Kinak

Racial Traits

Ability Score Modifiers: Females: +2 Dexterity, -2 Intelligence, +2 Charisma. Males: -2 Strength, +2 Dexterity, +2 Wisdom.
Size: Female kinaki are medium creatures and thus receive no bonuses or penalties due to their size. Males are small and gain a +1 size bonus to their AC, a +1 size bonus on attack rolls, a –1 penalty to their CMB and CMD, and a +4 size bonus on Stealth checks.
Type: Kinaki are humanoids with the kinak suptype.
Speed: Female kinaki have a base land speed of 30 feet. Male kinaki have a base land speed of 20 feet, but see frog hop below. Both sexes have a swim speed of 10 feet.
Improved Low-light Vision: Kinaki can see 3 times farther than humans in low-light conditions.
Hold Breath: Kinaki can hold their breath for 2 rounds per point of constitution before they risk suffocation.
Bioluminescence: Kinaki emit shadowy illumination in a 10 foot radius (which to them appears to be 30 feet due to their low-light vision.)
Athletic: Kinkai have a +2 racial bonus to Acrobatics, Climb, and Swim checks.
Water Walk: Kinaki can use water walk at will as a supernatural ability (self only.)
Buoyancy: Kinaki can use buoyant lifing (Spell Compendium p. 40) at will as a supernatural ability (self only.)
Great Leap: Kinaki gain extreme leap (Complete Scoundrel p. 86) as a bonus skill trick. This doesn't count towards the maximum number of skill tricks a character can learn.
Dimorphism: Female kinaki may use their charisma modifier in place of their intelligence modifier for class abilities, but not for skill checks, ability checks, or spellcasting. Males gain an additional +4 bonus to acrobatics checks made to jump and the frog hop ability described below.
Frog Hop: Once per round as a free action, a male kinak can get down on all fours. For as long as he remains on all fours, his movement speed increases to 30 feet, he gains the benefit of the run feat, and he is treated as a quadruped. Male kinaki are not considered prone while on all fours. Standing back up again from being on all fours is a free action, but male kinaki's ability to stand from being prone is unaffected. Male kinaki only gain these bonuses if they are not wearing heavy armor, not carrying a heavy load, and have nothing bigger than a dagger in each hand. If a male kinak who is on all fours makes an attack using one of his hands, he loses the benefits of being on all fours for the rest of the round.

Description

Kinaki are frog-like humanoids with four-fingered hands and feet that look too large for their bodies, but aid in swimming. Females are noticeably taller and leaner than males and stand between 4'4 and 5'0, and weigh between 100 and 130 pounds. Males are much smaller and stand between 3'4 and 3'8, weigh between 75 and 95 pounds, and have a physique that is wider, more squat, and more frog-like than females. Females are bright red, soft blue, light purple, or soft green, making them one of the few brightly colored creatures in Mnmwarra. They typically have one of a variety of stripe patterns in Mnmwarra's typical pearly white color. Males are brown, dull orange, dull yellow, or dark green, and typically have one of a variety of dot or splotch patterns instead of stripes. Kinaki reach adulthood at age 20 and live to about 200.
Kinaki are most commonly found on the surface of the islands that dot Mnmwarra, sheltered from the predators that lurk in the depths. They particularly thrive on islands that have one or more lakes, especially those that house xikiks. These four-legged water striders live on the surface of the lakes. They emit a soft glow, like that of a candle and enable kinaki to see great distances across the water's surface. Fish regularly come to the surface to eat xikiks, making them easier for the kinaki to catch. Kinaki use many different methods of fishing. Some use fishing poles made of pilak stems and fibers. Some gather in groups of four and swim deep in the water with a net made of pilak fibers. One kinak will hold each corner of the net and they each activate their buoyancy ability and catch anything above them on the way to the surface. Their traditional method is to sit on the surface of the lake and wait for a fish to come to the surface to eat a xikik and shoot it with a crossbow. This is now primarily used for sport and competitions more than for actually feeding people, but it was once their primary method of fishing.
The typical kinak settlement consists of several large house boats floating in a cluster on a lake. These boats each house one large, extend family of around 20 to 40 and are rooted to the lake bed with thick ropes made of pilak fibers. The largest kinaki settlements are on the islands of Te and Kogao. Several smaller clusters of house boats dot the surface of these lakes in regular intervals, but in each case, the whole lake is considered to be one settlement.