Identification: web‐fingered, gill‐throated, guppy‐eyed creatures who are nonetheless most often encountered on land
Variants: range from amphibious salamandroids to more streamlined morphs with actual fish‐tails (but hands as well)
Also Known As: Marshans, Abysmals, or Wet Ones
Origin: may technically be terrestrial, but don't tell them that
| LOOKS: | manage not to resemble mermaids in any way | D+ |
|---|---|---|
| BRAINS: | deep thinkers with well oiled brains | 105 |
| LETHALITY: |
rely on zombie‐style mass shuffling/ |
0.18 |
| CULTURE: | unfathomably ancient seabed cities with names like “Eth'ethethë‐Theth” | 76 |
| HARDNESS: | the soggy end of SF–Horror | 1½ |
| TOKENISM: | token gill‐breathers | 57 |
Religion: a secretive cult which may be connected with the Amorphoids and/or Teratocephaloids
Wardrobe: may wear string vests or fishbowl helmets, but never anything approved by the Pantellurian Fraternity
Natural Predators: the Ornithoids and/or Felinoids
Favourite Colour: blue
Affiliated With: the Union of Field Observers, which seems like cheating
Not To Be Confused With: their drier cousins the Sauroids
See Also: the deep‐ocean variant of Ectoplasmoids