Name(Singular): Tlacaspas
Name(Plural): Tlacaspa
Powers/Abilities: Consumption causes similarities to grow.
All have exceptional physical and sensory abilities and very, very flexible jaws, although not Superhuman from birth, they are born with more efficient brains and muscles, due to the cursed magic trying to create something humans feared and hated, these come along with their animalistic or plant based developments (see lower)
Infinite "hunger" and stomach capacity (hunger is not known to them, they never feel the need to feed, just the power it gives, which done develope an addiction to.)
Lifespan: Depending on their consumption, they can live any time from 20-180
PhysicalDescription: This is tricky, seeing as they are born looking as though they were humans, although larger in size, this is how they are born no matter what their parents are made of. This race is capable of compatability with any race, but they are incapable of magic unless they consume magical flesh, once again, no matter who seeded and birthed them.
CulturalDescription: The anomaly of this race is that though they were born of a native American diety, they came to be, in small pockets of 2-4, in every continent, even the icy reaches of Antarctica, though they are much rarer, these peoples, though varied, hold their cultural norms this way, they adapt to their environment, learning how to behave by trial and error, usually ending in the humans finding them out, and killing them, but most exist outside of the humans, while still intermingling, they live in modern tribes, with this similarity. They all hold their ability to adapt at their highest of graces, there is a ceremony of manhood for the boys where they hunt a large animal, customarily a predator, and the boy in question consumes the animal in as little bites as possible, and allows the beasts body to become part of him, he then usually is told to be careful, as the power of their gift is watered down the more variety you consume. Although plant and animals are in different categories for this, and the two different tribal mindsets will often war.
Other: These Tclaspas often will live near, but just out of reach of humanity, as they, by design seek the love of humans.
How they are born: One parent must be a Tlacaspa, although two would allow the consumption abilities to be more easily worked in, these are an entirely different species from humans, though the evil God framed them from Mahwaew, a native American hero. Any hybrids will be born without Magical capabilities, and most physical attributes of the race that intermingled will be dominated by Tlacaspa dna, though facial features and color variations would be a possibility, and they will be born earlier if mothered by a Tlacaspa mom, although this is unlikely because they are infertile if they allow the changes to happen.
Why "cursed" or "evil" magic?: They were created as a play thing and power source for Yanguete (I think that's how you spell it), A Zapotec God of suffering and unrequited and impure love, from before Aztec religion took over. His magic in inheritly evil, and he set about fashioning a people to feed him their anguish and conflicted emotions, and their love, though scorned. Thus, the magic that formed the first Tlacaspa was a cursed, evil magic.
Why do they exist in another Gods realm?: Because, when a benevolent Goddess realized that Yanguete was getting too powerful from this race, she shielded them, and allowed them small spaces of respite close to their beloved humans.
How the intricacies of their consumption powers (dubbed Tlacaspa's curse and gift, or the Cursed gift) work: They must consume the beast or plant before its life leaves it, and must consume until its life leaves it, they are born with the ability to eat things much larger then them, such as a legend of the Tlacaspas of Cherokee, Imhuca, who ate a large tree and fed the forest his sappy blood to create their place of rest. They do not leech the life from them in their consumption, but what they do is they force (for lack of a better word) the life force of the creature to mold their bodies, though if they were cruel in their consumption, the effects would be much more unsightly, or painful, then graceful and helpful. They are a species that thrives on kind consumption, secrecy, and the benevolence of a paranoid God, and were forged of a malevolent God, to feed him in his foolish, well stomped out quest to make the world a place of suffering.
Short Description: Tclaspas. A benevolent race created by a malevolent God, they seek the love of humans, and the culmination of their power, while they are doomed to never be accepted. They can absorb abilities from raw foods, but they must be careful as they last for life. Very weak to deathly Magic's, invulnerable to life magic, even healing magic, they can have their minds controlled based on how feral they are, and elemental Magic's do normal stuff, but if they are kinda polar or Northern, cold Magic's will be slightly less strong, and fiery Magic's will be more strong, etc. Etc.
