Teexla

The Teexla are a sapient mortal race that live in large floating cities, they are typically cruel and self-centered creatures that abduct beings from across the world and utilize them as slave labor in their cities.

Physiology
Teexla take the form of large clusters of slime and tentacles that live in large isolated chambers in the center of their floating settlements, they range in diameter from 30ft to 60ft. Their bodies are typically pink or yellow, but other colorations do exist.

Though their tendrils are capable of reaching up to 90ft from their main body they are fragile enough that an adult human peasant could tear them apart bare handed, though the main body is more durable. They carry innate magical abilities, and are able to instinctively project spells, though they study magic to enhance their abilities and operate their magitech devices.

While not immortal, Teexla are exceptionally long lived by nature, and extend their already lengthy lives through abhorrent methods.

Culture
Teexla are almost universally arrogant and cruel, while benign members of the species exist they are typically isolationists and do not take action to stop other members of their species from abducting, enslaving and experimenting on members of the 'lesser' races of the world.

Teexla are deeply self centered and typically only live in gatherings of 3-4 aboard their immense city, unable to stomach the company of more of their kind, or share more resources than needed.

In order to acquire new slaves Teexla will often release a small number of artificially created monsters near isolated villages and then "Rescue" the inhabitants after they have been sufficiently weakened or frightened by the creatures using magitech bodies controlled from a distance to present trustworthy appearances. They will then seduce and deceive their targets to bring them to their floating castles, portrayed on the surface as false utopias, until the time comes for them to be rendered slaves through addiction, brainwashing, and other methods. Some are even altered through experimentation into unrecognizable forms.

Eventually the slaves and horrifying constructs made from them will be worked to the point of exhaustion, turned into fuel or 'recycled' in other ways that the Teexla deem amusing or useful.

History
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