Lord of Girth
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Name: Weethrak
Designation: Sentient
Homeworld: Retalik
Language: Telepathy, Mental Imagry
Average height of adults: 99.06 meters
Skin color: Varying shades of brown, sometimes green from mosses or plants growing on them.
Hair color: No hair
Breathes: Type 1
Strengths:
+ Appearance: Their massive size and satire can throw some off, as most would not want to mess with such a beast. Just the sheer size of this beast is daunting and is considered a very deadly creature to hunt.
+ Physical strength: Weethraks have unparalleled strength in just their feet alone. One stomp can leave craters in the ground. However, this strength is rarely used. Eating soil and rocks helps strengthen this armor, as it is converted into vital nutrients that enhance the durability greatly. Even more so, if enraged the beast can act like a Rhino and charge their own kind if provoked.
+ Mental strength: Weethraks are completely immune to mental attacks and control, much like epicanthix. In fact, their minds are powerful enough to ward off attempts from multiple entities at a time. However, they never use their own power for aggressiveness unless they feel they are seriously threatened. Their emphatic abilities allow them to communicate with multiple entities at a time, or a single one if they so choose. In this, they send ideas, feelings, and images to get their message across.
+ Natural armoring: Strong, earthen pillars and plates protrude from their backs. These are especially strong, rating a 9 on the armor scale. It is almost completely impenetrable to energy weapons and the like, as it is in fact much denser than normal rock. If fired upon from orbit, it will take quite a bit of firepower, even from turbolasers, to penetrate the armor.
+ Force powers: While the Weethrak have force powers, there is not much to be spoken of these powers. Consisting of a natural sense of Telepathy in the form of words, or images (images for children who do not know languages) Interpreting many languages through thoughts. The extent of these powers can range for about a thousand kilometers(give or take). The farther out you go, the weaker the ability for them to actively use the force. While they have the ability to go into the presence of a beings mind and speak to them, they can't attack or cause pain through thoughts as how a mentalist could. The can communicate to many beings at once, however the more spread apart they are in distance, or the increased number of people they are talking to, can cause pain in trying to stretch that far to reach them, or lose contact. being able to make contact with many kinds of species of animals and beings of the universe, They have found that through the mind is easiest to speak as the mind has all one language. Thoughts.
Weaknesses:
- Speed: Weethraks are incredibly slow. Though this is not a big issue for them in general, as they have very long strides. Even with their slow movement, they are considerably faster than most other creatures by the only fact of their stride. possible hunters could use this to their advantage.
- Weak spot: To those that take interest in killing Weekthraks, almost their entire underside is vulnerable between rocky plates. The plates rate a 7, while the hide underneath is a measly 4 on the armor rating scale. These plates do also not cover the underside of the neck, between the toes, or near the eyes.
Distinctions: Massive size, curved beaks, rocky appearance.
Average Lifespan: 1,500 standard years
Races: None
Diet: Trees and other vegetation, Rocks are also eaten to help with the digestion of plants. (rocks to them but boulders to humans)
Communication: Mental imagery, Telepathy.
Culture: Weethrak have no reproductive organs. They start out roughly half the size of adults, and continue to grow the more they eat until they reach their maximum size. This is also a reason for their strong minds and immense knowledge, as it is very likely for a weethrak to rise where another once died. When a weethrak dies, it fades back into the planet, and becomes little more than scenery. Many have theories or stories that these creatures are born of the Mountains and they rise up from the will of the force.
However, in truth, these creatures lay eggs in immense sizes that are placed within a dead carcass of one of their kind. Acting as a home or an incubator for the egg, as well as rocks and the local area to protect and incubate the egg(s). The eggs are made Through the use of Force powers of the Weethrak to influence the hatchlings to grow from the parents.The birth of a child takes place much like how a Fish reproduces. A female will lay eggs, or in this case, regurgitate an egg and leave to go and find food for the upcoming child. The father will then find the egg and fertilize it by regurgitating his sperm cells. The Father will then stay with the child as it hatches, much like a penguin, until the mother returns with food for the child. Once the Female has returned the Male will leave as his job is done. While the mother stays behind to raise the child.
The parents stay in the general area in a span of a few thousand kilometers to influence the egg to grow. Once the creature is born, The parent stays with the child for a time span of a year for the child to mature in some form. The parent takes care of the infant, protecting it from hunters because of its much smaller size, as well as its ignorance of the harshness of the world. As the Child is new and has to grasp an understanding of the world, they are very curious as all children are. The parent's supply food for the child of small or "smooth" plants and vegetation as the child as a weak stomach. Taking care of the child necessaries to the point where the young adult Weethrak can survive on it's own. From there, the parent will leave them to their own devices. This process of taking care of the child can range from one to almost two GSY.
When the creature will die. They will look for an area that is rather flat or has a wide valley for them to lay down in. by the use of their long limbs they will cover themselves with the surrounding area and literally form a mountain out of their body. many thousands of years will pass by and unlike other creatures bones, the Weethrak's bones dissolve to dust and with the filling of dirt will create a literally mountain out of their armored plates.
Technology level: None
General behavior: Though they may look threatening at first, weethraks are in fact very docile. If one is found, there is a great chance it will be sleeping. These rests can last anywhere from 50-150 years. When they are awake, they spend their days eating.
History: Weethraks are almost as old as Retalik itself, some even going as far to say that they are the living embodiment of the planet. Since the age of the planet is yet unknown, nobody is sure how long these magnificent creatures have existed. For centuries, the natives of the planet and even visitors look to them for wisdom, and lessons in patience. Currently, only four reside on Retalik.
Notable Player-Characters: None
Intent: To create a NPC species that will commonly roam Retalik.
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