Krukari Warriors

Who are the Krukari? The Krukari are not native to Haarkuun. They are a diaspora people, carried there long ago through the Great Ones' network from their homeworld: a humid, tide-driven world of brackish inland seas, mangrove forests, and marshland continents. They are semi-upright crustaceans, roughly five feet tall but broad and heavy-set, with a low center of gravity and a layered chitin carapace that turns aside a pike but remains vulnerable at the joints. They move forward when calm, sidestep when threatened, and strike in explosive bursts; in mud, marsh, and uneven ground they are nearly impossible to dislodge. They are not slow, but steady and relentless. They do not maneuver like men, they advance like a tide. Age and service are written into their shells: older Krukari grow darker, thicker plates, and carved patterns record clan, tide-lineage, and military history.Krukari prize stability, structure, obligation, and long memory - a memory long enough to carry a grudge across d