Agalma

**Agalma** are a Subset of Elytron who are renounced for their hard, rigid skin that is exact to that of stone. They are also known as their many other names: such as, **‘Stone angels’**, **‘Sedimentaries’** and their statue names **‘Gargoyles’**. They are some of the wisest creatures in Erdboden, known for their somewhat infinite knowledge on this world. They are indestructible: and act quite a lot like statues, like **‘Gargoyles’** they can only die when they are destroyed, though, that is still quite a hard task to do since the stone they are created from is far from fragile.

## Overview

**Agalma** also known as the **‘Stone angels’** by many, are a group of Elytron-like people. Who are seen as some of the most intellectual beings in Erdboden knowing all there is to know about how the planet breathes to how it spins.

They are highly seeded out for their impressive ability to take any hit that is thrown at them. This leads them into two careers, usually, that being teaching or becoming mercenaries for their region’s military.

### Personality traits

As already stated, **Agalma** are extremely intelligent, but have a lack of vocal cords that disallow them from speaking their words, though that’s not fully the case, their vocals are still extremely broken to the point they have removed all sense of singing from their cultures, instead settling voiceless instrumentals.

### Common Behaviours

The Agalma, for the most part, tend to work in groups of three or more called a ‘AGATRIO’ these groups will usually stick together, protect each other and treat each other like family. A AGATRIO is common place when an Agalma is perched upon a building.

## Biology

### Skin ~ in depth

As said before, ***Agalma*** have tough, rock-hard skin that is both durable and rough in nature. Their skin varies in rock types hence the nickname **Sedimentaries**. Their skin has many dry properties, and they are consistently battling dry, flakey skin on the daily. Though, their skin also makes them extremely slow, and they cannot react as fast oh as other Elytrons would, being an anomaly to the race.

Sometimes their skin will flake off, leaving sheets of slate and garnet lying on the ground, these can be quite dangerous since they can break off into smaller pieces and become sharp knives.

### Wall-climbing

Though their slow speed and heavy frame, ***Agalma*** posses the claws and the ability to climb steep cliff edges and brick walls with little to no issue. After doing so, they usually will perch on the sides of those walls, on pillars or on fencing, basking in the sun.

### Carved from stone…

***Agalma*** are carved from stone blocks and given life via a subtype of Necromancy named LIFE TO OBJECTS/STATUES. They are usually created and born from the creations of Carpenters, a special group of Necromancers.

## Culture (general)

### Art and music

Though not being too well endowed in the music industry, they have great abilities in both writing and poetry, more so than hymns or rhymes. Their poems consist of woes of that of change to the waves that line the shores. Their art is minimal but holds a lot of meaning to those who critic it, including heavy motifs to issues in the world. The art of using words and writing is shown as a way to show your true feelings about an issue through metaphors, semantics and beautiful descriptions.

Music is usually just instrumentals, with no lyrics whatsoever, since the vocals of the ***Agalma***, are described as underwhelming by many since their voices are coarse, scratchy and “sound like silverware being scratched on a plate” by many, those same people who will ignore their talents of using instruments for other Elytrons, such as Avians.

Many famous books have been written by Agalma such as BOOK01, BOOK03 and BOOK09. Their literature has been highly respect and greatly valued amongst critics during the Rapture era. They have a knack for writing their drafts on their skin named ‘SKINWRITINGPROCESS’. These tablets are then shedded and reworked on.

### Cultural wears

Their Cultural wears are that of simple Greek Togas, Though these wears are only worn at special events or ceremonies like that of marriage proposals (also known as Mutual partnerships).