Sandrians

A humanoid creature having the significant comparison in the height of a miniature giant. The venturing desert dwellers are skilled in many capabilities, giving them frequent adaptability wherever they are.

Aging


0-100: Child
100-500: Teen
600-1,000: Adult
1,100+ ever: Elder


They only live around 5,000 years.


Diet

Sandrians are able to eat a wide variety of food such as fruits, meat, and grains. However, they choose not to eat these often as it provides little nutrients for them. Their main source of food is earthy materials ranging from rocks to dried roots, and even sand. Sandrians are able to consume the sand to replenish their magical energy though different types of sand will provide different amounts of energy.


Worshipped Gods

Nialle: goddess of magic; patron of kitsune
Haliea: goddess of sun and moon; patron of demons and angels

Credit goes to Aquarius for writing, Andromeda for the history and editing.

Appearance

Sandrians appears in many sorts of ways however they differ depending on which cultural tribe one birthed in. There is a total of three tribes that each Sandrian resides in which are the Gnogia Tribe, the Yami Tribe and the Siverna Tribe each holds different physical features amongst one another.

In the Gnogia Tribe the Sandrians normally would appear in more of a darker skin in color with vibrant colored markings that would either be on their arms or legs, one thing that they all have in common is there dark irises with their red pupils. They share somewhat of a resemblance to dark elves yet with a more brute like appearance as each tribe specializes physical attacks, yet one notifiable difference is there body looks somewhat cracked naturally due to the excessive temperatures of desert in Xira. Also one distinctive feature that only Gnogia Tribe members have is extra retractable arms the was gifted to them by their beloved gods, there height comes from 6ft to 20ft.

In the Yami Tribe the Sandrians appear more lighter than their Gnogia brethren, coming into more peach to tan shades in skin tone they also have less cracked faces in which they can appear as if almost human. Most have oval shaped heads with crescent structured eyes, they're body weight is normally slimmer than most of their kind as there more skilled in their respective magical talent which is the manipulation of sand. Each one has a selective spiraling symbol that is placed on their body at birth, it sometimes had no significant meaning but some do in some cases. They are attired in more thin robes or cloaks to hide themselves from the naked eye, similar to the Gnogia Tribe they too have an extra body part which is their eyes, every Yami Sandrian has a third eye that can genetically be anywhere but normally it would be on their forehead area, In height there can range from 5ft to 15ft.

In the Siverna Tribe they appear the lightest of all of their brethren, having more pale like skin tones they all can appear to have somewhat of a of unison resemblance. This tribe appears slightly partially cracked in their skin only in specific area of there body but the rest is smooth regular skin, they have glowing markings that we normally placed upon their backs to show that they are from that specific tribe. The Siverna Sandrians specialize in more assassination like techniques developed secretly in their tribe, any who is born into this tribe is born to kill as they train the young to assassinate quite frequently due to their strict policies. Their extra body parts are there mouths, oddly enough they have an extra shark like mouth that opened from the tip of the chin then downward exposing the razor sharp teeth.

The Leaders of each of these tribes have a glowing snake of their color choice that is more of a familiar in some ways but they both share a visual bind enabling the leader to see what there snake sees. Aside from the increase in brute strength for being the leader they also have the ability to have one transformation to which it can be either humanoid or animal like as each clan are impressive in evasion.


Abilities

Some tribes exceed others in physical to magical skills yet specifically Gnogia have immense physical prowess, they all inherit raw strength that is used in many respective ways of there overall survival. With such impeccable strength they uphold enough to break through rock, trees and even dent steel at the very max which if leasing to attacking a creature they may hold the upper hand in combat, this strength increases threw their ranks as the leader of a tribe has the most strength one would dream to achieve rivalry even that of a royal demon and angel.

In magic, they all hold some sort of knowledge in said field yet the Yami Tribe members has the absolute upper hand over all the other tribes enabling them to use their Trump card which is sand manipulation, as they live in the desert they use the area as their source of power, some Sandrians even went a step further being capable enough to harden to controlled sand to make it as hard as iron. Even so they are still able to commence other elemental like abilities as well aside from water or liquid based kinds as they have a firm weakness against water.


History

It is said Haliea was the first one to create these Sandrians, but it is never clear what they originally were before she changed them. Some say humans, others say elves, and still others claim dwarves. However what they came from was lost. All that is known is one day, Sandrians made their mark on the world and at first they didn’t have magic.

Their magic came after they caught the attention of Nialle. She happened to be watching one day as a small child was eating in the desert. She appeared to this Sandrian child as a small kitsune from the past and told the child the secret to magic. This child later would grow up to become one of the leaders of the Yami tribe where he spread this new knowledge to all the tribes. This allowed them to withstand the other species in the area and to be able to survive.

Sandrians from that point on began to master the use of magic. They quickly learned to control and adapt to their new found gift. This gift proved to be just what they needed.