Kydol

This document is heavy work in progress at all times, as there is just so much stuff to attempt to cover.
The Kydol (kI-dOle / kI-dull) are a predominantly humanoid, "extraterrestrial" species that is found in great swaths across the Torn Earth universe, such as in the protagonist cast of the main canon. Also in a collection of villains and heroes, the Kydol make a formidable foe, and are a vital piece of Earth's preservation via their major interferences, such like that seen positively by Ky'ol, or the negative ramifications of one such as The Overlord and the Overthrough Empire.
Looking generally across the species, it is noted that the defining of "Kydols" lack a distinct phenotype, asides from common evolvements such as antennae and horns, but never is anything quite concrete except the fact they are apart of the species. (They further derive when one introduces the concept of Splicing) Kydolians are largely omnivorous in manner, and are highly intelligent, working together with one another as like humans do, although noticeably Kydolians appear to lack much of the more sinister acts of mankind as an everyday occurrence, allowing them to flourish much faster on their own homeplanet, which is Blytzmakt.
Kydolians are highly sociable creatures, also known for their powerful usage of "Miga" that supersedes most of their opponent's capabilities.
== Biology ==
Thanks to the diverse nature of the Kydol, the biological data of their existence is extremely difficult to orchestrate. Most Kydolians retain common "functional" organs, but are known to lack these and others at times, and continue to operate relatively unharmed. The same can be said with their skeletal system; merely, the most common attribute between members of the species looks to their outer appearance. Most Kydols are born with a pair of antennae that is wittily used for communication, sometimes very commonly associated by an assortment of any number of horns, all of which take any shape they decide. This usually also applies to Spliced variants, whom are in themselves an entire sub-category.
=== Skeletal Structure ===
The Kydol average out at around 215 bones per individual. These structures are usually within the humanoid assortment, but easily differentiate plenty of times. The average skeleton atleast contains the supportive system of a skeleton, spine, and the limbs.
=== Organ Anatomy ===
Kydolian organs are known to be a bit more stable in contrast to the skeletal system, a good array of organs being assuredly commonplace between each member. Speaking in simple terms, Kydols usually have a heart, or two, in the left or right side of their ribcage cavity. This is followed by their lungs or underwater capacities, their brains, a digestive, reproductive, and fecal system, as well as sensory organs for each of their senses for Sight, Smell, Speech, Taste, Hearing, and Touch.
=== Male v. Female Comparison ===
Parallels in the appearance and functionality of male and female Kydolians make it difficult for the untrained eye to differentiate the two, but the facts are still present. The most evident difference would be the reproductive system difference, as well as muscle intonation, which slants downwards on Females as to make it more difficult for them to gain mass. Males owners of penile genitalia, whilst females have vaginal orifices. Female Kydols almost never develop breasts, making the differentiation between the two sexes rather difficult, usually left up to voice intonation, the structure of the skull, or the mass makeup of the individual.
=== Adaptable Micro-Evolutions ===
Despite much of their heavy reliance on the gifts of Miga, not all Kydols are necessarily able to access such potential, however, this does not completely inhibit them from adapting to their environments. One notable thing about Kydols are the fact that their physical forms are impossibly good at adapting to their surroundings in less than a generation, if not within that said generation. This can sometimes be seen by the hardening or softening of their skin and flesh, the reassortment of orifices and their sensory abilities in different environments, the limited growing or detaching of extra limbs and tails, recoloring of the body, and many other traits, to name a few. Users of Miga are noted to be slightly more advanced or in better control of these instinctive survival adaptations, statistically making up nearly all Kydols who can adapt within a said generation. It is also noted that some of these adaptations can be reverted sometimes by the choice of the individual, or by removal from the environment they are in.
=== Reproduction Process ===
The Reproduction Process of Kydolians is a rather interesting topic to talk on.
Unlike most animals, the male harbors the pregnancy instead of the female. The process works like as such: When a Male and Female mate, the Male injects his sperm into the female. Kydol semen is shaped in such a way that when it makes contact with the egg(s), it coils around them, and begins bringing them close to the surface of the Female’s vaginal cavity, with the assistance of the female's flesh sort of pushing it back forth. The sperm will then attempt to cling on to the male’s penis, and make reentry into their body; optionally the female will attempt to orgasm to speed up this process, and enhance the possibility of pregnancy. The sperm will then return back down the shaft, where it will fertilize within the male. After a week of pregnancy, a small egg or unprotected embryo; depending on the carrier, is formed. The embryo will later find its way into the intestines of the male Kydol, where it will continue to grow, until it is fully developed by the 4th month. During this time, in order to continue function of the Kydol’s digestive systems, the Kydol suffers diarrhea within the pregnancy, and optimally eats soft foods for the body to easily digest and pass around the fetus. After the given time, when the pregnancy is ripe, the Kydol will merely excrete the baby through its rectal orifice, and complete the birthing process. This process also does not seem to limit to a single child, based on the amount of fertilized eggs, moreso seemingly infinite when speaking about Spliced specimens.
=== Spliced Reproduction Process ===
Clamping down on the exactness of the reproduction between other species and the Kydols is a much harder process to pin down. The Kydolian body does not seem bound by the exactness of chromosomal parallels to allow pregnancy to occur. All organisms, despite their genetic makeup, their chromosome count, their material makeup, size, etcetera, are prone to being able to impregnate a Kydolian; not only through contact of sexual fluids, but also if the Kydol is willing to substitute with other genetic information from their bodies. In regards to creatures much larger than the Kydol, or perhaps parasitical invaders, it's known that the body will aggressively convert all material; eggs or sperm or beyond, into being a byproduct of the Kydol; a Spliced offspring will always be the result of the interaction. Despite their other partner's genetics, the offspring will remain small enough for the parent Kydol to carry them around. It is then after birth that, if the Spliced Kydol is supposed to be larger, that the traits of its opposite parent may initiate at any time afterwards as to make sure the parent does not die in carrying them.
More could be said, but there is much to cover.
=== Mental Capacity and Intelligence ===
This tab is all in comparison to their human counterparts.
Unlike their human counterparts which suffer greatly at the hands of many mental diseases, crossed perspectives, or diabolic voices, Kydolians appear to be much more rational and mentally sound, having less of an ability to commit offenses against their own brethren usually in selfish or covetous nature (murder, thievery, lying, rape), however, it has been seen through atrocities such as the enslavement of their own species that this can be bypassed through collective offense seemingly made just by a higher governing force, making also the Kydols a much more loyal species to those they trust and rely upon. Kydolians also seem to rely less on their emotional passions or rationale rather sticking more commonly to intellectual processing, save perhaps for tenderhearted moments with loved ones, causing less mistakes made from high doses of anger, sadness, or fear. A good example of this lack is the fact that the species has yet to create locking mechanisms for their households, as thievery is essentially nonexistent.
==Taxonomy==
In the ranks of the Kydols, ethnicity is a subtle part of Kydol diversity, as variants are usually defined on a planetary or Spliced level. These do not appear to be well tracked, but small niches of communities do sometimes decide to have their history kept to define their own variant. Of course, because of the nature of the species, there is little to no specific attributes to any group.
=== Subspecies ===
Below is a small collection of notable "subspecies", relatively more a reference to distinct states that Kydol seem to either be born into, can enter and exit out of, or later inherit in their lives.
==== Ancient Kydols ====
"Ancient Kydols" (loosely translated as "Ky'eldamin") are a category of Kydolians that reference relative to the age of the individual over anything, defined as those Kydols who outlive their expected life expectancy, usually transitioning to a societal outlook of demi-god-like inheritance directly from Ky'ol. Due to the nature of this, they are hard to classify, notably however, little to no Kydols are able to inherit this title any longer for unknown reasons, referencing a more ancient breed that has long passed.
==== Enthralled Kydols ====
"Enthralled Kydols" (loosely translated as "Ky'alu") is a state of being in which many Kydols are able to enter, however, they do simultaneously function as a subspecies of Kydolians that appear permanently affixed in this state. The Enthralled are very notably distinguishable in the fact all afflicted individuals will bear red hued skin tones, sometimes including on their extremities such as horns, teeth, and so on. For those transferring into this state, rapid growth in height appears to occur, usually adding between 4 to 12 inches to their form. With this, offensive "armaments" such as nails and teeth become more notably thicker or resilient; users of Miga appearing to gain a stronger effect on their abilities also. All individuals in this state are noticed to be highly aggressive, easily disturbed, and endlessly destructive until exiting the state, or, if permanently apart of it, will simply be more aggressive constantly. The transformation to this state appears to occur from overwhelming emotions of fear or anger, and usually will only last a few hours, perhaps a day. Noted also is a less-common and seemingly more intense state of this case known as "Dark Thrall" ("Ky'odlu") that causes individuals to become a void black color, and may cause rapid growth. There is only one known character with this.
==== Spliced / Hybrid Kydols ====
"Spliced Kydols" (loosely translated as "K'dos") are a subcategory definition of all instances of Kydolians mixed together, "spliced", with other creatures not found within their species. Because of this, there is no exact definition of a Spliced specimen, instead, they are defined by their extra attributes not usually found with Kydols. Kydols seem to easily be able to identify those who are apart of such bonds versus those who are not; also noteworthy, that Spliced beings appear to be able to continue to reproduce and splice not only with other Kydolians, but the species originally spliced with, allowing of a continuation of a line. More rarely seen, however, is splicing between multiple different species, seeming usually to result in one of them dominating the genetic makeup, and on rare occassion, allowing others to combine with said genetics.
==Appearance==
Kydolians range in many diverse appearances, and they have many characteristics to boldly define them. The easiest way to tell differences of Kydols would be by looking at their feet, hands, faces, calvaria, and their tails; if present. The Kydol face varies in eye shapes, sizes, and colors; carnivore or herbivore teeth can be present, different noses and varying yet peculiar antennas; from straight to curvy, and all other diversely different shapes. Some Kydol will have horns instead of antennas, too! Their feet and hands hold different appearances as well, with some being pointed, clawed, sharp, smooth, or simply flat and round. 
The average adult Kydol varies in height from 5 to 8 feet, making 9 feet rare in the species but still possible. Weight varies from 100 to 300 pounds. Kydols aren't exact clones of each other, but if one were to not pay attention they can definitely look the same to a lower intellectual. Most Kydols have a grayish skin, with other variants as white, black, light brown, light green, very pale blue, multiple shades of grey, and a few red types as well. Kydols are rarely found with body hair, and if there is any it would be found on the arms and legs with simple colors of black and brown. (no hair grows on their heads) Most Kydols are pure blood, but a few variants exist when other alien-like species have been mixed, examples of found mixtures have been insectoids and humans and other possible mixtures; they don't always come out pretty, nor is it fun to try to infer how said 'splices' are created. 
The average lifespan of a Kydol is about a thousand years. Healthier Kydols have lived a possible extra millenia or two, but the oldest one found to ever exist that hasn't been matched to this day has been one that had reportedly lived longer than about 7,000 years. Specifically, the average Kydol will grow from a baby to a small child in a mere 2 or 3 years, and will reach teenage years in about 15 years. A con for this species is they will not actually reach a young adult age until about 30 years old; but adult age should follow within the next 10 years or so, leaving them to a long adult life, hence why finding children Kydol can be difficult at times as they also stay as a small species with the population much lower against other competing species like humans. It also seems that most Kydols are gifted with magical powers, but not all have these said powers, nor do they all expel them the same.
==Behavior==
=== Use of Miga ===
Magic, in human understanding, otherwise known as ‘Miga’ displayed by the Kydols, seems to originate only from the Kydol peoples, as attempting to use such abilities hasn't been achieved by any other species as known as so far. Their Miga has abilities that range in all sorts of different categories, and each Kydol has different manners of learning or obtaining such desired abilities. Miga can range from shooting fire out of their hands, to making an item float by the usage of their mind. Most Kydol also apparently are extremely adaptive; not only in being able to change environments and survive in conditions, but to physically be able to modify one's self in minor ways. Such adaptations that have been found are things like extra limbs, extra eyes, sharper teeth and claws, horns or regrown antennae, and things like tails suddenly showing up on the body.
=== Fatal Disease: ‘Feralizing’ ===
The ‘Feralizing’, or the process of ‘Feralizing’, which results in a ‘Feral’ Kydolian is a very sickly mental disease that strikes at the center of the Kydol species. If one is to be affected by this, they may never go back from such a path of corruption and destruction.
A Feralizing Kydol is a Kydol on the way out mentally as a vicious Feral variant of the species, but hasn't fully turned yet. These Kydols are more hostile and dumbed down, but still retain some of what they'd known before. Their only problem is that they are slowly mentally deteriorating, and at one point they will no longer be friendly to non-Ferals, as the disease totally takes over the neurological thought processing of the individual.
Obvious signs of infection are such as, but are not limited to:
* Darkening of the skin
* Overgrowth of the nails, horns, or teeth
* Headaches
* Twitching
* Black tears strolling down face (basically permanent; not easily cleaned)
* Distorting eyes with a distinct swirling black pattern, probable change of color to white irises
* Watering or drooling of the mouth
* Minimum / Spastic movement of antennae in random directions
* Bipolarity and or waves of depression
* Inability to read / write / speak known languages
* Droning of garbled and nonsensical words for lengths of time
* Inability to comprehend simple objects and their usage (I.e clothes, buttons, doors)
* Compulsive Anger Disorders; random aggravation and violent mannerisms against others
* Sudden waves of fatigue, fainting
* Headaches, Fever
* Conversion of the victim to a complete and irreversible Feral state
Cures for the disease are few and far from the Kydols, although most of them rely on Miga treatment through the power of more-skilled Kydolians trained in the works of healing others. These treatments have a horrendously low percentile of successfully recovering the patient if not used right as or before the tearing of the individual’s eyes occurs. Otherwise, attempts are nearly futile.
==Habitat==
Stuff about where they usually live.
==Ecology==
Stuff about how they interact with the environment.
==History==
If one were to follow the storyline of Kydolians throughout human history to their best ability, they would find out that Kydolians may have arrived on Earth somewhere from stars far away, as they really can't be found as a native species to Earth.
The Kydolian peoples, unlike their Earthly competitors, had quite the lucky beginning in their existence. Unlike the broken past of the humans, the Kydolians followed a rather formal and organized timeline, successfully staying rather united as an entire species, with the exception of a few wars and genocides...
=== Naming ===
There is no 'Average Joe' for the Kydols. Parents of baby Kydols gift their children with a name for a purpose, and use a variety of languages to name them; usually it depends on where they are raised for their names to fabricate. Some of the only Kydolian that can be translated are those of the names of some, as some names are easy to spell and translate for their simplicity; but there are definitely a number who have the opposite properties with a name. It would also be noted that opposed to the way humans name, Kydols are not usually given last names, therefore making it so that names are slightly altered or numbered to keep track of each individual to their true identity; it also seems that last names are useless for the Kydol, as the study of such a group have created the theory that such Kydols can tell the family line of a fellow Kydol through communication and touch.
=== Presence and Settling ===
From a human perspective, the Kydol species has absolutely no evidence of existing as natives anywhere on any known planets, so actually finding and encountering this species is rare and difficult to achieve. Within this omnipotent document, however, one should know that the Kydolian species hails from a distant planet known as ‘Blytzmakt’. Kydols usually live in small packs, which will elect a leader to lead them. Kydols, outside of their planetary environment, act as a very adaptable nomad peoples, and are rarely ever found to settle somewhere, as some worlds are uncomfortable for them to live on. When they do settle somewhere, they will usually build small huts simply for resting areas, and a bigger temple-like structure for the leader and its guards to occupy. Kydol culture is very different from human culture, as they keep their heritage, traditions, and language very secret, and there are little to no cases of any other species being able to learn such things. Kydols converse in their own language, known as ‘Klyte’, and can use their horns or antennae to communicate without verbal propagation. One large reason that Kydol settlements are hard to come by is that groups seem to travel back to their home planets via portals, leaving behind their small structures, which after being unattended, if made by the right substance, will melt into blobs of goop. (which has the consistency of maple syrup and the texture of wax) That makes it extremely difficult to find Kydols residing in current worlds. Kydols also seem to learn at an accelerated rate, some being found to be fluent in Human languages, and being able to learn and use the culture of other species easily when asked or simply presented with such information.
=== Inherent Peacekeepers ===
While the overall outward appearance of the average Kydol may seem totally hostile, intimidating, and quite horrifying, the majority of the species can be found to actually be quite peaceful. It is only in self defence, the struggling to achieve a goal, the few mischievous, or an encounter with a feral Kydol that seemingly harbours the usage of such deadly weaponry embedded in the skin of a Kydol, or any other items in which could assist them in their attempt of violence.
Kydols are slow to turn one away, but they are also wise as well, and won't just take in anything foolishly. They strive for peace between species to achieve a better environment, and attempt to work in harmony to their very limits. Sometimes, Kydols will break away from the larger groups and form small 'squads' to go out and accomplish tasks that need to be done. The Kydol are some of the least likely to attack travellers, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to instigate such forces, as their non-hostility does not make them non-combative. Another thing that Kydols benefit from seems to be that they are not marked with the curse of evil tendencies like that of humans. Kydols are a more overall trustworthy species, and fall on simplistic rules and laws due to the need without them. Kyolians do not suffer the impulses that humans drag out, such like the desire to envy, covet, steal, murder; many don’t think of bribery, cheating, greed, and so forth. Although many of these thoughts still dawn over the Kydolian peoples, their tendency, frequency, and intensity is dramatically lower than that of the Human species.
=== Straightforward Roles and Goals ===
The Kydol species seem to assign roles to all of its peoples, even if they are not part of a certain society or not, they all seemingly have a role to accomplish. Most roles filled out as a 'stay at home' sort of role, but such tasks can vary all the way to travelling an entire world, to barely even moving from a single position. Only the evilest of this species have gone all out to accomplish what they themselves want; striving for enormous power, wealth, and other earthly things in which one can only gain in a rich lifetime. Few tyrant leaders of the Kydol have achieved their goals, but one should hopefully not worry about them, as they are a long ways from here.
=== Government Formulation ===
The Kydol do not entirely operate as such like Humanity does. The Kydol still traverse within bands of tribes and clans, known as ‘Ky’daks’. Going above from that, where a governing structure is developed, three notable practices are used:
* Sarado - A single Kydol rules over an entire society. This seems to be the equivalent of a Human Monarchy.
* Klopyo - Several Kydols will work in a commune overseeing an entire society. This seems to be the equivalent of a Human Republic or Parliament.
* Terenganto - This form of government is made when all Kydols part of a society are independently equal to each other, and work together in a ‘government’. There is no human equivalent to this, however, it could be deemed as a branch of Socialism or Communism, or just a leaderless tribe.
=== Culture and Language ===
The Kydols are a rather united species, unlike humanity, and do not suffer many regional or local issues amongst themselves. There is the divide between Kydolians of different planets, but the entire species all speaks the very same language; atleast some version of it, save for Spliced individuals who sometimes pick up the tongue of their non-Kydol parents or make up one mixing the two ‘languages’ together. Almost all Kydols speak ‘Klyte’, their native tongue.
=== Radiating Religious Value ===
Another amazingly international value of the Kydol peoples is that of their religious beliefs. Although several heresies have made themselves known throughout their history, the Kydolians follow amongst the idea of Ky’ol: the very first Kydol to exist at the beginning of time, which stories say gifted the Kydolian peoples with the magic of Miga, and in their celebration, the naming of the species came likewise to his name. Although their meeting was grand, Ky’ol disappeared from the planet, leaving the species to fend for itself. For eons, the Kydols have laid in wait, counting for his return on some prophesied but nondescript date. Although many little cults of Ky’ol-wannabes have also arisen throughout time, most of them were shattered with Ky’ol’s return in the human year 2014 to the home planet Blytzmakt, before he vanished once more, promising to return again.
=== Home Planet: Blytzmakt ===
Blytzmakt is the home planet of the Kydol species, as well as another one known as the Gigantars, and the Gigantar Minatars, amongst many other non-sapient species. The planet’s flora consists of a lot of blue and purple colors, with mixes of green. The sea is a sort of green, and the skies are oddly orange in the day, and blue at sunset. There are several animal species that live in and on and above the planet.
The Kydolians, living on an entirely different planet with a different ecosystem, history, and resource balance, have led to a totally different technological advancement upon their planet. Although this may be hard to grasp as a reader, or being the author, one tries their best to fabricate such large info for the said tasks.
=== Origins: Blytzmakt ===
A  long long time ago, in the universe’s beginning years, a planet greatly distant from Earth had grown its share of organisms. It was called Blytzmakt by its native populations. Creatures and flora prospered on its surface, and all the animals were beautiful. The planet harbored things such as the Skeever, a four limbed quadruped being with a cone shaped head, and the Parasyte, a small head sized creature with six limbs and a little tail. The skies were orange, the ground brown, and the plants predominantly green and purple, with many assertions of other little colors.
=== The Legend of Ky’ol ===
As it should be known, the Kydols mostly follow a rather simplistic religion: the following of the legendary being, Ky’ol; rumored to be the first Kydol in existence, he delivered the Kydolians of old with the ability of Miga, unlocking their true potentials. Afterwards, he quickly dissipated from existence, never to return until some prophesied date, which would come to be true with the passing of 2014.
=== The Gigantars ===
The Gigantar, a large, black, and rather barbaric species. They usually only care about destruction. Standing either below 9 feet or above 20 feet, the Gigantar vary in size. Their strength terrorized the Kydol in the early ages of existence. Both of the species were at war with one another on an almost regular base, until it was finally ended many more millennia later, when the Kydol; becoming a thriving and lasting string of nations, formed together to take down the frightful enemy that had plagued them forever, basically eliminating them from the planet, and causing an amount of them to flee from it in terror.
=== Kydolian Technological Advancements ===
Work in progress...
==Notes==
*The Kydol are the first alien species of Torn Earth.
*"Miga" was, once, lazily named "Magic". Could you believe that.
**Actually worse than that was that it was "Magick" for a while and the author thought that was so amazing.
*Super duper old og lore once made the entire species just be "brothers" of Joey, before it was decided for them to be their own species.
*In Paradoxist beta lore, the Kydols lived in their own alternate plane or.. something like that, instead of another planet.
==Appearances==
===Torn Earth===
Kydolian characters show up all across the Torn Earth series! You've heard of Joey, right? This includes most of the side-stories too, by the way.
==Gallery==
File:Joeytransp.png|A headshot of Joey, the first Kydol.
File:JoelRecent.jpg|Joel, one of Joey's brothers.
File:Feral1.jpg|Concept of a Feral Kydol.
File:Feral2.jpg|Concept of a Feral Kydol.
File:Markuspfp.png|Markus, first son of Joey.
File:Henrytrans.png|Henry, a good example of a Spliced Kydol.