Lashunta

• Constantly strive to improve yourself through practicing skills and honing your powers.
• Prioritize learning and diplomacy if you're a damaya, or physique and tactical prowess if you're a korasha—or if you're an unbound lashunta, you have different priorities.
• Hold yourself to a much higher standard than you apply to others.

• Think you're a perfectionist and find your pursuit of self-improvement tiresome.
• Distrust your psychic abilities, fearing you'll read their minds.
• Idealize or label you based on your genetic expression.

Damayas tend to be tall and graceful with delicate features and are traditionally pushed toward artistic or intellectual pursuits and political occupations. Korashas are shorter, more muscular, and gravitate toward military service, manual labor, and wartime leadership. Regardless of heritage, all lashuntas have short forehead antennae that focus their telepathy, with colorful bumps and facial markings unique to each individual. Lashuntas produce pheromones that subtly broadcast their moods in ways that other ancestries might find alluring or unnerving.

Around puberty, lashuntas traditionally choose whether to express damaya or korasha genetics—a decision that determines their physical development and influences their potential societal roles. Lashuntas achieve their choice through a combination of psychic rituals and gene therapy. Today, many young lashuntas have chosen to tread their own path and abstain from this choice, instead becoming “unbound.” Unbound lashuntas defy traditional roles and labels, and they might express traits and innate proclivities common to both of or neither of these groups. A growing minority of lashuntas instead pushes for further genetic diversification and aims to express unique or long-buried genetic permutations, pioneering entirely new chosen heritages. Whether such experimentation will prove fruitful remains to be seen.

Since time immemorial, lashuntas have dwelled in sprawling, picturesque cities along the shores and wildlands of Castrovel, a lush jungle world teeming with dangerous predators and extreme weather. These independent settlements are protected by a mighty military caste of psychic warriors, technological defenses, and magical countermeasures. The most iconic of these soldiers are the shotalashu cavalry, lightly armored riders who form telepathic bonds with (and take their name from) their saurian mounts.

Lashunta cultures value education, self-improvement, and community defense. Religious lashuntas tend to identify with faiths that encourage balance, knowledge, meditative practice, and seeking enlightenment, such as Eloritu, Ibra, or Yaraesa. Other lashuntas shun religion entirely in favor of adopting a philosophy like the Cycle or the Green Faith, honoring a state leader, or following historic community traditions.

Popular Edicts become the best version of yourself, never stop learning, train your mind or body daily
Popular Anathema neglect your goals, wallow in failure

Domash, Hesori, Imaaz, Kima, Kopalo, Maenala, Nomae, Oraeus, Raia, Shess, Soryn, Stretto, Taeon, Varikuara

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Medium

Charisma, Free

Additional languages equal to your Intelligence modifier (if it's positive). Choose from the list of common languages and any other languages to which you have access (such as the languages prevalent on your home world).

You can communicate mentally with creatures within 30 feet. You can communicate only with creatures that share a language with you. This doesn't give you any access to their thoughts, and it communicates no more information than normal speech would.