Moshrayah - the blind artists

[Steerpike]

These are really cool.  I like creatures with odd anatomies, that deviate substantially from the standard "humanoid" templates.

I'm wondering what the Moshrayah religion is like, if they have one?  Clearly beauty-worship is deeply ingrained in their culture, but do they possess any substantial theological structures/myths/traditions?

[Superfluous Crow]

Yeah, i kinda forgot to mention religion. As impulsive rather than completely rational creatures, i reckon that faith means quite a lot to them. I also imagine that devotion is a somewhat beautiful thing to their empathic/mental senses. I already have one aesthetics religion in the works, but seeing as it requires vegetarianism from it's subjects i don't feel it's likely it would have developed in their culture. But they definitely have religious inclinations; i'll try and come up with one.

[Furor]

An interesting idea for the moshrayah would be to give them schools of thought in regards to their "art" you could have the very adept bardlike music-makers, you could have the martial monk-esque war-dancers etc. each elder could be the most knowledgeable in their field.

I also think it would be really interesting to elaborate on any distinct members of the race, just to give an insight onto how they develop as individuals.

An intersting idea i got when reading the senses section was group-sight it would be cool if with their heightened empathic powers and ability to echolocate and even possibly use their magnetic nodes to create electric currents to bounce off of objects that they could use each others empathy to share information about their environment, which would give moshrayah the ability to "see" in 360 and even inside objects.

They would also be exceptional doctors with their ability to echolocate and sense electric currents

[Superfluous Crow]

I did actually hint to them having different views and specializations with this sentence: "The main difference between enclaves is therefore not whether they value beauty or not, but what they consider to be beautiful."
Each enclave shares a more or less common view on what is the most aesthetic thing, and then pursue it in different ways. It seems a bit too artificial to have them all specialize in a single thing. I might try and create some individuals, but it isn't on the top of my to-do list right now :)
How do you reckon they would be able to see inside objects? A hive-sense would be interesting, but i think i'd rather use that for another race; this one is already filled to the brink with special abilities and they are a bit too individualistic for it to make sense.
And they would have to be near others for the 360 vision to work in your idea yes?
Also, how does echolocation improve your skills as a doctor?

[Furor]

You'd be able to map out the internal organs with echolocation, since sound, unlike light, is not stopped by skin. Technically they would have a 360 degree range of "vision" anyway, but they could as a hive mind create much more detailed images to work with as they could focus their sound reception to completely different wavelengths. I guess i kind of missed the fact that they were that individualistic since i personally interpreted them as a bit more communal, especially with their increased ability as empaths.

[Superfluous Crow]

Their civilization focuses on the individual, but they have a better understanding of others. And i guess you're right about the echolocation although i doubt their vision is adjusted to that use. And on second thought, echolocation requires the sound to be reflected from solids, so even if some of it passes through the skin only a fraction of it would bounce of the organs.