Skrall

The Skrall are a savage, brutal sub-species of the Agori living on Spherus Magna. The skrall have two castes, three if you count the separate but connected Jirapa giants. The sub-species has three main faiths that it adheres to: Khargnism, Gruncharism, and the Hero Kult, the last two almost always incorporating some sort of veneration to the mythic skrall hero Greani Ateir, which the color green is ascribed to and as such is deemed holy by the Skrall.

## History

The Skrall have the dark origin of being the offspring of female agori raped en masse by Jirapa giants as they descended upon ancient land of Geneteira (eating or imprisoning rebels) and from there a large portion of the rest of Spherus Magna back in mythic times. These half-giants have been bred to be the perfect warriors, but in order to keep them from revolting, their Jirapatine overlords started the custom of Skrall being nameless and having to earn it by means of noteworthy valor.

The jirapa carved out states from the conquered lands with their tribes, and founded dynastic families from which to rule over said states. With representatives from each tribe and ruling family joining in council, they crowned the most powerful of them to ruler over them all, the first Jirapatine Emperor, Farsten Ledar. With the Jirapatine Conquests, the ancient cities of thr holy birthland Geneteira, including the first city in history, Kalaki, were heavily damaged and were never repaired, the new rulers not bothering with rebuilding and most Kalakites immigrated to other lands. From the time of Ledar's reign to 700 years later, the Jirapatine Empire had ruled over the known world, the tall shadow worshipers squeezing out the truth of Gruncharism at the behest of their own Khargnu overlords and the skrall legions used to enforce this. The Skrall obeyed their parental masters strictly, and insubordination was met harshly, sometimes even by the man-eating jirapa devouring their children.

It is from this time that in Bota Magna, in the dark forested mountains of Khargn Skogen that made up the fatherland of the giants, and in a settlement of forgotten name, that a young skrall was born, and by his green skin color he was to be named Greani. His father Jarl Jridal, who used his mother as a sex slave and had birthed many other skrall before, attempted to commit infanticide via cannibalization for this mockery by the divine as the child was the skin color of his green mother instead of a pale comparison to red Jridal. When held up, however, the agori slaves could not stand to see such a sight and so revolted, attacking their overlord with farming tools and other means. Before the skrall warriors could help their master, a group of agori banded together and sought to use the opportunity to escape. One of the agori, a green-blended agori named Tarakk (later stylized by Nealites as Tarixios), saved the child when Jridal dropped the child from pain of attack, and escaped with the band of free-seeking slaves; Greani's mother was pleaded to come with them but after giving birth earlier that day she felt too weak and was reluctantly left behind.

## Appearance

The skrall appearance depends slightly on their caste order from Jirapatine supremacy. For skin shades: pale-pink for the standard skrall caste, red-pink for the Elite caste, and pure red for the jirapa giants. The skrall have small spikes on their face as well: the ones on the forehead being like sharp, flat scales, the ones on the eyebrow being more pointed if one's breed is closer to a jirapa), and elites and jirapa have small spikes or just skin-covered bone coming out of their cheek.

The most famous part of the skrall sub-species is the toned-down maze-patterns and lines on their chest, shoulders, and upper back, some of these patterns even going down the shoulders and half way into the upper arm; there are made of slightly harder skin and are elevated slightly above the rest of the skin, sort of like iron brandings though natural. A skrall's maze brandings are unique by small detail, making each unique and not repeated for multitudes of generations. This is toned-down when comparison to the jirapa giants who bred them initially, for they have maze patterns and lines spanning their entire body, including the face.

The skrall usually have either brown, grey, or green iris colors (sometimes others), always have red eyeballs (though the shade can vary), tend to have wide noses, and dark hair (and though rare, lighter shades are not unheard of). The hair of the skrall never grows on the side of the cranium save facial hair for males, just always on top and to the back in a straight line to the base of the skull; as such, many skrall tend to bear a mohawk that grows into a ponytail at the end, which many braid into a single, thick tail of hair at varying degree of length, though some others do not like the long hair and either keep the pony-tail short or do not have one at all, some even growing it out and attempting to style it in agori fashions. The skrall also have big lips, which are carried down from the jirapa whose teeth are larger and the bottom canines jutting out into the upper lip; the skrall elites are slightly larger teeth but nothing too noticeable except for the ever slight elongation of the skull when compared to the standard skrall, which again is barely noticeable.

Though there have been reports of others, the most well known skrall specimen to not follow some of the otherwise usual coloring would be the legendary skrall Greani Ateir, who was green-skinned (as his name implies), had gold-yellow iris coloring and dark-gray steel colored facial hair, and his direct descendants were skrall that shared these traits as well (as far as is known, the Ateir dynasty has been dead for many millennia).

There are some morphological differences between males and females: while the females tend to have more of a body build akin to an agori, the male's have a slight hunch, though they can straighten their backs if need be, and usually are naturally fit and have wide shoulders; only the most lazy of skrall do not keep their build and sometimes it might take more effort to get rid of it than to retain it. Another thing with the females is that their hairline is slightly more wide when compared to the male