Chea
The Chea (Shay-UH) are a long-lived Cradle Sophont originating from Jhoutai. Their physiology is well-adapted to life as an omnivorous farmer-scavenger in the sunblasted Verin Steppes, where the hot, the cold, and the wind are all of the blistering variety.
Traits
Eyes
Chea eyes come in pale pastel gradients of blue to green. As with all Verin the melanophores in their irises reflect a red eyeshine in direct lighting, but theirs are significantly easier to see.
Chea have eyes well adapted to their original homelands in the deserts and plains. Their corneas have melanophores which make their corneas appear reflective in intense light so that they can overcome sunblindness. When night falls, their pupils dilate enough to expose a secondary set of rods and cones with limited infrared chromacy. Ancient chea hunters would use it to hunt in the deserts at night. They'd look at the sand for warm spots and jam their spears down into the sand
The Chea physique isn't as long-legged as the their Faeo cousins. Instead, they are comparitively stocky Sauthei, and share in a physique made more for stamina than distance.
Their lower canines are as pronounced as their uppers. Their hair is typically jet, raven, onyx or obsidian in lustre, but it is not too uncommon to find the occasional blue-black.
The body beneath their slate skin is as unique and as rugged as the exterior, as they have large hearts to keep their thick blood pumping. They also have dense, difficult to break bones.
Their thick skin insulates them from the hot and cold.
The above image is generated, and so is lacking a couple features such as their tusks and skin patterns.
