*reposts Tak'La and Shadow Stats*
Tak'la
Appearance
Very thin, flat body with a skinny, oval head with slitted eyes, pointed chin. The long neck archs so that the head is near the chest. Tak'la have grayish skin coloration, orange eyes. Their arms start as one, but then branches off to two other arms. Each arm has a hand with three fingers, and opposable thumbs.
Tak'la have long and skinny legs and three finger-like toes on their feet. They possess psychic powers, allowing them to hover three feet above the surface they are over. They have some telekinetic abilities, and a weak power to manipulate matter to their own will.
They are seven feet tall normally, but they hover three fight high, giving them a ten foot heighth.
Territory
The Tak'la live in large hovering platforms above Oddworld's Oceans. The platforms are powered by large turbines and hot-air balloons, the electricity needed for these machines is gathered from storms. The Tak'la have many small power plants in the form of weather balloons that gather the energy from lightning and store it into small, compact cells. These cells are gathered, replaced and installed into the platforms every few days.
The Tak'la dispose of rotten food and all wastes, including small bits of metal. This is compacted and recycled into easy-to-burn matter and stored in large furnaces inside the platform. If there is a lack of energy, then the platform back-up procedure kicks in and burns the disposed material. This provides enough energy for a day or two so they can get new energy cells.
People
All Tak'la have small psychic abilities, such as telekinesis. This allows them to hover and move objects with their mind. When using their powers, it makes them light-headed and stupid, because their mind is tracked for psychic powers and not thought.
Clothing
All the normal citizens wear a large shoulder pad made of Steroon Metal, with large orbs at each end and 2 foot long spear-like spines sticking out of them. This clothing boosts their Telekinetic Powers. Long, soft, tapestry-like silk robes flow down from the shoulder pad. The robes usually are colored black or red and have a Faction Isignia upon it.
The clothes are made by the silk worms in the few silk worm forests, in which Tak'la breed and grow silk worms and take their silk for clothing. The forests are made of small bushes, the silk worm's natural habitat.
The dye is harvested from dye plants that the Scavengers harvest from islands. The Geh'krok used to use blood for their red insignias, but they changed to dye as the blood would flake off and leave them with colorless silk.
Food
Mostly root-like plants, resembling carrots and potatoes. These are grown on the platform. Farmers use fresh soil on open spaces of the platform to grow many root-like crops which they harvest in mass numbers every season and put them in the deep-freezer for storage.
Since the vegetables the Tak'la harvest is root-like, the leafy tops of the plants are left as trash. This is put in compost heaps to enrich the soil of the fields.
Weapons
Daggers - The Daggers are made of a number of materials. Those with only self-defense needs use sharpened coral, stone, in their daggers. Those who are serious about their fighting use Seroon and Steroon in their daggers.
Rail Turret - The Rail Turret is an immobile weapon built upon small, mini-platforms. They are used for defense against raiders against their Platform-Cities. They fire large magnetized rails of Steroon, which home into their enemy. Reloading is one of the drawbacks of the Rail Turret. The barrel only allows one 'rail' to be placed into its loading tube at a time. Thus leaving it vulnerable for a period of time.
Energy Cannon - The Energy Cannon is a rare weapon, and there is only one that exists, and that is one that is floating aboe the platform of G'nek. It is their most powerful weapon. It fires a large beam of pure electricity that drains up to five Storm Energy Cells, the ones gathered from the Storm Balloons.
This ammount of energy is relative to roughly ten lightning bolts, and so it is very destructive. When fired, the beam is activated for five seconds of pure energy at a target.
Rifle - A basic rifle with a scope. But, it uses high velocity rounds, they're than the Geh'krok's assasin weapon.
Assualt rifle - This is what G'nek Police Department use for a standard platform defence weapon. It's compact, light-weight, and stores up to 50 rounds to a clip. It's medium velocity and has a flashlight attachment.
Peace Keeper Pistol - A very dangerous weapon. It has a high velocity and the rounds are filled with psienyde gas. It's called the Peace Keeper pistol, because it usually shows someone who's boss, and keeps everything in line. Its refered to a PKP by some. Upon being shot by the Peace Keeper Pistol, you might surive the shot. But the psyenyde will qucikly seep into your bloodstream and prevent you to breathe in any way.
Pistol - A normal pistol. Given to those who are sent on missions to other platforms. It looks a little like a luger but has a larger clip size.
Kelr'jo - A honing weapon. This is a long pole with a curved blade at the end, and built from steroon. It's light, and was used by the first Tak'la, called the "Iurl-ten" wich in Tak'latian means "Angels of the Earth". As they were first living on the ground before they went to the sky.
Occupations
These occupations are for all factions, not the individual factions. That is why Geh'krok Necromancers and Sien-kar Monks are not included.
Scavenger - These Tak'lanite Scavengers search the sea floor for coral, bones, and rocks in the ocean from which they build their platforms from. They use small mini-platforms to go down to the oceanic islands and harvest all they can from it. The Geh'krok harvest the lava rocks from the islands that their Overlord makes.
The Scavengers also gather plants that possess ingredients to make dye that they use in their clothing.
Silkworm Breeder - This job includes taking care of the Silkworm Forests that must be trimmed and examined to ensure maximum silk produce from the silkworms. They must take care of the silk worm, give them food and water, and harvest their silk.
Energy Technician - These are Tak'lanites that find the lightning-gathering balloons and collect the energy that is stored in the cells of the balloons.
Overlord - Geh'krok Official who raises lava from the inside of Oddworld to the few Geh'krok Platforms.
Farmer - These Tak'la are charged with the position of growing the number of carrots and potatoes that the Tak'la civilization eat for food. They work in the open, under the sun, in the fields in the open areas of their Platform cities.
Clothessmith - These Tak'la tailors and armorers make the shoulder pads for the many Tak'la. This is a tedious job, for the shoulder pads must be made exactly right so that psychic energy can be generated.
Robeweaver/Tapestrymaker - These Tak'la make the robes for the many Tak'lanites that need clothing other than shoulder pads. This includes gathering the silk for the Silkworm Breeders and weaving it into complex forms.
Dyer - This job includes making the many dyes that color the Tak'la robes and clothing. The dye is taken from Scavengers and heated up into vats of hot water and turned into colorful dye. Then, the silk must be dipped into it and sit there for many hours before it changes color.
Platform Inspector - This job includes checking the many engines and turbines that let the Platforms hover over Oddworld, and making sure that they don't wear out.
Balloon-Maker - This job includes creating the Storm Balloons that collect power for the platforms.
Weaponsmith - Makes the number of pistols, assault rifles, and blades that the Tak'la need. They use all sorts of material, for coral to steroon.
Government
Hierarchy-Democracy... there is a council upon G'nek that decides on everything for every factions. The factions themselves decide upon things as well, but to a lesser degree.
---Info on Current Factions---
Sien-kar
This Tak'lanite Faction believe in heavy meditation, freeing their mind and souls from their very bodies. By going through this process each day, they sustain greater brain-power, allowing greater psychic reach and ability.
Geh'krok
Another Faction of the Tak'la that believe in training their people in the art of necromancy. They desire to raise their dead ancestors and create an army to overthrow the head platform, G'nek, and take over Oddworld.
Pelor
The Pelor Faction is teaches its people in the arts of Healing, Peace Making. Their only objective is to forge the Tak'lanite Factions together and become one empire and attempt to unite Oddworld and bring peace and harmony to all.
---Info on Platform Cities---
Although there are many different Platform Cities, they are all part of one community of Platforms, which is called Ref-puil, which in Tak'la means "Cities of the Clouds".
Ten'wa
The Home-Platform of Sien-kar. It is a large and majestic platform, it's temples and monastaries are made from a pearl-white material.
A'kora
The Home-Platform of the Geh'krok. It is large, dark, and over-all gloomy. Canals filled with boiling-hot liquid lava pour down the sides of the Platform. Dungeons and other evil structures make up the rest of this evil platform, a dark shadow over the sea of Oddworld.
Tenie'ko-pa
The Home-Platform of the Pelor. It is a creation of great technology and natural wonders, made up of gardens and tall towers made of Steroon; a welcome addition to the platform community.
Sub-species:
Tak'la-sein
When the first being of this kind left, he was a Sein-kar member, and achived leaving his body, he took celestial form, his legs were gone and instead a ghost like tail took its place, he was completly unsolid. He was soul and mind bound together and released from the body. He left the other members and split himself into multiples, each one having its own emotions and free will. They were a pale blue and semi-translucent. They had greater psychic powers and could fly as a beam of energy. They could be hurt though. They needed to be killed with majic of some form. Psychic energy worked greatest on them, you could disable them and use them as your own energy with the right power. The main creator made himself into a crystal in the earth, making a large valcano like form around him with small enterance's. There his creations lived, spliting.
Tak'la-Ush
Ush is the Tak'latian word for "Strong". This sub-species split off out of no-where and went to the ground and into the deserts. They developed tough skin and lost their second arm. leaving a stub that was movible. They used it for peirceings after becuse of its uselessness, it lost all nerve conection becuse of no use. They developed great strength also, building their muscle mass but losing contact with their psychic powers. Thus making them a brutish species. They built large scimitar like weapons and formed an extra 2 fingers alowing them to grip weapons better. They changed clothing to robes and loin-cloths, rust red, the males now wearing trophies of their newly killed, like a finger bone, a personal belonging or a tooth. They became barbarians and their intelagence of technology was reduced to melee weapons. The exstent of range weapons was bows and other implements in that same feild. Guns became something that none knew of, and they began eating meat. Their bodys became now effected to salt water becuse of the fresh water they took in, but their disease imune system grew alowing little disease to effect them.
Tak'la Bineu
This species was formed when a Tak'la went and lived in a swamp. He developed primitive gills, rough skin, large eyes, peupiless, and duoble eyelids. They also grew in size and their skeleton took shape into somewhat of a frog. They are in a frog position, they have webed, clawed feet and hands. Their diet is mainly fish. They created spears and harpoons out of trees, logs, stones, and bone. Bone was their greatest resource. Most creatures die in their swamps becuse of the gases. They developed an imune system, and lived after dead left overs of animals that died in the swamp. Their bones proved useful as tools. They lost knowlage of technology and newer things. being now primitive they live, iscolated from the Tak'la.
Tak'la eic
Eci means "Fire walker" in Tak'latian. This sub-species was formed when a Geh'krok member left and went to the ground. He went to the valcano's of oddworld and lived near the mouth. He developed thick, tough, fire resistant skin, and his feet grew a carapace, thus alowing them to, literily, walk through fire. Hence the name "Fire walker". Their rib cage became larger and more built in the upper body, it expanded. Their hole upper body became larger. Their arms lost the doubble feature and became a single arm. their skull also became larger, their bottem jaw expanded and they formed large claws. This species is VERY hostile, and should be approched with cution
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Shadows
Appearance
They all wear long black cloaks, no mater what, they always do. There heads look like black human heads with red glowing eyes and no facial features at all(exsept for the eyes, duh) the cloak has a padded coller that raises up behind thick, and thins out as it comes to the front. Without the cloak the Shadows body is actualy a gaint celstial mass, from wich they can create arms or other appendages.
They stand atleast 12ft tall, and are extreamly sinister, do not trust them at all. Suggested you avoid them at all cost's.
Territory
The Shadows live in vast networks of caves throughout Oddworld, were they sleep and learn. The cave networks are ruled in Oligarchy by 12 lords. The walls of the caves are lined with specail crystals wich the Shadows use to colect beings to obsorb. The creature has to be wounded, or weak for it to work, other wise the creature would still be able to thrive inside the Shadow.
People
All Shadows are intellegent and have a small task force of creatures that the choose to "Infest", meaning if there was a war the Shadows would sit back and wait till there creatures are dead and then wreak hell on the wounded opposing force's. The Shadows live in colonies, and since there is no Familes or Sex's they live with whom ever they want, and make "Shadowlings" by combining celestial energy to create a being like bolth of the parenting Shadows. The Shadows have been staying in their caves until now. They have re-awakend and slowly Shadow's are leaving the caves. Some by choice, others were told to by the lords. And now that they've come out to feed. Almost no one is safe..
Food
They dont exactly eat, they consume the life force of wounded creatures, the more intellegent the better, but what they're mostly draining, is there energy. The victems energy is drained from the body and kills them. Meaning there most favorite meals are Muddokens, Tak'la, and Vykkers.
Weapons
Not realy weapons they use there shape-shifting abilitys and the ability to "Infest" a wounded opponint to combat. You could say they are weapons themselfs.
Occupations
These are the types of Shadows that are found about in Oddworld. Remember every part is black unless said other wise.
Lords- There are only 12, but they are the most powerful of all Shadows. They wear a Roman centurian style helmet, of wich the openings are glowing red. They have the ability to control massive amounts of creatures at a time, and are the most feared of all Shadows.
Aen'Tu-rai- These are the most mysterious and strangest of the Shadows. They have a round head and slited eyes that look like they've been carved in the orb of a head. They use the most celestial energy and weep tears of blood from there slits when they use high power attacks. Strange.
History
The Shadows were created by the Ancheints along with the Tak'la and many other legendary race's. Bolth being brother race's they hate each other. Except for the Gen'krok. The 2 race's have been seen working together on numoris acounts.
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