Noshkalar

''Stewed from the nascent depths of the ocean without aid, the inelegant Noshkalar are a race of quasi-sapient amphibians, relying on a sheer and brutal will to survive above any actual prowess for civilized life. ''



Origin: "Unnamed Island"

Progenitor: Natural Evolution

Capital/first settlement: Nosh Karnic 

Other Settlements: - Nosh Kairon

Natural lifespawn: 30-35 years Traits:

1) Amphibious; The Noshkalar are naturally affinitious with their life on land and their lives in the deeps, transitioning from one to another with relative ease.

2) Seasonal egg-tides; Whether due to tribal superstition or just evolved practice, the Noshkalar swim out into the riptides at sea to mate, before releasing their combined clutches to the waves before returning to land. This results in 'egg-tides', where the hatches young will wash ashore for the Noshkalar to choose them as their own in a rudimentary ceremony of becoming. In this way, the Noshkalar also fertilize the creatures of the deep, providing seasonal harvests for predators to feast upon.

3) Neutrally Attuned; as befitting of creatures that do all they can to survive whether savage or noble, the Noshkalar are truly neutrally alligned and possess no empathic ability to understand traditional moralities.

4) (Granted by Uode) Danger Sense; The Noshkalar have developed keen interlinking of their senses, capable of processing incoming threats to their livelihood at exponentially greater rates, and thus can take action to dodge and evade potential predators or enviromental risks.

Society:

''The Noshkalar live simple, short lives. Living in huts made of fungal woods, rocks and whatever they can glean from the environment (such as bones), they are primitive hunters, seeking lesser fish and woodland creatures with sticks and crude implements of the like. It is not unknown although not neccesarily common for the Noshkalar to eat their own young during the eggtide should the young prove unfit to be raised amongst the greater community.

This practice has been noticed to be central primarily to Nosh Karnic, the brood present in Nosh Kairon were born of eggtides washed astray from the capital and whilst the two settlements are in contact, the former appears to treasure their young to a greater degree, lending to explosions in population. ''

Advancements:

n/a

Sects:

Nosh Embre ; Aka those of the Fire are a sect of Noshkalar who take further in land to the dry fungal woods of their homeland, burning small idols made of fungal tissues and worshipping Vynthrol, Lord of the Redeeming Flames. Their worship is surrounded by an air of faint fanaticisms.