Spheraticam

Spheraticam are a gorilla-like species from an unnamed planet.

Appearance
Spheraticam have a large gorilla-like body with purple skin and black fur.

They have five fingers per hand and five finger-like toes on their feet.

Powers and abilities
Spheraticam are extremely strong and are unusually agile for their large size.

Spheraticam manifest crystal orbs. about the size of a tennis ball though it gets larger as they age, around the age of three. This orb is a physical manifestation of its life and thus if shattered they will die unless strong enough to generate a new one quickly.

Spheraticam can use the orbs as long distance weapons which will come back to them.

Some trained Spheraticam can convert the orb into something similar in appearance and functionality to a walking stick.

Spheraticam can use the stick as a close range melee weapon.

Spheraticam can use the stick as a shotgun-like weapon. By flipping all the knobs and branches of the stick in a specific order, a shotgun blast-like burst of energy is shot out the end facing opposite to the user.

Weaknesses
The orb is linked to their lives and thus if it is broken they will die. The orb is almost unbreakable when used as a weapon but a strong physical attack could break one when not in use. This weakness is eliminated by the stick as it is not linked to their lives.

There is a plant on their home planet which can capture them and tranform them on the genetic level into a currently unnamed apex predator native to their planet.

Etymology
The name "Spheraticam" is a modification of sphaṭikaṃ, the written pronunciation of the Zulu word for crystal స్ఫటికం, and the word sphere.

The specific name "Crystallus simia" comes from the Latin word crystallus, meaining crystal, and simia, meaning ape.

Trivia

 * The way to differentiate between the predator and a transformed spheraticam is that naturally they are white but transformed spheraticam are red.
 * The predatory species and the Spheraticam generally have no interactions as they tend to avoid each other.