The Tzaru-Sokinu

Well, in case you’re wondering why I’ve been missing after this sudden burst of creative power, it’s because I’ve created a NEW RACE. I’ve been working, mapping them out, creating a palette and a point for them. And here they are: The prototype Tzaru-Sokinu.

The Tzaru-Sokinu as a race, first, are shorter, slightly, than humans, averaging 5′3″. They are quadrupeds, and they have six arms. Four of them are longer and terminate with three pointed claws on the end, these being the feet. Two of those are very long and jut out from the back end, being the back feet, and the other two being the front. The final two are shorter, ending in four fingers, two of which are opposable. These are the hands. They have grey-to-black chitinous skin, which is in several plated layers, and two distinct areas of the body, the torso and the thorax. The torso is generally straight and the arms just from it, and the thorax begins a ways below where the hips would be on a human torso, and the bends around, extending to the back and providing a space for the legs.

Now for some history: On their planet, formed ages ago before most other life on the universe, there was a race that I as yet haven’t named (I’m thinking something like Amulkaanos, but I don’t know). They were about as advanced as humans are today, but a bit more fickle with weapons technology. Nobody knows or can know today, but for some reason there was a huge nuclear war. The entire civilization was killed by shockwaves or radiation, and only the smaller beings were left. However, in ther tenure as masters of the world, the race had begun to dig tunnels beneath the surface of the planet. These were unaffected by radiation, and they became an effective house for the race that would become the Tzaru-Sokinu. As they became sentient, they tunneled out the already-created passages further, and eventually most of the species migrated away undergound. As such, there is a huge twilight world underneath the surface of the planet. Most species subsist on lichens, and while the irradiation is mostly gone, they still live underground.

The surface is rocky, full of dormant volcanoes and ruined cities. The Tzaru-Sokinu have claimed many of them and begun research, and to merge their own architecture with that of the cities. The system of government for the planet is still undecided. I’m thinking certainly not monarchy or oligarchy, but possible total democracy or even anarchy, just something decentralized. There are still countries that exist, and it hasn’t had a Unifiication like Helios or Zalamar.

So here’s the point: Zalamar isn’t alien enough, being actually very human-based (although I’m working on remedying this), and the Europans are too alien to be developed much so far, so the Tzaru-Sokinu are a nice midpoint. I figure I’ll be able to flesh out the Europans, as well as making the Zalamath more alien-seeming, so this is a good thing. Not to mention that having a crazy spider-guy race is cool.

Other creative stuff:
Here’s a current race list:

• Zalamath
• Tzaru-Sokinu
• Europans

And a culture list:

• Helios
• Urallia
• Hyrotyr (What I’m calling the Ruin world)
• Riosal (Undeveloped steampunk Salamader place)

Also, I’m seriously considering giving a few friends Vault accounts. It would be neat to have a diversificated blog thing that we could all post our musings on. And then, maybe, we might get noticed.

Peace out.

~ by pieboy on March 3, 2006.