Halimites

Salt Wanderers

These beings are the salty creatures of the world, they live wherever there is salt, which they consume as a food source, there are three types of Halimites, each living in a different salt rock environment.

Appearance

Halimites are large beings, with thick skin, and no hair. They have a hunched-over humanoid figure, decorated with salt crystals. Their nails and thick and rocky, and their teeth are pebbles, used to crush rock, these pebbles frequently wear down and are replaced with new ones. They have big round noses that can smell the saline rocks from kilometers away, and their eyes, watery, and reflective, shine with salt crystals, as they are always crying.

Salty Peaks

The most common are the mountain Halimites, they live in the parts of the world where salty rock formations are common. These have a more rocky appearance, with thick patches of stone covering their back, as well as other parts of their skin.

Salty Seas

The saltwater Halimites feed on the salt in sea water, they are built for swimming, and while they are not the most common, they are the biggest, with flat wide limbs that prevent their heavy bodies from sinking. They also have much less salt crystals on their body, as these are reabsorbed by the water they live in.

Salty Flatlands

The rarest of the Halimites are those who live on the world's salt flats, these rare biomes are capable of satiating the Halimites' need for salt, and the rare wanderers have made their home here. Their appearance is much more varied, ranging from yellow to orange and sometimes even red, depending on the exact combination of minerals in the salt.

Origins

The Halimites were some of the gods' first creations, even before humanity. They were their first concept of a sentient race, that would inhabit the world. Alas, the Halimites reliance on salt proved them unfit for habitation across the world, and they were instead repurposed as beings to live alongside the newer races.

Lifestyle

Halimites, while they can talk, do not do so a lot, even though they live in small groups, and spend a lot of time together with their friends, and parents, their ability to talk seems to directed more towards other races, and their communication with each other is much more look and feel based, research is ongoing, and so far it is unclear how it works exactly.

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Reproduction

The Halimites do not practice traditional sexual reproduction, as it had not been invented yet. Instead, as the years pass, they will accumulate a type of thick salty paste in a small pouch in their abdomen, they can use this paste, either alone or combined with that of another Halimite, to construct a child. This paste baby will dry, and when dry, it will shake off the salty dust it's covered in, and that is how baby Halimites are born.

Ferrymen

Halimites are friendly to humans, and most of the other races that were made by the gods. They will even help humans climb up their mountains, in exchange for salt.

A human who approaches a cliff face they want to get on top of, might call on a nearby halimite to carry him up, the halimite, will ask for salt, and if given, the human may expect a return trip up the mountainside, as the halimite will not ask for more salt in order to let the human down.

The hamilites will also offer these services to other sentient races, and the sea halimites will also offer a travel service across narrow seas and channels.