Saruthi
From Lexicanum
The Saruthi are an alien race. They have no optical or auditory functions (i.e.: no eyes and ears) but their sense of smell and taste are much more developed by human standards. The Saruthi and their worlds have a lack of symmetry that is unnerving to anyone that views it. An interesting feature of their culture is their apparent lack of space travel, instead having interplanitary travel, similar to the eldar webway.
In the Eisenhorn investigation, they use two of their hands for form a human face, fully capable of speech. In addition, they shoot ice-blue bolts from a corona of electric-blue energy around their head. Their blood is a grey ichor and they are around two meters tall, and twice the mass of a man, with five appendages, in a seamingly random order. They carry silver stilts, adding a further meter to their height.
They had an ancient and small empire of about forty worlds, until Human refugees offered them the Necroteuch, a Chaotic tome. The knowledge contained within corrupted them utterly. The knowledge entered into their souls and minds, and entering even into their genetic code. A civil war engulfed their empire, leading to abandonment of many outposts and colonies. Their empire shrank immensely.
Sources
- Xenos (Novel) by Dan Abnett, page 266
