Scorpien

Scorpien

Female scorpiens stands between 6 and 7 feet tall, while male scorpiens average between 7 and 8 feet. Scorpiens often weigh a bit more than they would appear to do so due to their immense exoskeletal system. In addition to supporting a build that tends towards heavily defined muscles, scorpiens have a chitinous "skin" that serves as natural armor. Thus, most scorpiens will weigh anywhere between 270 to 390 lbs depending on their height and the thickness of their exoskeleton. Female scorpiens are extremely well known for their curvaceous physique, and their carapaces serve to emphasize their assets greatly.

The scorpien carapace runs an entire gamut of colors; all of them naturally found in a desert landscape. Scorpiens tend to be shades of brown and yellow, though some tends towards black and others towards a dull crimson.

The most distinctive physical feature of this race is their exoskeleton, which covers a scorpien completely from head to toe. Their chitinous shell acts as natural armor for the scorpien, but it does not provide the natural flexibility of skin. It does, however, have some bounce to it, allowing a scorpien more freedom of movement than one might expect. The scorpien's hard but somewhat flexible shell contains elements such as calcium and mercury in such proportions that they seemed to have been perfectly designed by some great hand. There is no other substance on Earth that has the armor capabilities and the flexibility of a scorpien's carapace.

Scorpiens are well known for decorating their carapaces with symbols of war, power, or beauty. With their lack of hair and intense facial features, scorpiens express most of their beauty through body paint and fine etchings upon their exoskeletons. Make up or piercings do not show up well against the dark, strong features of a scorpien's face.

There was another option that these as well take on a more scorpionic appearance.....such as this but I for one MUCH prefer the more humanoid form of these.

[Cordoba]

I for one approve of this race. Sounds like a good warrior clan, something we have yet to really establish upon the site except for Ungrith’tar.

[Varos Talantos]

It'd be difficult to find pictures of these... Though when one did find pictures they could be vastly different. The solution, methinks, would be two subspecies. Open to suggestions.

Alright...How about this.

The Scorpien remain the same as is.

But when the Scorpien breed together, cause there are male and females, the Scorpion gene is more dominate and expresses more and their children are Scarrow, the more scorpion style.

Scarrow would also have the armor, but as they end up being much larger they are slower and less agile then their parents. Again, no poison. Also, they are extremely partial to heat and extreme cold will kill them (Being more scorpion then human now they are exothermic, meaning their metabolisms require heat to function....like a snake)