The Seeleh live incredibly long lives, up to 700 years. However, living takes energy. To conserve it, the Seeleh are slow. Slow to act, slow to make decisions, and slow to move.
Once a day, the Seeleh's membrane can fill with air, increasing their size to 15 by 15 feet. While in this state, the Seeleh cannot move, but can survive in a vacuum for 30 minutes. This occurs automatically upon contact with a vacuum, or at will.
If the Seeleh is damaged while in this state, the membrane ruptures, and takes 3 days to regrow.
Seeleh are commonly poor: due to their strength, they are often forced into low-paying labor jobs. Because of this, most Seeleh take up a second job (such as derelict raiding) to make ends meet. The Seeleh are stereotyped as nearly-mindless brutes, because of their societal position and inhuman appearance.
The Poloi are frilled humanoids. Around their neck is a set of pheremone sacs; some hold compound α, which causes joy. Others contain pheremone β, which imparts sadness, or pheremone γ, which triggers anger.
The Poloi can distribute their pheremones through either touch or in a small radius around themselves. Poloi are generally stereotyped as untrustworthy: after all, when someone can influence your mind by touching you or even standing near you, how do you know if you're still in control of yourself?
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