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According to this, Recha is the most basic bitch, Shakkau is an oddball and Ku-juun just... is.

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so i was curious what is the relationship of your ocs? is it romantic for all 3? or romantic for 2 and third is more platonic with the other 2? or one has a romantic relationship wirh both but the other 2 are only platonic with each other?

Relationships are a dynamic thing, but most of the time, it's like this:

Ku-juun and Shakkau are in a commited relationship, both romantic & physical/sexual. Ku-juun, Shakkau and Recha are in a casual three-way affectionate relationship.

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what are the dark (and apparently spreading?) splotches some of yor achaar djaanib characters have? they seem to carry some sort of stigma for those marked? are they a curse or disease of some sort? do they hurt or affect the bearer physically? i really love and am fascinated by the original art you post!

Those markings are caused by a specific type of lifeforms that latch onto certain Dreeki because they have some degree of compatibility. And these markings are often an expression of their presence. Depending on internal and external factors, the markings can expand or shrink. Tho shrinkage is not often witnessed.

The Dreeki don't know what causes the markings.

For Dreeki, these markings (often referred to as Taint) carry a heavy stigma. Carriers are often socially isolated, excluded or even cast out out of their community because of supersticious fear.

This mainly roots in the fact that these markings almost always are accompanied by other effects, physical and/or mental. Carriers can exhibit unusual abilities, but these come at a price.

For example:

Ku-juuns arm can be really tough and strong, you can't injure it if he does not want you to. On the downside, he suffers from intense nightterrors if he actively uses that ability. Also joint-pains.

Recha can be scarily persuasive when talking, but speaking makes her throat hurt a lot so she rather keeps quiet and does not realize she even has this ability.

So. The general Dreeki-population sees the Taint as a negative thing. They are weary of Carriers. This is not the case for other folks tho, just Dreeki. It is a race-specific stigma.

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How each of your character get the taint?

When Ku-juun was younger and still mainly working as a sword-for-hire with a group of other mercenaries, he got badly injured on a job. His lower arm was basically ripped to shreds, cut to the bone, mangled.

They were about two days riding away from the next town. None in his group were proficient in medicine, but they did their best to provide first aid and rush Ku-juun to the next physician. By the time they got there the wounds got inflammed and infected, and Ku-juun was more delirious than concious, suffering from a high fever.

Ku-juun does not remember much of what happened at the field hospital, but one nurse later told him that he was more dead than alive when he arrived. The arm looked dark and rotten. They rushed him to surgery immediately, to remove the infected limb, a last attempt to save him. But they were unable to cut it off. No saw or knife would go through. So they just wraped it up and moved him to the palliative care ward.

When Ku-juun regained conciousness a couple of days later, is lower arm was intact again, but permanently discolored and ended in a clawed hand. As the treating physicians and nurses were no Dreeki, they did not realize the meaning of this and were just glad he recovered against all odds.

As for Recha: she does not know what caused the taint to appear, one day it just was there and started expanding.

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What is the Taint caused by (trauma, is it a birthmark ?) and is it genetic or just caused by outside sources

The chances of getting 'Tainted' increases if someone went through a very traumatic experience. The most common one is having a near-death-experience, or an out-of-body-experience (funny that you can contract the Taint either by supreme meditation-skills or escaping death).

If someone is close to the line between living and not, and then return, they sometimes bring something back with them.

Of course it has also a huge genetic component, certain genetic markpus are more suseptible/compatible to it than others.

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