Flayfish Fenrirs

Swamp dwelling aquaculturalists who graft the skin of electric fish to themselves in a coming-of-age ritual. The painful act prepares them from the rest of their lives.

Beliefs
Fenrirs see the foam fens as sacred, and attempt to become 'one' with it and its inhabitants. As such, they live ascetic lives, taking the bare minimum from the fen to survive. For gains beyond what is necessary for survival, fenrirs practice self flagellation and impose pain to repent for all they have taken from the fen.

Fenrirs venerate electric catfish as they are the most commonly farmed food item, and thus have sacrificed greatly for the lives of the Fenrirs. Nevertheless, they give electric catfish no deific status, though believe them to be the descendants of dragons. A common motif in the Fenrirs' art are electric catfish sprouting air sacs and taking off from the swamp.

Fenrirs practice astrapiserny as a coming-to-age ritual. All adult flayfish fenrirs have some degree of electric ability. Usually the left arm is grafted with electric organs. This practice is extremely painful, but it is seen as a clarifying act, just as their self flagellation. Those which cannot bear the pain are given supplements with rubber insulators, but are shunned as remaining 'forever juvenile'. Death by astrapiserny is often viewed by Fenrirs as the fen rejecting the user. Those who die in this gruesome fashion are shamed posthumously

Agriculture
Fenrirs farm electric catfish and hibbertopterids in massive aquacultures along with mangrove seed ferns. To nagivate their cultures, they use domesticated swamp heads that part water for them to create temporary mud paths.

Technology
Fenrirs routinely wear lilypad boots and large straw caps fashioned like leaves. Their armour and weapons are insulating, usually made out of hibbertopterid shells and telsons and coated with rubber. This is to prevent them from accidentally shocking themselves.

Skilled astrapisernists wield conduit whips, whips lined with copper wire that conduct electricity well. When their conduit whips make contact with an enemy, the user releases a strong electric shock. The most skilled and deveoted astrapisernists wield coilguns which can shoot metal projectiles at extremely high velocity, parting armour like water.

Fenrirs use brine electrophoresis to extract salt and flammable hydrogen from the foam fens. The latter are exported in filled swim bladders as firebombs and fuel to cultures around them which have not gleaned the techniques of electrophoresis, such as the peritelmic industrial states.