4-5 ft tall, skin the colour of sand and shades of light brown/yellow. Hairless, they have a bony plate on top of their head, surrounded by a crown of dozens of bony horns up to a few inches long. Sharp teeth and nails are more like claws of bone rather than normal nails.
Their body is covered in bony spikes and plates, protecting parts of the body and jutting out in sharp spikes. Bony spikes from shoulders, knees, elbows. Protective plates in random patches and on their back, fingers, back of hand, outer arms.
The purpose of spikes is to deter large desert predators that would otherwise swallow them whole.
They're a desert people that carve their settlements out of stone cliff faces, and build with stone/sand/clay bricks.
Their bones are abnormally dense, making them surprisingly heavy for their size.
Tend to be a very aggressive people, don't take kindly to strangers visiting their homes.
Highly carnivorous, live purely off of meat, hunting large desert predators.
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