Calishite

The Calishite are a common metavariant of Humans that originated from the cultures that developed in the Chultan Islands. The Calishite are naturalists, believing strongly in the importance of both the tribe and of nature. The Calishite consider community to be very important, especially due to the highly deadly nature of the area they live in. Being natives to a harsh jungle, the Calishite developed some rather interesting traits during the Year of The Comet, mainly a much higher tolerance to venoms and poisons as well as a strong animal magnetism, so strong in fact that they can even befriend certain Cryptids. They also adapted far better to aquatic environments, and have much stronger lungs than most Humans, allowing them to remain underwater for sometimes up to thirty minutes before drowning.

### Physical Traits

Very Dark Skin, Blue or Green Eyes, Black Hair

## Welcome To The Jungle

The Chultan Islands are more deadly overall than any other landmass, being covered in active volcanoes, thick and dark rainforests, and being filled with hostile and dangerous critters, on top of being surrounded entirely by the dangerous and unforgiving Tauri'in Sea, which is constantly hit by violent storms. Despite this, the Calishite long since adapted even before the Year of The Comet, learning how to rebuild entire villages in a matter of days, crafting natural antidotes to the dangerous toxins that surrounded them and having far more advanced medical knowledge than almost any other Human metavariant on Abinor before the advent of modern communication methods.

## Wanna Try Apotheosis?

*Main Article: Orisism*

The Calishite proceeded to absolutely throw the entirety of what the dozens of Metahuman species had understood about godhood into the trash when, immediately following the Year of The Comet, multiple tribal leaders immediately deified. These included Olorun, now the "Lord of Sky", Yemoja the "Lord of Water", Ogun the "Lord of Battle", Aganju the "Lord of Danger", and many, many others. The Calishite pantheon is not only incredibly complicated, but made up ENTIRELY of transcended metahumans. Unfortunately, many of their deities died in the OCs, though the central ones mostly remain, and the religion is still the majority (though not the exclusive) faith in Calishite culture and the Chultan Islands as a whole.

## Anarchic Sea

The Calishite, given their culture, take the environment very, *very* seriously, and they do not care about appeasing international interests. While the various tribes, city states, alliances of villages, and other complex weave of micronations that make up the Chultan Islands are not always allies, the one thing they do work together on is to make absolutely sure that any ship that isn't containing visitors or authorized shipments stays far, far away from the Islands. Most of the boats are scavenged though, even the bigger ships they have, and in terms of attitudes and activities the actual people in charge of keeping away corpos are less a structured navy and more a loosely-connected community of pirates who shoot at and raid gunships and cruiseliners when they see them.

## Special Traits

* Extremely high resilience to venoms, poisons, and diseases.
* Paranaturally high ability at befriending animals.
* Limited photosynthesis allowing them to survive without food for short periods of time simply by sunbathing.
* Ability to survive underwater for nearly an order of magnitude longer than most Humans.
* Seemingly thicker and more efficient bone structure that makes them harder to severely injure.

## Trivia

* The Calishite are stated to be "one of a few" Metavariants of Humans that live on the Chultan Islands, though contact with other Metavariants has not been firmly established in Izus so far.
* Orisism, the religion of the Calishite, is inspired by Yoruba religious practices.