🌾 Lak'te (Plains & River Dwellers) Image Here —>
Build: Average and balanced, built for endurance rather than raw power.
Skin: Warm copper, bronze, or reddish-gold, like sunlit clay. Some families bear faint Kucholel swirl-markings across their arms and shoulders.
Features: Rounder faces, expressive eyes (green, amber, or black). Dark hair, often braided or worn flowing.
Clothing: Woven cloth patterned with river motifs (waves, fish). Jewelry of turquoise beads and clay pendants.
Uniqueness: When drawing on Kucholel, faint ripples shimmer across their skin like refracted light through water.
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🌊 Ch'olan (Forest & Coastal Dwellers) Image Here —>
Build: Tall, lithe, with elongated limbs built for climbing and agility.
Skin: Emerald-brown, blue-tinted, or bronze with faint iridescence, like beetle shells or fish scales.
Features: High cheekbones, long angled ears, sharp almond eyes (violet, sea-green, or silver) with a reflective sheen.
Clothing: Feathered cloaks, shell jewelry, barkcloth robes, often adorned with natural dyes.
Uniqueness: When still, their bodies subtly dissolve into shadow or foliage, blending seamlessly with their surroundings.
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🪨 B'aakal (Mountain & Underworld Dwellers) Image Here —>
Build: Stocky, barrel-chested, dense-limbed — built for power and resilience.
Skin: Slate-gray, obsidian-black, or ruddy with metallic undertones (bronze, iron, copper). Skin texture often rough, like weathered stone.
Features: Squared jaws, broad noses, heavy brows. Hair grows in thick cords or curls like stone dust.
Clothing: Heavy tunics with geometric stonework patterns, obsidian talismans, and stone-studded belts.
Uniqueness: In dim light, their veins glow faintly like molten magma seams, and their gem-like eyes reflect light.
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☀️ Ixim'kin (Desert & Steppe Dwellers) Image Here —>
Build: Tall, wiry, long-limbed; bodies tuned for long travel and harsh survival.
Skin: Sand-gold, sun-cracked red, or storm-gray, often shifting subtly in tone like a mirage.
Features: Angular faces, piercing reflective eyes (polished glass, molten gold, or burning silver).
Clothing: Loose desert wraps, layered sashes, adorned with bone, ivory, or sunstone charms.
Uniqueness: Heat haze clings around them, creating shimmering outlines even when still, as if always half mirage.
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🌑 Xibal'te (Swamp & Abyssal Dwellers) Image Here —>
Build: Lean, sinewy, elongated torsos and limbs, slightly alien in proportion.
Skin: Swamp-green, deep blue-black, or pallid gray, often mottled or patterned like amphibians. Always faintly slick, as if wet.
Features: Wide reflective eyes (frog- or eel-like), sharp teeth, subtle gill-lines on the neck, webbing on fingers and toes.
Clothing: Leather wraps, moss-dyed fibers, coral, shell, or bone adornments.
Uniqueness: Their voices carry a damp echo, like whispers in a flooded cavern, and faint bioluminescent markings pulse across their skin.