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 The most common Composite is about six feet (183 cm) tall, and has a slim, athletic safiroid build, with broad shoulders and either two or four arms; her body is colorful, and hard to the touch from the calcium carbonate exoskeleta of her component polyps, with many spiny protrusions as a result, especially on the top and back of her head in place of hair. Elaborate racks of such protrusions are a status symbol among the upper castes. The most common Composite is about six feet (183 cm) tall, and has a slim, athletic safiroid build, with broad shoulders and either two or four arms; her body is colorful, and hard to the touch from the calcium carbonate exoskeleta of her component polyps, with many spiny protrusions as a result, especially on the top and back of her head in place of hair. Elaborate racks of such protrusions are a status symbol among the upper castes.
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 +Coralfolk refer to themselves in the plural, and to the shapes & types of their polyps with a word that can be translated with varyingly low degrees of accuracy as “role”, “specialization”, or “caste”.
  
 Most coralfolk obtain the majority of their energy and nutrients from symbiotic photosynthetic single-celled eukaryotes that live within their tissues; these symbiotes also give the polyps, and therefore the coralfolk, their color. They can also eat marine fauna such as fish, //sîndisèi//, or even //tejasiq//, and have been known to dive as deep as 492 feet (150 m) in pursuit of them; however, due to their need for sunlight, they will typically stay above depths of 200 ft (60 m). Coralfolk will also avoid water that isn’t sufficiently clear. Most coralfolk obtain the majority of their energy and nutrients from symbiotic photosynthetic single-celled eukaryotes that live within their tissues; these symbiotes also give the polyps, and therefore the coralfolk, their color. They can also eat marine fauna such as fish, //sîndisèi//, or even //tejasiq//, and have been known to dive as deep as 492 feet (150 m) in pursuit of them; however, due to their need for sunlight, they will typically stay above depths of 200 ft (60 m). Coralfolk will also avoid water that isn’t sufficiently clear.
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