The People of Pyrrupolis
Sarchitekta: The Architects. Not really a race in the way the others are, more like a sort of entity, extremely varied and self shaping and almost utterly without biology. They control the cities while they’re alive and build them as they die by a process called unfolding in an act referred to as retirement. Basically, they spend their lives building up their metallic innards, and when they die the outside of their bodies dissolves and those innards come flowing out and form huge elaborate structures that reflect what the sarchi believed they would become. Because theses structures have been used as cities for so long, Sarchi in pyrrupolis understand that when they “die” that is what will happen to them, so their remains look increasingly like urban architecture.
Haruspers: The Every-men. chicken people with metal bones that are the most populous race (at least in the upper districts of the city) and the main source of city building material for the sarchi, who, as their beloved gods, treat them in with dignity ranging between “favorite pet” and “commercial broiler chicken”. Other animals have metal bones as well, but other animals can’t really worship and love their predators with the same devout complacency as the average harusper.
Apart from that, haruspers have very strict gender roles and social norms that they fully, judgmentally expect their peers to conform too. Hens are plain and businesslike and roosters are violent sex objects, basically.
Vuxte: The Sacred Vermin. I had these guys scrapped for a long time but recently dug them out of the trash to dust them off. There’s not a lot too them yet beyond being spooky predatory opossum-bat people that were domesticated in by the (and probably a specific individual) Sarchi the same way as haruspers were, for the purpose of keeping haruspers in check. dogs and pests, who needs em...
Ellyllo: The Artists. Strange, formless, and shy, they /survive/ by taking the form of another race (usually haruspers, less frequently azo, but it all depends on circumstance) and hiding among them for their day to day lives. They have several other faces they wear apart from these ‘glamours’, including a “true” face, designed to reflect their individual identities and be shown off to other ellyllo, and a “resting” face, lacking all those baubles and bits and worn when all alone, and maybe in the presence of a trusted friend. Probably the most developed race of the lot, i love these asshole deviantart closed species-lookin fucks......
Azo: Some spider ladies. The sapient members of the species are all female and the males are basically sex-mosquitoes who fertilize eggs with their sting then die. They lay eggs roughly once per month(?) that may or may not be fertilized, which hatch into tiny, independent larvae that require no real parental care and, if female, spend the next 5-7 years growing until they pupate into sub-adult “children”, which develop social inclinations for the first time in their lives and for little feral baby gangs. Azo society is pretty much the wild wild west.
Possibly /employed/ by haruspers as cheap labor in some places, but heavily looked down on and exploited a wide variety of other ways.
Nyxim: ...slime men.. sewer guys.. Born from the latent fear of an early sarchitekt that they were going to get ‘parasites’ from eating haruspers. they can secrete a powerful acid that lets them reshape the architecture at will. need moisture to live. eusocial with massive queens. really really underdeveloped sorry.
