The Graskk

## Description

The Graskk are a extinct race that lived arround 5400 and 3200 before actual times. They were a lizard like creatures with four legs with three knees each and ending in a foot with three fingers that curved themself into a great graplin tools. They has 2 arms, semi-rigid tentacles ending in a frog-like membrane but with no fingers. They have crocodile-shaped faces, but they have far less mandibles and leave more space for the brain. They have four ears; two in the head and another two in the superior part of the neck. They have their eyes in the upper part of the nose. They have a tail, although is relatively small and slimy, and it functions more as a hand than a balance mechanism. The fire can drie them up.

## Abilities

**Secertion of Goop:**They can secret a liquid that hardens after more or less two hours. It isn't very useful, as it consumes a lot of lipids to create this component and it is painfull to spit.

**Extendable tentacles:**They can reduce the lenght of one of their tentacles in order to extend the other. This can only be done up to certain point, though.

**Moon-powers:** Every full-moon night after they were saved by the Moon Lord and they started believing he was god-of-all-gods(which he isn't), they are inboued with more force, more speed and much more luck. Basically, every aspect of them is better, except luck, that increases a lot during those nights. In contrast, the opposite happens during no-moon nights.

## Personality

On the one hand, the pre-moon-Graskk were mostly ignoring outsiders and other intelligent races. Between them they were very cheerfull, but they followed the law as if what was written was holy. They also didn't have any sense of humour and were not as terrified as death as most may be.

On the other hand, the post-moon-Graskk were not only welcoming outsiders to their valley, but very interested in teaching them 'the ways' of the Moon Lord. They were cheerfull as well, but not as much as they had been before. They started using the newly opened trade routes with other races to predicate their conviction about the Moon Lord being god-of-all-gods. This created a discontent among other races and caused them some wars. All in all, they were fanatics and totally not feared death.

## Lifecycle

They live 60-75 years, although the oldest one latsed at least 89 years. They reproduce by placing eggs. Both male and female can lay 12 cm tall eggs that have to be later fertilised by both of them. The fertilisation is followed by a 5 to 6 month of waiting, in which the egg has to be fed through a squid-like mouth attop of them. They are born afterwards and become boneless snake-like creatures. They remain like this about two years, when they start developing their main spine and 6 meat appendices. These are pretty useless till three years later, when they develop into the arms and legs. They don't become fertile till four to four and a half years.

## Diet

They are omnivorous, altough they can't eat all foods. For first, they cannot diggest fiber. Second, they cannot eat cooked food. Third they can eat fish, but causes them stomach-ache. They prefer all type of insects, aracnids and crustaceans. They can also eat jellyfish withouth any damage. They don't eat neither reptiles nor squids, because they think they are their ancestors.

## Combat

They like to assault their prey while it is raining and dawn. They took advantage of the rain to neutralize their fire deffect. They use their agile legs to jump arround in caos. They also use their tentacles to grab opponents and choke them. They rarely use weapons, and most of what they use (some daggers and short spears) are obtained by trade. Post-moon-Graskk limited their attacks to full-moon nights. That's why they were killed in a no-moon night, as they were weakened. They also learned how to use bows.

## Societies

They created stone houses, as they could easily mnipulate stone and clay with their hands. They also used leaves found attop trees as they were the greener ones. They made stone foundations and lowers walls, while upper walls and floors, and roofs were made with a green cement made by clay and leaves and some stomach segregation. They knew Graskk, as well as other 14 languages and 4 sign-based forms of comunication. They only had one city, where a king would sit. Altough the Graskk can have several kids each, the one who was king had only one fertile gamete. The prince would be born and, as soon as it developed the legs and arms, became a chancellor in the council that decided the politics till the previous king died. They didn't had religion till the Great Night, afterwards they started praising the Moon Lord.

## Homelands

They like to be in rainy, cold biomes. They don't like too much cold, though. They also like to live near the sea or river deltas, to open up their diet. They tried to live once in the Meshial Swamp and did ok till they got devoured in the night of Melia. They hate deserts, volcanoes and plains, because there is too much sun and heat for them. Instead, they like to live in swamps, pine forests, rainforest and northern forests, although they mainly lived in this last one and their only city was in a biome like that.

## History

They were created at arround 5400 after a magical disaster involving cocrodiles, squid, and some dead monkeys. They developed intelligence shortly after, and in 4900 started living in society and building settlements. Most of them failed, but one of them succeded and form the only one of their cities at arround 4550. No major events happened till 750 years later.

Arround the year 3800 before now, the prince Ruaka was born. That same night, a great fire started, killing two thirds of the population. But suddently, the moon raise and stopped the fire. The new born prince and the remaining villagers were saved attop the hill. 56 years later, when the prince had became king and was about to die, he ordered the construction of a tower (Umyaday Tower) to honour the Moon Lord, the god who saved them.

Arround 3350, a war broke out in which the Graskk were involved. This stopped the tower building at the third floor, while it was planned to be at least five. The last of the wise started building a cristal sphere. His son finished it and placed it inside. After that, the son and the son's son made the clay tablet. The night in which the last Graskk were killed had no night. As the last of them breathed for the last time, the tower started shining very strongly, and closed itself with magic. It also released a luminous ray to the skies.

Although some Graskk remained, they hid from society and can't be told if their descendance is still alive. They may be in some of the northerst forest or maybe they finally got to addapt to the Meshial Swamp.

## Trivia

They had some instruments that involved using their frog-like hand-membrane to stop the air being blown by their mouths and make an air drum. They also had another that involved using the retracted arm to bang the elongated one.

They are convicted to the Moon Lord, believing he is avobe all other gods. (Week 3 Challenge 3)