Planet Zar: Nexus

Melantha

BASICS

Name	Melantha Luctus	Gender	Female
Species	Asandus (old cascatan/niteshan)	Pronouns	she/her
Age	Adult	Color	Brown-Green
Height:	18' at shoulder	Size Class:	Medium-Large
Residence	The Refugium	Occupation	Paramedic
Origin	Phe's Derivative Works

Personality

Melantha is a constant force of energy, always dashing from place to place, fair buzzing with the need to do things. She's in the right line of work, where disaster and surprise is around every corner and she needs to stay on her toes. Is she constantly buzzed on coffee? Just naturally a go-getter with an energizer battery? Melantha won't say one way or the other, she'll just offer a wink and say she's ready to do her job. She dislikes structure and routine, so the adrenaline thumping possibility of disaster is what drew her to emergency services. She greets clients with a calm but cheerful disposition, offering optimism in dire situations.

Abilities

FLOWERING BREEDING

Intermittently -- dependent on age, health, environment, and goodness knows what other factors -- Niteshan will flower: the gems along its back and sides will grow slightly more opaque over the course of a week or two, and then open up into great flowers. These will remain for another couple of weeks, give or take, before withering and falling off, the gems regrowing beneath. These flowers have both male and female sexes, regardless of the sex of the niteshan as a whole, though self-pollination is not possible.

FUNCTIONAL MAGIC

A wide-ranging ability that allows the user to do anything from enchanting an object to change temperature, to casting a protective spell, to creating a communication or light charm.

PHOTOSYNTHESIS

This is enabled by a combination of their gems (and wings, during childhood) having some photosynthesis capabilities, and their tails being able to draw water and nutrients from the ground around them.

ROOTED HIBERNATION

Niteshans have the ability to 'root' themselves through their translucent tails in good earth where they can get some sunshine and go into a state of hiberation. This can last indefinitely, if conditions are good, and is very much like an exceptionally deep sleep: they can be roused with significant ouside effort, but they will be groggy.

TELEPATHY

The ability to speak with only the mind.

TELEPORTATION

The ability to move objects instantly from place to place using only the mind.

SHAPESHIFTING

human-asandus spectrum

UNDERWATER BREATHING

the ability to breathe underwater

VERBAL SPEECH

The ability to speak verbally, rather then telepathically.

Stories

Lineage

Siblings tbd	Degenti Iter niteshan asandus	unknown	unknown
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	Numenolunt Luctus old cascatan asandus	unknown	unknown
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