Greg told me that Hsunchen are humans who believe they are animals. It then follows that they can't change their human form (or color), as they are really normal humans.
>>In Prax, the "matrix" for the human form seems to be the Golden Age folk
>>(the Beast Riders were immigrants themselves, and with their strong pygmy
>>portion aren't exactly all Warerans), who probably were related to the On
>>Jorri or Vingkot's Summer Wife. Therefore I think that they appear as
>>Warerans.
>
>IIRC the Golden Age folk descend from Giants (Tada, Genert...), and
>Glorantha Intro also calls Waha, Eiritha and Stormbull 'Giants'. I
>don't know where the Beast Riders come from. Waha showed them how to
>survive but it seems they don't descend from him.
The ancestors of the present-day Praxians, meaning the Beast-Riders,
followed Storm Bull from the Spike, according to Nomad Gods. These were not
the only people in Genert's realm. The inhabitants of Prax were known as the
Ta-da Shi, and their leader was the Tada. In Nomad Gods a distinction is
made between the Ta-da Shi and the Tribes' Folk, meaning the people we know
as the Praxians, or Beast Riders.
The Player's Book of the Genertela box says the Praxians are of the Wareren
race.
I don't see how the Basmoli human form would be "matrixed" to the Golden Age
people's type, as those people were the natives and the Basmoli came from
elsewhere, as did many others.
Daniel
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