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The Tychari |
| Pronunciation: | tie-CAR-iss |
| Adult Size: | Between 4'0" to 5'0" at shoulder |
| Lifespan: | About 150 years |
| Description: |
Tychari are bizarre creatures, even for Star City. Their stocky, barrel-like bodies are little more than an anchor point for six pairs of arms, a heavyset neck, and a short, muscular tail. One set of arms is long and powerfully built, with massive, blunt-nailed, three-fingered hands. Tychari walk with this pair in a lumbering shuffle and are not agile creatures at all. Given room to accelerate, they can run quickly by pushing themselves off the ground in long leaps, but otherwise they shamble around slowly and ungracefully. The other two pairs of arms are long and skinny, arranged around the base of the neck like the points of a compass rotated 45 degrees. These arms are three-fingered with a single thumb, and are incredibly dextrous and used for manipulating. The fingers bear sharp claws, but the thumbs do not. The head is long, held parallel to the ground on the short neck, and is vaguely reminiscent of the face of a Moray eel. The lower jaw juts out beyond the bent upper jaw, and two small tusks stick out on either side. The mouth opens the entire length of the head, and the black, rodent-like eyes are set far forward, like on a snake. The short, thick tail ends in a large, spade-shaped "foot", which is used to support the tycharis' weight when they bend their arms to "sit" on the ground. A tycharis' hide consists of thick leathery skin, mottled all over in assorted brown and grey shades. Generally they are hairless creatures, though the males have a small growth of hair on the chin like a unicorn's beard. Tychari do not wear clothes, though they may wear jewellery or other types of decorative adornments. |