Species: Sentoki

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this was so much fun to do. i just randomly stared doodling and suddenly realized i could do a picture showing forta's finally named species! i call them the Sentōki, which means fighter in japenese (at least i hope it does. google translate tends to screw up )

WARNING SPOILER ALERT

Sentōki:
A species living on a long forgotten planet. they were a normally very peaceful society, experts in farming, fishing, and building. each Sentōki is born with the inate ability to wield a certain tool with unnatural skill, and their abilities determined where they worked. Axe wielders built houses and retrieved lumber, spears and weighted nets for fishing, hoes and rakes for tilling the farms, scythes for harvesting, hammers for forging, knives for cooking, and so on. but each tool had a duel purpose, and could be used as a weapon. working all day made the Sentōki the perfect warriors, although they only fought when threatened, for they believed that unnesasary bloodshed would attract the attention of the banished ones. they alone know the secret of forging dark-cutter steel, a metal that is passes right through armor, flesh, and earth, but cuts the greatly feared dark matter from their hosts. nobody knows how or when the Sentōki disappeared, but on the day that nightmare conquered his first planet, no stars could be seen in a small corner of the known galaxy...

traditions:
the Sentōki were the last beings in the universe to remember the sibling gods zero and zero2, referring to them as 'the banished ones.'
when a child becomes five years old, they are brought into the forges. here, they make their weapon. depending on what the weapon is, dark-cutter steel is mixed into the metal of the weapon. heavy, blunt weapons such as hammers, weighted nets, hoes, shovels, etc, tend to be plain metal as they are used more for beating then cutting into enemies. scythes, axes, knives, etc, are sometimes either pure dark-cutter steel, but far more often a blend of dark-cutter and normal steel. weapons such as these are far more powerful for the sentoki wielding them, as they can slice either flesh or dark matter at will, although the ability to slice through rock and armor has been forfeighted.

abilities:
when war threatens, the Sentōki's eyes glow red, and even the youngest child is capable of killing a fully armed man. when in this "battle rage," they gain unnatural speed and strength, as well as animal instincts and traits, aiding their sight and smell. on some of the sentoki, claws will sprout during the battle rage. while no one is even sure what chemically causes the battle rage (and test subjects tend to kill the docters from sudden anger bursts) it is theorized that an extreme adreneline rush causes the savgery and strength, while excess blood being sent to the head causes the red eyes and increased senses. some of the more powerful sentokis can carefully force themselves into a mild battle rage without completely losing control, but as adownside, when in a full battle rage, they go pretty much completely out of control.



whew that took a long time if i end up not using some of these guys in A Recurring Nightmare, ill put them up for adoption.