Sha

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Racial Magic

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Two Abilities out of the Following

Malok's Aura

Can generate temporary emotions or states related to Malok in those around them. They can either generate an area which instills this state or they can target individuals.

Rylmer's Movement

Able to walk, step, ride or move on or through storms, the specific type varying by region and individual. Most Sha inherit Movement manifestations for sandstorms or thunderstorms. They can also briefly turn into a miniature storm, move as this storm would and reform elsewhere. They cannot be harmed or hindered by these storms and in fact become more mobile.

Malok's Eye

Can see emotions, thoughts and states related to Malok as an aura around targets and learn details about these thoughts and emotions of targets by staring into their eyes. They can also instill these emotions into a target by staring into their eyes.

Rylmer's Step

Can enter and exit Rylmer's Plane via portals and travel the plane freely, without injury. Can bring another with them while maintaining contact. Portals are storms or stormy conditions in their environment.

Rylmer' Aura

Able to generate or summon a kind of storm from Rylmer's Plane, the exact type differing by individual. For Sha, these are most often sandstorms but might instead summon thunderstorms or drought. These effects disappear once they cease their summoning or lose consciousness.

Malok's Empathy

Can enable targets to experience or share each other's emotions, thoughts and memories related to Malok and can project their own Malok emotions onto targets.

Rylmer' Push

Can generate a discharge or pulse of a kind of storm with themselves as the epicenter. For Sha, this is most often a sandstorm. The larger the storm, the more energy is consumed, easily draining them. This ability is explosive in nature.

Malok's Voice

Able to lace their breath with mental effects related to Malok. Their voice can instill insanity, chaos, selfishness and unpredictability, used before hunts to disorient prey.

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The Sha, sometimes called a Set animal, is a sacred beast which represents the Masriyyin figure Set (Raegeric). This is a once extinct canine revived by Lunil during the Era of Legends. The Elemental Familiar of Raegeric, Pandora, was originally a Sha. Set himeslf is usually portrayed as a man with the head of a Sha, directly associated with chaos and violence as Set is the god of storms, disorder, deserts, violence, destruction and chaos.

The Masriyyin view a Sha as a sadistic, insidious, vindictive and malevolent animal which is also cunning and intelligent. Simultaneously they are seen as wild, powerful and strong. The Masriyyin believe Sha are agents of misfortune with callous disregard for life, creating storms wherever they please—especially sandstorms. As a symbol, they represent catastrophic storms, violence, suffering, tempests and perturbance. Wild packs of Sha wander the deserts of Shamsi Desert, Kemet, Birit Narim and Arabiyyan Desert in numbers ranging from three to thirteen, hunting together. They utilize chaos magic in order to confuse prey but this power is indiscriminate, sometimes stirring discord among nearby human settlements.

Sha are far more respected by and even kept by nomadic tribes of the Shamsi Desert especially by Arabiyy, Imaziɣen and Toubou nomads which call them Adje or Kelb-el-khela. These tribes hunt alongside their Sha, chasing down Raqs Gazelle, Sahra Hare, Ayyur Fox and Wata Jackal. Hunters have even been known to chase after prey on the back of a camel, carrying the Sha before tossing them toward the prey in order to give them a running start while others utilize both Sha and Paraa Falcon to harass gazelle while the Sha finishes them off. While they can be partially domesticated, hunting and living alongside humans, no Sha is ever completely tame.

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Anatomy

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Lifespan

12-14 years

Size

Height 23-38 in (58–71 cm)
Weight 35-70 lbs (16–32 kg)

The Sha is a lithe and athletic canine with a tail split into two at the end. Its ears are squared and are naturally erect while its snout is long and slender with a downward bend. It's fur is black but might have a bluish or reddish sheen. Once used as coursing dogs (hunting), these beasts hunt primarily by sight. They are very athletic, typically running down their prey. Their body is angular, graceful and symmetrical with a smooth and short black coat, sometimes with fluffier fur along their haunches and neck. Sha are capable of both speed and endurance, reaching speeds of 43 mph (69 kh/h) and sustaining this over distances of 2,600 ft (800 m) thanks to its heavily padded feet.

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