species:yelk
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| - | Yelk have the basic form of humanoids, but there the comparison ends. Externally, they are entirely white-fleshed, often described as "looking like a button mushroom", although some exposed parts may have become beige or brown due to UV light exposure triggering a protective melanin coating. | + | [{{ :species:yelk_in_forest_e2.jpg?200|<html><font color=black>The pale, subterranean Yelk often stand out starkly in wooded environments</font></html>}}]Yelk have the basic form of humanoids, but there the comparison ends. Externally, they are entirely white-fleshed, often described as having "skin like a button mushroom, in colour and texture", although some exposed parts may have become beige or brown due to UV light exposure triggering a protective melanin coating. |
| Most Yelk have visual sensory organs that outwardly resemble eyes, but work on a fundamentally different principle. Effectively their "eyes" are openings to inner sensory pits - the pupil is a tube-like gap that can be opened, closed and moved along with the outer surface of the "eye". The opening and closing of the "iris" modulates the amount of light entering the sensory pits, and the movement of the "eye" allows the Yelk to focus on different things in front of them without having to move their entire head. Yelk "eyes" are in essence finely manipulable areas of outer flesh with a sphincter-like opening to vary the amount of light entering the sensitive sensory pit behind it. The sensory pits are darkened, hemispherical structures with an array of photosensitive cells on their surface. Yelk vision is tuned for the dark environments of the caves where they evolved, and is often overloaded in brighter surface environments. As such, many Yelk cover their sensitive eyes with sunglasses or a thin gauze when in bright conditions. With practice and time, Yelk eyes can acclimatize to brighter conditions, and those who have done so go without protective coverings. Uncommonly, some Yelk do not possess outer eye structures at all, and have their sensory pits on the outside of their face - in these cases, they have fairly smooth skin where their eye-analogues would otherwise be. | Most Yelk have visual sensory organs that outwardly resemble eyes, but work on a fundamentally different principle. Effectively their "eyes" are openings to inner sensory pits - the pupil is a tube-like gap that can be opened, closed and moved along with the outer surface of the "eye". The opening and closing of the "iris" modulates the amount of light entering the sensory pits, and the movement of the "eye" allows the Yelk to focus on different things in front of them without having to move their entire head. Yelk "eyes" are in essence finely manipulable areas of outer flesh with a sphincter-like opening to vary the amount of light entering the sensitive sensory pit behind it. The sensory pits are darkened, hemispherical structures with an array of photosensitive cells on their surface. Yelk vision is tuned for the dark environments of the caves where they evolved, and is often overloaded in brighter surface environments. As such, many Yelk cover their sensitive eyes with sunglasses or a thin gauze when in bright conditions. With practice and time, Yelk eyes can acclimatize to brighter conditions, and those who have done so go without protective coverings. Uncommonly, some Yelk do not possess outer eye structures at all, and have their sensory pits on the outside of their face - in these cases, they have fairly smooth skin where their eye-analogues would otherwise be. | ||
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