Togh Azar Il`Nanhagh

Finally a Reference Sheet for my most drawn Character.
I`ll add more info on him later!

Name: Togh Azar Il`Nanhagh
Race: Alien / Talaman
Age: 43 Years
Gender: Male

Eyes: Yellow
Hair: Dark Blue
Skin: Light Blue / Mid Blue Tattoos
Others:
- Missing lower jaw
- Long, strong tongue
- Three fingers
- Six eyes
- Strong tail

Favourite Colour: Blues / Purples

How do they eat?
They eat fluids of any kind. Their teeth contain a liquid substance, that destroys organic material such as meat if injected. Like a spider they may drink from other species that have an exoskeleton. They may also slurp liquid from a wound caused by their teeth. Smaller parts of solid organics may be eaten by them too, as long as they fit through their throat.

How do they communicate?
Talaman are able to speak, even though some languages may cause them problems, due to their missing lower jaw and lips. There are different dialects in their own species` language, but their communication usually consists of guttural and some dental sounds (like clicking their tongue, growling, hissing etc.). Using other languages they try to compensate missing lower jaw and lips with their agile, long tongue (pressing it against the teeth to create certain sounds that may be created using the lower jaw etc.).

Can they smell and hear?
Yes, they are able to smell and hear, even though their ears don`t work as well as the ears of a human, due to the missing ear conch. Their nose is almost as good as the nose of a human, even though they have no nasal cartilage. They can close their nose with a membran to protect it from dust and water, though while the nose is closed they aren`t able to smell at all.

How many eyes do they have?
They have three pairs of eyes (what makes six eyes at all). Their sight is way better than a human`s sight. Frontal eyes work like the eyes of a human and cover the same areal of sight. Side eyes can be moved individually (like the eyes of a chamaeleon), but aren`t able to look into the front direction fully. Together the six eyes do almost cover a 360° areal, though there`s a small area at the backhead that isn`t covered entirely, a blind spot. The brain of Talaman is developed to handle the different pictures every eye takes at the same time, so that they have a kind of "Panorama View". This is very helpful during hunting and fighting.

Why do they have a tail?
Talaman use their tail for balance. If the tail of a Talaman is cut off he/she wouldn`t be able to walk upright anymore. Even if the tail is cut by half they may get problems with walking upright or balancing on a border or a branch of a tree. "Cuttails" is the common translation for the name Talaman give outlaws and slaves, because they often get their tails cut to degrade them and make them crawl on all fours, which is very tiring for them, as their legs aren`t made to move that way.

What about females? Are there any? How do they differ from males?
There are female Talaman too. Females differ from males in their genetials (which are pretty similar to those of humans) and in that they have tentacles, that grow out of their sides directly under the thorax. These tentacles are important, as they do help females to hold two children tight to the body, while hunting or wandering around. They consist of strong muscles and are very flexible.
Talaman females do usually get two children. In rare occasions they only get one or in very rare occasions they might get three children. Single children are said to be "born leaders", as they may get double attention, double secretion (like milk), double food later etc. From triplets the weakest child usually gets abandoned after birth, as it has the lowest chances of survival and might endanger his/her siblings and mother. If the mother is a loving one, she will kill the third child instead of just leaving it behind. In rare occasions the mother may even feed at her weakest child (e.g. if she suffers of hunger).
New borns do not have any teeth or hair and their eyes are still closed. The eyes will open within one week after birth. Teeth an hair will grow within two months after birth. Talaman children may walk on their own within three months after birth and may then begin to learn how to hunt and live on their own.

Azar`s Personal Background Story:
Azar was around three months old when his clan died. Of course they didn`t die all together in a single night or something like that. It was more like a slow process in that the unknown disease spread amoungst them. One mother with her children left the clan early, but she was found dead later too, so she was already carrying the disease.
It was a horrible time for Azar, seeing his whole clan becoming sick and weak. When the first ones got ill everyone thought it would be a kinda „punishment“ from higher causes, as the clan believed in a single god called „Cheraaz“ (pretty difficult to write it down, as it`s usually a spoken word and hence their language is different to human language and mostly consists of sharp sounds, hisses and growls, it`s difficult to find a good written form that gives a certain impression on how a name might sound).
Cheraaz could be described as a kinda „god of war“. Many legends the clan passed on were about Cheraaz fights against false gods of other species or demons of any kind. There even was a prophecy that Cheraaz will return and punish the weak amoungst Talaman... and that those who die before he returns will be judged and punished right after their death. That`s another point why strength and honor were that important to the Talaman of Azars former clan. Guess as they all died of said disease they will all be punished by Cheraaz.

Anyway, being only about three months old Azar was still a child of the age when he actually was just starting to learn how to hunt and fight properly. During the third month of life Talaman children learn how to walk and start fights with eachother to test their own strength and to show their „value“ and position in the clan structure. They mature with six months (half a year), so Azar was only half his way matured. When his clan died, he was suddenly on his own. He actually even tried to feed on his clanmates when the hunger hit him hard, but after a few days out in the wildernis, they were of course not tasty or healthy anymore (omg this sounds so macabre). Anyway, he spend days around his dead clanmates as they were of course his family after all. Guess you can imagine a child playing amoungst a field of dead bodies, trying to bother his brother and to wake up his mother...
Anyway, he did leave them later to hunt for himself, as he started to feel, that he needed to leave them behind. He`s still kinda torn between the feelings that they left him and that he left them behind... even now, as he`s older he`s still full of anger and guilt because of that. It`s a kind of trauma I guess.
He learned hunting almost by himself (though he already had been taken on a hunt by the parents of his clan before) and he learned how to avoid being hunted down by bigger animals. Anyway, living alone was very difficult for a youngster like him and who knows if he`d survived til full adulthood when he wouldn`d have seen the „falling star“.

It was about a month after his clan died, when the space shuttle crashed down onto the planet`s surface. Azar didn`t meet any other Talaman during the time he was alone, though there most surely have been (or still are) more clans on the planet... there might also be other developed species around there, not sure though.
Anyway, when the space shuttle crashed down, Azar mistook it for a falling star and he was curious, though he was afraid too, because of weird story about the demons Cheraaz fought coming down from the stars and stuff like that. It took him almost two days to arrive at the place where the space shuttle came down in the mountainside close to the woodlands his clan had lived in. As he investigated further (he still though it would be a star or something like that), he soon noticed something „living“ inside of it. Not sure what he thought... I guess he was still afraid of demons, but on the other hand he was lonely of course... maybe he`d rather rescued a demon than staying alone any longer...
Anyway, he tried to rescue the „living core“ of the „fallen star“, but it was difficult to „remove“ it, as the pilot of the space shuttle was stuck and unconscious, close to his death, as he`d been in said condition for about two days now. Azar tried to release him again and again and when nighttime came he stayed at the shuttle. In the night the injured one woke up for a couple of minutes, though of course his head wasn`t completely clear due to agony and weakness. Azar tried to make him drink some water and eat some meat, but as the injured refused, he tried to feed him meat-fluid (like meat that was dissolved by his digestion liquid), as he thought maybe this „living core of a fallen star“ would only be able to eat fluids just like it`s common amoungst Talaman.

Around that moment Azar didn`t think of demons anymore. I guess his only thoughts were to keep this „star“ alive... otherwise he would have been alone again, as he felt (or just thought) this „star“ was something special – not like other animals, he usually fed on or tried to keep from eating himself. On the next day around evening time suddenly colourful lights appeared at the sky. Young Azar hid under some wreckage of the destroyed shuttle and watched a big space ship appear at the sky. Some rays of blue light were scanning the surface of the planet, looking for their missing space shuttle... and finally they found it.

They took Azar with them on their space ship. It was the first time in his life that he saw such and he misstook them for „gods“ for first. It was quite difficult for him to understand that these gigantic space ships were kinda „normal“ and that there were other species traveling the universe too. He was given into care of a very old male called Tel`la`Jehad, who had lost his own son a few years ago and who`s mate died few months later out of sadness for their sons death. Said species, Bomarier (in English they should be called Bomarians I guess), only take a single mate and reproduce a single time in their life which can last over 200 human-years. So Tel`la`Jehad took Azar instead of his own son, trying to teach him their language and a lot of other stuff. Azar, being quite intelligent, was a faster learner than many other species (Talaman learn a lot during their child-days, as they mature way faster than for example humans) and it didn`t take him long to fit in the society on the space ship quite well. The man he tried to rescue on the surface of the planet became a friend of him... though he kinda stayed his only friend. Azar was a Talaman after all, a stranger... some even treated him as an „animal“ (like some humans treat black people or american natives etc.).

The months he spent on the space ship were the best of his life. He learned two languages, one that was important for trading and communication in the sector they were actually traveling and big parts of the language the Ascer used to communicate. He learned to understand some traditions, tried to understand values like mercy and to fit into the society system that was so much different from his former clan structures. He even learned how to play a couple of parlour games from different species. Though Tel`la`Jehad tried to keep him active, it was pretty obvious, that Azar was suffering from a lack of physical training. Even though parlour games and languages still did interest him, he missed hunting and fighting and as he grew mature, there were some serious problems with other youngsters, that didn`t want to respect him and treated him badly. As Azar was familiar with fighting those who where weak to proof his worth and to show his place in clan structure, it became difficult for him. After a few fights in that others got hurt, he wasn`t allowed to stay at the space ship anylonger. Tel`la`Jehad anyway still wanted a perspective for his adoptive son, so he decided to give Azar into care of another species, where he should learn how to fight as a soldier in military. (that species isn`t developed at all by now )

He learned how to fight and got positioned on the border of a certain area where space fights with another species were usual. „Foot soldiers“ wheren`t rated very high. His first real „war“ was on the surface of a planet called Zaydyastan by the species he was fighting for. The goal was to defend a colony of said species.
That was when he really learned the glory and the cruelty of war – he was abount eight years old by then. (He never really understood why it takes other species so long to learn certain things. Being mature with under a year makes Talaman very fast learners, especially in the first months of their life. As they have a life expectation similar to humans but mature in just a year year, their „active“ life seems kinda „longer“ of course and humans seem kinda „slow“ to them.)

Afterwards he skipped out of military and decided to offer his services like a mercenary to get a greater variety of duties and to have more control over his own life. That`s why he became mercenary, head-hunter and guard. For him being mercenary is a way to keep pride and honour. It seems kinda weird, as many have the opinion, that being a loyal soldier is what give the most honor, but to him serving a single entity and following their orders blindly is not always a way of honor. He likes to choose his aims by himself – even though he needs money to live of course, that`s why he can`t always be picky.


Talaman role in galactic society is almost zero. Most clans aren`t developed enough to participate in galactic society and if they have any worth to other species they are usually seen as study subjects or just as „wild“ species. As they don`t form greater societies and only live in a clan structure with fights between different clans, they aren`t seen as „danger“ or in any other case „important“ by most other species.
Only some clans have already developed certain technology and are interesting for other species, but usually they are still not seen as a danger... maybe a species with potential but nothing more. Only individuals have become more important for galactic society as they are known as headhunters, assassines and guards.

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