Kettlah

Nomads who may give off a faint glow and live for a century and a half; the enigmas that are kets have puzzled other omneuttians for centuries.

An enigmatic and not-well-understood species, all kets descend from the first five made by Haket and Aster. These first five were gifted portions of Haket’s powers and tasked with aiding their parent Deity, with focused tasks that would ease his burden. One by one, the five left the land that Haket had made for them—the deep—and left to begin their own tribes though it is unclear how the five became scattered across Vale Reef.

Kettlahs are by default observers of Remiges; rather than any specific religion or belief system it is a series of philosophies that asks questions of kets, and the answers produce different schools of thought rather than denominations of a religion. They have created music, though like much of their cultural practices it feels directly opposed to what other omneuttians expect – as the longer drones resulting from the surrounding mists are considered to be the “melody”, and the notes played by the kets themselves on their instruments are the background.

Kettlah are known to consume only nutrient and moisture rich plants, almost exclusively grown below the mist, though kets who travel beyond Vale Reef have been known to consume other sources of nutrients. Kettlah absorb nutrients through their arms, which can unmerge and turn into noodle-like appendages which are placed on the food to absorb the nutrients. Kettlah overall are friendly to most omneuttians, though some are put-off by their inability to speak, and their preferred form of communication – thoughts into another’s stream of consciousness. Generally, they are one of the taller species standing around 2 m. (6’ 6”) with some racial differences depending on which of the original five kets they most strongly trace their lineage. Keyni (pn. kA-nE) have vivid gold skin and white eyes, Maoni (pn. mA-O-nE) are taller and thinner with duller gold skin, Roani (pn. rO-ah-nE) are shorter and thicker with dark gold skin, Lueni (pn. loo-eh-nE) have a white-gold skin that luminesces more vividly, and Niuni (pn. nE-ooh-nE) have never been seen but would have descended from Niu.

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