Shab'lul Snail
Racial Magic
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Ithisda's or Vekaltor's Sense
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Ithisda's or Vekaltor's Sense
Able to feel their environment using their aspect, feel anything interacting with that aspect and sense the aspect in their environment despite barriers. This species' aspect for this manifestation are either water or rain, using this to perceive the wet season so vital to their survival and to find water as this season fades to maximize water intake.
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☀️Rithaldis' Manipulation
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Able to manipulate and reshape radiant energy present in their environment. This species naturally repels radiant energy such as strong sunlight and radiation.
Original Ancestor
Desert Snail
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This is an air-breathing land snail, the technical terms being terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk. Their shells are white with five convex whorls and a thickened opening. A little over half its weight is attributed to its shell while most of their body weight is water. These snails are only active for a short period each year, around 18-26 days, while the rest of the year is spent aestivating (hibernating in summer). They become active before or during rainfall, usually in winter from November to March. Shab'lul snails will feed, mate and lay eggs all within this short window. Their diet consists of soil, lichens, moss, soil algae and limstone, especially moist loess mud. They are most preyed upon mostly by rodents.
Shab'lul snails live only in Kna'an, Kemet, Dawn Ahrayn and sparingly in the Shamsi Desert, preferring deserts where loess or limestone soils are prevalent. They live in otherwise barren regions of the desert, accompanied only by other snails and soil algae. They aestivate when the soil becomes dry, not emerging until they sense rain or moisture with their Sense manifestation. Otherwise they possess a thick ephiphragm which seals the opening of their shell when aestivating. This shell is exceptional in reflecting sunlight or any light on the spectrum, around 90%! It even repels radiation thanks to their racial magic. Some will collect these shells and crush them into a powder which repels and cleanses radiation using material or true magic.
When its time to aestivate, Shab'lul snails will dig themselves into the soil at a depth of 3-16 in (1-5 cm). While dormant in their shells, they can withstand temperatures up to 122 F (50 C) though anything higher than 131 F (55 C) is lethal. They lose around .5 mg of water a day and don't need much oxygen. Thanks to all of these adaptions, they can survive drought for several years. Even specimens which have been removed from their habitat have been known to survive in domancy for upwards of six years!
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