Races

Zish (Zissah and Ziyn) - by T.A. Saunders ©2010 v1.5

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The most notable feature of this bipedal dinosaur race is that they display a strong sexual dimorphism in their species. While both genders have head fans, to help regulate the temperature of their blood the male's head-fan is brightly colored with orange, yellow and red, matching the colors that travel up the bridge of their snout and along their eye ridges. Females have a much smaller head fan and overall have fewer bright colors. On a whole, both genders range from mottled green, olive, to inky black with some brightly colored scaling traveling down their backs. Again, this is more predominant in males than it is in females.

Males are also much larger, brutish looking and physically stronger than the females of the Zissah race, but the females are far more agile creatures and can move faster than their male counterparts. Because of these marked differences in the genders, the males tend to be laborers in the tribe while the females are the hunters. This size difference plays no role in their interaction with one another; each Zissah is equal in the eyes of their kin.

NOTE: All of the above applies to the Ziyn as well, having only the obvious difference of fangs and a snake-like torso and tail.