World Info: Biology

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1.    Eyes shift color among his people. They always have. It’s an entire-species thing, though of the two remaining races, there are mutually exclusive colors. A Domnall person will usually be able to have purple or red eyes (sometimes both), but can never have green and/or hazel ones. A Tiornan person can have hazel eyes, green eyes, and/or eyes with green flecks (usually two out of three), but never purple or red. Yes, ancestry is mixed, but it’s a one-or-the-other deal. You either have Domnall eyes or Tiornan eyes. Mixed heritage is not a get-the-whole-rainbow deal.

2.    Hair is black, brown, auburn or on occasion something approaching a dark orange. Blond, light browns, gray and white hair are foreign concepts. Hair retains its color from birth to death and does not darken or lighten. Domnall people are darker haired on average than Tiornan people, but not always.

3.    Skin used to have a full human range. It now does not. It’s a touchy subject for the entire planet. Don’t go there.

4.    Height is o average much taller than the human norm. Men are in between 8 feet tall (234.8 cm according to this ignorant American’s usage of online calculators) to 6 feet 5 inches (195.6 cm) on average, with of course taller and shorter men out there. Women are between 7 feet 5 inches (226.1 cm) to 5 feet 9 inches (175.3 cm). No one knows why this is a difference, but then again there were never any people on either side willing to hop over to another planet to do biological or evolutionary investigations or studies.

5.    Strength is above that of the average human in terms of muscles and force. Injuries, however, are identical between species. They are as tough as martial artists, not metahumans or superheroes.

6.    Lifetimes are about 120-150, not due to the species being superior to humans, but due to better medical technology on their planet as a whole.

7.    Sexuality is in all probability not that different from humanity’s, there’s just the matter of the population being nearly gone. That means that socially homosexuality is extraordinarily unacceptable on every level, but Ailian absolutely can swing any which way if society let them.

8.    Pain and severe injury tend to produce pale skin, but so does adrenaline, which is a minefield of confusion even among their own species.

9.    Dietary needs tend towards heavy consumption of protein and greater quantities of food in general than a human being would require, in order to keep those bigger, stronger bodies going.

10.  Water can be stored in an organ within their body near the stomach, allowing them to go without water for up to eight days if fully hydrated.