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[Tasura]

NAME: Xilkar

ORIGIN: Loqoria - A land of more sea than air, the indigenous people, the Loquans, live in sprawling underwater cities interspersed with seaweed farms and small trading towns. The staple diet includes all forms of sea life and seaweed, and on the rare occasion when a Surface Explorer brings it back land whale (cow) can be found as an expensive treat in some high end markets.
Very little is known about the surface world and only the truly brave, deemed Surface Explorers, dare to venture out of the water and into the air. In ages past very few returned, but with the advent of science and the few explorers that did return, venturing to the surface is now safer but still only done by the experienced and adventurous, who even make a business out of by bringing back baubles and land whale.

RACE: Loquan - A very long lived aquatic race indigenous to the world of Loqoria, once a nomadic people, now have taken to settling down and building cities thanks to their scientific endeavours into ways to control the currents and water temperature. There are 3 distinct types of Loquan; the dark blue, sightless Deep Loquans who live in the very depths of the oceans; the Mid Loquans (just called Loquans by everyone but the High Loquans) are the most plentiful of the three as the middle ranges of the oceans are the safest and most abundant with food; and finally the High Loquans who, with pale blue skin, live nearest the surface in very small numbers.
As the Loquans are an underwater race they worship the idea of the Sun, and revere it as a near deity like presence. Therefore the High Loquans living closest to the surface are seen as nobles or “Those Blessed by the Light Above”. Though the Loquans have no disdain for the Deep Loquans, it has been so ingrained in their culture that they see anyone with pale skin as someone important.
Though a race that spends most of their lives, if not all of their lives living underwater they still possess air sacs (lungs) as well as gills. Loquan scientists believe this is either because at one point in their long history they lived above the water, or had a ancestral species that did.

GENDER: Male

AGE: 238 (24 in Earth years)

JOB/ROLE: Surface Explorer

SKILLS/POWERS/ABILITIES: Gills, fast swimming, ability to swim deep/surface with no adverse effects due to pressure changes.

WEAPON(S): Surfacing knife (diving knife equivalent)

APPEARANCE: Tall and thin with long limbs ending in longer than average fingers and toes with excessive webbing. Middle toned blue skin, large circular all black eyes and a sharp edge like nose. Grass-like hair down to shoulders adorned with fishbone baubles. Gills near the base of the neck, but mostly unnoticeable unless angered, then they flare.

PERSONALITY: Hardworking and eager to please, but frequently gets lost in daydreams about what is or could be on The Surface.

BACKGROUND: A young Loquan who believes there is more on the surface than just land whales and things to fear, joins a Surface Exploring company and quickly rises in the ranks to be one of the best in the city of Linstra. Unfortunately he remembers none of this, all he remembers is that he likes the water more than the land and has a vague sense that the sun is closer than it should be.