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--- lore:races:onivero [2024/04/29 18:23] – [Culture] quiddlesticks
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 Onivero are a semi-aquatic mammalian species. Their bodies are covered with short fur, which is waterproof much like an otter's. They can come in colors from brown and black, to ginger and white, to even shades such as light blue and pink. Often, Onivero coats are patterned, with stripes or splotches or spots. People have compared the range of patterns to those of cats. Their "hair" is a gelatinous mass that can be shaped at will, with trailing tentacles many have compared to jellyfish. Similar gelatinous, translucent sections can be found on their bodies, with every individual having different translucent spots. Onivero have large eyes and slightly pointed ears, and most other races consider them exceedingly cute - some Onivero enjoy being seen this way and play into the cuteness, and others find it intensely offensive.
-They have three fingers and a thumb on each hand (which resemble paws) and both their hands and feet are webbed. Onivero have tails, which are flat and serve to assist swimming. Despite not truly being able to breathe underwater like their lizardfolk neighbors, they can close their nostrils, use a set of weak gills, and swim underwater for 3-6 hours before needing to resurface. Additionally, they have one or two pairs of horn-like protrusions from their foreheads, which are thought to be organs that assist in projecting psionic power. They range from 4-5 feet tall as adults, and live about 150 years, maturing at about age 20.
+They have three fingers and a thumb on each hand (which resemble paws) and both their hands and feet are webbed. Onivero have tails, which are flat and serve to assist swimming. Despite not truly being able to breathe underwater like their [[lore:races:lizards#semi-aquatic_lizards|lizardfolk neighbors]], they can close their nostrils, use a set of weak gills, and swim underwater for 3-6 hours before needing to resurface. Additionally, they have one or two pairs of horn-like protrusions from their foreheads, which are thought to be organs that assist in projecting psionic power. They range from 4-5 feet tall as adults, and live about 150 years, maturing at about age 20.
 ==== Innate Psionics ====
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 The bulk of Onivero communication is telepathic, and one will have to get used to a little voice in their head when traveling with one. While all Onivero are taught to speak telepathically, and all have the potential for psionics, this potential is not always realized, same as other mortal psions. Mastery of their innate cognitive abilities requires study and hard work. Community leaders are usually knowledgeable psions.
-Onivero maintain a semi-hivemind within their communities, with each community member being connected to the others on a basic level; able to understand the emotions, basic thoughts, and goals of others. They maintain individuality, but this psychic connection has led to communities seeking the same goals and functioning so cohesively that scholars have long thought Onivero lived in true hiveminds. Only recently has this misconception been corrected.
+All Onivero were once bonded in a single psychic hivemind which encompassed the entire species. At some point in the past century, this hivemind has been broken down. Some Onivero communities still live in local true hiveminds, while others are individualized, with each Onivero maintaining their own individuality. A level of telepathic connection and empathy still exists within these individual communities, though.
+It is thought that the level of individuality has something to do with the community's level of contact with outside beings, such as [[settings:torandor|Torandoran]] races and [[lore:creatures:abysslings|abysslings.]] More contact is generally associated with a lack of a true hivemind. All Onivero which choose to adventure are not part of a hivemind - either they hail from an individualistic community, or have been cut off from their hives somehow.
 ==== Life Cycle ====
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 The [[lore:creatures:abysslings|Abysslings]] are longtime enemies of the Onivero, with enmity tracing back to the early 9000s when the Onivero barely managed to suppress an Abyssling incursion which would have been devastating to both shallow-water communities and land-dwellers.
+Whether a true hivemind or not, Onivero communities maintain a "Core-Mind": a single or small group of psionically trained Onivero whose role in the community is to psychically reach out across Jaern and contact other villages. Even with the old species-wide hivemind broken down, the Onivero still maintain close contact with each other and place value in working as a whole people.
 ==== Names ====
 When Onivero are born, they are given child names, which are usually monosyllabic and are considered diminutive. Many are common nouns, translating to natural objects such as "Wave", "Sky", "Kelp", etc. After growing up and becoming full-fledged adults, they are given a new name or choose it. Most Onivero names remain one or two syllables long, with extra long names being considered pretentious and annoying.