Traits

Simple webbing and spines

Standard toe length, good for all around swimming

Shortened toes, better for swimming in the shallows

Elongated toes, better for deep-sea swimming

Soft, ray fins.

Cartilaginous fins.

Crystals may float when shed off the body, and follow the host around, or manipulated by the Crysalla.

Acquired condition from consuming another Crysalla’s Soul Stone, or by absorbing another via the Sacrifice ability.

One Soul Stone inherited from each parent. Both remain on the chest and the Crysalla may grow crystals of both gemstones.

A mutation causing mineralized bone growths on the outside of the body, such as a raised spine or skull.

Scales begin to opalize, forming progressively growing strong armor over the skin.

A wound in the Crysalla crystallizes when healing, resulting in an open geode permanently.

Disease in which the gene to produce crystal growths is constantly activated, resulting in unregulated and overwhelming crystal growths unable to shed that threaten to cover the whole body without regular surgical intervention.

Crystals glow in the dark.

Two or more different species of crystals from the Soul Stone grow.

Two or more different colors of the same crystal species as the Soul Stone grow.

Referring to the hardness of a diamond, any crystals develop stronger than natural and cannot be broken or shed. They have to be surgically cut from the flesh if they grow too large and cumbersome for the Crysalla.

Crystals may shift color slowly due to diet.

In Crysalla, the inability for the blood to naturally crystallize when exposed to nitrogen in air, and can lead to severe blood loss. Most commonly a result of accidental inbreeding.

Results in crystal growths being extremely fragile, breaking and shedding more frequently. Most commonly a result of accidental inbreeding.