Quistics

Quistics are a Soft race from the Quistic Sea. They choose their forms based on dreams, most of which they have previously taken from shipwrecked sailors. They are the newest race to Zariphex, having sailed there in search of dreams to take home in order to fortify their race's supply of inspiration.

History
Originally, the Quistics were very small organisms which lived in the odd water of the Quistic Sea. For a long time they stayed in that form, sometimes changing shape at odd times or copying the shapes of passing sea creatures. Then the tides changed, and many ships which left Zariphex ended up in the Quistic Sea. The Quistics did what they could to save the passengers, but in the end, the sailors finally died. In their vivid, dying dreams, the Quistics discovered inspiration, and began to assume forms and thoughts from those dreams. For the next century or so, more ships crashed, and more dreams gave the Quistics more forms to assume. Eventually laws were passed to stop so many ships from simply sailing to their deaths, and the Quistics began to run out of forms to assume. Without having enough creativity to think of new forms to assume, the Quistics decided to find the place where all dreams come from: Zeriphex. They used their amazing dexterity to turn the wood from the ships into Cask Robes - soft, wooden robes which could hold their Quistic Seawater in and stop it from easily draining.

Biology
Quistics are not quite water, but they are as close as you can get. They're a sort of microscopic, colony-based fungus organism which starts to break apart and stop thinking intelligently the more they're spread out. Their sentience is relatively new, and they are a very naiive species because of it. Their creativity is highly limited, much of it being drawn from the memories and dreams of the dying. They believe that they will continue to grow more intelligent the more dreams they collect, and from how far they've already advanced they might just be right. Nevertheless, they're still just at the beginning their race's first great odyssey.