Scabmettlers are grey-skinned thick-built humanoids. The scabmettlers' blood is their most unusual trait, as it coagulates almost instantaneously. The scabmettlers use their blood to both create their armor and enhance their weaponry.
Culture[]
It is unknown where scabmettlers originate from, or whether their cultural practices elsewhere are similar to those of Armada's population.
Scabmettler blood[]
All scabmettlers must regularly drink an herbal concoction of yellow blodfrey or risk being killed by a petrification of their own blood. This dangerous tendency to coagulation has been used for beneficial purposes, however, as with the correct application of the herb scabmettler warriors or arena-fighters can cut themselves and shape ridged armor of solidified blood around them. Highly protective, this can even protect them from the probosci of the blood-draining she-anophelii.
Their martial fighting art is known as mortu-crutt.
Religion[]
The scabmettlers on Armada, inhabitants and rulers of Shaddler riding, devoutly practice a faith deeply concerned with blood. The sounding of "bloodhorns" and the sight of red-horned temples are common in Shaddler, and during rain they mourn the fact that the sky is bleeding.
Speculation[]
- It is just barely possible that scabmettlers are a sub-population of humans or close human relatives, with a serious genetic disorder or some other affliction to explain their sanguine differences.
See also[]
Significant races |
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Xenians |
Anophelii · Cactacae · Cray · Grindylow · Hotchi · Khepri · Llorgiss · Scabmettler · Vodyanoi · Hotchi · Hotchi · | |
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Ab-dead | ||
Other races |
Abnatural · Humans · Constructs · Dolphin · Handlinger · Menfish · Stiltspear · Strider · Wyrmen |