Trekijàrn, The Drálm Dragons
The Trekijàrn glorify beauty and eternity in varied ways, they're highly skilled musicians, craftsmans and fearless fighters. They are coming from the depth of Diespeíros.
Froyndarl, their island, surfaced slowly over the millenia and they only accessed the surface thanks to the Celestial Advent. They're known for their racism towards most of the other races. Strangely, although being strongly traversed by Nankaï they're not really talented at magic. This particularity pushed them to develop advanced Nankaï powered technologies such as Drálauka and Magnarálm. Martially their philosophy is "knowledge as power" , they're master of Nýttöfr an elegant but tiring fighting style.
Relation to Nankaï
Nourishment
Throughout their life their body is constantly absorbing a good amount of Nankaï to nourrish itself. It uses the Elementary Essences of water, earth and wood to create organic matter and simple sugars. To collect the required essences they can either temporary plant their hands and/or feet in the ground where these limbs will expand looking for these essences or absorb the ambient Nankaï through their skin. Living almost exclusively in Hvelfjall the ambient Nankaï is enough for them and they tend to only use the first method while meditating replenishing both mind and body.Growth
Natural
For its growth, their body needs to accumulate an abnormally high quantity of Nankaï. The process being highly dependent of the amount of ambient Nankaï the body can absorb and of the environment it lives in, they need to stay in Hvelfjall during the whole process and regularly plant their limbs in the ground to boost their Nankaï absorption. Once the required amount of Nankaï gathered their growth is immediatly triggered. Their body then create a thick wood cocoon firmly rooted in the ground to protect itself during the transformation. Although being very effective the cocoon isn't a perfect shield, as such it is important for them to watch for their growth in order to stay safe. At the end of the process they are either male, female or stayed undifferentiated.Influenced
Time teached them that the outcome of their growth depends heavily on the absorbed quantity of each Elementary Essences : females tend to need more water essence, males more earth essence and undifferentiated more wood essence. With this information, it is possible for them to influence their growth but not to guarantee its result. While most Aefaun and Ekkirta makes their best to avoid staying undifferentiated the Eirstó use this method to maximize their chances to stay so.Reproduction
The reproduction process is similar to the growth and nourishment one. Two Trekijàrn from different sex unite their body and form the same kind of cocoon that protected their growth. Their being is then entirely dedicated to the creation of their child for around a month. This task is as dangerous as it is complex and as such as long as it is incredibly short. Indeed, being almost defenseless during such an amount of time can mean death and creating a new life, even as small as a baby, in only a month is astonishing. Two specific aspects have to be raised about the newborns. First, they will inherit from all the mixed characteristics of their parents, they are literally their average. Second, they are all undifferentiated but are not Hróath, their final sex will be defined during their growth.Regeneration
Trekijàrns, like all plants, have powerful regeneration capacity. They can regrow entire limbs in a few months or even weeks for the fastest. However this ability is greatly diminished while getting older, slowing the process and lessening its accuracy causing malformations and ultimately, handicaps. The process is similar to the growth one and as such can be accelerated and eventually improved by the same means.Spellcasting
The growth and nourishment processes are the reasons why, although being constantly using and absorbing Nankaï, they have difficulties casting spells. They have to fight their body's normal functions to release Nankaï instead of transforming it.Relation to Eternity
Drálauka : Body Augmentation
To counter their problems of beauty, lifespan and spellcasting they developed the Drálaukas, body augmentations made of Drálm. However this technology is very expansive limiting its access by the Ekkirta and causing the gap between the castes to deepen even more.Body's Immortality
Unfortunately, the Drálauka could only expand their lifespan from a few decades. Those who had enough money and will to live eternally tried to renew their augments regularly, giving them a few more years to go through, some even choosed to augment their heart. However, these methods were highly time and money consuming and the constant replacement of the augments weakened their owners to death.Soul's Immortality
Rather than preserving their inevitably deteriorating bodies they thought of saving their souls. They first tried to transfer their souls into adult bodies but the original soul was always stronger and the transfers were failing causing both's death. They quickly understood that the problem was the maturity of the soul, to avoid any problem they decided to use babies. From here two types of families appeared, those who'd use their own childs and those who'd hunt the most interesting receptacle.Basic Information
Anatomy
They are "elf-like", their body's color is shades of cyan and their bark tends to be brown. They have wood-like bones that grow randomly out of their body and their organs are vegetal. They are thin, small and their skin is rough and irregular.
Genetic Descendants
Lifespan
80 years - Unknown
Average Height
1.5 - 1.7 meters
Average Weight
45 - 75 kg
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