Sound-roots 'ssel' (the low hiss) + 'ithash' (the still-water close) — the still-water-hiss
She waits at the edge of the still water for the better part of a day, and the heron that lands within reach does not see her until she has already moved.
Best for A swamp lizardfolk of the still water
Sound-roots 'thar' (the dry-sun tone) + 'osh' (the sun-baked close) — the sun-baked
He bakes on the high rock from the first light to the last, and the desert caravan that passes beneath learns to watch the rock before the road.
Best for A desert lizardfolk of the sun-baked rock
Sound-roots 'vass' (the low-water tone) + 'keth' (the reed-bed close) — the reed-bed-low
She moves through the reeds without bending a single stem, and the duck-hunters of the marsh have learned never to set foot where her track was seen.
Best for A marsh lizardfolk of the reed-bed
Sound-roots 'ossa' (the old tone) + 'rith' (the old-blood close) — the old-blood
He remembers the season the river changed course, though no warm-blooded record of it survives, and the elders of his clutch carry the memory older still.
Best for A primal lizardfolk of the old blood
Sound-roots 'sszar' (the bright draconic tone) + 'akh' (the scale-kin close) — the dragon-touched
She carries the long bright scale of the dragon-kin down her spine, and the warm-blooded who see her at the road-edge cross themselves and pass on.
Best for A scale-kin lizardfolk of the dragon-touched line
Sound-roots 'hiss' (the breath-tone) + 'kal' (the held close) — the breath-held
He can hold his breath in the still water for the full turn of a tide, and the fish-traps of the wet wild are emptied by his clutch before the trapper returns.
Best for A swamp lizardfolk of the breath-held
Sound-roots 'krass' (the dry tone) + 'oth' (the held close) — the dry-held
He has walked the dry scrub without water for the span the warm-blooded would call impossible, and his clutch reads the rock-shade the way scholars read a page.
Best for A desert lizardfolk of the dry-held
Sound-roots 'sshar' (the low scale-tone) + 'ass' (the held close) — the scale-held
She carries the mark of the old matriarch down her jaw, and the clutch she leads will not move the nest until she has spoken the word that releases it.
Best for A primal lizardfolk of the scale-held line
Sound-roots 'zeth' (the bright tone) + 'iss' (the held close) — the bright-held
His scales catch the noon sun and throw it back brighter than the warm-blooded eye can hold, and the road his clutch watches is empty by noon of any traveller.
Best for A scale-kin lizardfolk of the bright scale
Sound-roots 'moss' (the wet-green tone) + 'keth' (the reed-bed close) — the wet-green
She wears the green of the wet moss so closely that the eye cannot tell her from the bank, and the clutch she hunts with strikes from the cover she provides.
Best for A marsh lizardfolk of the moss-line
Sound-roots 'ssol' (the sun-tone) + 'oth' (the held close) — the sun-held
He reads the heat of the high rock with the long flat of his jaw, and his clutch knows by his basking whether the day will turn to storm.
Best for A desert lizardfolk of the sun-bask
Sound-roots 'vrass' (the deep water-tone) + 'ith' (the old-blood close) — the deep-water
She dives the deep still water where the warm-blooded cannot follow, and the old things her clutch retrieves from the bottom are traded to no one outside the marsh.
Best for A primal lizardfolk of the deep-water line