Realm: Kemet
Typical Height Range: 4' to 5'6"
Typical Weight Range: 150 to 250 lbs
Center of population: Central Nile
Estimated population: 80,000 native / 590,000 former human
Physiology
Ammit are squat and broadly built. They stand bipedal and plantigrade. In essence, they are a blended species, their components not as clearly demarked as indicated by classical mythologies. While their faces can be structurally compared to those of an alligator, the presence of mobile external ears, and the covering of short fur and tough hair does detract from the resemblance.
Their bodies are thick and round, with wide shoulders, thick ribs, and wide pelvis. Their arms and legs are short and extremely strong.
Their heads feature a very long snout and a broad field of vision. Their teeth are numerous and sharp, definitely geared to carnivorous eating. Ammit hide is very durable, and covered head to foot in rusty brown fur. Their tails are short and fat, and do not impede their sitting in human seats.
Their hands and feet both bear a superficial resemblance to feline paws, though with a familiar build to their human counterparts. Relatively stubby digits with thick pads, they have thick, sharp claws, and a covering of short fur. There seems to be very little sexual dimorphism in this species, and their bodies are thick enough that even the presence of breasts is not significant enough to make visually discerning one from the other easy when they are clothed below the waist.
Ammit are very adept in water, with natural buoyancy and ballasting mechanisms, as well as transparent nictating membranes in their eyes. Without any training, an ammit can hold his/her breath for 3 to 4 minutes. The combination of these factors means that it is not uncommon to see an ammit simply ford a deep river by walking in one side and out the other.
The ammit sensory package is mixed. Their hearing is human-average, while their vision is typically about 12/20, albeit with excellent low-light and underwater sight. Their sense of smell is well above human, and functions underwater.
Culture
The culture built among ammit is one of rivers. Numerous sports, rituals, and interactions occur with a river-centric bent. They even have a number of words that no other races use specificly for identifying river geology. They are extremely skilled boatsmen, and tend to be very physical in most interactions.
The tehknil is a small boat specificly designed to be easy to board, and easy to stand on, circular with a broad balance and usually some anchoring mechanism. Young (and sometimes older) ammit will use padded or bare staffs to knock one another from their tehknil. An annual event on
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