THE MEMORY OF THE CITY
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Pzuubvaal
Psouhammus bivalens
Originally, the biosphere of Pzuuvot was one dominated by a single genetic programme that had outcompeted all other taxa via its unique Lamarckian adaptability. Through intricate re-use of its own genes, it formed a complete, homogeneous biosphere, in hundreds of niches, entirely through epigenetic regulation. This scheme was completely successful in preventing either black or red 'queen' evolutionary races, effectively bringing natural evolution to a standstill. The Pzuubvaal are in essence a sort of tumour of the Psouhammus genotype: with misshapen and disordered anatomy, each individual has a wildly variant number of limbs, mouths, ears, etc., and is regularly compared unfavourably to the comparative aesthetic deliberateness of artistic depictions of teratomae and spawns of chaos. This has not impeded their capacity for civilization in the slightest, despite their exceptionally idiosyncratic values, and they have always been a part of the Ksreskézaian Empire, particularly in its engineering establishment.

Like the Lilitai, the Pzuubvaal hold the past in mixed regard, but as their numbers remained much greater, they had a more realistic chance of founding a successor state.

In modernity the Pzuubvaal have been allies of the Globkhro Federation, LIYAL, and a founding member of the Central Congress.