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| <b>Genders:</b> Male and Female | | <b>性别：</b>雄性与雌性 |
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| | <b>身高：</b>肩高8英尺0英寸到8英尺8英寸。从鼻尖到尾巴约9英尺。 |
| <b>Height:</b> 8’ 0” to 8’ 8” at the shoulders. Roughly 9’ from tip to tail. | |
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| | <b>头发：</b>无。 |
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| | <b>眼睛：</b>大而毫无特征的黑色球体。 |
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| | <b>耳朵：</b>鳃上方的小耳孔。 |
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| | <b>尾巴：</b>诱饵人从后臀部长出一条短而粗的尾巴。 |
| <b>Tails:</b> Lurelings have short, thick tails growing from their haunches. | |
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| | === 诱饵人的力量 === |
| === Power of the Lurelings ===
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| Lurelings are a native species of the icy moon of [[Special:MyLanguage/Uveto|Uveto VII]], and are one of the most dangerous creatures encountered on the world - when they wish to be. Lurelings are an aquatic species of exceptional intelligence (generally believed to be at [[Special:MyLanguage/ausar|ausar]]/[[Special:MyLanguage/human|human]] levels or higher), yet their deep-sea origins and physical inability or cultural refusal to make contact make their motivations and goals all but unknowable. Lurelings are perfectly capable of communication, yet refuse to make their presence known to, much less discourse with, the colonists unless the given lureling is in immediate and overwhelming distress.
| | 诱饵人是[[Uveto|乌维托七号]]这颗冰封卫星的本土物种，也是这颗世界上遇到的最危险的生物之一——当它们想危险的时候。诱饵人是水生物种，智慧非凡（通常认为达到[[ausar|奥萨尔]]/[[human|人类]]的水平或更高），但它们深海的出身，以及身体上无法或文化上拒绝接触外界，使它们的动机和目标几乎无从知晓。诱饵人完全有能力沟通，却拒绝让殖民者知道它们的存在，更不用说与殖民者交流了——除非某个诱饵人正处于迫在眉睫且无法承受的危难之中。 |
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| What <i>is</i> known about them, however, is that lurelings are very large, very ugly amphibians resembling something between a frog and an angler fish, with four stubby legs propelling a teardrop-shaped body that supports an immense head. Their heads play home to a large, circle-shaped mouth filled with concentric rows of teeth that rotate like a drill, allowing the lureling to tunnel through surface ice with ease.
| | 不过，人们对它们已知的是：诱饵人是非常巨大、非常丑陋的两栖动物，介于青蛙和鮟鱇鱼之间，四条粗短的腿撑起水滴形的身体，上面顶着一颗巨大的头颅。它们的头上长着一张巨大的圆形嘴，里面满是同心排列的牙齿，像钻头一样旋转，让诱饵人能轻松钻穿表面冰层。 |
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| What makes lurelings truly interesting - and dangerous - to the Uvetan colonists, however, is their native psionic ability and how they manifest it. Like several other native species (such as the [[Special:MyLanguage/frostwyrm|frostwyrms]] and [[Special:MyLanguage/korgonne|korgonne]]), lurelings have developed extranormal mental powers, and thus far all encountered lurelings possess this power, rather than only a select few individuals as with most psionically active species. Also abnormally, all known lurelings exercise the same mental power: the ability to dominate and control others.
| | 然而，真正让诱饵人显得有趣——并且危险——的是它们天生的心灵能力及其展现方式。和另外几种本土物种（如[[frostwyrm|冰霜巨龙]]和[[korgonne]]）一样，诱饵人发展出了超常的精神力量，而且迄今遇到的所有诱饵人都拥有这种力量，而不像大多数具有心灵活性的物种那样只有少数个体具备。同样异常的是，所有已知的诱饵人都使用同一种精神力量：支配和控制他人。 |
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| The lurelings’ mental domination seems to be an understood and integral part of the ecology of primitive Uvetan species, and has been for many millenia. Each lureling finds and dominates a single, weak-willed surfacer by projecting its mental powers through the ice (usually while the intended victim is sleeping or otherwise vulnerable). Once a lureling asserts its mental dominance, the bond is usually permanent, and the victim will spend the rest of his or her life as a puppet (called “marions” by the locals) to their lureling master, following it from above the ice.
| | 诱饵人的精神支配似乎一直是原始乌维托物种生态中公认而不可或缺的一部分，已持续数千年。每个诱饵人都会找到并支配一个意志薄弱的表层居民，隔着冰层投射它的精神力量（通常是在目标熟睡或其他脆弱的时候）。一旦诱饵人确立精神支配，这种纽带通常就是永久的，受害者余生都将作为傀儡（当地人称之为"马瑞翁"）侍奉诱饵人主人，跟随它行走于冰面之上。 |
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| While that alone would be cause for great concern among the natives, the lurelings have asserted and confirmed their intelligence in a most horrifying way: research indicates they <i>breed</i> their marions, creating bloodlines particularly well-suited to serving a lureling. Specific traits such as obedience, stamina, and even beauty have been shown to take preference among species bred by lurelings. Young lurelings will often take control of newborn or young children born of their parents’ marions: some speculate that breeding puppets is associated in some way with the lurelings’ own breeding season.
| | 仅凭这一点就足以让当地人大为担忧，而诱饵人又以最骇人的方式证实了它们的智慧：研究表明它们会<i>培育</i>马瑞翁，创造特别适合侍奉诱饵人的血脉。服从、耐力，甚至美貌等特定特质，都被证明在诱饵人培育的物种中受到偏爱。年幼的诱饵人常常会接管父母马瑞翁生下的新生儿或幼儿：有人推测，培育傀儡与诱饵人自身的繁殖季节存在某种关联。 |
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| | === 马瑞翁 === |
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| The primary purpose of a marion seems to be twofold: marions provide visual information to their masters, acting as eyes above the water and helping to find food, shelter, and other resources their masters may desire. Beyond mere visual data, it seems that a lureling’s mental feedback from its marion is so strong that it can feel sensation and emotion back through its psychic connection. This leads to the second, and more curious purpose: lurelings frequently have their marions wander the frigid wastes, where they inevitably come across other humanoids: usually enessa or korgonne, but ausar colonists or human adventurers seem to suit them just as well. Upon encounter, the marion will offer herself sexually to the target, eagerly pursuing intercourse until the mark eventually gives in or flees. Lurelings appear to command their marions to do this entirely for pleasure, and some unsuspecting ausar have reported hearing orgasmic roars and tremors in the ice after causing a(n unbeknownst to them) marion to climax.
| | 马瑞翁的主要用途似乎有两个：马瑞翁为主人提供视觉信息，充当水上的眼睛，帮助寻找食物、住所和主人可能想要的其他资源。除了单纯的视觉数据，诱饵人从马瑞翁那里获得的精神反馈似乎非常强烈，它能通过心灵连接感受到感觉和情绪。这就引出了第二个、也更奇特的目的：诱饵人经常让马瑞翁在严寒的荒原上游荡，在那里它们必然会遇到其他人形生物：通常是伊内萨人或科贡人，但奥萨尔殖民者或人类冒险者似乎也同样合它们的胃口。遭遇之后，马瑞翁会主动向目标献身，热切地追求交媾，直到目标最终屈服或逃走。诱饵人似乎纯粹为了取乐才命令马瑞翁这么做，有些毫无防备的奥萨尔报告说，在让（自己毫不知情的）马瑞翁高潮后，听到了冰层下传来高潮般的咆哮和震动。 |
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| This behavior certainly explains the tendency of lurelings to breed their puppets for beauty and sex appeal, making them more likely to secure the affections of unwary colonists.
| | 这种行为无疑解释了诱饵人培育傀儡美貌和性魅力的倾向，使它们更有可能赢得毫无戒心的殖民者的爱慕。 |
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| Uvetan natives have a complex relationship to marions. Most marions today appear to be descendants of purpose-bred creatures, rather than kidnapped villagers, and thus other surfacers show markedly less aggression towards lurelings and marions than was anticipated by researchers. Marions (and thus, the lurelings following them under the ice) are even allowed to wander freely in some villages, and find shelter there during harsh weather. Some natives, particularly [[Special:MyLanguage/milodan|milodan]] males, find it a great honor to be chosen to breed with a marion, as they believe this proves they are of exceptional strength and charisma. Other natives, particularly enessa, shun marions, and sometimes even assault them if the puppet proves too amorous for the huntress’s liking.
| | 乌维托本地人与马瑞翁的关系很复杂。如今大多数马瑞翁似乎是刻意培育的后代，而不是被绑架的村民，因此其他表层居民对诱饵人和马瑞翁表现出的敌意，远比研究人员预期的要少。马瑞翁（以及冰下跟随它们的诱饵人）甚至被允许在有些村庄里自由游荡，并在恶劣天气下在那里栖身。一些本地人，尤其是[[milodan]]雄性，认为被选中与马瑞翁交配是莫大的荣幸，因为他们相信这证明自己拥有超凡的力量和魅力。其他本地人，尤其是伊内萨人，则回避马瑞翁，如果傀儡太过热情、不合女猎人的意，他们甚至会攻击它们。 |
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| This more aggressive behavior is likely because the vast majority of modern-day lureling marions are of enessa descent, though many have been altered considerably after many thousands of years of careful crossbreeding. These modified enessa usually follow the same physical form of their parent race, though different lurelings seem to prefer different sexual characteristics: some marions have been bred into pure, phallus-less females; others into masculine creatures in stark contrast to the enessa norm. Others share traits and characteristics of other races such as a fur coat like a milodan or korgonne, while others (especially recently) display ausar-like traits such as patchwork fur, heavier body fat, and seasonal heats and ruts.
| | 这种更激进的行为很可能是因为现代诱饵人马瑞翁的绝大多数都是伊内萨人的后裔，尽管经过数千年精心杂交，许多已被大幅改造。这些改造过的伊内萨人通常保持着母族的体形，但不同的诱饵人似乎偏好不同的性特征：有些马瑞翁被培育成纯粹的、没有阳具的雌性；有些则被培育成与伊内萨人常态截然相反的男性化生物。还有些马瑞翁带有其他种族的特质和特征，比如像米洛丹人或科贡人那样的皮毛外衣，而另一些（尤其是近期的）则表现出奥萨尔式的特征，如杂色皮毛、更厚的体脂，以及季节性发情期。 |
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| Despite all of this, the lureling-marion relationship does seem at least somewhat symbiotic (especially among those marions purpose-bred for their role). In exchange for pleasure and scouting, the lureling usually provides its marion with an abundance of food the creature hunts below the waters, and can be counted on to find good shelter and necessary clothing and other supplies its marion needs. Some have even been recorded providing gemstones and other precious substances from the in-world sea for their marions to trade for what they need. More importantly, the lureling provides extremely effective protection for its puppet, and few if any marions ever need fear for their safety.
| | 尽管如此，诱饵人与马瑞翁的关系似乎至少在某种程度上是共生的（尤其是那些为这一角色专门培育的马瑞翁）。作为快感和侦察的交换，诱饵人通常为马瑞翁提供充足的食物——那是它在水下猎获的，而且总能可靠地为它找到良好的庇护所和必要的衣物及其他补给。甚至有记录显示，诱饵人会从星球内海捞取宝石和其他珍贵物质，供马瑞翁交易所需。更重要的是，诱饵人为傀儡提供极其有效的保护，几乎没有马瑞翁需要担心自己的安全。 |
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| A few marions have been separated from their lureling masters (including one specimen “rescued” by the authors of this codex, who broke the psychic connection by taking the marion - a young adult enessa female - off planet, out of her master’s mental reach). Those who were psychically dominated during adulthood generally only remember bits and pieces of their captivity, and after some rehabilitation, can be reintegrated into society. Purpose-bred marions, such as the descendant enessa species, have a much more difficult time, as they have never been forced to think for themselves. These marions, however, seem to remember most if not all of their lives, and once trained to speak, do so with fond remembrance of their “papas” or “mommas.” Throughout post-separation adulthood, ex-marions remain extraordinarily weak-willed, easy to influence, and remarkably trusting. They are also, however, eager to please and hard working, and do indeed possess exceptional physical traits including strength and charisma, which may prove advantageous. For their own sake, most must be cared for by a village of their native species (or a responsible, caring researcher, as the case may be).
| | 少数马瑞翁与它们的诱饵人主人分开了（包括一个被本图鉴作者"救出"的样本，他们把这名马瑞翁——一只年轻的成年伊内萨雌性——带离星球，超出了主人的精神触及范围，从而切断了心灵连接）。那些在成年后被精神支配的通常只记得自己被囚禁期间的一些片段，经过一段康复期后可以重新融入社会。特意培育的马瑞翁，比如伊内萨后裔这一支，则困难得多，因为它们从未被迫独立思考。不过，这些马瑞翁似乎记得生命中大部分甚至全部内容，一旦学会说话，就会满怀深情地回忆它们的"爸爸"或"妈妈"。在整个脱离后的成年岁月里，前马瑞翁依然极度意志薄弱、容易受摆布、异常轻信。不过，她们也渴望取悦他人、勤奋肯干，确实拥有包括力量和魅力在内的非凡身体特质，这可能成为优势。为了她们自己着想，大多数必须由她们本族的村庄照料（或者视情况而定，由一位负责任、有爱心的研究人员照料）。 |
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| | === 战斗 === |
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| Despite their psychic powers, lurelings are surprisingly non-violent: if they intend to harm a surfacer, it is usually through psychic assault or domination at night. Even then, though, lurelings seem to have little or no interest in altercation with surfacers: most of their interactions are through their marions seeking sexual intercourse (sometimes in exchange for shelter or resources the marion needs to survive). The only time a lureling has ever been provoked to direct violence is when a surfacer assaults a marion. This behavior is almost universally met with instant and overwhelming retaliation, with the lureling bursting up from the ice and crushing, eating, or dragging the assailant under the ice. Perhaps this is why marions are welcomed peacefully into some native villages...
| | 尽管拥有心灵力量，诱饵人却出人意料地不好斗：如果它们想伤害表层居民，通常是通过夜间的精神攻击或支配。即便如此，诱饵人似乎也几乎或完全没有兴趣与表层居民起冲突：它们的大部分互动都是通过马瑞翁寻求性交（有时是为了换取马瑞翁生存所需的庇护或资源）。诱饵人唯一一次被激怒而诉诸直接暴力，是表层居民袭击马瑞翁的时候。这种行为几乎无一例外地招来即时而压倒性的报复，诱饵人会从冰层下破冰而出，将袭击者碾碎、吃掉或拖入冰下。也许这就是为什么马瑞翁能在一些本地村庄里和平地受到欢迎…… |
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| Lurelings themselves seem to have shark-like behavior, rarely staying still for any length of time. They make no permanent homes, and migrate around the ice a few dozen kilometers around humanoid settlements (particularly those korgonne and milodan villages which welcome their marions). Because the psychic connection to their marions is distance-based, lurelings must inhabit the water very near to the surface, and stay within a few hundred meters of their marion.
| | 诱饵人本身似乎有类似鲨鱼的行为，很少长时间停留不动。它们不建造永久居所，会在人形生物聚居地（尤其是那些欢迎马瑞翁的科贡人和米洛丹人村庄）周围几十公里范围内巡游。由于与马瑞翁的心灵连接受距离限制，诱饵人必须栖息在非常接近表面的水域，并保持在马瑞翁数百米之内。 |
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| | === 繁殖 === |
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| As lurelings themselves are secretive and averse to contact with settlers (aside from through their marions, at least), little is known about their biological processes. Several researchers studying them have, however, postulated that the breeding of marions seems to be related to breeding more lurelings, as the newborn children of the puppets are almost immediately dominated in turn by young lurelings (who themselves are only strong enough to control a young and unresistant mind). Some speculate that breeding marions may even be necessary for the lurelings’ reproduction, as this may psychically trigger some sort of breeding response in the creatures. This seems to be corroberated by several native legends and stories telling of whole families of marions encountered in secluded places in the ice-caves, raising their children as their lurelings raise their tadpoles before eventually separating.
| | 由于诱饵人自身神出鬼没，且厌恶与定居者接触（至少除了通过马瑞翁之外），人们对它们的生物过程知之甚少。不过，几位研究它们的研究人员推测，培育马瑞翁似乎与繁殖更多诱饵人有关，因为傀儡的新生儿几乎立刻就会被年轻的诱饵人支配（它们自己也只有足够控制年轻且无抵抗力心智的力量）。有人推测，培育马瑞翁甚至可能是诱饵人繁殖所必需的，因为这可能在精神上触发这些生物某种繁殖反应。这一说法似乎得到几个本地传说和故事的佐证：传说讲述了在冰洞隐秘处遭遇整家整家的马瑞翁，它们像诱饵人养育蝌蚪那样养育自己的孩子，最终才分离。 |
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