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Togruta Montrals are Ossicones

fight me on this~

I have thought about this before, I just happened to do extra thinking today! (I blame @sildae)

There are these two pics of their “skeletons”.

In the second one, you can clearly see the horn-like protrusions from the togruta’s cranium. For the one with Ahsoka where it looks like her montrals are jello…. I figure it was due to art style… or…

Maybe like baby giraffes, young togrutas don’t have solidified montal bones? (that’s a thing now. montal bones lol)

And then you have the adults like:

One of the things that kinda defines an ossicone is that they have skin (and hair) growing on top of them. And every togruta that’s been shown does have skin over their montrals. Their lekku, IMHO, are basically fat deposits.

So you have ossicones on top and sacs of fat dangling below. This (to me) explains the “crease” we saw a lot during TCW show.

Which is oddly absent from SWR…

I’ve pretty much hand-waved that off to “artistic style” which is whatever and fine lol.

I think it’s kinda similar in SWTOR:

But it’s not completely smoothed out.

ANYWAY~

Togruta montrals are hollow ossicones that help with passive echolocation. They have a thin layer of skin over their montrals that extend downward and form the fat deposits known as ‘lekku’. The markings on the montral and lekku were originally a form of deterrence to the akul, the main predator on their home world of Shili. The bright contrasting colors and patterns would act doubly as a form of illusion, making them appear bigger than they are, as well as a warning. (I’m big AND I taste bad)

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(psst, @starrypawz)