Avg. Height: (M) 4’4” to 5’1” (F) 4’1” to 5’

Avg. Weight: (M) 120 to 140 lbs (F) 110 to 140 lbs

Avg. Life Expectancy: 481 y/o (Oldest Recorded 603)

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Description:

Poruk are short and stocky humanoids with thick hair over most of their body and parts of the face for males. While the original theory was that the Poruk were just short Seyarans, it has been determined that they don’t share a common ancestor, but that these two ancestors used to live together on the island of Utal (oo-tall). However, due to the instability of the island’s volcanoes, the Seyarans left it for better land. This meant the Poruk, who stayed, needed to adapt to the constant change. They became shorter and stockier because they moved underground. They grew the thicker hair not for warmth, but instead keeping a thin layer of cool air around them. This also helped keep them warm when they did venture outside to snow peaks.

 

Males and females are very close in appearance, but males have facial hair and short head hair and females have little to no facial hair with thick, long, curly hair instead. The females also tend to be slightly taller than the males on average (ranging around four inches taller) and posses breasts like Seyarans but much less pronounced due to a more stocky fat distribution.

 

Young Poruk are kind of like puppies. Bundles of hair. This extra hair acts as a cushion and helps the young breathe better by preventing large pollutants. As they grow older, the hair recedes to allow better sight. It is nearly impossible to tell a male and female child from one another due to this without combing the hair. And just as their are very little differences between adults, their puberty doesn’t make that too much easier.

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Culture:

Poruken culture stems around the idea of two twin gods. One is made of lava and the other earth. The lava god is a spoiled child who wants and wants and wants. And her brother is the earth who is oddly feminized and described similar to a mother and her womb, keeping the Poruken people safe within him from the angry sister. He is peaceful, patient, and slow to anger, but when he does, the whole island shakes. The most major of which split the island in two. Whether these two gods exist depends person to person. And some stories put the sister instead as being temperamental when things go wrong rather than spoiled.

 

However, for non-mystical elements of their culture, Poruken buildings are designed in a bizarre way do to how the island has worked ever since the split. The two pieces spin. It isn’t a constant thing, but every so often, the island begins to flip over to the other side. As such, much of their culture is designed to allow ease of transition when the island shifts. This goes from furniture to architecture to lighting.

 

Lastly, Poruken diet is usually made up of high vegetable, fungus, and fruit diets with some meats from lizards, rams, and the few other creatures that live on the island that are edible. An item considered a delicacy is lava lizard stew.

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Adaptations:

Some Poruk have developed a tie to magnetic forces which allow them to predict when the island will flip as well as manipulate things at a distance. They are also more used to low-light situations and can see better than Seyarans in them.

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Other Info:

• There are very few records Poruk have of Seyarans before they split off. Most seem to indicate a peaceful lifestyle but that the Seyaran villages were decimated by the volcanic activity forcing them to leave.

• Rams are often kept as pets because they can sense when the island will flip.

• In Seyaran culture, Poruk translates to Dwarf, but the word is in Lutuk otherwise.