[ Xedra Evolved ] Playable Gracken Characters

[Maleclypse]

Summary

Mods "XE Playable Gracken"

Purpose of change

I've been thinking about playable Gracken ever since I added the Gracken Forgemaster in Magiclysm. I've been talking with Standing Storm around my ideas about making the Gracken as Monster Hunter characters that build their own mutation traits like a type of biological CBMs. Inside of our c++ system this works better with traits as they have more effective controls around the key areas I want to emulate than CBMs do. This PR will likely only cover the starting Gracken character plus a few traits that they can develop just to get something out there.

Describe the solution

Species, profession, traits to support both. Needs recipes to create some of the options. Each category should have at least two distinct choices, arms for example will have two directions strong or long (reach attacks). Stomach will go in distinct directions each direction should be limited to a specific diet.

Describe alternatives you've considered

None

Testing

tbd

Additional context

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• A traveler from another dimension. A dimension of shadows with few bright lights. Once your species matures, they gain the ability to create new alterations to their body from ingredients harvested from their kills, shadowstuff and magickal essence.
• Radiotrophic
• Species XE843 is how the Xedra scientists identified your people before they learned your people could speak to them after enough time around them to develop a way to communicate. They had little idea that communication is your people's survival trait, coming from a much harsher environment than the humans are…were blessed with, you can make allies with almost any thinking being. You informed the Xedra people of your race's name 'Gracken' but you didn't tell them that most of your people they found were larval forms and lacking access to the shadow materials needed would never grow up into an adult form. Now the humans' world is as deadly or moreso than your home and the way back is mostly closed. Time to try and find a route home that wouldn't be a death sentence, or see what this world has to offer.
• You have a gland that grows a small amount of the material needed to make biological improvements to yourself. You must gather dreamdross and components from monsters you wish to gain the abilities of and combine them with this shadowstuff into new organs and abilities.
• shadowstuff organ
• shadowstuff organs

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