is the Vornskr. Because of this the Verinth takes on many of the Vornskr like creatures aspects. The biggest part of this is of course that the Verinth inherited the Vornskr's ability to use the force to hunt, taking on all the strength and weaknesses that this has to offer. The second aspect it took on was the Vornskr's venom tipped tail. The tail of the Verinth much like its genetic ancestor is mildly venomous with a paralytic, though the Verinth itself rarely utilizes this.
- Weaknesses:
[-]Short Life Span: The Verinth because of its origin and flawed creation has a massive downside. At most the Verinth can only live to about a year. This is mostly because of extreme cell degradation that occurs within a Verinth's lifetime from birth. The reason for this has as of yet not been solved by Nemene. The only thing she knows is that a Mother Verinth gives birth to 5-10 cubs*(See Breeding Difficulty), they grow to full size in four months, and then they quickly age and deteriorate usually dying out by the 10th month of their lifetime. This leaves the Verinth with about five months of prime use, since when they become older they are less useful. Nemene theorizes that during the genetic coding she may have accidentally messed with the aging times of the Vornskr, thus leading to this problem.
[-]Hearing: The Verinth for all their fantastic attributes have one major flaw. Though their hearing is about the same as a Vornskr for some strange reason they react to high pitched noises in a feral and uncontrollable way. When a sonic grenade and similar weapons are utilized around them the Verinth have a tendency to go completely berserk. They rage and begin to kill anything and everything around them, including their own kin or the Beast Tamers controlling them. As of yet no way to stop this has been found.
[-]Breeding Difficulty: The Verinth have one extreme flaw besides their hearing. About One out of Every fiftieth cub turns out to be a mutated species of Verinth that Nemene has dubbed Stalkers.
- Distinctions: Verinth are mostly physically similar to their genetic mother species, the Vornskr. They have the same skin, hair, and general appearance though there are of course major differences. The main differences between the Verinth and Vornskr are the Verinths distinct six muscular legs and two whip like appendages protruding from their back. These two distinctions make the Verinth look far more unique and different than the Vornskr meaning they are almost instantly recognizable as an entirely new species.
- Average Lifespan: 5-10 months
- Races: None
- Diet: Carnivore
- Communication: Growls, Hisses
- Culture: N/A
- Technology level: N/A
- General behavior:
- History:
The Queen of Rattatak began with a large pool of creatures that she could breed, eventually she settled on one creature that was the perfect hunter of Jedi and Sith, the Vornskr. The irony of her hated of Kaine known as Darth Vornksr was not lost on her but she decided to ignore this and continue on anyway. Nemene took a couple of these beasts, buying them on the black market and bringing them back home to Rattatak.
Here she began the long work of learning everything and anything she could about the Vornksr. She dissected dozens of them down to the cell, took apart their brains, muscles and anything else until finally she completely mapped their genetic code. From there she began to play with their DNA, changing things slightly, adding attributes from other animals and splicing different things into Vornskr make-up. She would then use this new genetic code to create an embryo of her new creature and implant it into a female Vornskr.
She did this dozens of times until finally one of the Vornskr gave birth to a creature she dubbed the Verinth.
From there it was all trial and error in breeding more. She eventually managed to breed a second Verinth and from there she began the propagation of an entire species. Finding that Verinth bred rather quickly and had fruitful litters was a delightful surprise, though up to a point. Around the sixth litter of Verinth that came into being Nemene found that something had gone horribly wrong in her machinations with Vornskr DNA.
For some Strange reason every so often one of the Verinth cubs would be horrible mutated, containing no fur, paler skin, and dozens of other mutations that were too horrid to describe.
Nemene documented these new creatures, dubbing them Stalkers. The Stalkers were wildly different than their Verinth brothers. Unlike Verinth, Stalkers were completely independent. They killed their brothers and sisters in the womb causing only the Stalker to survive. They would eat and kill anything and everything around them, they were wildly destructive and curiously their minds were almost impossible to penetrate even for Master Force Users. When Nemene had Evelynn try to control one of the creature it reacted poorly, lashing out and trying to kill the two sisters with all its might before eventually being killed by Nemene.
Though one in fifty Verinth turned out to be a failure Nemene still dubbed the experiment a success. Having created her own species of apex predators Nemene found herself well pleased and began a breeding program to encourage the creation of more Verinth hoping to eventually eek out their flaws and make them a true unique species in the galaxy.
Because of this the Verinth every so often produce a Stalker. The Stalkers are taken, brought to the pits and used there to fight gladiators and slave for grave entertainment. Though the Two Sisters have other things in mind for the beasts as well.
- Notable Player-Characters: Does...Does anyone wanna be a genetic freak?
- Intent: To continue the expansion of creature Evelynn and Nemene utilize in both the Cauldron and outside in the galaxy as well as to utilize Nemene's knowledge in genetics and cloning.
