Devolutionary

Meso-American selection MONKEY (swinging, climbing) IGUANA (?) GRISON (burrowing, HtH) HAWK (flight, vision) TARANTULA (Drain? venom…)YAPOK (swimming powers) YAPOK ASIA Monkey Ibex Gharial Hawk Tiger Yak

Yapok starts with Y. I don't know if the power of a super-cute swimming possum is quite what you are looking for... H for Hare and T for Tortoise seem like possibilities. Speedster and brick? Or speedster and reverse speedster (he slows you down)?

Ah, I was just talking about something like this today. I'm working up a villain who uses drones for defense, attack, and spying. I'm using 4E but the basic concepts seem to be pretty nearly the same across editions. The arithmetic may differ.

Xhosa mostly live on the Cape, which is far distant. Are these guys cousins of the Xhosa who went in a different direction during the migration from the ancient Central or East African homeland? Or is this a case of Xhosa migrating far north from the Cape under pressure from other nations, conquering other tribes far from Xhosa country, and gradually assimilating the conquered/tributary tribes? I am by no means an expert on matters SubSaharan.