Silurian

Akdel Namaka

DW: Blood Heat

TAL: The Old Ones

Silurians - also known as Earth Reptiles - are a race of humanoids native to Earth.

## Biology

The Silurians are an extremely varied species, with different subspecies and appearances; there are at least ten or eleven Silurian variations. Whilst many of them appear similar, there are subtle differences which are attributed to caste. There are also clans or families with differentiated physical characteristics, some suited for environments of extreme cold or high plateaus. (DW: *The Scales of Injustice*) In general, they are humanoid reptilians with scaly crests on their head, with a lifespan of hundreds of years.

Two groups of Silurians were encountered by the Resistance in Bloodsmoor Caverns. One of the groups - the group that Akdel Namaka belonged to - have long fingers and three webbed toes on each foot, and their mouths are small and sucker-like. The most noticeable feature of these Silurians are their three eyes. Their main eyes are bright yellow with cat-like pupils, while their third eye is red and high on the forehead, surrounded by a fluted bone structure. They also have rectangular external ears. They are active creatures who spoke quickly in deep voices.

The second group - that Thok Kor belonged to - look similar to the first group, but have stockier builds, brown skin, suckers on the tips of their fingers, smaller mouths, ornate, curving spikes around their heads and the third eye on top. The third eye glows along with their speech, but is not used in attack. They are also slower and spoke in a higher-pitched voice. (TAL: The Old Ones)

### On the third eye

Many groups of Silurians possess a "third eye". The three eyes provide them with a triple-faceted form of vision. (DW: The Silurians)

The third eye also allowed them to use a variety of telepathic powers. The Silurians use their third eyes to communicate with other Silurians in a process known as "linking". The third eye glows along with their emotions, becoming brighter when they are angry. They can sense the presence of other Silurians, even at great distances. Silurians can control the minds of other creatures. (DW: *Blood Heat*) They can hypnotise and coerce humans through a link to a primal part of a subject's mind, though stronger wills could resist this control. (DW: *Bloodtide*)

The third eye is capable of harming organic beings, killing them or leaving them unconscious. Alternatively, they can revive a human that they had rendered unconscious with the third eye. Energies emanating from it allow them to burn through walls and create tunnels. (DW: The Silurians, Blood Heat)

## Society

The Silurians are generally a peaceful race. Their highest laws forbid outright warfare except for defence.

Silurians communicate by telepathically linking through their third eyes, as well as by body language. Though they can use words, they generally only use speech for effect, when talking to children or to species without telepathic linking abilities. Silurians have little in the way of literature, since their mind linking abilities are a more effective method of transferring ideas. (DW: Blood Heat)

The Silurians did not think much of humans, with many considering them to be mere apes and despising them for destroying the terrestrial environment. (TAL: The Old Ones)

Humans had an instinctive fear of Silurians, known as the race memory malaise. (TAL: The Old Ones)

The Silurians have advanced genetic capabilities. They brought species back from extinction, including many dinosaurs. (DW: *Blood Heat*) They can modify species, as they did with the Myrka. (DW: *Warriors of the Deep*). The group of Silurians in Bloodsmoor Caverns created a virulent fungus called "The Spore" which could feasibly cause the death of all life on Earth (TAL: The Old Ones)

Silurians generally rely on their third eye for defensive purposes, using technology to enhance their power. (DW: *Blood Heat*). The Silurians at Bloodsmoor Caverns did have access to projectile weapons, however, these could have been stolen from humans around Bloodsmoor Caverns (TAL: The Old Ones)

Silurian Arks were a type of spaceship created by the Silurians, with one originally designed to ensure the survival of a group of Silurians and several dinosaur specimens from the formation of Earth's moon, (DW: *Dinosaurs on a Spaceship*) as an alternative to the hibernation units used by the other Silurians. (DW: The Hungry Earth)

Silurians have cryogenic technology which they used to preserve their civilisation when they believed the Earth was in danger. They also possess sentient machinery and teleportation technology (TAL: The Old Ones)