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OPEN SPECIES: Skiapan Wendigo Sheet

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Name: Skiapan Wendigo, Egyptian Calvar (formal)


As with all Wendigo, Skiapan sport a unique shell like structure, their skull head. However, unlike their North American cousins, the shape of a Skiapan’s skull and horns vary greatly from individual to individual but will always be in the form of an ungulate. This thick bone covering is molted in pieces once every year for adults while adolescents shed it as needed to accommodate their growing bodies. The skulls have deep eye sockets lined with a dark membrane that adsorbs the sun’s glare, their eyes are always either a pastel blue or lavender color that appear slightly cloudy, melanistic Skiapan will have green or grey eyes. They also have a set of four sharp, thin canine teeth. Because of their lack of a nose, a Skiapan’s nasal passages are lined with course, bristly hairs to keep dirt and bugs out of their airways and they make a habit of exhaling heavily every few minutes to clear any debris. Though they have no visible ears, the holes are situated much like an owl’s would be, one is situated higher and more forward while the other is farther back and lower, affording them the ability to pinpoint a sound. Their mouths produce thin, quick drying saliva at a very fast rate to keep their mouths moist but not drool excessively. Because of this armored head, Wendigos are unable to display many facial expressions at all; instead they rely on body language, eyes and the inflections in their voices to portray emotion.

Skiapan are a great deal smaller than an American Wendigo, with females averaging 6.5 feet and males at 6.2 (horns and crest not included) Most of their height is made up by their long legs. Skiapan have hard, widely cloven hooves on their feet that are covered in wiry feathering reminiscent of a Shire horse. Lighter, softer feathering is also present on their lower arms and wrists though this is typically cut short or kept in check by leather bracers (called feather stops) as to not impede the hands which each have three thick fingers that end in thick hoof-like nails that cover the tips of their fingers. Their necks are covered in thick, downy mane, extending from the point where the skull ends and the skin begins to the shoulders.

Skiapan are known for their ability to eat even the most putrid meat and their resistance to almost any food borne illness thanks to their ancestors being primarily scavengers. They cannot chew food and instead swallow things whole with the help of their long molted tongues.



Psychological traits:
Skiapan are intrepid and curious creatures. They very rarely stay in one place for a long amount of time, preferring to see and experience as many new things as they can. They are also very detail oriented, and will fuss over seemingly small things, this meticulous nature has lent itself well to Skiapan in the medical, engineering and artistic fields. They don't do very well with abstract subjects unless they can apply it to the real world.


Females
(also known as a filly (adolescent) doe (young adult) or mare (adult to elder))

Female Skiapan Wendigo are noticeably taller than the males, they also have longer, thinner horns and muzzles as well as longer crests. Females are less likely to have dramatic coloring or patterns, most of them being a sandy gold or light chestnut in color with lighter or darker tips in their feathering (other common patternings are piebald hips and speckling over the back and shoulders). There feathering is thinner than that on males, usually their wrists have a good-sized fringe and they have a longer strip extending from their wrist to just below the elbow. Skiapan females of a mature age have a set of human like breasts, once a female is beyond the age where she can bear fawns her breasts shrink down to almost half their original size.

They are the dominant gender of the species, traditionally a female would have a harem of males and/or subordinate females (called a coven) whom she had control over. This practice had fallen out of favor for monogamous relationships when Skiapan began to accept human traditions in the late 1500's but has become more common lately as the species as a whole retakes their original culture.


Males
(colt, buck or stag)

Male Skiapan are shorter than the females, but what they lack in height they make up for in muscle. The male’s skull will typically be more compact and boxy than a female’s and his horns will be thicker but shorter on average. Males also have a wider color range than females, from bright white to dark black with endless patterns but tuxedo (a solid color with a white or cream patch on the throat an chest) is most common. Their feathering is thicker than that of females, sometimes engulfing most of the forearm and their neck ruff can be likened to a lions mane and is made up of coarser hairs. Males have smaller crests than females do, the hair that makes it up is much less rigid and some male’s crests lay more like a horse’s mane and are either tied back or clipped.

Males are traditionally submissive to females, acting as her attendants and servants. This is less common now.

Life Cycle:

A female Skiapan, like other furs can become pregnant at anytime of the year provided she is healthy and eating enough. Some Skiapan females do go in to a kind of heat but it is rarely more than a distraction from her every day life and can be controlled with over the counter medications. Her pregnancy is almost identical to humans with the exception of the gestation being a few weeks longer on average. Skiapan do not like to give birth without another of their kind present and it isn’t uncommon for hospitals in areas where the species is common to hire Skiapan nurses for this express purpose. They are also are slightly more likely to have multiple offspring in one pregnancy than humans.

Newborns are universally called ‘fawns’ regardless of gender. When they are born their heads are pliable and slightly translucent, within a few days however it hardens to a chalky mask. They already have a layer of fur with a downy texture; this coat is a sandy brown with black flecking and is shed after the fawn is weaned to reveal their adult coat. The only acceptation to this is for Skiapan fawns with melanism, which are born with their black coat.

After being weaned and shedding their first coat, fawns will be called either colts (for males) or fillies (females). The chalky first mask will begin to crumble away at this time, an itchy affair, to reveal the fawn’s first ‘skull’. It is at this point they will begin to learn to walk and talk. Traditionally, males are the caretakers of the young once they are weaned, regardless of if they sired the fawn or not, allowing the female to return to her responsibilities. Recently, however, thanks to the influence of human and other fur’s cultures, females are becoming more involved in the care of the fawns after they are weaned.

Skiapan reach puberty at around fifteen years of age, unlike humans there is no time discretion between males and females and they are considered fully mature by the age of 23. It is at this time that their crests come in and they develop their sexual characteristics. Does will begin to select males for their covens, often from among the males she knew as a filly.




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omg- I wanna make one!!!!