Editing Tari (section)

==Biology==
Roughly 5ft tall on average, the tari are small, furry, bipedal rodents, resembling nothing less than humanoid rats. Hence the common Tyran moniker for them: "ratmen". Their arms are long enough that whilst they can stand bipedally, they of ten knuckle walk for comfort, and their 2.5ft long tails are semi-prehensile, allowing the tari to wrap them around protrusions for balance and security. A tari's fur is usually brown, but can be found in gray, golden, silver and combinations - they like to further adorn themselves with rings or spots of dye made from gyaya berries, as well as braiding the longer hair that sprouts from the backs of their necks and the base of their spines into tails adorned with beads or feathers. The quantity and quality of such ornamentation is typically used to signal social rank.

The rat-like faces of the tari include black sensory whiskers, and needlelike teeth... which are linked to a very ''un''ratlike set of ichor glands. These secrete a deadly toxic chemical, so the bite of an angry tari can cause a creature to slowly waste away and die, an effect that 2e likens to a disease rather than a poison. It even requires a Cure Disease spell to remove the affliction, so don't let a tari bite you!

[[Psionics]] are relatively rare in the tari, and only seen amongst their tribal chieftains, who wield a single Wild Talent. 

The tari's sense of hearing includes some pitches too high-frequency for the human ear to detect, and their squeaky native language is thus quite difficult for non-tari to master. Their own alien mouth-shapes also affect their ability to pronounce some of the sounds found in Common and Elven, so whilst the tari are perfectly capable of understanding what the humanoids around them are saying, communication can be tricky without the aid of telepathy.

Unlike the rats they resemble, the tari are relatively slow-breeding. They reproduce only once a year, during a heat season for their females which coincides with the conjunction of Athas' two moons. A pregnant tari female gives birth to a litter of 2d4 baby tari after a six month pregnancy. It takes 15 months for the young tari to reach full maturity, spending the first three months as helpless infants dependent on their mother's care before they spend the next year growing into adulthood and mastering what their society has to teach them.