Syrinx

The Syrinx are one of the many ambiguous or seemingly synthetic species common in Arsgri, being beasts created from a spacefairing, solar-activated virus granting extreme levels of regeneration, durability, and horizontal gene transfer between species, resulting in every individual Syrinx being a completely different organism with unique traits and niches they exploit. They are almost universally solitary, apex predator megafauna.

Characteristics

Syrinx, similarly to many shifters, possess two forms; the ordinary and the alternate. The ordinary or original body of a Syrinx is treated similarly to its equivalent for the Kalazakchi, as the Syrinx consider their beastial (alternate) forms their true forms and use their ordinary bodies as means of not being discovered and interact with the world in a way their beast form cannot. Direct exposure to sunlight causes all Syrinx to involuntarily assume their beast forms.

The alternate form of a Syrinx is characterized as a giant unique organism combining the characteristics of many different species, always exceeding a ton in body weight, and built for a hypercarnivorous lifestyle exploiting several niches. Many of them are capable of powered flight or gliding. Syrinx are often horned or antlered, possess differentiated dentures, clawed arms with opposable thumbs, and excellent eyesight with a special focus on movement. As hunters, they rely on sight more than any other sense. Syrinx universally exhibit a fascination with smooth movement or the motion trance, being drawn to slowly and rhythmically moving visuals such as those of schooling fish, dancers on a stage, plants moving in the wind, sea waves or human gestures; this will cause them to follow the movement with their head and approach slowly, appearing entranced.

They are named so after the presence of a complex organ between their tracheae, resembling the syrinx of birds and giving the beasts the ability to speak and excellently mimic sounds.

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