A bipedal alien creature with greenish-brown skin, feathered arms, and four red eyes stands on a rocky red planet.

an alien race called the Churg. Churg are a bipedal race. They have feather-like coverings on their head upper back and upper arms. The feathers are usually various shades of brown with white to grey tips. Churge are not avians, but these feathers were used for insulation in proto-Churg species. Churg stand on average 2 meters tall. They are bipedal. The head has four eyes all of which are on the front of the skull. The larger pair are on the top and are optimized for night vision. As their sun is a M-dwarf and has a red and dim spectrum, their eyes are sensitive to more a broader wavelength range than Vilani or Solomani humaniti out to two microns. They see farther into the infrared, not far enough to detect thermal emissions, but to collect additional photons. The night eyes only see in black-and-white. The lower pair are smaller and are optimized for daytime. Churg can use both pairs of eyes at the same time, but Churg usually only use both pairs of eyes simultaneously when in a heightened state of alertness such as in combat or when on guard duty. Otherwise, one set of eye lids is shut. They can open the other eye as a way of emphasizing a point. Churge have a beaked mouth with two small nostril slits just above the beak. This resembles a snapping turtle rather than a bird. Their skin is tough and usually a shade of dark greenish brown. They have three fingers and an opposable thumb. Their fingers are larger than human fingers Mehr sehen