Floreth Naroth

Floreth Naroth is the name of the dominant species on Planet Chi-ai.

## Lore (out of universe)

### The Species Name Story

"It happened in my senior year of High School. In an advisory period, Everyone's Favorite Logan was writing his Star Wars inspired novel. He was trying to pick out a name for his love interest. I sort of raised an eyebrow at him writing with that purpose in mind, because usually when people write love interests they make that be their only purpose and they forget to write a character (I myself am guilty of this). And considering what he was basing his novel off of and the type of guy he was, I was pretty certain he would do the same thing. In previous advisories, Fin and I would jokingly tell him to make his love interest Zach Braff from the hit TV show *Scrubs*, and he would always say no. I remember one circumstance where we suggested that the love interest should be a man and that it should be a gay couple (the protagonist was already stated to be a man) and Logan declined in a very strange way where he had to clarify that he wasn't against gay people, so that was a thing. Anyway, at the present of this story, Logan had figured out a name for his love interest character, and it was "Floreth Naroth". I remarked that it sounded more like a species name rather than the name of a character. He aggressively told me not to steal the name, to which I responded I didn't even know how to spell the name, indirectly stating that therefore I was incapable of stealing Logan's idea. Unfortunately he didn't pick up on that last part and started telling me how to spell it. In a fraction of a second I thought to myself "Well dang, now he's just asking for it!" and started writing the name down. He saw me writing it down, but it was too late, the bell had already rung and I was off to my next class. I then turned it into an alien species as per my idea based on the name." - Paulo A.

## Lore (in universe)

### Homeworld

Their home planet, Chi-ai is a large, hollow terrestrial planet with many caverns under the surface. The atmosphere is very toxic to creatures not from the planet, Floreth Naroth themselves evolved from plants that could withstand the toxic atmosphere. Chi-ai's sun is a brown dwarf, so the planet is always dark.

### Physical Appearance

Floreth Naroth are bipedal plantlike humanoids that are a deep pink. They have leaves or flowers on their heads that resemble Human hair. They usually don't wear that many clothes so they can more effectively use their abilities. Floreth Naroth stand at between 5 to 10 feet tall.

### Behavior

The Floreth Naroth can vary in behavior based on upbringing and environment similar to Humans. However most Floreth Naroth are soldiers and armadas who are hostile to anyone that enters their territory.

### Abilities

Floreth Naroth are very skilled hunters.

Their main form of hunting is through the use of a pheromone that they secrete from their cells roughly ten feet around them that supercharges their prey's dopamine and norepinephrine, this puts the prey in a lovestruck state, making the prey willingly submit to the Floreth Naroth. This opens opportunity for the use of the Floreth Naroth's other hunting abilities. The pheromone works on a basis of sexual orientation, which is the reason the Floreth Naroth evolved gender differences. If the prey is not sexually attracted to the way a Floreth Naroth is presenting (male or female) the pheromone will not work. Similarly, an asexual person is completely immune to the pheromone.

Floreth Naroth are able to alter parts of their bodies. They can extend their arms, legs and fingers into prehensile vinelike tendrils. They can also enlarge their mouths to swallow prey in one bite

The ions in their cells allow them to charge themselves with electricity to administer a shock to their prey to subdue or potentially kill it. They can charge electricity through their entire body.

Floreth Naroth are able to regenerate their bodies if any part of it gets damaged.

### Diet

Floreth Naroth are capable of photosynthesis and feed on water like Earth plants, but they can also feed on other species. On Chi-ai, they only eat insectoids or other, less evolved sentient plants due to Chi-ai's sun producing no light. Immigrant Floreth Naroth have the privilege of access to photosynthesis or anything they can fit into their mouths. Floreth Naroth don't necessarily need sunlight to survive, but it definitely helps.

### Culture and Society/History

Floreth Naroth were an at ease anarchist society. They were carefree and had a good balance of social and isolated environments. Floreth Naroth would generally live in isolated houses and go to designated social locations to meet up with others. Despite their less industrialized housing, Floreth Naroth were very technologically advanced and had easy access to space travel.

Then one day an ambitious Floreth Naroth named Tyberius named himself king and started an unopposed regime. Tyberius restricted all further offworld travel and forced all of Chi-ai's inhabitants to focus all their effort into building a galactic empire. Under this rule, the Floreth Naroth empire would travel to other worlds and forcibly add them to their empire by attacking without warning.

By the time of GDIE Part 3, they were a feared name throughout the galaxy and owned a large part of it. Notably Thelivan IV, Moe Sharproll's homeworld.

Tyberius would continue this rule through their family lineage up to their current leader(s) King Azagon and his daughter Princess Nyarlathotep, who were making a secret superweapon that would increase the efficiency and speed of their galactic conquest. After intervention from the Sentai Squad resulting in the superweapon destroyed, Nyarlathotep would overthrow Azagon and slightly alter the galactic conquest routine, allowing planets to choose to willingly join the empire, and only attacking if they refused.

### Respiratory System

Chi-ai's atmosphere is mostly Arsine and Carbon Dioxide, making Floreth Naroth immune to toxic gases.

### Circulatory System

Floreth Naroth have evolved a closed circulatory system, and their blood uses hemerythrin, making it purple.

### Life Cycle

Young Floreth Naroth are called "Sprouts" and start off rooted to the ground, they need nutrients from the soil to grow. During their child years, they will learn to feed on other sources. In their adolescent years, they will uncontrollably secrete their pheromone, as demonstrated with Malva. This is an automatic reflex to hone the strength of the pheromone by the time they reach adulthood and are able to control it. The average Lifespan for a Floreth Naroth is around 60 Earth years

### Reproduction

The gender differences of Floreth Naroth don't actually matter towards their reproduction, but they still can sexually reproduce. Two Floreth Naroth will "pollinate" one another and both of them will expel seeds which will eventually grow into sprouts.

### Conservation Status

Floreth Naroth are classified as Near Threatened thanks to Tyberius's bloodline and their regime.

## Trivia

* Their scientific name is Flos Venerem which is supposed to mean Aphrodisiac Flower, but Google Translate will tell you something else apparently
* Malva's ancestors were a few of several Floreth Naroth that were already living on other planets by the time of Tyberius's takeover, which is why she's not in a labor camp by the time of Meme Voyage.
* Nyarlathotep's mother is frozen in a block of ice for Azagon to keep her in line. He would soon realize that he used this technique a few too many times, desensitizing her daughter to it and allowing her to successfully overthrow him.