Ulkon
A santient race living underground in Mauray. They are short but strong, and do a lot of mining underground. Many of their jobs also involve taking apart the giant clockwork machines of the Mauray underground. Basically space dwarves.
Ulkon are not very strongly magically atuned, however. They can counter magic in the way of manipulating the rotating parts of the clockwords to easily manipulate almost any terrain on which a battle happens. The ulkon have no concept of love or romance, instead undergoing reproduction with mostly random strangers. Ulkon children are raised by the community and are often taught to use tools, particularly minig equipment, from a young age. After birth, they would typically take about 20 years to grow to adult size and become reproductively fertile at this age. Being taught to use mining equipment from a young age makes them very skilled later in life. Sometimes they can be hired by other factions to mine or engineer equipment, but most ulkon people live under ulkon nations. Sometimes, the ulkon are born in the mines. They can resist being exposed to various common underground chemicals which can harm other species - they have a number of filters in their lungs which remove small objects like dust to an extent. The ulkon were especially engineered to be unreactive to chemicals like sulfur and coal - though they can be harmed by those chemicals in sufficiently large quantities. The ulkon are also resistant to heat, making use of a microbe which metabolises heat and removes it form the ulkon body - the microbe also being engineered for this purpose. The ulkon usually have an average metabolism rate but they can increase it in times ofhard work - while mining, they can move very fast but during these times must also consume more food. The ulkon digestive system must cope with a large amount of toxic material. They have multiple livers, including one to filter recently digeste dmaterial from the stomach before it reaches the intestine. The second liver filters blood from the intestine. The intestine also attempts to filter material but is less significant than the livers at this.
Ulkon are not very strongly magically atuned, however. They can counter magic in the way of manipulating the rotating parts of the clockwords to easily manipulate almost any terrain on which a battle happens. The ulkon have no concept of love or romance, instead undergoing reproduction with mostly random strangers. Ulkon children are raised by the community and are often taught to use tools, particularly minig equipment, from a young age. After birth, they would typically take about 20 years to grow to adult size and become reproductively fertile at this age. Being taught to use mining equipment from a young age makes them very skilled later in life. Sometimes they can be hired by other factions to mine or engineer equipment, but most ulkon people live under ulkon nations. Sometimes, the ulkon are born in the mines. They can resist being exposed to various common underground chemicals which can harm other species - they have a number of filters in their lungs which remove small objects like dust to an extent. The ulkon were especially engineered to be unreactive to chemicals like sulfur and coal - though they can be harmed by those chemicals in sufficiently large quantities. The ulkon are also resistant to heat, making use of a microbe which metabolises heat and removes it form the ulkon body - the microbe also being engineered for this purpose. The ulkon usually have an average metabolism rate but they can increase it in times ofhard work - while mining, they can move very fast but during these times must also consume more food. The ulkon digestive system must cope with a large amount of toxic material. They have multiple livers, including one to filter recently digeste dmaterial from the stomach before it reaches the intestine. The second liver filters blood from the intestine. The intestine also attempts to filter material but is less significant than the livers at this.
Basic Information
Anatomy
They have a mostly humanoid body shape. All of their limbs are larger than their human equivalents, but shorter. This gives them more strength. The ulkon torso is also notably much wider as well, partly to support their larger organs, especially liver.
Genetics and Reproduction
Most Ulkon are born with the male gender. Only about 1 in 8 are female.
Additional Information
Symbiotic and Parasitic organisms
Ulkon can support a large number of symbiotic bacteria colonies that help them break down alcohol and sometimes even convert it into more useful products.
Civilization and Culture
Common Customs, Traditions and Rituals
They are known to drink a lot of beer. Every town has at least 1 bar, and the mugs are quite large.
History
The Ulkon, like most races on Mauray, were engineered by the world itself. They were created underground and are one of the few races to have seen the core of the planet.
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