Physiological differences in ethnicities
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The different ethnicities of the humans of the Attu Archipelago present many differences. This page lists them comprehensively.
Overview
Facial features
By island
Akaria
Hair
Hair colour ranges from brown to black and greys with age.
Skin
Akarian's have a light green skin tone due to the chlorophyl in said skin. They go brown when they die.
Deysachin
Facial features
Deysachni faces generally are longer than they are wide, and are disposed to features better described as angular than round. Deysachni noses especially are far more likely to be sharp than flat. Eye colors include most all of the visual spectrum, with green, lavender, burgundy, and yellow being the most common.
Hair
Hair colors among the Deysachni average out towards brown, but can go from jet black to lush red, and can on occasion be so light as to be nearly blond, though true blondness is not found.
Skin
Deysachni come in an extremely wide range of skin tones, from dark, near black Thuoa, to pale, nearly grey Birminghambi. On everage, they can be described to have "olive" or "tan" tones, tending towards paler tints overall, with varying degrees of tint. The color of tint can range from a redish yellow to nearly a vague green shade.
Among the Modhes, it has been known for individuals of high rank and holiness to gain abnormal and inhuman features. Descendants of Modhes Ywl have been known to have unusually vibrent eyes and hair, sharper than average canines and fingernails, taller than average height, on rarer occasion extra digits or some skeletal defromation, and rare still a wholey nonhuman feature, such as a pharyngeal jaw, though most reported circumstances of such things are dubious. Such traits have also been reported among the preisthood in general due to beliefs about "pure blood", and are even said to have been aquired over time by especially pious individuals, most of Saints. It is unclear the degree to which historical descriptions of these abnorations are ment to be literal or metaphorical, though it was noted that the late Mbiel The Blind verifiably had an extra row of teeth and unusually fast reflexes for an old man.
Archpriests, due to having consumed the ashes of their predeccessors who took part in Metamorphosis, have been seen to possess more exaggerated abnorations, such as fanlike hands, perminantly miscolored sclera, sharpened teeth and clawlike digits, a subdermal anomaly described as a buried third eye, and on very rare occasions, a true third eye (described thrice), hornlike protrusions (described four times), four extra fingers (described twice), and a whole additional arm (described once).
Eternal Apostles are seen to be the pinacle of this phenominon, as they no longer are to be considered even human.
Kalam
Facial features
Kalami people are most often defined by their bushy eyebrows with sharp ends along with broad, bulbous noses. Likely their most striking feature at first glance, Kalami eyes appear x-shaped due to a strange deformation pattern in their pupils, akin to coloboma, though wholly unexplained.
Hair
Under natural circumstances, Kalami people will always have black hair, though it can range from thick and short to thin and long. Kalami people tend to style their hair depending on gender, with men either tying their hair in several tails or shaving it into a short military style.
Skin
Kalami people have skin tones ranging from a dark and rich chestnut color to a brighter yet colorful beige.
Many Kalami make use of scarification on their flesh as a symbol of their warrior status or religious devotion. Tattoos are commonplace, with special facial tattoos used to identify important government officials such as Elders and Kimal.
Utlia
Facial features
Within Utlian people, the most common facial archetypes include round faces, upturned noses, somewhat large eyes and thick eyebrows.
Hair
Utlian people have black and brown hair, with brown hair being slightly more common than black. Hair color also depends on the region of Utlia itself, in the northern provinces brown hair is more prevalent as opposed to black hairs prominence in the south. Like many things in Utlian culture, hairstyles are not typically associated with a specific gender.
Skin
Utlian skin is lighter with a pale or rosy tone to it, Merriyem skin however featured tealish or light blue tinting throughout, this is theorized to be from the large amount of Grylbo meat consumed by their ancestors. Within Utlia tattoos are not uncommon, among sailors in the amphibious forces or soldiers in the national forces tattoos are a rite of passage as they rank up.