The ancestors of damai humans survived an apocalypse that unleashed monstrous kaiju on Daimalko, their home world in Near Space. After years of sheltering underground, your people have finally begun reclaiming the surface with the help of allies from other worlds. Many damais born since the Awakening cataclysm have gray skin and bright, piercing eyes. In the past, damais had a variety of skin tones in deep terra-cotta shades. Mechs, called valkos, are an important part of your culture. Surface cities are protected by huzkars, brave warriors who pilot valkos in battle against colossal threats. Some damais still live underground in protected shelters, and others have fled their apparently doomed home world for other horizons, often taking their family mechs with them.
You're trained in
Piloting. If you would automatically become trained in Piloting (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in another skill of your choice. You gain limited telepathy, meaning you can communicate mentally with creatures within 30 feet. You can communicate only with creatures that share a language with you. This doesn't give you any access to their thoughts, and it communicates no more information than normal speech would.