Duyvers

A Duyver (pronounced "diver") is a resident of the planet Duyval. Residents of the duys are Killen Duyvers, Schutten Duyvers, etc.

## Anatomy & Physiology

In order to pack as many of them in as possible and properly equip them to live on this planet, the ancestral stock of humans imported to Duyval were genetically engineered to display certain traits.

### Height

The tallest Duyver ever recorded was almost six feet tall. Most people are within a couple inches of five feet; 5'6 is fairly tall, 5'8 to 5'10 is a dang giant. People from lower vloers tend to be shorter; people from Vloer 1 and the Undervloers are often also victims of childhood malnutrition which makes them even smaller.

### Complexion

There are a lot of literally white-skinned people on Duyval. There is, overall, a wide range of skintones present in the population, but they are uniformly dead-looking, ashy, *greyscale* skintones. The outermost layer of skin is especially thick and bloodless, and even in the portion of the population which is lacking all melanin this layer provides very good protection against the specific radiation threats present on this planet. (Sunburn is not a factor as there is no direct sunlight on Duyval even if you go outside, which no one in their right mind does.) Also, due to this, even in the portion of the population which is lacking all melanin they are ashy white corpse-looking assholes instead of pinkish natural human albino. Tiny vampire-assed motherfuckers. Their culture considers moisturizer to be as basic a self-care step as soap in the shower. Moisturizing does not make them look any less ashy, it's just necessary to be comfortable inside your skin.

Hair in all textures comes in all shades of white, silver, grey and black. The population of Killen Duy has a higher proportion of black-haired people, the population of Schutten Duy has a higher proportion of white-haired people.

## Culture

### Language

Out-of-universe information: The local form of Low Gothic is spelled like Dutch and pronounced, generally, according to the various ways that Dutch names and place-names get pronounced by the modern American population of New York State.

Killen and Schutten have noticeably different accents. Killen claims their accent is the More Correct one because they are the oldest duy and have the oldest traditions. Schutten claims their accent is the More Correct one because Killen is closer to the spaceport and thus receives offworlder influence on how they talk. Schutten's claim can perhaps be backed up inasmuch as Schutten does retain more local words as slang, while Killen has tended to pick up more offworlder terms as slang.

### Religion

Local cults which coexist under Imperial dogma: Duyver Death Cult, Duyver HVAC Cult

### Agoraphobia

The proper place for people to be is ***inside***. Duyvers are born in their duy and unless they join the Imperial Guard they will never leave it. They will never even see a window to outside, unless they're literally a fancy little baroness who lives up a tower. Those who do join the Imperial Guard and go outside generally ***do not like it***. Lifelong habituation to being indoors all the time will do that to you!

If you want to further justify not wanting to be outside, it should be considered that Chaos and many evil things are to be found in space, and that's what's on the other side of the sky, so why would you want to be outside where all those sky things can see you?

### Never Trust A Tree

Plant life inside a duy is restricted to well-maintained edible lichens, mosses and fungi, and most duyvers will never even see those except in their fully-prepared edible forms. Actual honest-'pon-the-Throne plant life is clearly, visibly Chaotic. What even is a tree. Who would build anything that way? Many duyvers sincerely believe that plants inside a room will eat all the air and make it impossible to breathe. If you try to tell them that plants actually create breathable air they will confidently correct you that you're thinking of moss, and plants work the way they just said. Their cousin's uncle's lunch-break buddy down at the factory used to date a girl whose stepdad was found dead in his room one morning after an old army friend of his sent him a plant from offworld.