Esel

Feyye Np Jgvh, a neptunium non-binary Esel with +2-3 horns.

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Esel are a reptilian species from Hekadeko, along with Vesui and Myrecu.

## Anatomy & Physiology

All Esel have dark grey bones/teeth, light blue skin/scales, pointed finger/toetips, pointy double ears that point out, tails with grasping claws on the end that can support their entire weight, and vertical lines on the sides of their mouth. Their primary color colors their blood and scleras. Their secondary color colors their irises and hair. Their tails spiral between their primary and secondary colors until the end where one half becomes their primary and their other the secondary. Their secondary color is present from birth, however their colors are still divided into primary and secondary because their primary colors their blood. Their primary and secondary colors can be anything that's not greyscale. The inside of their ears corresponds to their element.

Esel have two sets of horns, big horns and small horns, and they can have up to six of each. As more horns are added they go around the head in a clockwise rotation, starting from the front. The more big horns and less small horns a person has the more likely it is that parts of their body will start degenerating and need to be replaced with cybernetics.

All Esel can slow down light as long as it's in water, though it's an ability that requires practice.

The average adult height for Vesui is around 6 1/2 feet (198 centimeters).

Esel are carnivores.

Esel live for around 30 wholes (207 Earth years). They're considered adults at 3 wholes.

## Society & Culture

Esel live along coastlines of Hekadeko. They prefer coastal cliffs to beaches, but aren't too picky. Travel between Esel cities is done via boat. Their capitol city is Aurora.

The Esel caste system is based on element and horns.

Societally each big horn counts as +1 and each small horn as -1, so their horn caste system goes from -6 to +6. The higher the societal horn number the higher they are in the caste system.

Whoever in an element has the most horns is considered the leader of that element, if there's more than one person in an element with +6 horns then they're made to fight to determine the leader. The leader of the heaviest element in an element group is considered the leader of that element group, and the leader of the highest ranked element group is considered the leader of the species. The current leader is Juron Lr Bhsk.

Element groups, listed from highest ranked to lowest, are: actinides, lanthanides, post-transition metals, halogens, transition metals, metalloids, alkaline earth metals, alkali metals, nonmetals, noble gases.

Hekadeko has 2 genders, the female equivalent eno (Fey/Fem/Fer) and the male equivalent eso (Ey/Em/Er).

## Naming Conventions

Esel have 5 letter first names. Their last names are comprised of their parents' initials. Their middle names are taken from periodic table element abbreviations, corresponding to the color of their inner ears. Color correlation starts at hydrogen (1) with pure white, and goes down 1 RGB value every time the atomic number of the element increases by 1. The current heaviest named element, oganesson (118) would correspond to #8A8A8A (RGB 138,138,138).

Esel symbols are arrangements of at least 2 overlapping rectangles. Each rectangle is colored in either the person's primary or secondary color, if there's an odd number of rectangles then one more of the rectangles will be in their primary than their secondary.

## Trivia

* Upon God Tiering, Esel gain a halo of light in their primary color that seems to sit atop their big horns (or where they would be if they don't have any). Their skin also starts to glow (in the same light blue as their skin color) and they gain the ability to extend their tails up to around 5x their height. Their pupils/irises also take a + shape instead of a - shape, the vertical line is the same shape as their normal pupils/irises just vertical.

## Etymology & Inspiration

"Esel" is a corruption of SL.

Their blue skin and ability to slow down light in water are a reference to Cherenkov radiation.

Their horns are a reference to fuel rods (big horns) and control rods (small horns) in a nuclear reactor.

"Hekadeko" is a corruption of hexadecimal.

The eno gender and eso gender reference endothermic and exothermic reactions respectively.