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The largest traditional groupings of Bzzit Khaht are the Corals, which may house from 50 to 5000 members, depending upon their size. Family groupings are unusual. The hunting group of 5 to 15 raises newborns and nymphs instructs them before they begin clerical apprenticeships and while they are too young to venture out of the water. | The largest traditional groupings of Bzzit Khaht are the Corals, which may house from 50 to 5000 members, depending upon their size. Family groupings are unusual. The hunting group of 5 to 15 raises newborns and nymphs instructs them before they begin clerical apprenticeships and while they are too young to venture out of the water. | ||
==Culture | ==Culture= | ||
Bzzit Khaht are not warrior-poets, and | Bzzit Khaht are not warrior-poets, and neither are they either separately. Creation of lasting tangibles underwater was always difficult and they do not have much lasting art. Clothing was a detriment to underwater travel, though they did fashion temporary, algae-based attire to protect their skin from the sun for land-based living. | ||
Their mating rituals have long been seen as complex and artistic, though they don't regularly display them or see them as art themselves. Mating must be done in the water and consists of hours of partner acrobatics and two-piece harmonies, most of it ritualistic and yet apparently encoded since bzzit khaht are either unwilling or unable to perform it outside of mating.<p> | Their mating rituals have long been seen as complex and artistic, though they don't regularly display them or see them as art themselves. Mating must be done in the water and consists of hours of partner acrobatics and two-piece harmonies, most of it ritualistic and yet apparently encoded since bzzit khaht are either unwilling or unable to perform it outside of mating.<p> | ||
Their four most popular languages are all based upon combinations of vocalization and gestures. | Their four most popular languages are all based upon combinations of vocalization and gestures. | ||
==Customs== | ==Customs== | ||