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The dominant race of the Hegemony of Astrath, the Tei’aine (Astrath Primic: Indigo Progeny) are a race of rather alien angelomorph. The Tei’aine are, in essence, shells - the true Tei’aine lies in a swirling, sapient collection of Essence sealed away by a “skin” substance combining the qualities of flesh, bone, and rock that keeps the Essence inside the Tei’aine protected and functioning. The Tei’aine resemble avians - and the closest equivalent to the type of life they are on their homeworld are indeed almost avian, with “wings” of bone and blade-like appendages and being capable of limited flight and levitation on their homeworld. The Tei’aine are notably Essence-attuned - powers over Psionic and Elemental come almost second nature to the Tei’aine. The Tei’aine are, surprisingly, immune to anti-essence powers - while their powers over Essence will obviously be disrupted, their Essence cores will remain perfectly intact.

Behavior wise, the Tei’aine are a highly aggressive race. This is due to many factors - religion, upbringing, and their natural affinity and connections they feel with the dual stars of the Astrath system - the blue, alien, life giving Indigo, known as Aine, and the red, demonic, deathly Maroon, known as Sayein. The Tei’aine naturally feel a connection with the Indigo, the source of their homeworlds intense radiation and where the original Tei’aine consciousnesses (along with the consciousness of every other living being on Ablakar Herahvis) had originated, with the radiation and the shedding Essence of the star being the life-force of all Ablakar Herahvis life. This has led to a religious focus around the star - the belief that the Tei’aine, being the “children” of the star, are meant to control the universe they were created in - where many beings were born from dead stars, the Tei’aine were born from a living star, resulting in an aggressive Tei’aine race and the desire to lord over the universe.

Physiology[]

Because of their very nature as Essence beings, the Tei’aine take many shapes though keep a general humanoid, almost avian appearance. The Tei’aine themselves take the form of an almost cloud-like collection of sapient Essence, which is commonly colored either blue, cyan, or purple. This Essence is protected by a shell-like “skin” that has the properties of flesh, bone, and stone, being both flexible, sturdy, and extremely resistant. Appearance wise, the Tei’aine appear almost like arthropods with this shell - their bodies are, in general, well-built and very muscular. Tei’aine hands are very humanlike in appearance, with 4 fingers and a thumb. On the Tei’aine, however, the thumb takes the shape of a large and very sharp claw that’s often kept sharpened - the claw does possess the ability to bend at the joint, however, allowing Tei’aine to pick up and use handheld objects with ease. Tei’aine possess large “wings” that have an almost skeletal structure to them, each limb of the wings ending in a large and magnificent “blade”. These wings don’t allow them to fly on normal worlds, but did grant them limited abilities over flight on Ablakar Herahvis. The wings, alongside the blades, also act as a focal of power by the Tei’aine - containing large amounts of natural Essence the Tei’aine can draw from and utilize. Tei’aine legs are not human in any way - they have four leg bones and two knees, with two joints in their digitigrade legs. Their feet are rather unusual as well - their feets are two sharp spikes with 3 spikes on top of said spikes, and it is unknown as to how they are so agile and stay balanced so well, though it is thought Essence has a hand in it.

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