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===Life-cycle===

All Durumgir are born about the size of a halfling (though due to physiology, this only makes them about two thirds as tall), and have male sexual characteristics.  They are fully capable of walking, and are about as intelligence as a human 9-year-old.  They reach physical maturity in their late thirties, early forties, having spend the childhood years rigorously preparing themselves for adult life.  After physical maturity, the Durumgir continue to grow at about an inch of vertical height each decade, and male sexual characteristics continue to grow, eventually becoming fertile at the age of about half a century.

Should the Durumgiru in question continue to grow and thrive, he will continue to grow bigger, slowly, and as the Durumgiru reaches middle age (about 175 years), he will grow slower and tougher, in addition to intelligence and wisdom growing with age.  Two or three decades later, his male fertility will begin to diminish, and over the next two centuries his sexual organs will shift to the reproductive track of a female.  Once the Durumgiru is large enough, if all goes well he will become fertile as a female (this is more or less when the Durumgiru reaches the large size category).  At this point, his gender changes to be considered female.

As the centuries wear goes on, the Durumgiru will become tougher and smarter and wiser, but continue to lose dexterity until she is is completely immobile.  Additionally, as she increases in size by nearly a vertical foot each century, her ability to maintain multiple simultaneous pregnancies increases to the point that some truly old Durumgiru birth a child nearly every day, replenishing their own familial empires with ease.  Durumgir only get hardier as they grow older, and no maximum age is known.

The dark flipside is what happens if the Durumgiru does not manage to mate - if all does not go well.  Due to a lack of hormones to make the shift, the Durumgiru will still lose his male characteristics, but will not gain any replacement female reproductive organs.  With the total lack of reproductive organs, the lack of normal hormones causes the Durumgiru to decline both mentally and physically.  How much of this is mental and how much of this is biological is hard to say, as failures are shunned by all of Durumgir society, and lack the driving goal central to most male durumgir.  Most young Durumgiru would rather die than wind up in this twilight state: Succeed or die trying, no matter the cost.
Author	Aelaris +
Effective Character Level	1 +
Favored Class	Fighter +
Identifier	3.5e Race +
Level Adjustment	0 +
Racial Ability Adjustments	+2 Constitution + and -4 Dexterity +
Rated By	Foxwarrior + and Leziad +
Rating	Rating Pending +
Size	Medium +
Subtype	Reptilian +
Summary	Thick-skinned, six-limbed, wall-climbing lizard-centaurs from underground. (Dwarf analogue / replacement.) +
Title	Durumgiru +
Type	Monstrous Humanoid +