Lashunta
The Lashunta is a race of psychic matriarchal humanoids. Lashuntas are split into two subspecies called damaya and korasha; lashuntas choose which subspecies they will develop into when they hit puberty. The damaya are tall, intellectual and usually take on leadership roles while the korasha are shorter, broader and focus more on manual labour. Both damaya and korasha have a cultural obsession with scholarship and self-improvement.
Riding enormous lizard steeds, lashuntas patrol the edges of their city-states, driving off the dangerous fauna of the foetid jungles
Damaya and korasha lashunta
The lashuntas are divided into two castes known as damaya and korasha. Membership is not hereditary, as lashuntas decide at puberty which they develop into. Damaya are taller than korasha and tend towards roles that require strong leadership and communication skills, while korasha are stout and tend towards physically demanding jobs. Both castes share a strong appetite for intellectual matters
Connections with shotalashu
A lashunta woman watches over a city-state from her shotalashu mount.
Lashunta warriors form close telepathic bonds with their shotalashu mounts, making them incredibly effective mounted combatants. When a bonded shotalashu or rider dies, the surviving party suffers lasting emotional trauma.
Psychic ability
All lashuntas see the pursuit of mental perfection as an admirable goal which has, over the generations, developed into keen psionic powers in many members of this austere race.
Such lashuntas have natural telekinetic and telepathic abilities, which are especially prevalent among lashunta warriors who telepathically bond with their shotalashu mounts.
These innate capabilities help make Castrovel the solar system's dominant home of psychics.
The Lashunta on Golarion and Anvil
A lashunta tribe known as the Lotus-Eaters was collected by the crew of the strike starship Divinity after it entered Golarion's solar system and stopped by Castrovel to collect rainforest-dwelling life to resupply one of its habitat pods. The lashuntas were then placed in stasis, and remained there when the starship crashed into modern Numeria. Millennia later, a Technic League captain—a half-elf named Prosser—discovered and revived them during an expedition into the Silver Mount, establishing a village within the isolated habitat dome with himself as its chieftain.
Lady Altouna, the ruler of the Numerian city of Hajoth Hakados, is a lashunta who arrived in the city while fleeing from the Technic League. However, most of the city's residents believe her to be a half-elf, a cover that she maintains to avoid drawing unwanted attention to herself
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