Ghow

Ghow The Ghow are and ancient and imortal winged race of ratheren dating back to the dawn years follwing Rathberenonon.

The Ghow are telepathic, and communicate through shared visions rather than vocally.

Their homes are made of a extremely hard red substance named eldgreis, harder than steel, semi opaque, yet pliable and bendable given the application of great force over time, more akin to an extremely slow moving liquid than a metallurgic alloy. The substance is secreted out of the cloaca of a female member of the species, it can take a century or more to complete a large structure, each concentric layer completed daily at a thickness of less than 1/16 of an inch.

With very thin layers of eldgreis, Ghow scholars were able to craft extremely thin, durable and precise lenses of all sorts, eventually becoming adept astronomers and geographers.

The written language of the Ghow is photographic, mostly composed of hieroglyphs. Since the species is immortal barring violent death or disease, little thought was given to preserving knowledge via written language, and most of what remains decorating their structures is more poetic and artistic than practical in nature.