Kua Toa

The Kua Toa (which in their language means "Masters of All") are a race of fish-people who rule the entirety of the oceans in the Fadelands. They are so prominent that Demonac's working title for the setting was "KT World". It should be noted that the spelling is Kua Toa, not Kuo Toa, as it appears in official splatbooks, because Demonac thought it sounded better this way.

Abilities

The Kua Toa are fully amphibious (i.e. they can breathe air or water interchangeably), which is much rarer in this setting than normal (only the KT and the Aventi). They can also see movement so well that they can even detect the invisible (although they cannot see fully stationary invisible objects, such as rope trick portals or Nemondai). They are immune to poision and paralysis, heavily resistant to electrical damage (30 electrical resist) and have developed extreme control over their alchemical skin secretions to the extent that they can use them to power the Colos cloaks, effectively granting them free invisibility.

Monitors

(Main article: Monitors)

The monitors are a group of KT monks hailing from five sub-aquatic monasteries (two Illud, three Deluvian). Despite being monks, they're surprisingly effective and are each generally considered to be one-fish armies.

History

Long ago, at the dawn of time, the goddess Blibaal gave a fraction of her divine power to the inhabitants of an aquatic city-state, impressed by their cruelty and ambition. This caused them to gain great power (see above), allowing them to conquer the seas in her name and found the Deluvian Empire.

This empire faced its first major threat when the leader of the Shadowfin monitors, Godfin Shazuul, attempted to seize the throne. It took all of the other monitors combined to bring him down.

About 300 years ago, a group of KT known as the Illud decided to rebel against the Deluvian Empire and create their own empire. [Somebody should probably expand on that]

Houses

The KT are divided into a number of houses. Of these, the most noteable are:

• House Lokolo, who first developed the Kolos cloaks. This house was in fact dissolved, so that they could interbreed freely with the other Deluvians (this was pre-Illud), meaning that in the modern day all KT have inherited the necessary skin secretions to power Colos cloaks.
• House Babago, whose experiments with alchemy led to them all mutating into fish-ogres. Don't ask. This caused them to be looked down on by the other Deluvians, leading to them being one of the first factions to defect to the Illud.

The Kua Language

Not much is known of Kuar (the Kua language), as the KT refuse to teach it to outsiders (although Angel's picked up a little, during her training with The Organization ). However, a small number of words and phrases have been translated:

Kua	English
Kua Toa	Masters of all
Ulbu	Victory/butchery
Mun Baru	Mountain of Sacrifice
Oru	You
Vulbaal	City of Blood
Darvu	Dwarf
Goffvi Suvo Hoktoa*	[you are] "One who eats food and shit with equal gluttony"
Oru Kuaru	You [will be] blood
Oru Kubaru	You [will be] my [prayer/sacrifice]

*This is the Kuar phrase Angel helped LittleOne to inscribe on his Deluvian shield.

Kuar Writing

Original stick-it note of the Kuar alphabet; The prototype "triangular rune" symbols at the bottom were later revised, removing the "right" side of the triangle.

Writing and literature have a very high status in Kua Toa society (which would be a surprise to most outsiders, given their bloodthirsty and militaristic nature). Modern Kuar writing uses a phonetic alphabet which matches reasonably well with common, but lacks the "w" sound (sometimes replaced with 'ua'). Kuar also lacks the "h" sound, and compared to the English alphabet, C/K/Q are all represented by a single letter.

The letter 'B' is considered holy to the Deluvians, due to its association with their Goddess, Blibaal (formerly known as Blibdoolpoolp). The main effect of this is that Deluvians do not use proper names starting with 'B' - a taboo brazenly violated by some of in the 'rebel' Illud nation.

Prior to the current phonetic alphabet, Kuar was written in triangular runes - pictograms encased within two-sides of a triangle. Though no longer used in texts, these runes are still used in places as symbols of ancient and respected words, concepts and organizations, such as to represent Blibaal, other gods, and as the symbols of the five ancient monasteries.

The most famous work of Kuar literature is probably The Current of Teeth.