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Action: use a Grand Piece to create the mortals known as seluki.

Seluki are semi-lithic organic creatures tat primarily inhabit land. Most can glide and a few even fly, however. Each base seluki resemble a small bird-like dog. Usually, each 4 legs, furry wings, a beak, snout, a feathered canine tail, avian eyes, canine ears, feet and snout. Their overall body shape is avian, although most of their hide is covered in fur.

Seluki beaks are composed of a light stone material similar to pumice. Within the inner side of each maxilla is a narrow groove that is initially empty. Because of this, a young seluki will sound different from an on older seluki. Overtime, this groove becomes filled with a crystalline mineral that resembles cut gemstones; the exact colouration differs between seluki, but is defined genetically. A poor diet/mental distress may inhibit crystal growth and gleam.

Seluki fur is composed of a durable form of asbestos-perlite. Naturally fireproof, seluki fur tends to break into powder if excessively rubbed or damaged.

Seluki internal organs are composed of light stone, gemstone-like formations and cartilage.

Seluki can survive on an ash and mineral diet, but are healthier if they can feed on organic material. They particularly like sodium chloride and iron oxide.

Seluki reproduction is complicated and fraught with difficulty. Seluki reach sexual maturity around 25 years of age and can potentially live to around 125 in their non-bonded form. This assumes that disease or other factors don't shorten or end their lifespan. Seluki cannot breed unless they bind themselves to one or more individuals.

Seluki bonding is a process by which one or more seluki unify their minds and.bodies into one individual; the process is non-reversible. It involves at least two seluki spinning themselves into a cocoon of mineral fibres (or cultural equivalent; it can be a cauldron or put). The seluki disassemble themselves into sapient soup through proactive internal enzymes that can only be released during bonding. Each seluki involved is still conscious whilst in their soup form.

Over a period of a week (with more time required for each participant), the soup reforms into a bonded seluki. This chimeric being usually possesses additional pairs of wings/legs/tails/ears/hearts/etc. than a non-bonded seluki. Bonded seluki are able to give live birth to a litter of 1-12 children either through self-fertilisation (they possess the combined gametes of their constituent seluki), or by mating with other bonded seluki. Bonded seluki can live 50 years, starting from their bonding.

Initially, each constituent seluki is still fully conscious within the psyche of bonded-seluki, controlling aspects of the combined body and each communicating with other minds within the body. As time passes, the myriad nervous systems eventually unify, resulting in a single mind inheriting all memories of their forebears. Their personality is usually a combination of the preceding seluki. As such, it is recommended that anyone involved in bonding are similar in outlook or otherwise reconciled to being with each other.

Bonded seluki cannot bond again; they are out of bonding enzymes.

Seluki possess a human range of personalities and emotions.

Singular form; seluki
Plural form: seluki

A-0 gazes over the has-not is-not fretfully, reminded of her is-not shall-now-never-have been home, eaten by the cruelties of shifting and absolute probabilities and consequences. So many hadn't been lost, and never will be, and now A-0 isn't the only one who can never remember them forever. She would have to be the monument of those who are-not, nobody else would forget. She would have to live.

"NEVERMORE, NEVERMORE."

She mournfully exists, stubbornly, within the space-that-is-not-space and the time-that-is-not-time, and naturally divine sparks fall from the spark's feathers, shavings and dust and ozone which drift into the shape of the shadow's shadow, a dark zone of hiding which is also a bird.

Put forth two aligned acts to partly create an additional plane: a great living shadow in the sky which serves as an avian haven, a safe place only birds may reach. Others may finish with additional acts, altering the finished product appropriately.

"I am willing to designate an Act for this, as long as this shadow should grant a civilising aura to those fall under its shade."

Gregory contributes 1 Civilisation Act if so.