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Bony-Fish Kindred
A fish-derived Beastfolk Kindred based on shared bony-fish awakening architecture rather than one-to-one correspondence with a single familiar fish form.
Fish-Derived Without a Single Fish Template
The Bony-Fish Kindred contains Beastfolk whose inherited architecture arose from bony-fish-derived awakening patterns. Classification does not require every Lineage to trace itself to one familiar fish species or to preserve the animal body unchanged. Cardorbis possesses its own aquatic life, and several ancestral forms can converge on compatible sapient architecture.
Aquatic is an ecological description rather than a taxonomic rank. A member of this Kindred may breathe water, air, or both according to Lineage biology, while unrelated Chelonian, mammalian, crustacean-derived, or cephalopod-derived peoples may share the same waters without becoming Bony-Fish Beastfolk.
Known Lineages
The Talurai are the presently established Bony-Fish Lineage. Other fish-derived populations can be added only when stable inherited forms actually justify them.