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→‎Biology and Appearance: Minor expansion, more formal language. The foramen magnum comment can be deduced from the art, bipedal nature, and the lack of any mention of their heads sitting on their body strangely. Thus we can safely assume that it is in a location similar to homo sapiens.
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(→‎Biology and Appearance: Minor expansion, more formal language. The foramen magnum comment can be deduced from the art, bipedal nature, and the lack of any mention of their heads sitting on their body strangely. Thus we can safely assume that it is in a location similar to homo sapiens.)
{{image|Call to Adventure - Willshaper.png|side=right|width=250px|A femalen singer}}
 
Singers are humanoid, but not entirely human-likesimilar to ''Homo sapiens''. The most apparent sign of their aliennon-human nature is theirthe skinepidermis; it's is covered in marblings, swirls of various colors - red, black or white.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}} Most singers have two-coloreddichromatic skinepidermides, either red-black or red-white; thethese marblings can appearmanifest in various way, both as delicate swirls and large, wind-swept patterns.{{book ref|sa3|i|7}}{{book ref|sa3|116}} There are singers whose skin hasis all three colorstrichromatic, but they are extremely rare relative to the dichromatic phenotype.{{book ref|sa3|54}}{{book ref|sa4|45}} The color whitening at the edges is a sign of age and senescence.{{book ref|sa4|62}} Their hair is typically orange or red -- colors that don't seem to naturally occur for Rosharan humans.{{wob ref|5782}}{{book ref|sa3|109}} There is a relationship between the color of singer hair and their individual marbling colors.{{wob ref|14827}}
 
Apart from their multicoloredpolychromatic skin, singers have other features that differentiate them from humans. They grow at a faster comparedrate tothan humans butand have slightly shorter average lifespans.{{wob ref|13401}}{{book ref|sa4|83}} In the [[listener]]s' culture, [[Venli]] started to learn about singing as a keeper of songs at age three and is considered adult at age ten.{{book ref|sa4|83}}
 
They are bipedal, and posses a foramen magnum at the base of the skull; they also have a large intracranial space, comparable to ''Homo sapiens''. This, alongside a presumably well-developed cerebrum, gives them a high cognitive capacity.
Their bodies have carapace growing over some parts of them; where and how much depends on what form the singer is currently in, but they typically cover the head and the arms.{{book ref|sa3|55}} Their carapace is held on to their body by a series of blue ligaments.{{book ref|sa1|59}}
 
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Their teeth are built differently than human teeth; their molars allow them to chew through shells. This is further assisted by a divergent mandible structure, with several bones not present in human mandibles.{{wob ref|3922}} Their metabolism is geared towards metabolizing these shells, allowing them to make better use of the local fauna.{{wob ref|2778}} Their eyes are also divergent from homo sapiens - all black, with no sclera and no visible iris.{{book ref|sa1|53}} Singers have orange blood.{{book ref|sa3|38}}
Like many local species, singers possess [[gemheart]]s, though theirs are clouded white, and fused to their sternum.{{book ref|sa3|i|7}} Those gemhearts allow them to bond with [[spren]], letting them change their '''forms''', leading to a change in both appearance and some mental faculty.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}} Due to their gemhearts, singers do not leak [[Lights]] like humans do.{{book ref|sa4|31}}▼
 
▲Like many local species in the Rosharan biosphere, singers possess [[gemheart]]s, though theirs arehave cloudeda cloudy white coloration, and are fused to their sternum.{{book ref|sa3|i|7}} Those gemhearts allow them to bond with [[spren]], letting them change their '''forms''', leading to a change in both appearance and some mental faculty.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}} Due to their gemhearts, singers do not leak [[Lights]] like humans do.{{book ref|sa4|31}}
 
Singers can drink crem without getting sick.{{wob ref|11570}}
 
They have greater resistance to cold temperatures than humans.{{book ref|sa4|102}}
Despite those differences, singers are like humans in many [[Spiritual Realm|Spiritual]] aspects. Like humans, they can receive boons and curses from the [[Nightwatcher]].{{wob ref|1378}} They can also bond [[spren]] to attain [[Knights Radiant|Radiant]] powers, though most spren are unwilling to reach out for such a bond.{{book ref|sa3|120}} Singers can see the reality of the spren more closely than a human.{{book ref|sa4|48}} They also don't get cold as easily as humans.{{book ref|sa4|102}}▼
 
=== Spiritual Aspects ===
 
▲Despite thosethese biological differences, singers are like humans in many [[Spiritual Realm|Spiritual]] aspects. Like humans, they can receive boons and curses from the [[Nightwatcher]].{{wob ref|1378}} They can also bond [[spren]] to attain [[Knights Radiant|Radiant]] powers, though most spren are unwilling to reach out for such a bond.{{book ref|sa3|120}} Singers can see the reality of the spren more closely than a human.{{book ref|sa4|48}} They also don't get cold as easily as humans.{{book ref|sa4|102}}
 
=== Sexes and reproduction ===
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