Kua-tin political faction preaching racial purity and rejecting the cultural influence of so-called 'dry' races.
Named by Rishi as an example of how The Great Consensus curdles in practice. The Bloom party kua-tin believe in racial purity and dislike the cultural influence of so-called 'dry' races — the aquatic kua-tin's term for species that live out of water.
Rishi lists them alongside The Mantids, who disdain what they believe to be weaker and inferior species, as examples of those who took the Consensus idea and turned it into something xenophobic and evil — ironic, he notes, given the name of the philosophy.
A xenophobic kua-tin strand of the Great Consensus movement.
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