#iridonia

so iridonian zabrak typically seem to have hair and horns, all genders/phenotypes. dathomirian zabrak and zabrak/human/rattataki hybrids seem to be inexplicably dimorphic. girls get hair, boys get horns. (i'm guessing this is because of some internalized thing on the part of the writers, but we're playing in-universe todayyyyy)

my potentially morbid ponderings are... what do we think they do with anyone born in between? what's the social class for boys that grow hair? slave or witch? how about the girls that grow horns? how about people that grow neither hair nor horn? when gender presentation is paired to your social class, and your entire world's society is dramatically split into magical cultist or disposable servant with nothing in between, what do they do with the mismatched people with only two stark options?

I spent the afternoon at the top of a hill in the village meditating, coming back from it just as dusk was falling. It occurred to me then, with fresh eyes and clear thoughts, that this enclave looks distinct from others. This is not paecian architecture, nor is it particularly rustic.

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They're hairless, friend. The zabrak homeworld is Iridonia, which has an arid climate where it's difficult to grow things. Part of the reason, I imagine, that they envision an afterlife that is lush and green and abundant — because they grew up with so little and because it was so difficult.

Dathomir is not much better, being covered in treacherous terrain: swamps and mountains and gnarled groves of gravethorns.

Zabrak do not sweat much either; an adaptation to their homeworld's climate. The conservation of water was especially important, given that they run slightly hotter. Two hearts, as such.

You may have noticed in your explorations that they do not have eyebrows, nor pubic hair.