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| Race | Medusa & Greenstones |
| Over-race | Dryad |
| Classification | Faeborn |
| Family | N/A |
| Sphere | Earth |
| Origin | Baurkhan made them from the originals |
| Lifespan | ~3000 years/~10000 years |
| Habitat | Mountains |
| Food | Meat, Stone/Nutrients from streams |
| Description | Medusae appear to be beautiful women with snakes for hair. They have slate gray eyes & a few very rare ones have golden wings & golden hair. Males have earth brown to stone gray skin, slate gray eyes, & no hair whatsoever. Their soulmates, greenstones, appear to be massive green rocks, but are actually the mosses covering said rocks. They form a rough face-shape on the stone, which gives it an ancient look. |
| Procreation | Medusae attract males of other races to mate with, luring them into their lairs & parenting a child off them. Unlucky males sometimes die in the process. If they mate with a male, the child will be bound to the greenstone of the mother. Their soul mates, greenstones, reproduce when parts of them have been worn off via the streams that usually wash over them. This runoff becomes a new greenstone when a fresh medusa child is born. |
| Magic | 1/200,000 medusae have heart or soul magic. 1/1000 greenstones have heart or soul magic. Mind magic & body magic are possible, but very rare, as is void. Faith is common. |
| Special Powers | Medusae & greenstones are connected via their souls. In effect, they have two souls intertwined. Multiple medusae can connect to the same greenstone. Medusae have poisonous snakes for hair, poisonous blood, sharp fangs, claw-like fingernails, & the ability to turn others to stone with their gaze. About 1/1000 have golden wings & beautiful golden hair (literally, hair & wings made of gold). Males have the ability to turn flesh to stone or vice versa via their touch. They also have an affinity for serpents. Greenstones are massive moss beings attached to huge rocks, often parts of cliff sides. They make the rock part of themselves. They have incredible strength & toughness, the ability to turn solid rock to mud at will (freeing themselves of their cliffsides to go wandering about), & the ability to summon & control earth elementals. Poison doesn't work on any of them. |
| Weaknesses | A medusa can be destroyed by a mirror properly used. Males have pressure points on their sides that can kill them instantly. If a greenstone dies, all the medusae connected to it dies. If a medusae dies, the greenstones will be unaffected unless it is the last one connected to it. At that point, it becomes merely a thinking stone. Greenstones are often killed by the Wild Hunt, due to a long held grudge. |
| Culture | Medusae live in rocky island areas, generally nowhere near their soulmates. They tend to be tricky, vain creatures, lusting after their lost golden locks & wings. The males are stoic, quiet sorts who tend to mix into human society. Their soulmates, greenstones, live in cliffsides, watching over their given ranges & enjoying the trickle of mountain water rolling over their bodies. |
| Notables | Kaylarr Vernac, Servant of Silence & Empire |
| Sample statistics | PRO 10, 10/10 Reaction 12, 12/4 ATH 13, 13/6 STR 10, 12/25+ Toughenss 13, 15/31+ AWA 13, 10/13 WIL 12, 12/16 ROG 12, 14/13 Blend in Stone 9, 11/20 Soul ConnectionSnake Poison 13, Stone Touch 13/N/A Blood Poison 16, Flesh Touch 13/Rock to Mud (WIL) Stone Gaze 16, Snake Speech 13/Summon Earth Elementals 20 Poison Immunity N/A, N/A/Earth Elemental Control 20 |
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