Creature:Kazaru

A species native to the planet Wnyda.

Biology The kazaru are a species of mammaloquadroavipsids from the planet Wnyda.Their size depends on where on the planet, and now that they have colonized other planets, which planet they come from. In the lands close the equator, they´re  about 160-175 cm and are brownish yellow with green stripes on the back.A little farther from the equator,the stripes are brown,and as you move closer to the poles,the colour of the skin slowly fades into first yellow and then white with grey stripes at the same time as the average size increases. Their blood is red,like ours,and contains the same differnt cells like ours,exept for the fact thet they have two differnt kinds of red blood cells as the result of a disease that they have lived with during almost their entire evulution that attacks the red blood cells,but since they now posses two kinds of red blood cells, and the virus only attacks one kind,they are virtually immune.Their blood also contains more red blood cells since the atmosphere on their homeplanet Wnyda only contains 15-16 percent oxygen.Because of this, they also have large lungs, a large heart and a large chest in order to survive.

Culture The kazaru culture hasen´t changed much over the millenia.They still revere the god Zotekatl and the godess Chara.They also still live in small villages with only little tecnology.Of course, some live in cities, but the most common way of living is as farmers and hunters.When a man wishes to marry a woman, he must first catch and kill a wild animal, typically a large predator. Then, he must fashion some kind of jewellery or clothing out of the animal.They are forbidden to tell anybody exactly what they are making. Then, on the day of the wedding, the man brings forth his gift to the woman he wishes to mary so that she can evaluate his work.Then, if the woman deems him worthy, and, of course, if she is in love with him,they´re from that day officially married.Also,the wife has to prove this by wearing his gift for three days. The oldest son always inherits the land of the family, unless there is no son.The females are techniccaly allowed to inherit the land of the family even if there is a son, it´s just that the social structure of their soceity doesn´t work if they do. The kazaru priests are called shaman and seems to posess some sort of psionic powers, allowing them to do a number of things, including,but not limited to, separating their spirit from their body and manipulating any kind of matter or energy.Unbeknowst to the kazaru,the psionic powers of the shaman come from a small group of the early kazaru ancestors that where separated from the bulk of the species and under their separation developed primitive psionic powers as a form of communication.When they millions of years later where united with the rest of the kazaru,the psionic strain where dipersed into the genetic pool of the kazaru.However, this doesn´t mean the kazaru gods (see below) does not exist.They are,in fact, the psycic manifestations of all kazaru´s emotions and thoughts, gathered to form sapient parts of a communal subconsciousnes shared by all kazaru.However, only the shaman posses the correct genetic strain to be able to sense it and use its powers.The shaman in the south dress like normal kazaru,exept for the fact that they wear foot-long tunics and woooden masks.In the norht, they have more wizard-like clothing. Every morning a ceremony is hold in honor of the gods,wich includes praying and singing songs like Ihara fo da ta zokan,the title meaning;Honor to the two gods.

Religion The kazaru religion is polythestic and has two gods:Zotekatl,the god of the sun,life and war, and the godess Chara, godess of the moon,peace and death.The kazaru believe that the world was created when the great cosmic egg hatched.Out of it came two creatures,shining with light.Their names where Tesun and Sarenas,who would later be known as Imzak,meaning:not god(I did not misspell good here,the name means that the bearer isn´t a god).Together they created the stars and the planets and seeded them with the first life.However,it was always Tesun that was in charge of how everything would look,and Sarenas became jealous.Therefore, he secretly created the first demons out of the ancestors of the kazaru.When Tesun discovered how Sarenas had mutilated the kazaru,he sad that Sarenas would never be allowed to create anything again.Sarenas grew furious and in his rage he killed his brother.But, out of Tesun´s dying spirit two guardians where created,the twin gods Zotekatl and Chara.Then, Sarenas changed apperance from being a golden kazaru to a twisted creature resembeling his minions because of his evil deed. Another part of their religion is Darab-tigis, or The right/good way (darab can mean both good and right, and don´t mean the direction right.)It´s like the ten commandments, and mostly teaches the kazaru to be independent and to take responsibility for their own actions.Independence is a important virtue in kazaru culture and religion.

Trivia
 * The kazaru are actually based on an earlier creature of mine that I thought I could do better.


 * I came up with the kazaru house when I saw the herbivore tribe hut and thought it would be nice to live in.Here´s a picture: