Lena

Lena are an amphibious people indigenous to the Roslina Archipelago. They are around 5'6" on average and are generally humanoid in appearence. They are covered in green, slimy skin. All Lena are born male, but can potentially become female. Lena are born from eggs which are all laid by members of their "mother" caste.

Communication
Lena are highly empathic. They communicate feelings rather than emotions by a soft humming. Their emotional state is also indicated by their scent. They can break the humming into a kind of Morris code to express complete thoughts and also have a sophisticated sign language; both of which, in combination with their scent and humming can communicate far more clearly than any spoken or written language.

Since no other species can entirely imitate their scents and sounds, they tend to get frustrated with outsiders, often opting to try to communicate via playing instruments in concert as opposed to using sign language. They insult those that do not express themselves well with music as being without song, a phrase becoming synonymous with the Trodon, since many of their merchants only show interest in silently trading.

Community
Lena have a very collectivistic mindset, and their communities tend to assign their members occupations on a periodic rotations. For example, one month, a third of the community would work as fishers, a third in construction, and a third would go to school. Once the month is up, the fishers go to school for a month, the scholars work in construction, and the construction workers start fishing. How many occupations there are to rotate and the length of each rotation vary from community to community. Some even insist on their members working two different jobs a day, alternating in the early afternoon after a mean or nap.

Most occupations have advisers, members who work an occupation full time and do not participate in the rotations. Skilled workers will submit an application for whatever occupation they want to be an adviser for and it is put up to a community popular vote. When you become an adviser, you forfeit your right to vote for the advisors or specialists of occupations other than what they work in.

Specialists are community members whose occupation is not part of the rotation, such as doctors and engineers. They work their occupations nearly full time, only participating in the academic rotation, as teachers, one rotation per cycle. Like advisers, their application to become a specialist is put to a popular vote. Once they become a specialist, they forfeit their right to vote for advisers, only voting for other specialists. Specialists tend to cooperate more with other communities and travel a lot

Breeders are community members whose sole duties are to have sex and raise children, not participating in the rotations. They are chosen by popular vote, even advisers and specialists participating in it. Most communities only have one, larger ones having as many breeders as they have mothers

Mothers are community members whose sole duty is to have sex, lay eggs, and raise children with the breeders. They are breeders who become female as a biological response to the death or infertility to the last mother. There is usually one per community, but larger communities may have more