not sure where I want to go with this design.. Although this might be the preliminary design for the shoreliner japanese adept.

I plan on making different types, since a shoreliner who eats clams, scallops, barnacles, fish, crabs and other ocean critters would not be very skilled at hunting or walking through a bamboo forest.

I think the shoreliners will probably be about the size of a bear or horse from shoulder to haunch. They're much more docile then their other European cousins due to the fact that they have an abundance of food.

Almost every shoreliner japanese adept (If not all of them) have their property on water front. Usually it's very difficult to find a secluded waterfront home, so a large very private home or small island would be purchased and shared among one or two families which would regularly consist of at least 5-7 house occupants at a time, and more then 10 for larger homes.

I'm not sure if I'll be making other specific adepts for deep sea swimming, but Shoreliners are not built for swimming deep underwater. Their large rib cage has two sets of lungs, A larger amphibious pair of lungs for breathing both in and out of water, and a smaller pair made for flotation. They regularly inflate their flotation lungs and use they heavy muscular paddle-like tails to skim around deeper ocean shores. Shoreliners keep their heads underwater the entire time, picking at clams or crabs with their teeth or taloned feet. If they see a delicacy out of their reach, they'll release the air in their flotation lungs, and sink down to get it.

Shoreliners are comfortable being underwater to a certain depth. Their flotation lungs never completely empty, and so they cannot withstand high pressures as it makes the gas in their lungs expand; causing them pain. They do, however, love to swim around shallower water and will really only stay in the epipelagic zone of the ocean.

Other dumb facts:

Like sharks, Shoreliners have two sets of teeth. have very small tongues to make room for their incisors and inner molars that are next to their incisors.

Shoreliners have strong enough jaws to break very large clams and other shellfish.

Shoreliner tradition says that a shoreliner becomes an adult when they have fought and killed their first large mammal (Usually a very large shark or a group of seals) without provoking them. Until that has happened, they will always be treated as a child or an underling. The shoreliners who haven't become adults are usually called "Jhundas" (Pronounced Yhun-das).

Shoreliners love belly scratches and sometimes flip small boats in order to get belly scratches.