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These fish related sentient group has made it's home in the Lake of the Dragon's Stomach for at least a few hundred generations. They are ruled by the Keepers of the Skull their religious cult that has it's most holy shrine at dead dragon's skill. Most of them have grey or whitish blue flesh, though the Blorps often have unusually colored tentacled bottoms.
Naming Traditions
Feminine names
Bilip, Pip-plop
Masculine names
Borolop, Ribbirop, Glorp
Family names
These names are based on physical features as they all hatch from eggs and parentage is unknown. Glurg for the Sharkheads, Blorp for the Jellyfish bottomed, Gurgglup for the head finned, and Glork for the crab legged.
Other names
Many of the fish folk gain appellations due to great deeds. This helps distinguish them based on their relatively sparse list of personal names.
Culture
Major language groups and dialects
Gurbleglop is the local language, related to aquan but lacking much of the vocabulary. It is used principally as an oral language as most written is actually drawn or etched with acid on walls as primitive pictographs. Most common species have difficulty speaking the language even if they can understand it, this is due to the extensive use of gurgles that are unpronounceable by most species.
Common Dress code
Shell armor or flatweed burlap style fabric is generally used for practical application and the adding of pouches and pockets. They are often attacked by wild hookbeaks that roost far above the lake which is why the armor is present. Otherwise they will go around naked without any specific need for clothing.
Art & Architecture
Acid etchings in stone are the most common form of architecture, though acid etched bones are highly prized as they don't tend to last many years before deteriorating. The art is usually etched by acid derived by the Tiger Striped Hooked Slug skin, then it applied using a frayed flatweed brush and dyed using Blorps dried discarded tentacles or Blue lichen derived pigments.
Funerary and Memorial customs
At death the body is consumed by the family and friends, with bone, skin and other specific body parts harvested for future use.
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