Appendix II: Races of the Northern
Hemisphere
The key is the same as for the
Southern Races in Appendix I. All names in the North are Southern
approximations, hence compromises. Even their seas, mountain
ranges, etc., have no common names unlike the standard system in
the South, so Southern designations are used throughout. None of
the following hexes have atmosphere in common with the others or
close to that of any Southern hex, although a few inhabitants,
notably the Bozog and Yugash, can travel without protection because
they don't breathe in the normal sense of the word.
ASTILGOL
N Diurnal The legendary Diviner and The Rel were
Astilgolians. Symbiotic creatures resembling a set of hanging
crystal chimes on which is set an invisible bowl with little
flashing lights. Silicon eaters.
BOZOG
H Diurnal Two eggs sunny side up, full of gritty
little balls, and with cilia beneath. Can form the liquid in their
sacs into tentacles, etc. and can stick to
walls.
CUZICOL
N Nocturnal Metallic yellow flowers with hundreds
of sharp spikes, they stand on two spindly legs. One operated on
Mavra and Joshi in the Yaxan Embassy.
MASJENADA
S Diurnal Blown glass swans without heads or
feet, they can combine and alter their body material, and have the
annoying habit of flying through each other with no ill
effect.
OYAKOT
H Diurnal Like enormous drab puff-balls with
spikes, they are actually a very pleasant, normal sort of folk.
They like their oxygen frozen.
PUGEESH
S Nocturnal Little brown disks surrounded by ten
thin tentacles. Tribal and easily frightened if they fail to kill
you; can induce dreamy lethargy but melt in any
heat.
UBORSK
S Diurnal Amorphous sand-dwellers who have become
middlemen in the trade between Bozog and
Wohafa.
UCHJIN
N Nocturnal Hard people to talk to, they resemble
smears of paint dripping in midair.
WOHAFA
H Diurnal Balls of bright yellow light out of
which shoot hundreds of lightning-like tentacles. Able to turn
energy into matter and one kind of matter to energy and back to
something else, making them everybody's favorite trade
partner.
YUGASH
H Diurnal These creatures of stable energy that
resemble pale red hooded cloaks without wearers and fade in bright
light can take over your body if you let them—or don't watch them
carefully.
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