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===Carrier=== | ===Carrier=== | ||
- | The carrier morph is inspired by snails. They are characterized by their shelled back, moist skin, upper and lower tentacles, freckles, and stubby tails. | + | The carrier morph is inspired by snails |
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+ | Conch variant carrier morph couriers favor warmer, coastal environments and they tend to be more aquatic than other carriers. Their Carrier Cant tends to be done in beach plants and algae, coating cliff faces and tide pools. | ||
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===Emissary=== | ===Emissary=== | ||
- | The emissary morph is inspired by slugs. They are characterized by their slimy, wet, dripping skin, upper and lower tentacles, lop ears, and long tail. | + | The emissary morph is inspired by slugs. They are characterized by their slimy, wet, dripping skin, upper and lower tentacles, lop ears, and long tails. Emissary morph couriers dripping mucus discolors most materials, with the exception of most metals, glass, and crystal. They use this discoloring to paint messages in their emissary-specific cipher as well as paint murals. Often these are combined, with artworks layered around and over messages to obfuscate the messages from those who don't know the trick to noticing them. Their language is often simply called Emcant, short for emissary cant. |
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===Envoy=== | ===Envoy=== | ||
- | The envoy morph is inspired by nudibranchs. They are characterized by their moist skin, rhinophores, | + | The envoy morph is inspired by nudibranchs |
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===Herald=== | ===Herald=== | ||
- | The herald morph is inspired by sea angels. They are characterized by their lack of eyes, horn-like tentacles, large flippers, long tail, and slight transparency in water. The herald morph is primarily aquatic, and although all couriers are amphibious by nature, they have great difficulty navigating on land. They are considered a counterpart to the harbinger morph. | + | The herald morph is inspired by sea angels. They are characterized by their lack of eyes, horn-like tentacles, large flippers, long tail, and slight transparency in water. The herald morph is primarily aquatic, and although all couriers are amphibious by nature, they have great difficulty navigating on land. They are considered a counterpart to the harbinger morph. Herald morph couriers have the ability to produce small sea squirt-like colonial organisms which subsist of biofilm and plankton in the water column. They can be imprinted with a message that only other herald courier can access, though it is often encrypted as an additional protection. These Herald Cantlings can often survive indefinitely, |
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===Harbinger=== | ===Harbinger=== | ||
- | The harbinger morph is inspired by deep-sea creatures and gastropods. They are characterized by their needly teeth, multiple eyes, glowing lures, bioluminescence, | + | The harbinger morph is inspired by deep-sea creatures and gastropods. They are characterized by their needly teeth, multiple eyes, glowing lures, bioluminescence, |
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+ | ===Caretaker=== | ||
+ | The caretaker morph is inspired by succulents, particularly lithops. They are characterized by the splits along their tentacles, chest, back, and tail as well as the large flowering succulents emerging from their back. | ||
+ | Removing leaves from this succulent, caretaker morph couriers can leave messages by propagating these leaves into resilent succulents. When another caretaker courier encounters these message succulents, they can induce the succulent to rapidly bloom. The scent of the flower communicates the message, so this caretaker scent language is a closely guarded secret. Large gardens of succulents are often found at crossroads and at the entrances to towns, communicating anything from notable sights, good restaurants to stop at, or the reception the courier can expect in the town. Some businesses have taken to removing succulents from their properties or using weed killers due to this, as to avoid negative reviews they can't correct. | ||
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