Cyoou TohThe Cyoou Toh adapted to farming plants in any waters, are better swimmers than fliers, worship underwater volcanos, and drink spirits heavily. They are very peaceful and shy away from conflict, joining the Soku'on in retreating to the waters to avoid the issues of other aeon; but that doesn't stop them from debating the philosophical aspects of these faraway situations.
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270 – 290 years
152 – 173 cm / 5'1" – 5'8"
460 - 610 cm / 15' - 20' long8,000,000
Ioz'on (Drendir)
Cyoou Toh are thick-skinned, have webbed digits, a foldable dorsal fin, and wings that have adapted more to swimming, becoming more like fins over time; making them perfectly suited for water. Cyoou Toh are still capable of flight, they are the weakest fliers of all flying taothomet, preferring gliding whenever possible. Their antlers are coral-like with polyp shapes and bright colours, which are determined by a mix between regional impacts and family genetics. Their skin tones are turquoise, teal, seafoam, faded greens, also faded greys and blues, with brown and beige mottled patterns on the membranes found on their wings, tail, arms, fin, and between digits.
Manipulating electrical currents amplified by heka within their electric organ helps them to hunt in water with more efficiency. Most using harpoons and other spears to deliver this current more accurately.
Renaissance allows for a gill-like filtration, and for diving to depths that would threaten a normal taothomet body. A lot of their features show through on their eel-like body morph, now with armoured head and arms. On land they can use heka to pull moisture from the air to create enough lift to stay afloat just above ground, allowing them to glide like normal, a lack of water will limit them profoundly, resulting in literal fish out of water flailing.
Cyoou Toh history is quiet. They never had to fight in any wars over land, never really having to put up with any resistances to their existence besides from what lived in the waters before them. They are known for being fishers, farmers, and philosophers, all making noise about the collective waters, viable farming littoral lands, and the state of the taothomet psyche as a whole. Unfortunately these are the ones notorious for being the actual drunks amongst the Cyoou Toh. Get a three-of-a-kind in one room and you're sure to hear them yelling about how lungs are just swim bladders, so why do they only work as such in ren form.
Their homeland Drendir, their word for Walled Shallows, is known for its low, warm waters, and underground volcanoes. These volcanoes fuel the sea's ecosystem and shapes their pantheon. Cyoou Toh also reside alongside the Soku'on in the other mostly-water nation of Enna'ki. Both locations highly affected by tides with its low to below sea level lands, resulting in Cyoou Toh and Soku'on living on interconnecting docks, or within stilt houses.
Agriculture
Most of their farming lands are submerged in various waters, most of what they eat or craft come from things living in water. Those in the marshier parts of the south often rely on the beast of burden, Onobe. These trunkless mammoth-like creatures are large but loyal, giving protection to their Cyoou Toh tenders, and allowing for them to maintain the marshes and swamps where they live. Onobe love attention from smaller creatures that pose no threat to them, they're very playful creatures, and filter their food as they wade in waters, adding to the ecosystem, cleaning water, eating pests, and chasing off creatures.
Swamp drakes are also a highly popular pet, great for helping with herding, for protection in the waters, or just a swimming buddy in general. Cyoou Toh hate wasting anything, especially organic materials, and most inedible parts of aeons end up in their pet drakes.
Architecture
Stilt homes accommodate for large families, usually created from decades of expanding and altering the original home. Then, joining with neighbours' homes when, ideally, the separate families' children become life bonded, and never having to leave their location. Family and community is very important to them, and entire families are prone to staying as a unit and moving together, which is how the Cyoou Toh spread across so much of Umeon's south. Overall their population is low due to how picky they are about having children.
Art
In Drendir, traditional bartering is preferred, mostly trading shells, verdigris, and other objects that are used as decoration for clothing and the home. Their clothing consists of oceanic life: shells, white kelp rope wraps, skins, scales, bones. These are obtained through farming, or electric spearfishing, moulding the water to also help them hunt.
The Cyoou Toh and Soku'on believe the volcanoes that lay under the Walled Shallows are numina, tutelages of the foundations of existence. This often influenced in the past where alchemists and philosophers would settle.
Glyphs of spirals, shells, conch shapes, eoa creatures, and other water-related things make up the Cyoou Toh's main written language, which is nearly identical to and uses Soku'on's language Ioz'on, which is made up of elements of the Ixia and Tefer languages. Also like the Soku'on, the Cyoou Toh language has a signing variant that is used to communicate underwater. Signing is extremely common, many Cyoou Toh who aren't already deaf go deaf for various, usually self-inflicted, reasons. Spoken dialects vary between Drendir and Enna'ki, or between numina, where as signing remains the same.