图鉴：Ganrael（愚蠢模式）

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名称（单数与复数）：Ganrael

Sexes: Monogendered

Height: 5 to 6 feet. Some exceptional specimens can reach up to eight feet of height, though their dietary requirements to maintain such mass makes such individuals exceedingly rare.

Senses: As goo-type creatures, the Ganrael have very limited perceptive organs. They are capable of 360 degree sight and have acute senses of smell and hearing. Most ganrael, will affect humanoid eyes and ears as part of their limited shapeshifting, in order to appear more familiar and appealing to their mates.

Skin: Ganrael come in a variety of colors, ranging from viridian (the most common), through red, purple, dark blues, and rarely brighter shades of yellow, orange, and pink.

Combat

Unlike many goo creatures, the ganrael are not stealth predators, but prefer to openly challenge their opponents. This shift in tactics compared to similar species is likely based in the ganrael’s unique evolutionary adaptation: armor. Species like the rahn and galotians are completely soft-bodied, constantly keeping their gooey extremities saturated with liquid to maintain their easy range of motion and shape-shifting abilities, with varying levels of penetrable dermises. Ganrael instead have adapted to slowly dry out and harden their outermost layers of goo, which eventually crystallizes into a nearly diamond-hard armor plating around the subject.

This hardened outer armor protects the otherwise vulnerable ganrael inside, allowing it to engage in direct combat against even armed foes, such as the myrmedion who live in the upper caverns above the ganraels’ natural habitat. This crystal armor regenerates quickly with focus and food consumption on the part of the ganrael, and can even be adapted to grow semi-organic weapons for use: many ganrael hunt with crystal daggers, axes, or spears.

Environs Typically Inhabited

Ganrael are natives of Myrellion, specifically the deepest caverns on the planet. Most live their entire lives without ever seeing the surface, though thanks to the abundance of bioluminescent fungus and creatures within the deep caves the ganrael retain their ability to see in low to high lighting. Ganrael prefer wet, humid areas in the caves, particularly those near underground lakes, rivers, and thermal vents.

Reproduction

Ganrael, like most goo creatures, have distinctly non-mammalian reproduction patterns. Though some ganrael will adapt the appearance of one gender or the other, they are fundamentally a mono-gendered race, with any individual capable of bearing children. When a ganrael is ready to mate and bear children, it need only acquire the genetic material of another compatible creature — male or female, semen or any other form of genetic carrier. The genetic material can then be absorbed through the skin (or, more commonly, inserted into the bearer through penetrative sex). Ganrael have several erogenous zones in their natural forms, and usually shift these to more traditional areas when mimicking humanoid shapes so that both the ganrael and its mate can enjoy the proceedings.

一旦吸收适当遗传材料，Ganrael 的繁殖周期便会开始。在接下来 24 小时中，Ganrael 开始分裂细胞，所产生细胞中有一半携带与亲本混合的新遗传材料。亲本 Ganrael 会脱去晶体护甲，并实际上分裂为二：一份较小（有人说更年轻）的亲本复制体，以及一名完全成形的子代。亲本和子代在接下来几天都相当虚弱，需要时间收集能量并摄取足够食物，开始恢复完整体型和护甲板。从“受精”到新 Ganrael 再次适合狩猎，可能会过去整整一周。

Culture & Society

Most ganrael are nomadic, moving through the caverns in pursuit of game and mates. There are relatively few ganrael settlements and little in the way of organized civilization. At best, a family unit of a mated pair and their children may stay together until the children are old enough to hunt on their own, at which point the family usually disintegrates. Ganrael are, as a rule, individualists who struggle to work together with other creatures (of their own race or others), which has prevented any sort of organized ganrael society from cropping up over the years.