Pot7A Day 2: Fosten
Species:Slont. Tall, dense-boned people with long forelimbs and constantly growing, flakey claws. Claws are dextrous enough but second set of flimsy arms is used to manipulate delicate objects. Heads are bullet-shaped with bristly whiskers. Walks upright at all times, hide is very tough and itches as it sheds.
Diet: Omnivorous, favoring aquatic plants and animals.
Temperament: Aggressive. Notoriously short fused and easily offended. Quick rate of healing and sturdy bodies allow them to be violent.
Planet: Heff. Appears marbled maroon and black from space due to ancient lava flows. Very unstable and always changing. Pickings are tough and finding a good place to live is something worth fighting for.
Deity: She Creeps; She Sputters. She Creeps watches what the Slonts get up to and judges their lives, manipulating live lava flows into the territory of ones who she doesn't like. She Sputters is difficult to understand and harder to appease, keeping the planet's core angry and volitile. Massive game is hunted exclusively for the gods and great chunks are thrown into lava flows or stewed in boiling lakes. Slonts are eager to please them and try to anticipate ways to do it.
Assimilation: Good. Massive planetary terrascapers have been imported to make sections of Heff more tolerable, evidently to no protest of the gods. Slonts make willing and ambitious laborers so long as they're given their space and are readily hired into off-planet positions.
Space Program: Amateur. Slonts most often develop missions to seek volcanic planets and moons as pilgrimages or crusades. Are often paranoid or suspicious of outsiders on such occasions.
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Fosten: Not especially bright and aware of this, contented to follow someone else's confidence. Anticipates good and bad and strives to make the right choices in advance, in or out of his gods' sight. Easily frustrated but keeps violence to a minimal, god-loving brute that he is.
Occupation: Crude mechanic on a general transport barge. Generally works after hours if carrying passengers, as they tend to irritate him. Does most of the manual heavy lifting. Has a rudimentary knowledge of mechanics, enough to know which piece goes where.
Social: Believes in people who get things done. Has a network of co-workers and employers who appreciate his work. Keeps in touch with younger sisters on Heff.