Drethnor's Post:(1) I'm still not happy about that territorial bit, but I'm going to spend 15 points to give the leaders of the different flocks each a vision. What I"m teaching them is how to implant messages into the minds of dread vultures, send them to another flock, read what has been written there, erase it and replace it with their own new message. I'm still trying to figure out what I'll do with "The Chosen" in the long run but for now that will let them talk to each other and maintain a cohesive culture between their territories.
(2) It doesn't seem right to leave my "cursed" up north among the Drethen looking exactly like my blessed chosen. I can see you causing me greif over that later. So I want to spend points altering the basic form quite a bit to make a new "race" that I'm going to call "The Wreched"
The wreched only stand 2 feet dall, smaller even than the "The Chosen" and their feathers are a Black. Further they are all hunchbacked bent down so low their hands almost drag on the ground like an ape indeed when they run they do so on all fours! The also are completely bald from the neck up with bright RED lizardlike skin. This same red skin covers their birdlike feet, and also their scrawny NAKED arms and five fingered talon-like hands.
Wretched do not have very sharp claws or a sharp beak and they still have hollow bones. Unlike the chosen they have excellent day vision, and can "see" at night through a form of echolocation like a bat. For offense they can spit stomach acid and half digested rotten meat up to 20 feet at foes.
Their biggest defense though is a mild form of projective telepathy. This is naturally only enough to convince a predator or another scavenger that they are NOT there so they might share in it's kill. They also use this ability instictively to protect their nests.
With training they can eventually learn to effect men as well but that does not come naturally to The Wretched. It's a skill they'd have to develop or be taught. I have plenty of experience now and I'm only changing a few people at a time when they tick me off so this should be well within my abilities.
I picture their social structure and breeding being much like the osterich only laying less eggs. I want an anual population growth of 3.1% rather than the 2.5 characteristic of humans. Wretched are NOT territorial.
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Struthio_camelus.htmlHttp://www.honoluluzoo.org/ostrich.htm(3) The next time the wretched are born I want to provide a vision to the cheif of the tribe saying that it is NOT ok to let my Wretched die. They are to live in shame as the lowest of the low. The Wretched are to be SETTLED at the center of the tribes territory and be given the bodies of the dead to eat. In this way they shall pay me back for their theft by returning my people to me! One mouthful at a time. It will be up to the dead person's closest kinsmen to see that the dead get to The Wretched from the moment that they are settled in their new home onward.