Aranyatri

The **Aranyatri** (both singular and plural) are mutated humans from the planet, Varzea, who have descended from the Zheng He Flotilla that got flung into the solar system by a mysterious wormhole. The people went through many mutations before it was stopped by a massive tree of the planet. Now, they are reorganized as an empire that wish to expand, colonized and spread life for their Life Mother.

## Physiology & Abilities

The Aranyatri are almost identical to humans in terms of physiology except for a few major differences with one of them being skin coloration. Everyone's skin color is based-on what their original ethnicity were. Birch white for Caucasians, orange for Indians, scarlet-yellow for Asians, oak brown for Arabs and jet black for Africans. Yet they all have what is best described as "freckles" on their body. The plants, fruits and vegetables they ate were theorized to be the cause of this yet still remained unclear as their freckles glow and change color depending on their mood which can be found on their faces and arms. Some can even be found on their backs. Their eyes are known to shine brilliantly that range from sapphires to emeralds to glowing hazel and many more.

This race have developed psychic abilities after the humans made landfall on the planet for two weeks later. Many of them include telekinesis, telepathy, create chlorokinetic constructs, and hear the voice of their goddess, the Life Mother. However, females have more psychokinetic powers due to their neurological pathways being more open than males. They do have other forms of psychic and elemental powers, but that comes from the strange, quartz-like crystals that can be found in their region of space. Many of these include pyrokinesis, geokinesis, umbrakinesis and many more.

## Society & Culture

In Aranyatri society, women have absolute power over all of their religious empire with the Divine Speaker (empress) reigning over all. Women have greater psychic powers than men and are able to get them to do what they want thanks to special pheromones blessed by the Life Mother.

The main religion of the Aranyatri is the Life Mother, the all powerful goddess of life. The physical representation of the Life Mother is a giant tree that stands as tall as Mt. Everest did back when Mt. Everest was still on Earth. The tree does have some sort of psychological communication with those with psychic powers that saved the people with its, or her, pollen to prevent any further mutations that saved them from suffering any other mutations that can cause their deaths or lose their minds. Women have a greater affinity to understand their goddess' thanks to their greater psionic powers. Thus, the Holy Church of the Life Mother's Tree was created.

Thanks to their new religion, a new form of technology was created. This technology is a mixture of botany and science with the many veins of plants used as circuits and fluids, vines that can drain water and transfer it to faucets, sinks and more. Some vines can even help breakdown droppings into nutrients that not only does it feed on it, it also breaks it down into drinkable, mineral rich water while also sending the nutrients to other plants. Space suits are also made of bark and plants with the bark able to survive the pressures, radiation and the total vacuum of space while they have plants that provide oxygen for them like some sort of rebreather. However, their space suits can also feed on sunlight in order to keep functioning. Even their ships function in the same way.

The Aranyatri's goal is to spread the children of the Life Mother to many planets and terraform them into garden paradises in this crazy galaxy with some help from the strange crystals they use. To them, life is sacred and will only commit violence towards those that threaten them.