The Savarnaus are a rarely seen species that inhabit one of the Haze worlds, Buathwi. Their world is a toxic-gas shrouded planet, with a thick and noxious atmosphere. Any normal light is stifled and the stifling clouds of caustic gas suffocate the planet. Because of this, the Savarnaus evolved away from having ears or eyes, as sight or sound was not needed on this planet. An advanced mental capacity soon arose, with increased mental imaging sensing and mental projection. This ability to project brain waves directly into another allowed them to bypass the need for physical speech or vision. The Savarnaus mind became complicated, with delicate neurological inputs that lined the Savarnaus “heads”. These allowed the Savarnaus to send and receive a type of radar wave that could penetrate the thick atmosphere, as well as projection capability into other minds.

This radically different evolutionary tract meant that the Savarnaus focused on pursuits of the mind over all else. The power of the mind was valued over all else. As society developed and unified, the Bol’morra Order arose as devotees of the mental prowess of the Savarnaus. The Bol’morra retreated to the moon Incerri, a mountainous rock that orbited Buathwi. There the Order became obsessed with the study of mental pursuits and fine-tuning their telepathic abilities. Fully trained adepts became able to enter a shared dreamscape, where the impossible was a reality. The moon soon became a sacred ground of study. Any Savarnaus that entered the Order was expected to live his full life on the moon, delving into bizarre dream worlds and deep inner contemplation.

When the Savarnaus made contact with other species the Order quickly realized that methods of communications were needed with these strange new creatures and their fascinatingly different brains. A method of telepathic-like projection was created that allowed a Savarnaus to project the image of a face, often called a Mask and tailored to individual species, that would communicate to other species. While theses masks seemed to be talking and listening like an actual person, the Savarnaus actually is performing a complicated method of reading brain activity and projecting electrical waves directly into that species’ visual and auditory cortex. These new, elaborate methods of communication meant that a Savarnaus that needed to talk to other species had to become an expert on neurological sciences. Schools were created on Buathwi that educated Savarnauses selected to become a “Communicate”. These schools, ran by the Order, taught extensive and thorough courses on culture, neurology and philosophies of various beings. A Savarnaus can learn at an extremely rapid rate through a process somewhat similar to download; information is projected directly into the brain which quickly assimilates and processes it.

Because of the difficulties the Savarnaus have in communicating with other species, along with their general lack of visual and auditory senses, they rarely venture off-world. Even rarer are the leaders of the Savarnaus society, the Bol’morra Order. As such, Savarnaus are little understand and often confused as mind readers or psychic monks. In reality, due to the complexity of the variety of brain patterns, Savarnaus often can only gleam the most basic of emotions and general feelings from other species. Even with extensive training as a Communicate and time with a species a Savarnaus can sometimes struggle with communicating via the mask. Using electronic systems and advanced communication networks are extremely difficult and often impossible for a Savarnaus. A recent practice has been to use a race of lower-intelligence animals often kept as companions on Buathwi called the Wuula. Genetically engineered, these creatures can parrot the emitting brain waves from a Savarnaus and vocalize them in a number of common languages. Traveling Savarnaus are adopting this method of communication for use with ansible transmissions and other electronic methods.

Savarnaus are strange looking being, towering over seven feet tall and seeming to represent some form of Terran sea creature. Their eel-like heads serve as sensory appendages, as the Savarnaus’ complicated central neural structure is nestled deep in their thorax protected by thick rubbery skin. There are no mouths or any other orifices on the Savarnaus. Instead, the Savarnaus intake nutrients by absorbing them through their skin on their arms and tentacle-like hands. A Savarnaus will lay his arms inside large bowels of food for hours at a time to “eat” several times a week. A Savarnaus will often adopt a certain form of mask to use with other species, this serves as an identifying face. Sometimes the masks will change depending on the type of species to reflect what the Savarnaus believes is a pleasing and calming visage.

Discipline of the mind is crucial to a Savarnaus. Complex thought and expression is commonplace throughout society. Popular academic topics are philosophy, neuroscience, behavioral sciences, cognitive thought and psychology. Art is popular but primarily tactile based. Bizarre sculptures and paintings are often only understood by their tactile feelings or by the imaging produced by Savarnaus senses. Savarnaus traveling outside of their homeworld often find great interest in study other species by the fields of psychiatry, neurology, neurochemistry and cognitive sciences. Several Savarnauses have entered major medical centers to study the fascinating minds of these strange new species.

The Enlightened Mind: Savarnaus have potent minds, which can be used to 'feel' the world around them like radar, and allow them to communicate by projecting straight into the visual and auditory portions of an aliens' brain, allowing them to perceive a special "mask" which appears to speak to them. 

Sense Blind: Savarnaus have no mouths, noses, eyes, or ears. They cannot see, smell, or hear. They have tactile senses, and can taste with their hands.