Annil
Small, scaled, and easy to overlook, the Annil were the earliest of the engineered lines, made as household aides and keepers of the systems that kept the world running. Quiet, precise, and naturally watchful, they prefer to go unnoticed, and largely do.
Key traits
- Small, reptilian humanoids, compact and light, built for agility and fine control; a working height near 110 cm.
- Fully scaled skin in muted earth tones along the back, with a contrasting reddish-copper banding across the chest and belly.
- A triangular, reptilian head with very large forward-facing eyes and long, drooping ear-flaps below the jaw.
- A natural lifespan of some 45 to 50 years; a single-sex people who reproduce by egg-laying, with a years-long internal gestation.
- A high, fast, sibilant voice; naturally attuned listeners, sensitive to tones other peoples miss.
- Names earned and descriptive (Bigtooth Character Bigtooth Bigtooth is a small, scaled Annil who keeps and guards the old workings of the great Udhafa ISEMH node, carrying out a duty assigned to him by his order with meticulous care and..., Swiftfoot, Quickwit), often several across a lifetime; no surnames.
- Survivors scattered underground and to the island of Annilia Place Annilia A large island north of Baramma, where cold mist rolls down fern-carpeted hills and forgotten roots crack the stones of abandoned places., keepers of old knowledge.