Green Martian

The Green Martians are one of the predominant races of Barsoom. They are green-skinned monstrous people who stalk the dead sea bottoms of barsoom. They are intelligent and capable of organizing themselves into a society, but they are almost to a man all brutish and cruel.

Biology & Attire

The green martians are the largest of the martian races, the males standing up to fifteen feet tall and females up to twelve. They have green skin, small antennae-like ears above the eyes, and large tusks, in the males these extend upwards to the level of the eyes. The eyes themselves are large with snowy white sclera and blood red irises, the eyes are on the side of their heads and are capable of moving independently. Female green martians differ in the fact that their skin color is light, the tusks of the females extend up to the level of their antennae, and also have vestigial finger nails. Like all other Martian humanoids, they lay eggs, the young taking up to five years to hatch! The young are miniature replicas of the adults, standing 3 to 4 feet in height when hatched, the all have yellowish-green skin that darkens as they age. The most distinct trait of the species is their six limbs, two arms, two legs, and an intermediary set of limbs that can be used as arms or legs. They go almost completely naked, wearing only a harness and jewelry like most martians

History & Culture

The green martians saw their rise during the death of mars, inhabiting cities abandoned by the more human races of mars.

Hordes

The green martians are divided into groups, these groups take the name of the dead city that they inhabit!

Culture

Understanding the culture of the green martians can be linked to understanding how they are born and how they spend their childhoods. Each year martian women bring forward up to thirteen eggs, the eggs that meet certain weight, size, and specific gravity tests are taken to a secret underground vault where it is to cool for incubation to occur. Each year a council of about 20 chieftains examines the eggs all but about 100 of them are destroyed, preserving only the most perfect for incubation. Once hatched after the five year period they hatch, any eggs that do not hatch on time are unwanted (it is also important to note that if one green horde comes across anthers incubator they destroy it and the eggs inside) . The large martian youths once born are scooped up by women of the community, if any of the children prove deformed or defective in any way they are promptly shot without a tear shed by anyone, the women raise them the only aspects of their raising being the teaching of language and use of weapons, which they are given during their first year. The Woman that raises the young martian develops no feelings or attachment, the children belong to the community and as a result parental love is completely unknown to them. From birth they know no father or mother love, they know not the meaning of the word home; they are taught that they are only suffered to live until they can demonstrate by their physique and ferocity that they are fit to live. It is likely that this horrible system is what resulted in the loss of the finer feelings and humanitarian instinct of the general population of their people.