A dötakot is actually just a human, but due to a certain gene it has been turned into a kind of monster. The name dötakot comes from the Swedish words dött kött, which means "dead meat". Dötakots are mainly found in the northern regions of the world.
From a great distance, an adult dötakot is indistinguishable from a normal person, but when getting closer, the claw-like hands and torn, often rough, black skin on the arms and legs become visible. A young dötakot does not have claws or cracked skin yet and is indistinguishable even for an expert from a human child of the same age. Only when a dötakot is around ten years old, the first characteristics of a dötakot appear. First, the dötakot develops an appetite for meat, which is followed by almost imperceptible cracks in the skin at the hands and feet. These cracks get bigger over the years, and the skin around them first gets a light shade of green, followed by an unpleasant purple tone, which changes to black. Around the age of thirteen the nails of a dötakot start to grow in a sharp point, and he also loses his hair.
The diet of a dötakot is quite broad; from nuts to pork and even moose, it doesn't matter what he eats as long as he eats. And dötakots certainly have to eat, because if a healthy, fit dötakot has not eaten anything for three days, he will die of starvation.
Dötakots cannot reproduce among themselves, although hundreds of them are born every year. This can be explained by the genes, because a dötakot is actually nothing more than a very unlucky human. When both parents are carriers of the so-called dk-gene, there is a 25% chance that the offspring of these parents will be a dötakot.
From a social point of view, dötakots look a lot like humans, but because they are usually brutally disowned by their families, dötakots have a slight hatred of people. Every year, roughly ten people die because of dötakots. A dötakot is almost never alone and thus can be found in a group, called a lenit. And not all dötakots are aggressive towards people; in very rare cases the family of a dötakot is included into his or her lenit.
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