Manderthal

This is a fantasy race based off the neanderthal. It's larger and more imposing than a human or neanderthal and is a carnivore (unlike the omnivorous human). A lot of manderthals are known to be excellent long-term sailors as they can live off of eating fish and drinking their blood at sea and not getting scurvy like humans.

Basic Information

Dietary Needs and Habits

Dietary Needs

Mainly meat, but is well off also on a dog's diet.

Additional Information

Social Structure

They live in social groups like humans, but they tend to be smaller and more independent.

Facial characteristics

Large eyes that are set farther up in the face, smaller forehead,big brow ridge, less pronounced chin. Large nose with large more forward pointing nostrils, smaller ears.

Average Intelligence

About as smart as an average human.

Civilization and Culture

Major Organizations

Shayanaha, Gurbaz

Average Technological Level

About the same as surrounding humans. Depends on the location's technological level. For example, if they are surrounded by Bronze Age people they will be in the Bronze Age.

History

Origins

As there was another cold snap in the ice age, the humans were well prepared for the change but the neanderthals weren't. As humans may have been weaker overall with poorer eyesight and less physical adaptations to the cold, they used their social connections, artistic thinking, ability to live off of more diverse diets, better balance and the willingness to compromise to survive. The neanderthals however, were quite the opposite. Their heavy set bodies may have made them insanely strong and resistant to cold and their large eyes and noses noses gave them a better sense of smell and better vision as well as being just as intelligent as humans, didn't help with the fact that they tended to be more more stubborn and reclusive. They were also physically incapable of living like humans because their inner ears were smaller so they could lose their balance more easily added to their heavy set body build didn't allow them to cope with the forests turning into grassy tundras. Because they evolved to be apex predators, they could only eat the same kind of food dogs can. As a result, a lot of neanderthals died from eating plants were human safe but harmful to neanderthals. The neanderthals also preferred self sufficiency over relying on others even when the latter was the more viable option. They had to either leave, adapt or die. So, most of the neanderthals didn't change and died out. The next faction, they decided specialize on robbing other predators (including humans) of their food and they eventually evolved into the terrifying ice giants. There was a third group that adopted human customs and tried to assimilate but they were eventually completely absorbed. The fourth group however, is what leads to the manderthals. This group decided to travel south where they could survive. The journey south wasn't forgiving though, they had to fight with humans and deal with heat and new environments as well as new prey and drought. This thinned them out and the manderthal came to be. Only whoever could fight, deal with the heat, hunt, build, socialize, be creative and keep his balance survive. The 1.5 meter tall neanderthal was gone and he was replaced by the ice giant and the 2 meter tall manderthal. This is how the manderthal came to be.

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

Manderthals and humans look down on each other. Each one thinks they are the superior being and that the other is just a talking ape, i.e an animal. When it comes to laws, they don't consider that killing one of the others is murder because they are animals. They treat each other like ordinary animals for food, labor, transport etc. There are rare cases like the Unified Kindom where they manage to put their differences aside and live as different but more or less equal.

Genetic Ancestor(s)

• Neanderthal

Scientific Name

Homo Neanderthalensis Sapiens

Origin/Ancestry

Neanderthals that migrated south during the end of the last Ice-Age

Average Physique

Big and heavy set. these things look like they're built like tanks.

Related Ethnicities

• Gurbazi
• Shayanaha

Related Materials

• Panga

CSS Stats

Agility: 400
Balance: 400
Bone Strength: 2100
Cold Resistance: 2000
Day Vision: 600
Hearing: 480
Heat Resistance: 350
Height: 2 meters
Intelligence: 500
Length:
Lifespan: 490
Ligament Strength: 2100
Memory: 500
Night vision: 900
Smell: 550
Stamina: 400
Speed: 480
Strength: 2000
Trauma Resistance: 1500
Weight: 180 kilograms