Goonhub
11-19-2025, 10:21 AM
This isn't canon, this isn't mandatory, I do not have authority over the other frog players, nor would I like to. I am just some guy putting the stuff I made up somewhere. You can use this for your own character lore if you'd like, or don't. I'm not your dad.
PHYSIOLOGY:
Amphibians (alien amphibians) have both a set of gills (a la axolotls, with webbing between the fronds to increase surface area in place of fimbriae) and a set of lungs. Despite this, a significant part of respiration is just performed through the skin. They also have three fingers and a thumb on each hand, lacking a “pinky finger”’ analogue. They have a paired subgular vocal sac, which splits down the middle and extends to approximately the back of the jaw. Their blood is green due to its large sulfur content.
Amphibians have large, three-lobed livers that evolved as they began to master fermentation and started traditionally consuming alcohol. Their stomachs contain channels that can open and close, like a cell plasma membrane on a very large scale, which allows them to absorb their own organs in case of crisis. …They grow back. (The custom ingame sprites for amphibian organs align with this description, but the explanations behind their evolution are still wholly non-canon.)
Speaking of growing back, amphibians can also regrow lost limbs over the course of a few years, similar to axolotls. This process takes a fair amount of energy, and will halt entirely if the amphibian is malnourished or sick.
Amphibians begin in their eggs as limbless, tailed embryos with oversized gills, but their gills will typically shrink and their tails will be absorbed by the time they hatch.
FAMILIAL STRUCTURE:
Amphibians are an r-selected species, laying about 30 eggs per clutch of which half will typically survive to hatching. Fewer of these will survive to adulthood, usually due to parasites or predation from the native shark population, causing the average number of adult amphibians resulting from a single clutch to be about six. Despite being r-selected, amphibians are raised by their parents and their partners.
The “nuclear amphibian family” consists of the amphibian that laid the eggs, the “father” of said eggs (amphibians are hermaphroditic), and the other romantic partners of each parent (who are not typically as involved as the biological parents). This creates a large family structure that is well equipped to raise about a dozen nymphs.
SOCIAL STRUCTURE:
The social structure of amphibians is incredibly variable between populations. Amphibians living near the Oshan Laboratory have perhaps the most well-recorded society, but also seem to have absorbed a fair deal of “human culture” due to their frequent interactions with the humans drawn to Abzu by the Oshan Laboratory. The population of amphibians living near the Oshan Laboratory have been noted to teach their nymphs English as an additional language, in anticipation of an increase in cross-species interactions as time goes on. This population generally practices Cnidarianism, a religion defined by its belief of the dead becoming reincarnated as nigh-invulnerable jellyfish said to be found at the center of swarms. Customs of this belief include abstaining from harming or consuming jellyfish, and dressing bodies in loose fabric before they’re allowed to decay and drift away (a practice known as “funerary floating”).
THE “NANOTRASEN-ABZU EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM”:
Created as a result of the Abzu-Nanotrasen contract to host a station in the Oshan region, this is a program that encourages young adult Abzuian residents (typically shelter amphibians due to their greater population in the region) to work as interns on and around Nanotrasen’s Abzu properties in exchange for a fully funded college education and a program to learn English. Of the amphibians that are educated via this program, a significant amount directly become employed at Nanotrasen once graduating.
PHYSIOLOGY:
Amphibians (alien amphibians) have both a set of gills (a la axolotls, with webbing between the fronds to increase surface area in place of fimbriae) and a set of lungs. Despite this, a significant part of respiration is just performed through the skin. They also have three fingers and a thumb on each hand, lacking a “pinky finger”’ analogue. They have a paired subgular vocal sac, which splits down the middle and extends to approximately the back of the jaw. Their blood is green due to its large sulfur content.
Amphibians have large, three-lobed livers that evolved as they began to master fermentation and started traditionally consuming alcohol. Their stomachs contain channels that can open and close, like a cell plasma membrane on a very large scale, which allows them to absorb their own organs in case of crisis. …They grow back. (The custom ingame sprites for amphibian organs align with this description, but the explanations behind their evolution are still wholly non-canon.)
Speaking of growing back, amphibians can also regrow lost limbs over the course of a few years, similar to axolotls. This process takes a fair amount of energy, and will halt entirely if the amphibian is malnourished or sick.
Amphibians begin in their eggs as limbless, tailed embryos with oversized gills, but their gills will typically shrink and their tails will be absorbed by the time they hatch.
FAMILIAL STRUCTURE:
Amphibians are an r-selected species, laying about 30 eggs per clutch of which half will typically survive to hatching. Fewer of these will survive to adulthood, usually due to parasites or predation from the native shark population, causing the average number of adult amphibians resulting from a single clutch to be about six. Despite being r-selected, amphibians are raised by their parents and their partners.
The “nuclear amphibian family” consists of the amphibian that laid the eggs, the “father” of said eggs (amphibians are hermaphroditic), and the other romantic partners of each parent (who are not typically as involved as the biological parents). This creates a large family structure that is well equipped to raise about a dozen nymphs.
SOCIAL STRUCTURE:
The social structure of amphibians is incredibly variable between populations. Amphibians living near the Oshan Laboratory have perhaps the most well-recorded society, but also seem to have absorbed a fair deal of “human culture” due to their frequent interactions with the humans drawn to Abzu by the Oshan Laboratory. The population of amphibians living near the Oshan Laboratory have been noted to teach their nymphs English as an additional language, in anticipation of an increase in cross-species interactions as time goes on. This population generally practices Cnidarianism, a religion defined by its belief of the dead becoming reincarnated as nigh-invulnerable jellyfish said to be found at the center of swarms. Customs of this belief include abstaining from harming or consuming jellyfish, and dressing bodies in loose fabric before they’re allowed to decay and drift away (a practice known as “funerary floating”).
THE “NANOTRASEN-ABZU EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM”:
Created as a result of the Abzu-Nanotrasen contract to host a station in the Oshan region, this is a program that encourages young adult Abzuian residents (typically shelter amphibians due to their greater population in the region) to work as interns on and around Nanotrasen’s Abzu properties in exchange for a fully funded college education and a program to learn English. Of the amphibians that are educated via this program, a significant amount directly become employed at Nanotrasen once graduating.