Cappans of Coral

The Cappans of Coral, also called nixies or sea elves, are a subrace of Cappans found along coastal regions and atolls. Most are adapted to the sea and thrive on primarily pescetarian diets, though some societies have been known to settle by freshwater bodies.

Appearance and behavior
They typically appear as seemingly a cross between the more common sylvanids and the Glass merfolk, with the lithe, bony frame typical of Cappans but with the soft-scale skin and fin-like webbings of the Naussae. Though they lack gills, nixies are strong-lunged and swifter in the sea than on land, though the trait is not as pronounced among the freshwater peoples.

Unlike their typically isolated and hidden brethren, nixies are much more welcoming and friendlier to outsiders, though they are closer in trust to the merfolk than they are to other hominids and brutes.

Nixies are excellent shipwrights and overwater architects, mastering the sciences of wood petrification and waterproofing. Much of the merfolk's construction knowledge came from nixie builders, and the nixies were integral in designing the famed seacity of Amjurkittal.

History
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