– live on one planet, named Ombd, beneath the harsh surface in communities called Subterranea.
– eat large succulent flowers grown in directed-light cavern fields
– enjoy sporting, forging, farming, singing
– names: nature+verb

– massive, the height of multiple stories
– stony hides with patches of ropy fur, some with a bison hunch
– collonade trunklike front limbs ending in padfooted dexterous opposable ironclaws, with back legs like backhoes
– a capital plate ridge, possibly a resonance chamber beneath
– four sensory pits below the bony capital ridge
– mouths with masticating dental platform ridges, and a pointed chin

– agendered, with self-polarizing gametes
– the young incubate each inside their own stone where different gametes have been placed on a favorite rock, and are raised tribally
– the stone grows, and they crack out of geodes like eggs, the name of which is similar to their name for their planet (omba/Ombd). Some of the most beautiful and powerful gems are shards of omba.
– they group-raise

– decorate with jeweled ornamentation when below ground; a teeny dreadlock-ring is the size of a human shoulder-torc
– ornamentation is studded with set crystals and gems, made of unguessable metals with luminous crystals that may not even be recorded on the phronium spectrum

– communication happens below human frequency range
– advanced awareness of emotion as a connective force of nature, able to balance to the exactitude of equation; with reverence, they both feel and understand the way it is, will be, can be, should be, could be; they feel the forces without forcing the feeling
– aureny is the name of their practice of collective emotional resonance, same as the name for their people