Kvut (ka-voot)
The kvůt are a species divided. Created as slaves to long-forgotten deities, they have outlived both their intended purpose and their ancient masters. Now they are divided by geography, technology, and the march of history to the point that the majority of the species has forgotten their origins. The few that remember are those that escaped the Cataclysm that destroyed their societies.
The word kvůt in their language means slaves, kvů is the singular. To say that something possesses traits of the kvůt is said as kvůten. The language, Kvushpi was granted by their makers, but its fate is unknown. Prior to the Cataclysm, kvůt divided into many nations and evolved several ethnicities and dialects of kvůshpi. When the survivors escaped, communication was difficult. Eventually, a cross-dialect creole known as Hamusu was formed and is still spoken by the Niechela ethnicity of the southern regions.
Basic Information
Anatomy
The Kvut are the standard by which scholars, mostly kvutan themselves, judge other species. A average kvut, by observational and experiential data, has: two arms with a hand the terminus of each; two legs with a foot each; a head with two eyes, two ears, one nose with two nostrils, and a mouth reside, preferably in that order from the top down with the ears on the same latitude as the eyes; a torso to which all these five appendages attach, preferably with legs on the bottom, arms at the uppermost left and right side, and the head at the center of the upper portion of the torso. Each hand has five phalanges, consisting of four fingers and an opposable thumb. Each foot has the same configuration with shorter phalanges called toes.
The muscular structure of a kvutan is a multilayered system of electrically conductive meat-fibers that possess either a rapid or strong response to electrical stimuli. The fibers are lain over the skeletal structure, discussed later, attached by way of meat-bands called tendons, and are laid out in a complex system of meat-fiber contraction that allows the body and organs to work. Even when standing perfectly still, the internal muscles are working in constant state of contraction and relaxation caused by electrical impulses sent into the muscles by a system of meat-filaments called "nerves". The nerves are individually activated individually by the brain as it responds to stimuli by sending a biologically produced form of low energy electricity along the filament.
The skeletal structure of a kvutan is made of layered minerals like calcium over an inner soft-sponge mineral layer. The body is encoded with the size and shape of each bone and if all nutrients are provided, the innate magic in the blood of a kvut will allow it to grow its limbs over time before the magic is expended. Damage to the skeletal system in this time period, corresponding with childhood, can damage the production of bones. A kvutan infant is born with many smaller bones that fuse together to form the larger plating of certain bones like the kvutan skull. In all cases the bones absorb material from ingested food and grow larger from the ingestion of certain digestible minerals, like calcium.
Genetics and Reproduction
kvutot have two physical sexes: male and female. In the female there is a reproductive birthing capacity. This internal system has three main components consisting of an internal incubation chamber, and two internal supply chambers. The internal supply chambers house and produce an incredibly small unit of reproductive materiel which contains the form-creation instructions, as passed down to her, for a kvut. The male has an attached external factory that produces a mass number of biological materiel each possessed of small sets of additional form-creation instructions.
The male uses an attached biological ejection tool to slide into an access zone to the female's internal incubation chamber to eject a volley of materiel. When the male and female materiels meet, they are joined together to form an near-impossibly small life-form that leeches biomass from the female until the proto-kvutan has achieved complete physical functionality. At this point the infant is forcibly removed from the internal incubation chamber and through the access zone into the world by way of internal muscular contractions.
This action is called intercourse and is said to be quite pleasurable if done properly, but also quite vulgar in that it is activates every sense of the participants in a very animalistic way if, again, it is being done properly.
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