The Lýkos are a race of sentient bipedal wolves. They come in the following colours: Gray, Light Gray, Dark Gray, Blue-Black, Black, White and so forth. They have yellow eyes and medium sized tails. they are 35px high. Females have green eyes. History The Lýkos were only just leaving the Stone Age when a Miniknog Research vessel land on Foliá, the Lýkos homeworld, the Lýkos were savage, tribal warriors that had a simple pack hierarchy, much like modern wolves. The Miniknog researchers took a hundred back with the for study, and what they found was amazing. Lýkos posses an uncanny ability to learnother languages quickly, which enabled the researchers a far better view into Lýkos culture. And what they found was amazing. The Lýkos were originally completely hostile, attacking enemy packs on sight, but after Uplifting they are much less aggressive, but will start wars over territorial infringements by other races. They don't trust readily, but as arule they trust Apex instantly. Culture Lýkos live in a pack hierarchy that is ruled by the Alpha Male and Alpha Female. The system is as follows: Alpha Beta Young Subordinates Children Omegas (Criminals) Lýkos packs would number in the dozens; the bigger the pack, the safer. The position of Alpha is easily contested, whoever kills the Alpha male, is declared the new Alpha and their mate, the second. Nowadays, packs form alliances, the biggest pack-alliance is the race's governing body, it is called the Fengári Aftokratoría. The gods they worshipped, and still do, are called The Moon Father and The Sky Mother. They used to perform live sacrifices to these gods, but now offer material possessions. Some Lýkos choose to leave their pack and explore the Universe, while technically this gives them the rank of Omega, the government ignores them as long as it provides trade for the Lýkos people. They constantly refer to members of other races as "prey", regardless of whether or not they intend to eat the "prey", it likely came from the Lýkos hunting instinct. When used in a sentence it looks like this: "Yes, prey?" Or "What does the prey want". They refer to other Lýkos as "hunters" and pack members as "hunt-kin". Structure, Tech and Weapons Lýkos built small read and mud huts, used primitive weaponry and had no advanced technology until the Miniknog came. Now they build steel towns, just enough for a pack to live in. They build everything with wolf-like adornments, for example: A ship's cockpit would be in the shape of a wolf head, or, a gun would have an open wolf haed at the end of the barrel. Since the Arrival, as the Lýkos call it, their technology has soared, the posses laser technology, FTL travel and inter-stellar communication. Their warriors favour the Sword, Spear and Axe, while also supporting these with sniper rifles, assault rifle, pistols and shotguns. They have unique technology called the "Lýkos Eye" it is a small handheld devices which provides accurate information about anything it scans. Armour Concept T1 Called: Pup's Set Consists of: Pups Circlet, a ear encircling circlet Pup's Vest, a sleeveless leather vest with iron shoulders and studs Pup's Loincloth, a leather loincloth, nuff said T2 Called: Wolf's Set Consists of: Wolf's Mask, a steel mask that covers the face Wolf's Breastplate. full body armour Wolf's Leggings, full leg armour T3 Called: Warrior's Set Consists of: Warriors Helmet: a full head, wolf-shaped helmet Warrior's Chestpiece, a chestpiece that has wolf head adornment, like the Wolf Armour in Skyrim. Warrior's Leggings, Like Wolf's leggings but with similarities to the Warrior's Chestpiece T4 Called: Omega's Set Consists of: Omega's Hood, a gray, almost black hood, with the Lýkos T2 helmet Omega's Trappings, a gray open robe with a durasteel chestpiece adorn with a snarling wolf's head underneath Omega's Lower Robe, a gray lower robe with metal boots T5a (ranged) Called: Howler's Set Consists of: Howler's Headgear, a lower face aegisalt mask, shaped like the lower face of a Lýkos Howler's Breastplate, a sleeveless aegisalt breastplate with wolf head shoulderpads Howler's Greaves, aegisalt greaves with wolf headknee pads T5b (melee) Called: Feaster's Set Consists of: Feaster's Helmet, an open-faced violium helmet, shaped like a Lýkos head Feaster's Chestpiece, a violium chestpiece with a white claw mark on it Feaster's Leggings, violium leggings with white claw marks T5c (defense) Called: Defender's Set Consists of: Defenders Mask, a Rubium helmet with an open visor and ear slots Defenders Vest, a Rubium sleevless vest with gauntlets and a moon insignia in the center Defender's Greaves, Rubium greaves with a black loincloth T6a(ranged): Called: Moonstalker's Set Consists of: Moonstalker's Hood, a black hood with a full Ferozium mask, shaped like a Lýkos head Moonstalkers Chestguard, a ferozium chestguard with a full moon in the center and a black scarf/lower hood thing Moonstalker's Leggings, ferozium leggings with a missing knee guard on one legging T6b (melee) Called: Alpha's Set Consists of: Alpha's Crown, an impervium mask, shaped like a Lýkos head, with a crown atop it. Alpha's Guarding, a large impervium chestpiece with numerous grey claw and slash marks Alpha's Greaves, impervium greaves with a small cape T6c (defense) Called: Protector's Set Consists of: Protector's Mask, a cerulium full head mask, shaped like a Lýkos head. Protector's Bulwark, a cerulium chestpiece pitted with bullet marks, claw marks and sword marks Protector's Legguards, cerulium legguards marked by battle damage Ship A gray and white sleek design, the cockpit is styled like a wolf head. The tech panel is gray with white outlining, the ship locker is the same, the AI is a gray-blue wolf T1 Gray with white outlining, cockpit is a wolf's head, the sails are curved, battle damage everywhere T2 Repaired T3 Ftl repaired T4 Underside room added T5 Length extended with an other room added T6 Adds another room to the underside T7 Adds an upper section with 2 rooms T8 Adds another underside room and 3 length rooms The ship pet is a small wolf pup, that comes in the colours that Lýkos can come in. Character Customization Fur Colour: Listed at start Ear type: Ranging from straight, torn lowered, flattened, etc Clothing: A torn shirt and pants, Leather shirt with bracers and leather pant, cloth shirt and pants Tail position Racial Abilities Slightly faster health regen Slightly faster movements speed The "Examine" button gives less of a speculation and more of a factual statement. Respawn Animation A cave being formed then a Lýkos comes out. Thank you for reading this inane babble. Please tell me what you think.
Hmmm. Interesting. I am actually at this moment working on a totally different wolf race, but this is cool!
I really don't get the whole "learns languages fast thing". Is it meant to be magic? Are they telepathic? Because, if they're meant to be really smart, I don't see why they'd have been savages and even after uplifting worship gods. Also it doesn't really seem to fit in and is never referenced again. I'm assuming you did it so that they could communicate with the Apex? The civilized races already have universal translators. Though they are not perfect (ever tried speaking to the Agaran?), it could easily work if they adapted it. Otherwise, I dunno. The whole tribal thing and then given technology has already happened with the Avians. Avians worship a god like the Lykos do aswell and they even have/had sacrifices. Honestly, these guys just look like Avians with a wolf colour job. That said, I do like the idea of playing as a wolf person, and I feel like you had this too and then quickly came up with a story to fit them. I'd still download this as a mod as I don't care much about background story. Also be careful with the whole ship with a wolf head thing. It's okay if it's just the cockpit, but if you try and make the whole thing a wolf, you'll end up on the path of the Hylotl koi fish. RIP KOI FISH!
What if the quick langauge learning deal was an implementation of the miniknog? The first 100 could have been victim of tests which have heightened certain senses but not all of them, hence the ability to understand languages, but retain a simple mind and hostile set mind.
@HunterC1998 That makes sense, but makes me think they'd be more hostile to the Apex, because tests were performed on them.
@Glitchspeare Sorry I said that wrong, they weren't victims, they were taken to be "enlightened". Like the Miniknog were trying to spread their influence and gain followers, but they turned away from these teachings, not rebelliously , but stayed around long enough to gain unique abilities
The ship only has a wolf head. The language thing was based of the Predators, because of their superior larynx they can perfectly replicate sounds and quickly pick up languages. Like above.
Kinda counter-intuitive considering actual canines have very limited larynx which can only make barks and whines and such. I've never seen Alien vs predator (which is what I'm assuming you meant by predator), but it still makes little sense. Being able to copy someone accurately =/= easy understanding of language. We have yet to have any highly intelligent parrots. *looks at Avian* Oh wait... (Although calling Avians intelligent might be a stretch)
I believe he means that the advancement of the larynx may have had to be in part from the "Miniknog 100", and with the extreme advancement of technology, they made it a standard to keep the modified larynx so they can contribute to their pack.
Okay that makes more sense, but in his original post it says that "what they found was amazing. Lýkos posses an uncanny ability to learnother languages quickly". Which would insinuate that they didn't do anything to the Lykos to make them learn quickly (otherwise it wouldn't have been a suprise).