K’taran and M’sara
Background: A H’ris warrior named K’sar railed against the prejudice and hatred his people had for other races, especially humans. The H’ris had always taught their children that their race was the only one worthy of the gift of life, that all other sentient beings were an affront to their snake god, S’rpes the Deadly. K’sar asked his people to make peace with the humans. The H’ris considered him a heretic and sentenced him to death. Severely wounded, K’sar escaped the H’ris lands and made his way to human territory. There he was found and healed by a human woman named Cyanara. She was a strange woman, an outcast among her own people. The two of them found they had much in common. K’sar stayed with her. They had three children together: S’kmet, K’taran, and M’sara.
Their strange family was ostracized by the humans of the nearby village. The children especially were shunned and even physically harassed by other children and adults. S’kmet was the oldest, spending several lonely years by himself until his brother K’taran was born. S’kmet and K’taran (who were known affectionately as S’k and K’t) both inherited their father’s large eyes with small pupils and his wild green hair. S’k got K’sar’s ability to create poisons across his skin, but K’t took after his mother. Cyanara was a healer and a seer, able to see and hear the hidden things of the forest. She often talked to and tended to the magical creatures that normal humans never saw. She sometimes heard things on the wind. K’t was a serious young man who could often be found listening to the secrets of the world from his favorite places in the woods. S’k would usually have to drag his brother away from his contemplations to go play. When M’sara (called M’sa) was born, their family was complete. The two brothers kept a watchful eye over their little sister. She was so trusting and innocent, incapable of understanding the hatred the humans had for them. She suffered more harsh treatment than her brothers because she inherited her father’s green, scaly skin as well as his eyes and hair. This made her look even more inhuman and unnatural to the villagers. Even after they treated her horribly, she would go back, hoping to make friends with them somehow. It was on one of these occasions that she learned of another trait she got from her father—the transforming of her hand into a claw. When several children took it upon themselves to beat her, she instinctively reacted, striking out with a clawed hand at one of her attackers. M’sa’s brothers rescued her and took her home. She cried in confusion because she couldn’t understand why the villagers hated them so much.
After the H’ris attacked their hut in the forest, S’k awoke to find his brother and sister gone. K’sar and Cyanara were then killed as a wounded and drugged S’k awaited his death as well. Talpa came and offered him power to destroy the H’ris, letting him believe K’t and M’sa were already dead. It was not until Sekhmet met Oshay of the Clan Kataran many years later that he realized his brother and sister had survived. It is not known what happened to them, but they escaped to the far east. They came upon a group of humans in the clutches of a deadly plague. With skills learned from his mother, K’t and M’sa were able to stop the plague. The villagers took it as a sign that they were sent by the Great Dragon. The two became known as the Children of the Dragon and settled with the people there. They married humans and had many children. Their descendants were known as the Clan Kataran. Among the Kataran, one is thought to be extremely lucky to be born with any of the abilities of the Children: green hair, beady eyes, scales, clawed hands. Oshay had both the green hair and transforming hand of her ancestors.