Denizens of the Mighty Dry #11
'It has been decreed by higher powers than I that each of your bones be broken in three places. This is not cruelty, sir. It is destiny.'
Name: Kuzdlaki
Habitat: The Screaming Valley
Lifespan: 50 - 120 years
Appearance: The Kuzdlaki are small humanoids, at most 3ft tall. They are white of skin and black of eye. Their bodies are covered in thick, worm-like hairs which they also use to feed (rolling around in Feastpiles). They use telepathy for communication, though they are incapable of reading minds. They have three jet-black, unblinking eyes upon their spherical heads. The nails of their hands and feet are sharp spirals. Lives: The Kuzdlaki are a dark-souled folk who live and die according to a perpetually updating tome of prophecy. It tells them who will live and who will die, which of them will pair and which of them will separate. It sometimes contains details of individual Kuzdlaki speech patterns or personality quirks, and the Kuzdlaki do their very best to follow these notations (whether or not they have predilections toward the behaviours or not). Often, the book will say that a Kuzdlaki individual will die, but they have not had the good grace to do so. When this occurs, the Kuzdlaki is expected to attend to their own demise. If they refuse, the community obliges. Once, the Kuzdlaki tome of prophecy told them to be explorers of the world, to be cosmopolitan and outgoing. But it has since changed its mind and commanded all Kuzdlaki to remain in the Screaming Valley among the shattered bones of the creatures who once called it home. Any Kuzdlaki now in the world are either deviants or have simply not heard the new commands of the tome.