The People (Not-Hoth Natives)

The People are an intelligent race of humanoids native to Not-Hoth (Kopan VI) They are also called the Others or the Ancestors by Island Clans. They were believed to be extinct until the events of R'jaal's Resonance when an entire clan of them was discovered over fourteen years after the first Humans arrived on the planet. They’re a primitive, subterranean race who struggle with the concept of space travel and technology.

## Description

Descriptions of them can be found in Callie's Catastrophe, described by M'tok and images of them on a cave wall. There are also carvings of them at Croatoan and on the Island before it was destroyed.

In R'jaal's Resonance, The People are described as being covered with thick fur that can vary between gray or red, having muddled gray skin and a furry ruff around their necks like a lion. They have short blunted noses, thin arching horns on top of their heads, long bushy tails and four hairy arms. They also possess large tilted eyes pointed ears. They are born with their own Khuis and have three fingers and a thumb. Like the Islanders, they process the ability to blend into their environment with camouflage and are incredibly strong.

## Culture

From what Set'nef the Wanderer and Tal'nef the Swiftest has mentioned and the characters encounters with them in R'jaal's Resonance, their everyday lives and culture are vastly complex. For starters, they live primarily underground in tunnel systems over hundreds of feet below the surface and hundreds of miles long. These tunnels can lead to large cave systems above ground, lava rivers or to subterranean forests filled with tree like mushrooms and glowing moss. The people make their clothes out of the yellow colored outside coverings of the mushroom trees and eat the glowing moss. They also use a goldfish pollen to render a person unconscious for several hours.

The People have a village and prison system with a single chief hierarchy. After the events of the khui sickness, the females are kept separate from the males since there’s only a handful left. The females are kept behind a large wall at all times. When a male proves himself to be worthy, he’s allowed to walk in front of the wall in hope of resonance. If there's resonance, he allowed to visit his mate until resonance is fulfilled. when resonance is over, the couple are separated and are only allowed to see their mates during feast days to see if they will resonate again.

The People also have titles to their names such as “the wanderer” or “the swiftest.” Similar to last names. These titles are used as labels to determine a persons status or worthiness in the village,

They have a deity worshiping society that follow the guidance of “The Oracle,” an AI located inside an escape pod that came from the spaceship of the Sakh (species) that crashed over a thousand years ago. The primitive beings worship this AI as a god and have attendance looking after it and to ask it for knowledge.

Since the People already have their khuis at birth, there’s no need for khui hunts and have no understanding of giving a person a khui when they need one

## History

Originally they lived on a warm green planet. The People also built Croatoan, but they would end up abandoning it. This was likely because of the coming or worsening ice age. The People were incredibly hostile towards the Sakh ancestors and would try killing them on numerous occasions. Over a thousand years ago, two women from the crashed Sakh ship resonated to members of the People and were kidnapped by those natives; taken to the Island. The rest of the People fled to live underground to avoid the Ice Age as well as the Sakh.

Over three decades prior to the humans arrival, The People were hit by the khuis sickness. This unfortunate event reduced their population drastically and left only a handful of their females left. During Flor's Fiasco and R'jaal's Resonance, members of the People abducted Tia and R'jaal from the fruit caves believing they were responsible for desecrating their sacred cave with the fruit. They also abducted Rosalind immediately after she was dropped off by Niri; locking her in a prison cell with R’jaal

## Members of The People

* Set'nef the Wanderer
* Kin’far the Tainted
* Rem’eb the Fist
* Tal’nef the Swiftest
* Noj’me the Attendant
* Bel'eb the Mighty