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I can't speak too much about Khjude, as she is @crispy-ghee 's creation, but I say a few more things about Kindut'ru:

Part of Korot'Ul tradition is that your children may be blood related to you, but they are not technically 'yours'. They belong to the current Leader, which are given the "Mother/Father of Many" honorific. In other clans, having many children or large bloodlines can be/is a way to gain more rank and privilege, maybe even having bargaining leverage. To the Koroth'Ul, by removing the leverage power of children, everyone is more or less equal - or at least no one will ever be able to use children/bloodline to challenge Leadership. So then becomes a matter of the individual's strength and prowess to challenge the Leader for the role - which are what the Koroth'Ul value most.

Kindut'ru, being the current leader of the Koroth'Ul, is known as the "Mother of Many".

Females will raise children, but will not claim her children as hers, and symbolically hand them over to Kindut'ru as the symbolic 'mother' of the Koroth'Ul.

For the Koroth’Ul, your body is not 'yours', technically. You are of Koroth's blood and bones, a sliver and extension of his body. Your children are an extension of Koroth as well. They are not yours/for you, they are of everyone, as we are all Koroth. It is the Mother/Father of Many who becomes the maternal/paternal figure of these children, you're just there to help raise them.

And, again, the Koroth’Ul do not see anything wrong or feel oppressed by this. This is their normal and willingly oblige to it.

Masurao has wet nursed other females' children when needed, or handed her infants over to other females when she was out fighting/soldiering.

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Kindut'ru's name is not her first name (or what she was called originally). It means 'Once Dead' in the old Koroth'Ul language; an old dialect still called "Korith".

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The Biotic Temple was once attacked by a Koroth'Ul leader at the time , an old warlord named Ga-Dau that was getting up there in age so his idea of a last hurrah was launching an assault against the Biotic Temple. Khjude managed to put up a shield, and the old bulldog warlord was none happy about it. He pushed and relentlessly assaulted his entire force against the shield.

Khjude: "You are no better than brutes that give in to your rage!"

Ga-Dau: "Take down this barrier and I will SHOW YOU my rage!"

The Koroth'Ul managed to kill at least one of Khjude's disciplies, and the woman ended up so enraged that she went from a defensive position, to an attack one.

She *destroyed* the Koroth'Ul force. At least the brunt of them.

The few fortunate Koroth'Ul that did survive Khjude's ire were probably at the far back that were able to put enough distance between themselves and her, but that doesn't mean they left unscathed, receiving "biotic burns" that left their backs scorched and scarred for the rest of their lives. Kinda also to drive that detail they WERE retreating, as the only oneswho didn't survive were those too close to Khjude and thus unable to turn around in time.

Kindut'ru has these burns on her back.

When Jagged-Tooth, the Enforcer, stays with the Koroth'Ul as a guest of honor, Kindut'ru begins regaling her guest with tales of her clan's conquests and glory. But as the drinks deepen, so does her mood, ending up in a none pleasant one sided conversation about old wounds - literally and figuratively.

This is how Kindut'ru brings up her version of events from the Temple battle. She was younger, at the rear, and that's what spared her and a small handful of others from getting slaughtered. They managed to barely escape and return. Including Kindut'ru, there's two other survivors from that battle. The rest succumbed to their wounds after, or age and other ailments claimed them later on.

She, of course, places all the blame and hatred on Khjude - and by extension, biotics in general.

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It's an interesting exercise in perspective. They're morally muddled, and each have their arguments for the defense of their actions and accusation of the other. The Koroth'Ul were on the war path and would've killed them all if given the chance. Khjude did not give them that chance, and defended herself, her remaining students, and the Temple.

The Koroth'ul would've taken it too far; they killed a student and were not going to stop. Khjude just beat them to it in her grief.

The Koroth'Ul have their own narrative of events, which will include their bias. It only furthers fuels their purpose and determination to fulfill it.

Also Jagged-Tooth in traditional Dakh armor. Wore this during the fight with the Koroth'Ul, as he wasn't fighting as an enforcer.

Masurao and Jagged-Tooth are sweet to each other sometimes. Usually she is lounging on him, but sometimes he likes to lounge on her.

A quick and messy thing for Valentines Day! Enjoy some monsters in love!

Midnight Snack

There was some question over Jagged-Tooth and Masurao’s relationship status, so I thought I’d clear it up a little bit haha

The short of it is that Jagged’s ass belongs to Mas.

The little less short of it is that they’ve been through a lot and over that time have become a bonded pair with an incredibly strong relationship. Would note that Jagged-Tooth was also quite disinterested in mating in general through his life (I think I wrote somewhere that he is the equivalent of demisexual or something) and his relationship with Masurao is the surprising result of them getting close as unlikely friends first. Unlikely for a vast number of reasons, but who likes anything to be easy anyway.