The Traut
Locations: The Realm of the Construct, Plane of Taint
Time Period Existed:
7,023 P.B. (Period of Beginnings)- A.C. (Age of Convergence)
Biology of the Traut
Traut were a sub-species of the Durhan having evolved adjacent, and with a similar psychic reservoir. Standing roughly 9 feet tall, with large sharp scythe like arms and protruding sharp bone like legs the Traut were vicious blood thirsty beasts. While never growing to the same alien like intelligence of the Durhan mostly due to their use by the Durhan as receptacles of their psychic seed they still boosted brutal combat expertise that would only be enhanced when The Founder would allow the Durhan to use the Traut as beasts of war.
Before their genetic alteration by Taint and the Vats the coloration of Traut was similar to the Durhan; being a light pinkish hue and eel-like skin; this would change to the standard coloration and visuals of beings affected by Taint; their color dulling into deep purples and gaining liver marks and large malformed bumps, tentacles and other alterations. Traut were gave birth much like worms; rubbing their bodies against each other scrapping a secreted genetic material in their bladed arms they would use when fighting in mock vicious fights with each other; the cuts they would leave on each other being open vectors for the ooze that would change the body of the infected Traut into a hive of eggs for dozens of Traut to be birthed from.
The Traut and the Durhan
It is unknown exactly when the Durhan begin keeping the Traut as a semi-worshiped/semi-subjugated sub-race. However as early as 9,000 P.B. Durhan records show the minor dedication to the powerful minds residing within Traut and it being a fertile breeding ground for Durhan. While the Traut were unable to manifest their psychic powers, it showed itself in other ways; the incredible blood thirsty and vicious nature being one, and their incredible defenses from psychic defenses being another; would lead the Durhan to the original philosophy of "Durhast" or power of mind and body being the achievement of spiritual apex. Thus Traut also hold a deep and powerful philosophical connection to the Durhan as being pure forms of this philosophy.
Even when Durhan and Traut begin being made in the Vats after their finding by the Black Mantle Giver; the Traut were treated with much greater respects then any of the other slave races used by the Durhan in their empire; given augments special to the Traut to make them even more efficient and vicious killers, and used as Shock Troops to break the lines of enemies. Traut still hold an integral part of the The Crimson Empire, and are one of the only races that in the Empire that are not consistently turned into Anointed Ones; the standard troops used now by the Durhan as a substitute for their slave races. While never achieving full intelligent cognition and kept in their bestial nature; they are still considered one of the most dangerous creatures across the stars to face in combat.
Traut were a sub-species of the Durhan having evolved adjacent, and with a similar psychic reservoir. Standing roughly 9 feet tall, with large sharp scythe like arms and protruding sharp bone like legs the Traut were vicious blood thirsty beasts. While never growing to the same alien like intelligence of the Durhan mostly due to their use by the Durhan as receptacles of their psychic seed they still boosted brutal combat expertise that would only be enhanced when The Founder would allow the Durhan to use the Traut as beasts of war.
Before their genetic alteration by Taint and the Vats the coloration of Traut was similar to the Durhan; being a light pinkish hue and eel-like skin; this would change to the standard coloration and visuals of beings affected by Taint; their color dulling into deep purples and gaining liver marks and large malformed bumps, tentacles and other alterations. Traut were gave birth much like worms; rubbing their bodies against each other scrapping a secreted genetic material in their bladed arms they would use when fighting in mock vicious fights with each other; the cuts they would leave on each other being open vectors for the ooze that would change the body of the infected Traut into a hive of eggs for dozens of Traut to be birthed from.
The Traut and the Durhan
It is unknown exactly when the Durhan begin keeping the Traut as a semi-worshiped/semi-subjugated sub-race. However as early as 9,000 P.B. Durhan records show the minor dedication to the powerful minds residing within Traut and it being a fertile breeding ground for Durhan. While the Traut were unable to manifest their psychic powers, it showed itself in other ways; the incredible blood thirsty and vicious nature being one, and their incredible defenses from psychic defenses being another; would lead the Durhan to the original philosophy of "Durhast" or power of mind and body being the achievement of spiritual apex. Thus Traut also hold a deep and powerful philosophical connection to the Durhan as being pure forms of this philosophy.
Even when Durhan and Traut begin being made in the Vats after their finding by the Black Mantle Giver; the Traut were treated with much greater respects then any of the other slave races used by the Durhan in their empire; given augments special to the Traut to make them even more efficient and vicious killers, and used as Shock Troops to break the lines of enemies. Traut still hold an integral part of the The Crimson Empire, and are one of the only races that in the Empire that are not consistently turned into Anointed Ones; the standard troops used now by the Durhan as a substitute for their slave races. While never achieving full intelligent cognition and kept in their bestial nature; they are still considered one of the most dangerous creatures across the stars to face in combat.