Well, the Greek alphabet's not exactly exciting either, is it? Even if the whales help out a bit.
Anyway, probably best for me not to try and be a wiseass about your unpublished lore, as this can only end in me looking like a complete tosspot.
Ah, so it's one of those learning experiences where sane businessmen find out exactly why one shouldn't take a bright spark's word for it.
Anyway, let's put together a second sheet.
Name: Slate Vandertorc, or just plain ol' Vandertorc
Gender: Male
Race: Bond-Hearts. A race what bonds with other races native to their planet. They undergo two unique changes when their partner dies and they become adults. The first is they develop a certain love for what killed their bond-mate that borders on self-destructive. The second is they take on prominent features of their bond-mate's species, such as troglodytic bond-mates giving their bond-heart troglodyte features.
Specifics of Slate's bonding: Slate happened to bond with a herbivorous clam-like creature that just so happened to perish in a very unfortunate accident where it, being a slow-moving sort with only one proper foot to project and drag itself around on, got caught in a revolving door and ruptured its shell, whereupon it suffered for but a minute before the unforgiving door crushed its internals as well, putting an end to its 234 year lifespan. The result of this bonding and separation is that Slate, despite maintaining the bipedal, two-armed form of his species, seems to function considerably different than his vertebrate-analogue-bonded peers. For one, his body is almost entirely rigid, with minimal movement in the head region and a large amount of dexterity and joint flexibility around the feet - he moves around by twisting his feet in very odd angles, making tiny steps and usually taking a while to get anywhere, or jumping forth if he's in a rush. For manipulation, as his arms are useless, he has a different adaptation entirely - his torso has a vertical cleft running along its ventral side, and it can ponderously open up, letting up to ten almost boneless, highly dextrous arms emerge. When speaking with humanoids he respects, he tends to turn his back on them, twist his head 180 degrees and speak so that he may gesture with his arms in a much more aesthetically pleasing fashion. Slate's skin is filled with a dense, largely inflexible mesh of protein microcrystals that render it highly durable, and his inner, pink flesh is extremely poisonous to most forms of carbon-based life when damaged.
Traits, Mental: distant, slow to speak, deeply, almost more than merely religiously devoted to the concept of physical revolution and rotation, not any good at conversation, unconcerned by most other forms of life, highly resistant to psychological stress.
Traits, Physical: pink filling is extremely poisonous to most complex organic life, possesses highly durable gray skin, can't move most of his humanoid limbs apart from feet and head (and the head is very inexpressive, bald, with reduced features and hollow-looking eyes, limited ability to make facial expressions, an uncanny valley feel to them when he does make facial expressions due to need to severely exaggerate them), moves around via feet, typically rather slowly. Internal components have high degree of regenerative ability in terms of relatively minor damage, such as the loss of projected limbs, though are vulnerable to core damage provided skin is pierced. Projected arms possess great dexterity, low strength when great in number, low dexterity and high strength when there's only one.
Skills: highly skilled mechanical engineer, navigator, mathematician, brilliant when it comes to anything involving revolution or spinning, showing a savant-like understanding of it as well as saintly reverence to its revealed mystery. Adept at logistics, architectural design, art criticism. Highly familiar with religious iconography of galactic races. Skilled at leading chants.
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