[Ilganapash Rosas, Long May He Reign]
"Behold You Now The World, Alive And Full, Born Of All Those Gods Whom Forevermore Shall Leave Their Markers Upon It. For This Occasion Do I Find Myself Desirous Of Celebration. Alas! No, That Feast Of Gods And Creations Cannot Be, For Our Powers Remain Yet Endangered. We Who Would Create Majesty Have Need Still Of Beings To Recognize Our Greatness, And Present Offering, As We Recognize Their Prowess, And Offer Boons.
"I Find That I, Ilganapash Rosas, King of Beggars, Am The Last To Bring New Life Into The World, And Am Much Saddened By This. Yet Our Efforts May Be Combined, For I Shall Glean What I Might From All Those Who Have Come Before, And So My People Shall Be Wise In The Ways Of The World. As We Gods May All Be United, So Might They Be Friends To All Others Whom Desire Their Company, And In This Way Do I Bind Us Together With Ties Of Our Own Creations."
"So Let It Be That Though The Birds And The Beasts Struggle Alike With One Another, And The Plants And The Fish Too, Those We Deem Our Peoples Shall Survive Too, And Flourish. Let Wisdom Build Upon Survival, And So Are My People Born, Of My Hand And Yet Of The World. Kastyrians They Shall Be Known As, And Though Their Forms May Differ, Their Unity Remains, And Of Them Shall Be Three Things Foremost In Characteristic: The First, That They Shall Be A Hardy And Adaptable Peoples, Such That Nigh Any Challenge They May Meet With Fortitude, And Survive. The Second, That Their Race Shall Be One Of Wise And Thoughtful People, In Whom Many Scholars May Be Found. The Third, That The Forms Of The Kastyrians Be Not Locked Forever, Through Generations, To That Singular Shape In Which I Have Molded Them, But That They May Change In Shape And Stature And Size And Many Other Traits Of The Body, In Order To Survive Wherever Their Homes Might Be Found, Though All Recognizable As Being Of The Same Peoples. So Says Ilganapash Rosas, King Of Beggars."
Use 1 Essence to ensure that there is variety of wildlife via survival of the fittest, and to spread wildlife and plantlife, in it's various forms, across the Tree(s world(s?)), if I might.
Use 4 Essence and 4 Crux to create, via what amounts to rapid guided evolution, the Kastyrians. They look, at least at first, like basically sapient monkeys with opposable thumbs, prehensile feet which are as much like hands as we might think they are feet. If you want me to detail their other traits in more comprehensive detail than the above paragraph, ask me in OOC, but I'm not sure it would be very helpful. Though I can describe that the way their formshifting or whatever we want to call it is something that works over multiple generations, is rather subtle, and again is kinda like guided evolution. Not actually Lamarckian genetics, but you could sorta think of it like that, I suppose? Less about learned/practiced traits, though they would probably play a factor.