Nomina2ive De2erminism

[Wednesdays Child]

I'm going to pretend the species distro hasn't been announced, because I'm a maverick like that. 8)


Augur Wren
I've got nothing clever, Augur Wren is literally just a small bird with a large drill. Possibly a construction worker who hits those hard-to-reach places, or the aerial-bombardment sort of trepanning medic.

Emmathea Pointe
The surname is pronounced pointy - Emmathea is most definitely a porcupine. Overseer of a long-fomented feud between the head bakers of Kango and Kastor's cake shops, Emmathea has been known to launch spines at beasts for overbaking their sponge layers.

Gauta Firstflame
Gauta's name does sound excellent, until you find out that her tribe names beasts based on the first absolute disaster they cause. Gauta's clumsiness and strange aptitude for fire only caused the burning down of one small neighbourhood before she was put to work on the docks, where fire would at least be a little easier to put out.

Haar
Haar is the holder of the Most Sarcastic Beast Within Kastor's Divine Grace trophy. One does not tell jokes around Haar, not without significant counseling before and after to keep one from being destroyed too brutally by the inevitable one-word takedown.

Marrow
A Bone Rattler who insists on using the whole animal. The bones are only used for scrying after the marrow has been boiled out for soup; this means that the bone rattling is rather more like bone splatting. They do make amazing stew though.

Marunae
Old Ma Runae is a rat, but she is also a were-rat. Not a wearet, a were-rat. Shifting from rat form to rat form every full moon is precisely as absurd as it sounds, but in her tougher were-rat form she solves crimes.

Ninthclaw Teshan
Another victim of poor spelling, Ninth Sea Law Teshan is a sheriff of the high seas, attempting to uphold laws of civility and order even in international waters. She is widely regarded as a massive killjoy.

Scorpio, Lord of Rain, Bringer of Floods
Scorpion made his full name as a dibbun by insisting for six seasons solid that he could perform actual rain dances that summoned actual rain. After the eight thousandth time his friends sarcastically announced his arrival to each other, he finally began to realise that perhaps telling tall tales about that sort of thing might be in poor taste in a village that suffered frequent, massive droughts.

Shoklok
Simultaneously cursed and blessed with great locks of silky fur, most beasts have learned to give Shoklok a wide berth when the fur is extra frizzy - he does not mean to, but over the course of any given day he accumulates static electricity until the next beast to stand too close gets a nastly shock.

Siroc
Siroc! is the last thing you think you hear before having your skull caved in by this kangaroo rat in full plate armour. The New World's first self-launching cannonball, Siroc's full name is I's a rock, wot did you fink I was?!?. Only her allies have ever heard anything past the first three words.

Wilder Wapaw
Young Wilder learned to write at an early age and has now been fixated on palindromes for ten seasons solid. He is well known for his essays on theology: Do Geese see God?, on ethics: Borrow or rob? and for his critiques on early currency and the twisting of the barter system: A nut for a jar of tuna?!?.