Coronid

The intelligent, reptilian native species of the planet Ferros. They are fully industrialized, albeit significantly less advanced than humans. However, unlike humans, Coronids are innately magic-capable.

Appearance
Coronid adults stand roughly 7ft tall on average, with thickly scaled skin and horn-like protrusions on their heads. Their Terran pseudonym stems from this "crown". Horns vary in length and form, following genetic lines. Some may sport additional horns on their noses, cheeks, brows, and necks.

Colors
Coronid skin pigments occur in practically every hue, though some are rarer than others. Red, brown, yellow-green, and bronze are the most common, true green and blue being quite uncommon, and purple and blue-green being extremely rare.

Juvenile Coronids have undeveloped pigment, and are thus white or very light pink for their first decade or so.

As it ages, a Coronid will become darker, with the oldest Coronids being nearly black.

Parietal eyes
These are not true eyes, but rather photoreceptive organs associated with the circadian rhythm and thermoregulation. These "eyes" lack a developed iris and pupil. However, they carry the same pigment as the irises of the true eyes.

Crest
All Coronids possess a brightly colored leathery crest, usually stowed deflated under the jawline. When excited or enraged, the Coronid can flare this crest. It is considered extremely rude to do so in public.

Biological Sex
Coronids lack external sexual dimorphism, instead relying on courtship to secure a seasonal mate.

Blah blah no biological sex as juveniles and then developing sex organs at puberty. Happens between 15-20 years of age. Dependent on temperature and diet over the course of several years.

Sexual Reproduction
Coronids typically reproduce sexually. Female Coronids enter estrus on an annual cycle, becoming fertile and receptive to a mate (or mates). Regardless of whether or not mating has occurred, a clutch of eggs will develop and be laid. A clutch consists of 2-5 eggs. 1-3 of these will be fertile if mating has occurred, and the rest will be underdeveloped "duds", which contain no embryo.

Asexual reproduction
Coronids are capable of parthenogenesis. The development of eggs proceeds as normal, though the fertility rate is substantially lowered, with only one or two fertile eggs typically being produced.

Language
Due to physiological differences, some parts of Coronid language are incompatible with human speech, and vice versa. Coronids make use of bird-like trills, whistles, and clicks, on top of heavy use of vowel sounds and glottal stops. While they do have lips, they are not nearly as flexible as those of a primate, and thus present difficulty in pronouncing f and v sounds, or anything else that requires flexible lips.

Notation
In English, symbols are used for different sounds.
 * ! - click
 * ' - glottal stop
 * s* - chirp
 * r* - trill

Gallery
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