Devokwi

Devokwi

Origin: Uode

Capital/original settlement: Kurul'tak'el

Natural Lifespan: 125-180 years

Traits:

Tremor-sense; through echolocative organs in their posterior and anterior hides, allowing for them to maintain a sense of direction, navigation and their relative positioning to nearby cavities and other organisms in the process of burrowing.

Gigantism; for their humanoid size, the Devokwi have disproportionately large bodies albiet lanky ones. Perhaps as a genetic throwback to their massive wyrmic ancestors, the Devokwi grow to be between 11 and 14 feet tall dependent on gender and nutrition, all with humanoid proportions. This fact has lead to their misconception as "Ice Giants" by explorers and bards.

Immune to cold; the Devokwi morphology throws itself back a taxonomic classification to the genetic period of the Devowelers, and has been re-adapted to be strangely resistant to low temperatures, existing almost exclusively in sub-zero temperatures. Oddly, this also means that the Devokwi has developed no mechanism to extrude fluid, such as sweat glands, making them less than resilient in above-zero temperatures.

Society:

From what primitive vestiges of society these beastly humanoids bear, it is fascinating to examine.

unlike most species which behold two genders of a sexual nature, the Devokwi are entirely asexual in their reproductive cycle and instead differentiate gender based upon status as breeder or non greeder. Called by the Devokwi themselves as "Eaters" or "Eat Getters". The Eaters, as they're called, are the larger and broader of the two genders, and dimorphicize as the breeder gender, producing large quantities of auto-fertilized eggs. There are infact 7 distinct egg sacs within the abdomen of the Eater specimen, and over a long maturation period will produce several clutches of "Eat Getters" and the far less common clutch of "Eaters", to sire the next generation of breeding specimens.

Consequently the "eat getters" are the more agile, and gangly hunters who thrive in the subterranean environments of ice-caverns and volcanically-carved jungles of the Caldera. The species seems to favour and feed upon the apex predator and guardian of the Caldera, the Devoeans, which are the taxonomically closest specimen to the Devokwi's natural enemy - the Kilaueat'i Devowl.

The Devokwi make their homes in ice-caverns carved out with their powerful mandibles and talon-like finger-bones, away from the much warmer jungle climate of the Caldera. This has lead to the formation of their first formal community and settlement, which is in function a series of Ice-caverns concentrically carved out from an initial volcanic tube over the period of millennia. Virtually hidden to all other forms of life, the Devokwi hibernate here during the cold seasons of the jungle when most life recedes for a period, before awakening again in number, usually with a number of juveniles learning how to hunt that have grown up through the cold months, and stalking the underworld of the Icey north for prey.

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