Friagloim

• Appearance: Fungoid colony species
  • Individuals exist as a gestalt of three to five distinct, telepathically-linked segments (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
  • Single segments take the form of meter-tall clusters of purplish fungal growths (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
• Biological notes
  • Telepathic capabilities
    • Fully empathic within species (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
    • Potentially telepathic within species (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
      • Full telepathy within an individual's segments (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
    • Low-level telepathy with other individuals (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
      • Able to project emotions, read some imagery-based thoughts (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
  • Only some segments are physically capable of speaking (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
  • Individuals able to divide themselves into subgroups of segments to act independently to a degree (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
  • Death of a single segment results on death of the entire gestalt (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
    • Individuals are relatively psychologically fragile, the gestalt psyche unable to reconstruct itself following such a significant loss (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
    • In near all cases, following the lost of one or more segments the remaining gestalt loses sanity and dies within hours (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
• Cultural notes
  • Individuals described according to their number of segments (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
    • Five segments: quinteth (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
  • Segments have distinct names, but individuals are named as a concatenation of all segments' individual names (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
    • When operating as subgroups of segments, segments are named in the same way (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
  • Very few Friagloim leave their homeworld (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)