(Arawak)

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The Cyrawaloc- A symbiont made of three seperate species that cooperate to make a single intelligent being.  They're public domain so if you wanna play with one, go ahead!

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The Cyrawaloc are aliens who are three separate species combined into a single sapient being. If these species were separated they would never have made a massive interstellar civilization. The heads are the Cyrs, the bodies are the Awa and the limbs are the Loka. Multiple combinations of head and limb exist, but universally a Cyrawaloc will have only a single body to separate itself from another ‘individual’. The Cyrawaloc are individualistic minded, but not in the same way as us. All the three species part of a Cyrawaloc are viewed as the same individual and aggressively so; denying that they are the same is viewed as an insult. The Cyrawaloc identify shifts as parts of itself are born and die, attaching and detaching. The death of the Awa (body), the least sapient part of a Cyrawaloc, ironically is usually viewed as the “death” of an individual even if the head and limbs survive as the body lives much longer than the head or limbs. A cyrawaloc can have a single limb, five limbs, two heads and so forth. The limit is usually two heads and five limbs, anymore and “mental disorders” happen like insanity, plain and simple insanity. Not to mention it risks encumbering the Awa.

The Cyrawaloc as a kind are three species in total, each of which unique. 

The Cyrs are symbiotic beings who directly control the Awas to better pastures in nature, living off the Awas in exchange for giving the Awas a better prospect at survival overall. The Loka came later, but were instrumental in the drive towards sapience and technological advancement as the Loka's mandibles are remarkably hand-like.

With the Loka, the combined symbiotic beings known as the Cyrawaloc managed to develop fire and new ways to defend the Awas from would be predators while simultaneously increasing food yields for each of the three species. 

The Cyrs is smart, directing the other two species and putting much of its thought process to more systemic planning and partial communication- however the more sociable Loka tend to like talking more than the Awas.  The Cyrs communicate in a series of weird, jittery hums while the Loka communicate in a more guttural fashion.  The Cyrs is quite big as far as symbionts go, having developed a co-dependant relationship with the Awas evolutionary to the point where their larval formed have specialized towards entrenching themselves into the Awas from a very young age. The advent of technology has complicated things, for you started getting the ability to use machinery in place of the typical co-dependancy that had defined their existence for numerous millennia and this fact has led to a highly, highly reactionary mindset among multiple Cyrawaloc sub-groups.

The Awas is a large, tetrapodal herbivore which exist in a phyla separate from the Cyrs or Loka, but benefit from their symbiotic overlords greatly.  The Cyrs tend to possess a alpha male Awas, who then leads the other female Awas.  Female Awas can be controlled by a Cyrs as well, but said control can be overridden by the Cyrs riding the males due to having to fight the instinctual urges of a female Awas to follow the alpha of the herd.  Awas are more or less herd animals, with a collective mode of social organization.  The Awas live long and have a reputation for their insane resilience and endurance.

The Loka are the limbs and hands of the Cyrawaloc and are of an intelligence between the Awas and Cyrs, but their ingenuity and dexterity (for their whole lifestyle is based around their handibles).  They are feisty, opportunistic beings who in nature were stalkers and ambushers.  They make use of their hand-mandible in an extremely diverse set of ways, from digging traps to making tools and ambush snatching food to eat.  They're social creatures despite their niche, aggregating in large numbers despite their strike and grab approach to things. When the Loka were primitive, you had whole regions simply infested in Loka colonies.  However, the lack of long-term mobility meant that the Loka in earlier history would be out competed by the symbiotic forms of the Cyrawaloc.  Non-combined Loka simply lack the platform the Awas gave to moving to new regions with lots of food, mates and other useful things. 

At some point the Loka who found the Awas as a useful way to get around and the Cyrs were tolerated since the Loka liked wrapping around the hump while the Cyrs just stood there on top.  The Cyrs also is just too big.  Multiple Loka tend to Co-habitate a Awas in varying relationships. The web of relationships that define even a single Cyrawaloc can be remarkably complicated, affected by the gender arrangement (is the Awas a pack alpha or a female?, Do your arms breed?, is your head shooting mating barbs?) The Loka are segmented and can stiffen/loosen their many joints as needed.  The Loka can exist independently, but without the mobility of the Awas the networks of communication that led to increasingly more complex inventions, tools, runes and ideas would likely not have come to being.

Here is the general idea of them:
-They are a three-species symbiont (which means they live off each other, but to mutual benefits)
-Their identity usually has the whole be a individual, but this is far from universal.
-There is a head species, a body species and a limb species.
-The body species are large pack herbivores with alpha males.
-The arms are ambush predators.
-The head is a co-dependant symbiont with some snail-like traits.
-The limbs are less dependent on the body and head than the head and body are to each other.
-The body lives the longest, the limbs live the shortest in terms of natural life span.
-It is best to have a infant hand or a Larval head to replace any dead parts of your body. 
-Losing your arms, head or body all are much more traumatic than with say, a humanoid as it is not just a physical part of your body being lost, it is a part of who you are as a individual that is lost. 
-The body may be an alpha male instead of a female, which means expect to have sex much more frequently.
-Your arms are gender egalitarian and the females lay eggs.
-The head reproduces with tiny darts, only males have those and the head produces tiny eggs that grow for a bit on the Awas before becoming a larva.
-The arms may leave to carry out bodily functions.
-Humanoids have a hard time reading your mind(s) due to the head and body's strong connectivity unless they know the psychology of a Cyrawaloc.
-We all like Needlecurry, okay? It's good food for both your body and limbs.
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