Yrythny

• Appearance: Amphibious
  • Leathery skin
    • Skin tone ranges from dark brown to greenish-gray to yellow-green (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
    • Patterned with stripes or spots (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
  • Hairless forms (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
  • Wide mouths (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
  • Black eyes (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
  • Frog-like skin pockets below jaw inflating and deflating as they breathe (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
  • Cartilage ridges in place of ears (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
  • Nictating membranes over eyes (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
• Homeworld: Vanìmel
• Biological notes
  • Uplifted by unknown species from non-sentient amphibians (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
    • Genetic sequence granting sentience known by Yrythny as the "turn key" (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
  • For first five years of life, Yrythny live within the water, gills transitioning to lungs (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
    • Known as younglings during this period (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
    • After this period, permanently air-breathers (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
  • Skin health is dependent on high levels of humidity (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
  • Mating time hits suddenly, marked by eruption of blue starburst pattern on palms (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
• Cultural notes
  • Yrythny food
  • Yrythny faith
    • Focused on worship of the Other (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
  • Society divided into two castes (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
    • Houseborn (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
      • Those who return to their parents' spawning grounds after hatching (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
    • Wanderers (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
      • Those who fail to return to their parents' spawning grounds (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
      • Believed less capable as a result, though noted for engineering and technological skill (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
      • Males sterilized as children (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
      • Females branded, tattooed at age ten to prevent misidentification as Houseborn (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
        • Cannot be sterilized without inflicting permanent physiological damage (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
          • Thus required to take hormonal supplements in adulthood to prevent maturation of reproductive system (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
        • Relatively recent tradition, replacing tradition of slaughtering females upon arrival at Houses (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
    • Romantic relationships between castes considered taboo since Yrythny prehistory (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
  • Members of romantic unions known as consorts (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
• Technological notes
  • By the 24th century, at approximately the equivalent of 22nd century Sol-local technological development (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)