Caseic Nose

The Caseic Nose is a distinctive facial feature of humans in the Caseic Archipelago.

Characteristics

A nose is a human facial structure with a pair of holes which connect the lungs to the air. What makes the Caseic Nose notable is that it is completely flat, and thus its holes are small. Functionally, the Caseic Nose still allows air to travel to the lungs.

Cause

Around 1900 TT, an airborne disease afflicted a supermajority of the Caseic Archipelago, leading to widespread memory loss, and thus the collapse of governments. Within a few years, it was found that covering the nose and mouth was an effective way of avoiding the disease. It thus became tradition to bind the nose of a newborn child. Over the next thousand years, the average nose size decreased as a result of this practice until it became completely flat. The tradition was abandoned around 560 TT as a result of decreasing air pressure causing bound newborn children to die. Despite the tradition being abandoned, the feature still remains.