Yaki

## Description

**Approval+**

When a Rittic user interacts with a pregnant woman, that woman is exposed to the Rittic itself. Because of this their baby is affected as well. Overexposure causes an abnormal change in the growing child. Rittic takes things in return for its power, unfortunately, these innocent children are sometimes the cost. When they’re born they are born without eyes, ears, noses, lips, and limbs. These children are called Yaki, most Yaki die as soon as they are born. However, some survive. These Yaki regenerate their limbs. But their senses are gone permanently, save for touch and the ability to feel pain. Their bodies grow to become highly resilient, and strong. Once their bodies fully heal, they look like normal people, the source of their unnatural abilities comes from the very day of their birth. Whilst everything is taken from them, their life force in tune takes from all the ethir and Rittic around them. Due to this, a surviving Yaki is able to sense the very thing that gave them their power, both magic, and anti-magic. They have a large familiarity with the magic sources and can sense them due to this. They are incapable of sight and hearing, but they are able to feel emotions and “see” Ethir and Rittic from living beings and things. This heightens mental function and allows their incredible speed and reflexes. They still require food and water, but can also devour Ethir for self-sustenance, however this will always be a last resort for them. Since they cannot hear speech or properly see people they isolate themselves. Often being travelers.

## List of Yaki abilities and Lack Thereof

* Lack of every single sense, no sight, no taste, no hearing, no smell, but their pain receptors and sense of touch are amplified. Any pain a Yaki feels is amplified greatly, making injuries **Horrifying** to deal with, this also applies to temperatures. They have to keep themselves balanced in different temperatures, because even slight cold or slight heat, would feel like a blizzard, or a summer sun.

* Increased strength and durability. Their Rittic affected bodies allow them to lift much heavier weights than normal people. They are capable of lifting things as heavy as carriages with minimal effort. They can break through stone and dent solid steel. All whilst not losing stamina, their skin, flesh, and bones are also extremely resilient. Practically immune to small weapons like daggers or shortswords. Their bodies also become heavier to accommodate for this new strength, with them gaining at best maybe 10lbs-20lbs of extra mass. This comes from the Ethir and Rittic that gave them their abilities, alongside their own will to survive. To live, as the only living Yaki are ones who were desperate for survival.

* Regeneration, they are capable of regenerating from even fatal wounds. Their bodies digest normal nutrients and other needed proteins to heal the body at a much faster rate. They also can digest both Ethir and Rittic to heal their bodies as well. They can even regenerate limbs and lost organs. Note that they will refuse to allow their bodies to accept Ethir or Rittic as a healing source, as they feel disturbed and traumatized every time, they take in extra Ethir or Rittic. This is PTSD of what gave them their abilities, and turned them into what they are. Because of this they would much rather stick to normal proteins and nutrients to supply themselves and this ability.

* Extreme reflexes, Yaki have heightened reflexes and reaction times. Their instincts are refined like a sharpened blade. They can react to high speeds and are capable of sensing incoming danger.

* Inability to use magic, due to the twisted Rittic in their own life force, they cannot use any form of magic. Rittic or Ethir based magics are out of their reach completely.

* Ethir/Rittic sense. Yaki can sense any form of Ethir or Rittic, allowing them their own form of sight. With this, they can also sense higher amounts of both. Letting them know if someone is a magic user, and what their level of magic is. Also, this leads them to be able to retrieve their own food. Lastly, this allows them to feel emotions and feelings from other people and creatures.

* Unnatural agility, Yaki bodies are not at all normal. They’re hypermobile and double-jointed. On top of being extremely flexible, and thus have unnatural agility.

* Inability to socialize properly, since they’re unable to hear speech or see people. They cannot talk with others, or be with others. In the end, a Yaki is a lonely creature. Unable to truly know the company of others, as people and creatures are just lights in their blindness.

* Ethir/Rittic resistance, Due to their unbalanced life force they retain resistances to Ethir and Rittic based attacks and other. Spells of the arts are slightly weakened against them, such as a fireball from a Doyen only hitting as hard as a Scholar.