Nu'umana
The Nu'umana were fed extreme amounts of protein and exposed to devastating cold, and what the rays fixed is a pale, heavy, hairy body with its fat resting tight around the core. Their eyes are hyper yellow or pitch red, with heavy bags creating slits that they can see through while protecting the raw eye. They live ninety years, the shortest span in the species.
They are the most honest to their species' original colour, white-blue, which makes them the closest living thing to what came off the makers' benches before the rays hit. They are credited with extreme wisdom, and they are the only Nu'uman who can feel where another body is without looking at it.
Body
Pale, heavy and hairy, with fat deposits that rest tight around the core, and eyes of hyper yellow or pitch red set in heavy lids. They require little to no heat, and they sense the warmth of living bodies through snow and dark, which is the only heat sense in the species and the reason a Cold Kin hunting party can take a Mekuhlian, since a cold body in a white country is a hole in the warmth and a hole is as readable as a glow. Their lung is large and their airway long, so the breath is warmed before it reaches the chest and a Cold Kin can run in air that would kill a Sun Strider in an hour. A Cold Kin man is the heaviest thing in the species, up to two hundred and sixty pounds.
Country
Their cradle is the far snowland, where the sun rides low for half the year and does not rise for part of it: pack ice, black pine, stone-and-turf houses dug half into the ground, and a sea that freezes at the shore.
Tongue
The Cold Kin give a given name and a father's name with a hard ending, which is the only strain register that carries a relation in it, and the only one in which a name states who is answerable for the bearer.
Lore
Summary
Extended Lore
Still unwritten in the record for this entry.
- Which country holds the snowland cradle
- Why this strain's span is the shortest in the species
- How far the warmth-sense reaches, and whether it can be trained
- Which discipline of channelling, if any, the strain leans toward