Dahari

The Dahari are the creations of the god Dahar and the rulers of the New Kagina Empire. Also technically Shuliak's nephews and nieces and Merovech's cousins. Due to having such strange origins and biology, Dahari are generally considered the most foreign race to Crux's other species. Technically an Elder Race.

## History

Sloughed off of themolten stone shell of Lord Dahar, the Dahari served him only briefly as construction workers and as assistants and accountants. During the Year of Wrath, they abandoned their liege's petty conflict and scrambled to hide for safety, successfully. While underground in the various caverns, they carved out great cities where they dwelt as metalworkers and as masters of their craft; above, those who knew of them saw them as demons or as spirits of the deep earth (correct in some ways). This lasted until their caverns were pierced by greedy miners from Kagina who sought to harvest as much gold from the earth above their home. While the miners went unpunished, the Dahari brought some down into their domain to purge of free will and make into messengers for the above-lands, effectively mind-raping them into submission for so long their ability to think for themselves was broken. Let that set in.

Nothing actually important happened after that other than some minor communication, *but* when the Old Empire/Great Empire of Kagina fell to the hands of Merovech, the Dahari crawled up from their caves and, almost as if I did mean for them to be David Icke-style reptilians, took over the shattered remains of the capital and the small towns nearby, practically owning the food of the scorched continent. Due to this, and their willingness to *starve* innocents to gain their loyalty, Kagina is theirs now; their territory.

## Traits

### Physiology, Anatomy, etc

Dahari are around 3 meters tall, and quite gangly. With long limbs and their thin bodies, they are quite light for their size, being about 400 pounds. Despite being born from the rocky skin shed from Dahar, they aren't composed of rock. With vaguely canid heads and ears, four-fingered clawed hands with a prehensile thumb, and their long crocodilian tails, Dahari cut a strange shape. While not *muscular*, Dahari are quite well toned under their stone skin. Due to their *literal* skin being covered in a very thin layer of rock, they shed after they grow too large for their shell; this shell happens to be overcharged with magic, allowing the *first person to find the skin* and *them only* to use its power for their own needs. Their eyes glow like fire too.

Internally, Dahari have few organs; heart, maybe a pair of lungs (if those are actually lungs), reproductive organs. They appear to not require food or air, though their chests do expand and contract as if they were breathing. If their heart, or core, is damaged, they are forced to either die or retreat for months or years to recuperate, as expected. The reproductive organs are quite finish this later

### Abilities

Dahari, being born of magma and stone, are immune to the effects of fire. Theoretically, if you dipped a Dahari into the event horizon of Sagitarrius Alpha, they'd survive the heat but die to spaghettification. They, being descended from Dahar, can call upon geomancy and pyromancy easily, and upon Daharomancy as well; most will stand back and send animated golems at their foes while pelting them with rains of molten stone and white-hot flame. Being supernatural entities, their biological functions appear to require nothing, simply occurring. They can see in the dark perfectly as well, as they live in caves.