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Next are the tundra palindromes! These guys live way up north on volcanic steppes whose foliage is filled with ph-responsive dye. It's very cold, even for palindrome standards, but these guys are a very populous ecotype.

Tundra palindromes are the largest of the palindromes. They're a light blue with colorpoints and light spots most of the time, and their insides are significantly lighter than other palindromes. The type shown here is the central tundra type, while the other three are included on the side: Western, which is lighter, Eastern, which is more vibrant, and Island, which is darker and spotless.

They use dyes from the red/blue groundcover that surrounds them, and it almost always ends up red after a while. Though... maybe if you poured something acidic on their clothes the red parts would turn blue? However, with ash falling around from the volcanoes all the time, their red clothes tend to stay red. They use a lot of layers in their clothing.

Their settlements are usually a handful of X-shaped walls made of plaster and clay, and no matter which way the wind is blowing there will always be a quiet corner that isn't hit by it. They're fond of wall art.

As for their language, they have a similar color system to grassland palindromes which has a word for darkness, light, people (light blue), two states of foliage (red and blue), soil (greyish brown) and an additional unique word. Here this color represents the fluorescent pinks of the auroras that they see.

For name tones, they use a low note for red patches, a midtone note for no patches, and a high note for green patches. Or, they wouldn't call it green, they'd probably call it "light".

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More palindrome ethnicities! There's probably more subdivisions of these but more than this would clutter the map a good bit. I'm hoping to cover at least the most prominent of these ecotypes, their cultures and fashion and such.

T1 - Western Tundra (Pale periwinkle with colorpoints and spots) T2 - Central Tundra (More vibrant) T3 - Eastern Tundra (More contrast) T4 - Island Tundra (Darker) TG - Southern Tundra (Minimal colorpointing and larger spots)

G1 - Grasslands (Mint with white spotting) GF - Savanna (Mint with white striping)

R1 - Eastern Rainforest (Dark teal with blocky rosettes) R2 - Western Rainforest (Darker teal with round rosettes, occasional false eyes) R3 - South Islands Rainforest (Teal with round rosettes, bright false eyes) RG - Archipelago (Bright teal with dark and light blotching)

F1 - Southwest Woodland (Dull teal with dark stripes) F2 - Central Woodland (Brighter) F3 - Eastern Taiga (Darker and cooler with irregular face splotching and a solid band around waist) F4 - Western Taiga (Slightly warmer than F3 with stripes in place of splotches) F5 - Western Woodland (Warm teal with low contrast stripes)

C1 - Western Coast (Light blue with darker banding) C2 - Central Bay (Darker) C3 - Eastern Coast (Higher contrast and thinner bands)

W1 - Western Wetlands (Indigo with blocky spots) W2 - Eastern Wetlands (Darker with spots absent on waist)

S1 - Southern Chaparral (Warm grey with banding) S2 - Northern Chaparral (Cooler grey with single light band) S3 - Coastal Chaparral (Slightly cooler grey with chevron banding)

D - Saltpan (Dark)

These mainly apply to social palindromes because drifters rarely stay in one place while social palindromes may travel, but they always have a place they return to. Drifters frequently have more ambiguous genetics, though there are some who match a social ecotype pretty perfectly (take Patrick for example) as well. Those palindromes may either be social palindromes who have taken on a different lifestyle, or they just look like that.