Cancchia

Cancchia

Overview

Plural	Cancchias
Adjectival	Cancchian, Cancchid
Other names	Thúló (Rúulaoh)

Morphology

Classification	Endothermic mammal
Body form	Bipedal symmetrical tetrapod
Locomotion	Terrestrial
Height range	1.22m - 1.5m
Weight range	13.5kg - 86kg

Biology

Metabolism	Medium rate
Biochemistry	Carbon-based
Respiration	Aerobic
Diet	Omnivorous

Population

Native	Gerualdi
Population	9.2 billion
Distribution	Kingsward planets, primarily Gerualdi

Sociology

Common languages	Rúulaoh Nicta-slio
Social behavior	Prosocial
Political status	Kin

Aging

Adolescence	8 to 14 years
Adulthood	14 to 60 years
Geriatric	70+ years
Average lifespan	70 to 90 years

The cancchias comprise a canid species native to Gerualdi and known for their dramatic genetic variety. Unlike many Kin which have tangled fossil records and missing links therein, cancchias are a relatively recent species with known heritage in early domesticated canines some six thousand years past, and it is generally agreed upon that they were "risen" to sentience by use of concentrated magic practiced by the ancient civilizations in the Shadeglyn before the practice and the species spread elsewhere throughout Gerualdi. While there can only be speculation on the precise motivations of these old cultures in "creating" a sentient species, the origins of the cancchias as arising from working animals gave them a troubled past that haunts them well into the modern age of the Ealdremen system; for centuries, they were treated as beasts and considered incapable of maintaining their own civilizations and cultures, and their "keepers" often practiced eugenics-based "breeding programs" to create bloodlines of cancchias with particular traits such as size and physical strength for manual labor work, or sometimes simply for aesthetics as part of a service industry desiring a particular "look" for their workers.

Although cancchias have been considered Kin since around the era of the War to Shatter the Meteors, it is a common sentiment among cancchias aware of their history that nothing in Ealdremen is freely given — from civil liberties to legal protections, anything of worth must be negotiated for, or it must be taken. In an age when resources are dwindling and the threat of war looms, many cancchias feel a social obligation from their own kind to defy their inborn genetics predisposing them to sociability and "people-pleasing" with the descendants of their once-oppressors.