Codex: Essyras/zh-hans

名称：Essyra（单数）、Essyras（复数）

Sexes: Female and Hermaphrodites

Height: 6’ 6” to 7’ 0”

Hair: Snow-white, pink, or light blue

Eyes: Pink, human in shape and size

Ears: Essyras have large, vulpine ears

Tails: Essyras have several thick, furry tails: usually between six and nine, and in the case of hermaphrodites, always in the same number as their penile tendrils.

Combat

Essyras are consummate huntresses, combining a natural stealth and agility with amazonian strength. Most prefer to fight with a bow or throwing spear, giving them sure strikes from ambush before finishing their prey in close combat with daggers or axes. Essyras prefer armor made of treated hides and leather, usually from local predators they’ve slain and in snowy colors to maintain their natural camouflage. Centuries after their homeworld was colonized by the ausar, many essyra have adapted to use salvaged arms and armor from spacers to supplement their traditional hunting styles.

Environs

Natives of the snowy world of Uveto, essyras are well-adjusted to cold weather and snow. Their natural adaptation includes snow-white skin and cold-colored hair, effectively making them what other species might consider albinos (complete with pink eyes and susceptibility to skin disorder), and have intense body heat which is compounded by a tremendous ability to store body fats for warmth, much like the colonial ausar have adapted. These body fats are usually stored in the belly, buttocks, and breasts, giving a well-fed essyra an extremely curvaceous appearance. This chubby body-type should not be underestimated, however, as essyras are also considerably stronger than the average human, owing to their size and natural musculature.

性与繁殖

Essyra 是一个完全由女性化个体构成的种族，分为雌性和雌雄同体两种性别。和具有女性化雌雄同体者的种族通常情况相同，她们似乎共享一种社会性别。该物种所有成员都在双足生物通常的位置拥有符合银河标准的阴道，具备黑色阴唇和敏感的阴蒂。

雌雄同体的 Essyra 在其女性性器周围长有若干阴茎触须，数量与个体尾巴相同（通常为六至九条），长度在 6 至 10 英寸之间。每根触须靠近根部的位置都有三个球状结节，交配时会膨胀，并在高潮中和高潮后变得勃起，以将伴侣锁在一起。Essyra 通常会有一根“主导”阴茎，比其他的更长、更粗，最长可达 16 英寸。

这些触须可抓握，每一根的最底部结节内都有独立的睾丸。这使每根触须都拥有自己的不应期——意味着一名格外多情的 Essyra 能让一场性事持续数小时，实际上直到精疲力尽前都可以无限延续。

Essyra 的繁殖本质上属于哺乳动物式，插入性交会导致持续六个月的妊娠。幼体出生后会在一年内迅速成长为成年个体，只会无助数日。这种快速成年被 Essyras 极短的寿命所抵消，她们极少活过十年。当两名 Essyra 雌雄同体者交配时，让双方都受孕被视为极不理想，因为播种者应当在爱人怀孕期间照料她。

当一对 Essyra 结为伴侣，通常便会终身相守，其中一方会持续担任母亲与照护者，另一方则担任父亲与供养者。在 Essyra 与外星人或其他种族原住民交配的情形中，她们表现出强烈倾向：要么让伴侣受孕，要么仅进行不会导致生育的性行为。单身母亲在该物种中显然承受极重的社会污名。

文化与社会

Essyras 是独居生物，通常独自生活，或与一名伴侣和子女同住。Essyra 一般住在由大型动物的骨头、皮革和兽皮制成、便于迁移的大帐篷里。只要狩猎资源充足，她们往往会在同一居所停留很长时间，有时长达数年，只偶尔随着浮冰和积雪的变化而迁移住处。

While explorers initially feared interaction with essyra huntresses during early exploration based on their fearsome reputation among other native species, the essyra were eventually discovered to be surprisingly friendly towards off-worlders, and instances of violence were remarkably low. Indeed, several huntresses volunteered to act as guides and hunters for the initial exploration teams, and were instrumental in early mappings of the surface before the modern sensor relays were installed. Essyra DNA was even used in the early variants of the “huskar” gene mod that has allowed colonists to comfortably inhabit Uveto — a fact that many huntresses relish, treating the colonists as their “children.”

This friendship has maintained quite well since then. Essyras freely come and go from Irestead and other settlements, and many take ausar colonists as mates. Despite many, many generations of the short-lived race having passed since first contact, essyras today still treat the huskar as their “responsibility,” and there have been countless instances of them intervening to rescue an endangered colonist from a predator or natural hazard.

Lureling Essyras

Of special note is the relationship between the essyra and another species native to Uveto: the so-called “lurelings,” powerfully psionic creatures that live beneath the ice. Though research on the matter is thus far limited, it appears that essyras are very susceptible to psionics, much moreso than other Uvetan races, and have developed no natural talent themselves. Lurelings prey on young essyras, taking advantage of their low mental defenses to psychically dominate them — usually for life.

The dominated essyra will follow her master above the ice, acting like a sexual lure for adventurers and feeding back sensual pleasures to their master once they’ve secured a mate. The purpose of these actions is poorly understood, as no reliable contact has ever been established with the lurelings, but by all accounts they appear to engage in both the domination and luring for pleasure, rather than any biological imperative.

Unsurprisingly, essyra kill lurelings on sight. Other races treat lure-essyra with a mix of difference and amusement, as encountering them usually means easy sex, and the lure usually carries deep-sea treasure or bounties of fish taken by her master to trade in villages.

Lureling-bound essyras have existed since before First Contact, and appear to have diverged from their free-willed kin on a biological level. Different combinations of sexes, including pure female and male essyras, are apparently selectively bred for their appearance or other physical traits that help them attain mates for their master’s pleasure.