Dorukan

Half-dwarf, half-human, this cross species is difficult to discern in human societies, as they are often easily mistaken for slightly above average breadth and slightly below average height but otherwise unremarkable. In dwarven societies, however, dorukan women are readily identifiable as they typically have only a wispy peach fuzz on their jaws rather than full beards. For this reason and the historically brutal ostracsization they've endured trying to blend directly into dwarf culture, most female dorukan prefer to shave and present themselves as human. Hair on dorukans is frequently inherited from their dwarven parent, though the coloration of it most often mirrors that of the human parent. Dorukan skin tones tend to favor their dwarven parent, though commonly lighter or darker depending on the relative lightness of their human parent's tone. Dorukans do not typically have dwarf-style opposable toes, though their first toes tend to have shorter metatarsals. Adult dorukans range from about 3' tall to 6', with most falling around 4'4". Dorukans weigh about as much as a human 6-8 inches taller than their actual height, 120 lbs up to 300 lbs. Dorukans are physically mature by age 19, but are notoriously immature in behavior patterns until about the age of 30. Dorukan twenties are sometimes derisively called "bleindrn chvukkas" which translates from Tchaoik to (roughly) "the blind era". Dorukan lifetimes range from about 100 years to 150 or so, though there have recorded cases of dorukanians as old as 200.