Sea Salamanders
Kmúþic: Grehe-Ak /krɛːhɛʔaːkh/ , Avák Tinú /avaukh thɪːnu/ (archaic)
Sea Salamanders1 were marine amphibians that were Borgalor's earliest sapient species, inhabiting what is now northwestern Jælondis and southern Sessalló around eighty million years ago, during the late Dragon Era. Their technology differed considerably from what modern sapient species developed due to the fact that sea salamanders spent most of their lives underwater and was powered by ambient arcane energies rather than magic crystals.
They are best known for being the inventors of runes, though the process of imbuing these glyphs with magical properties in the first place and exact uses remains unknown, as fossils and remnants of sea salamander technology have only been seriously studied for the last few decades, and the remains themselves are mostly found in either remote regions or below the sea due to continental drift.
Like dragons and numerous other species -including various pseudofauna- and flora-, sea salamanders disappeared during the extinction event that marked the end of Dragon Era, which was caused by a sharp drop in magical energies throughout most of the world.
The taxonomic name given by scholars, Grehe-Ak, means 'First Inscriber', which has largely replaced the earlier name Avák Tinú, meaning 'Giant Salamander'.
Sea Salamanders1 were marine amphibians that were Borgalor's earliest sapient species, inhabiting what is now northwestern Jælondis and southern Sessalló around eighty million years ago, during the late Dragon Era. Their technology differed considerably from what modern sapient species developed due to the fact that sea salamanders spent most of their lives underwater and was powered by ambient arcane energies rather than magic crystals.
They are best known for being the inventors of runes, though the process of imbuing these glyphs with magical properties in the first place and exact uses remains unknown, as fossils and remnants of sea salamander technology have only been seriously studied for the last few decades, and the remains themselves are mostly found in either remote regions or below the sea due to continental drift.
Like dragons and numerous other species -including various pseudofauna- and flora-, sea salamanders disappeared during the extinction event that marked the end of Dragon Era, which was caused by a sharp drop in magical energies throughout most of the world.
The taxonomic name given by scholars, Grehe-Ak, means 'First Inscriber', which has largely replaced the earlier name Avák Tinú, meaning 'Giant Salamander'.
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Anatomy
Sea salamanders resembled our world's trematosaurus, with long bodies, elongated snouts, powerful tail and relatively short limbs similar to a crocodile, and used both their front limbs and mouth to manipulate tools and machinery. While adults spent most of their lives in the sea, their eggs and young lived in freshwater or brackish lakes, with the two environments being linked by a series of tunnels to avoid dragons and other predators on land.
1Original icelandic: Sæsalamöndrur, singular: Sæsalamandra.
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