<u>Summary:</u> The Cehelians are a race of primarily desert dwelling reptilians that emerged as the dominant species on their planet. Two races in particular have come to prominence. The Hyriw, the more technologically advanced race that is currently going through a “phoron industrial revolution”, and the Jhuii, the oasis-dwelling farmers that have established vast hydroponic gardens to grow their food.
<u>Biology:</u> The average Cehelian ranges from a 5’10” (181 cm) in females to an average of 6’5’ (198 cm) in males.The earlier evolutionary stages of the Cehlian were remarkably adaptable, developing two different subspecies of the Cehelians that adapted to the two main biomes of their home planet.
Common traits between the two individual races of the Cehelian species are a large tail and reptilian, leathery skin. Both races bleed a black blood and seem to suffer from an iron deficiency. This is remediated by the consumption of red meat by both races. A Hyriw that doesn’t eat meat bleeds a light grey instead of the normal black. Both races also have a long, fully prehensile tongue that appears to be coated in saliva with some sort of antiseptic trait to it. Small wounds and infections are often licked after fighting to remedy the wounds. The eyes can vary in color, from being pure black to having colored irises.
<u>Hyriw:</u> The Hyriw are the more common half of the Cehelian race, bearing red/orange skin with scales on the face, forearms, and tail. This particular group had to learn to sprint and hunt on the loose sands of Cehelia, and as such they tend to have significantly better grip. The scales on the forearms and face are surprisingly pliant and seem to be an evolutionary trait meant for covering vulnerable skin.
Their muscles also bear a strong tolerance for lactic acid, lending towards an impressive amount of stamina. This allows the Hyriw to carry their massive tails, high in fatty content for water storage. They are the only Cehelian race to be purely carnivorous, though many can eat fruits and vegetables due to stomach bacteria implants available nowadays.
<u>Jhuui:</u> The less common half of the Cehelians, the Jhuui are a green to brown, along with rare blues, skinned race of lizards with no scales. A lack of the covering scales, especially on the face and arms, means the Jhuui are more vulnerable to bright lights than their cousins. This adaptation was lost due to the thick brush and tree cover of the Cehelian oases in which the Jhuui thrived, making the scales useless. This race notably has hooked claws for ripping open scaled fish and digging into trees and tough skinned fruit of the rare oases dotting the surface of Cehelia.
This race bears a notably more impressive lung capacity, allowing them to be efficient fishers. A Jhuui that is underwater is able to effectively put their body into a coma. In this state, the Jhuui affected is unable to move or function at higher brain levels, simply resting and using minimal oxygen and nutrients. They use their tails more as a propellant underwater, causing them to be more streamlined and muscled than the fatty appendages of their Hyriw brethren.
<u>History/Culture:</u> Cehelia itself is a lone desert planet surrounded by three moons, named Toros, Meha, and Cere. Due to a large amount of naturally occurring iron in the planet, the sands of cehelia’s vast desert are a vibrant red. Buried deep in the earth under the sand is a vast cave network rich with phoron ore. Cehelian housing tends to be communal, with localized tribes around pockets of visible phoron, and an entire community encircling an oasis.
In these mining towns, phoron is being experimented upon and used to revolutionize their technology. However, only recently has cehelian technology been standardized after decades of tribes selfishly guarding their technological advances.
The oasis towns are more akin to the standard early mammalian societies. In these communities, jobs are more specialized. Some will be farmers, others hunters, some shape weapons, and some create clothing. While the mining towns are separate, the oasis communities tend to be a large, single conglomerate. The leader of the town is usually a religious head that leads the people in rituals to Geh and Sor.
Cehelian history is spotty at best due to being tribalistic in nature, their culture not necessitating a need for written history. Word of mouth is how most stories of their origin spread, two major ones ending up as the primary religion of the Cehelians.
<u>Geh:</u> The “Goddess of the Red Sands'', Geh (Pronounced ‘Yeh’) is believed to be the spirit that resides in the sands of Cehelia, guiding the Cehelian on their hunts. It’s believed that the original Cehelians were formed from the sand itself, tying the race to the planet. Any Cehelian that leaves the planet carries some sand in a jar, in the hopes that when they die, their spirit is absorbed into the sand of their home. The Jhuii do a similar process, instead tending to form glass jewelry out of the sands of Cehelia.
<u<Sor:</u> The “God of the Cold Winds''. While Geh is the goddess of life, Sor is more comparable to a god of death. However, interestingly, Jhuui culture tends to worship Sor over Geh, praising his part of the cycle of life.
Cehelian Minor Race proposal
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Re: Cehelian Minor Race proposal
I'm giving this a +1 for now. I've been following their progress with this submission over discord, and it's a decent minor species (technically two), imo.
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Due to the lack of additional responses over the course of this month, I'm just going to push this onto the wiki myself. I'm sorry for the wait.
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