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The Mantle
Gray coats of fine fur and faces that don't move. They read minds poorly and read bodies perfectly.
Shoma from orbit. Development art.
HomeworldShoma
RegionPheli
CultureA culture of clerks, archivists, and investigators. Privacy is sacred and gossip is a sport.
ReputationHonest, reserved, and frightening in a corridor.
If you visitShoma is all filing cabinets, lamp light, and soft shoes.
Story hookAn unreadable face is a challenge for a profiler, and it's the Mantle's whole job.
Abigail's notebookThey'll give you a sniff receipt. Keep it.Stores. The moss leaned in.
Six possible individuals
How different can one people look?
Every person in a people has a body of their own. These are painted studies of how far the Mantle can stretch: tall, tiny, wide, long-limbed, odd. Explorations, not final designs.
Browse every people in the Field Guide ▸ · How we pushed the proportions ▸
On the board