Physiology
Ambrivans are short, about 3'5" to 4'5" for females and, on average five inches taller for males. Adult petite or lean Ambrivan females weigh around 180 pounds, athletic or muscular female Ambrivans weigh around 200 pounds, and while not common, over weight Ambrivans do exist (males weigh 20-30 pounds more than females on average). Ambrivans can live for 150-180 years on average, with 1-20 being young, 21-50 being children, 51-80 being teenagers, 81-120 being adults, and 121-180 being elderly. Most Ambrivans do not live past 180 (tho some do - the oldest on record was 200).
Ambrivans are stout and do not injure easily. They jump high, run fast, but are clumsy in water without special training. They are hardy and do not suffer in the cold like some creatures do tho they overheat easily in the summer and fall. They get claustrophobic easily - they prefer wide open spaces... tho some have overcome this and work in mines or live in forests. Most Ambrivans are afraid of heights as well, and only a select few can glide thru the air. Those that can glide thru the air are considered genetic superior (for flight, Ambrivans usually require magic as even a GS Ambrivan's wings are a little too small for flight alone and barely sustain gliding for more than a few minutes).
All Ambrivans have two fingers and a thumb on their hands, and they have two toes on their feet. They all have a tail that extends out one foot for females and up to three feet for males. The underside of their tail and the backs of their feet have gems embedded into them from where they drag. Tails never grow. Babies are born with the length of tail they will have throughout their entire life and only the tail ribbons will grow with them as they age. The biggest differences between males and females are three items: 1) how they excrete their waste (women have holes on their body near the crease of their tail whereas men excrete waste from the end of their tails), 2) their overall body shape as females are curvy and voluptuous while men are more thick and muscular, and 3) men have a longer tail than women.
Love, Relationships, & Reproduction
Ambrivans enjoy fun and sometimes go thrill seeking. Close and dependable friendships are essential for safety as well as mutual development and networking. Most Ambrivans stay within their age circles and rarely adventure into older or younger Ambrivan friendships. Old-School and high-class Ambrivan society is formed around the belief in love at first sight. As such, Ambrivans are not date per the high class and elderly Ambrivans who follow old-school rules, and once they choose their mate, they pair off for life if their chosen mate reciprocates the affection. However, a new school of Romantic Lifestyle Ambrivans have come on the scene and believe in choice: they date whomever and however many they want, and when they find someone they are compatible with, they mate for life.
Crystals play a large part in an Ambrivan's life. Not only do they funnel magic for the Ambrivans, they also perform reproductive functions. Ambrivans do not have genitalia in the common sense. Both males and females have erotic zones that can be stimulated (lips/tongue, ears, tails, bottoms of feet, and a bump on the bottom front of the pelvis), but to reproduce, two Ambrivans must pull a gemstone from their flesh (incredibly painful) and match it to their partner. Then they choose who will carry the child to term, and the chosen partner takes the pair of gems and inserts them into their belly-button. Within minutes, their body will absorb the gems and the magic will form a new life. The new life will take about five months to mature into a baby that can live outside the womb. The baby is then birthed back through the belly-button area of the parent Ambrivan. Because conception is done this way, as long as there are two parents involved, same-sex parents can have biological children together and both men and women can carry and birth babies. Taking two gems from the same Ambrivan will NOT produce a child as there is only one side of the DNA needed in those gems.