Kran Tongues

[Shaman]

Pretty straightforward: do Krans have tongues? If not, how do they go about pronouncing "L" and other letters?

[zanzibar]

Since they don't breath, how do they talk at all?

[Vorsh]

This is assuming Kran have gaul bladders, instead of getting gaul stones, do they get gaul flesh?

[Under the moon]

They speak in a similar way an electric speaker does. They vibrate a crystal matrix in their neck. The sound is then magnified through throat and head structures, and formed into the final sound by a tongue. The main function of the tongue is the same as it is in humans, though, to move food around for complete chewing.

[zanzibar]

They speak in a similar way an electric speaker does. They vibrate a crystal matrix in their neck. The sound is then magnified through throat and head structures, and formed into the final sound by a tongue. The main function of the tongue is the same as it is in humans, though, to move food around for complete chewing.

A tongue is a muscle.  Do Kran have muscles?

[Under the moon]

Yes. Kran are soft and squishy on the inside, crunchy on the outside. Somewhat like an insect. Kran skin is made of stone, yes, but it is a flexible stone substance built from the inside out. Much like tree bark. It is continually renewed, as much of what a Kran eats is deposited on the underside of their skin to keep their natural armor strong.

[Shaman]

Yes. Kran are soft and squishy on the inside, crunchy on the outside. Somewhat like an insect. Kran skin is made of stone, yes, but it is a flexible stone substance built from the inside out. Much like tree bark. It is continually renewed, as much of what a Kran eats is deposited on the underside of their skin to keep their natural armor strong.

Hear that Vannaka?

[zanzibar]

Yes. Kran are soft and squishy on the inside, crunchy on the outside. Somewhat like an insect. Kran skin is made of stone, yes, but it is a flexible stone substance built from the inside out. Much like tree bark. It is continually renewed, as much of what a Kran eats is deposited on the underside of their skin to keep their natural armor strong.

I always thought they were stone through and through.

[zanzibar]

Ok, so this means that kran are warm blooded, they drink water and eat organic matter?

[Shaman]

Ok, so this means that kran are warm blooded, they drink water and eat organic matter?

They drink water, yes. The others, I don't know.

[Zontick]

Since they don't breath, how do they talk at all?

Actually, it says in the documentation that they do breathe - just slowly enough to be underwater (which is a physiological novelty). Personally, I wonder at them breathing at all, but it's not my fiction.

I'd think talking would be done by mimicry of vibrations that other species make.

[Under the moon]

They breath through their skin, not lungs. The documentation will be updated to reflect that information more clearly.

[zanzibar]

They breath through their skin, not lungs. The documentation will be updated to reflect that information more clearly.

How wide are their pores?

[Under the moon]

About this big -> . Give or take a few pixels.

[Zontick]

They breath through their skin, not lungs. The documentation will be updated to reflect that information more clearly.

Good. That would account for breathing underwater - through spiracles rather than lungs/gills. This means choking a kran is practically impossible unless they are removed from their required nutrients completely... not even a toe outside.