Okay! Here's A Little Thing About Social Saltpan Palindromes, Since They Won The Poll. These Guys Live

Okay! Here's a little thing about social saltpan palindromes, since they won the poll. These guys live in the salty desert in the middle of the continent, a hostile place but where life flourishes nonetheless.

They're very dark both inside and out. They're a bit shorter than the average palindrome and they have a very high tolerance to the salts and other evaporite minerals in the water that they drink and cool off in. They're a bit skinny on average and their opercula are a bit wider and flatter.

They don large garments which reflect as much light as possible, and their specialty dyes are light pink and blue. The light pink comes from the red microorganisms in their water, and the blue from copper salts. These blue pigments are both rare and toxic, so they're generally reserved for important figures.

Instead of building walls like many other palindromes do, these fellows seek out open caves to live in. They're very fond of wall art.

Saltpan palindromes only have four words for colors, since their environment comes in few colors. They have a word for dark colors except blue, light colors, dark blue and red. They're the only palindrome ecotype to have their word for "water" not be blue.

When it comes to names, red patches use a low note, blank mouthparts use a resting note, and green patches (which they'd call light patches) use a high note.

In honour of the new recruits from reddit and shitter, poll for you:

Lofi Jazz

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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.

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