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== Biology and Appearance ==
[[Image:KrootArt1.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Kroot Carnivore Squad{{Fn|7}}]]
Kroot are tall and their bodies have a wiriness to them that appears deceptively fragile. In actuality, Kroot musculature is extremely powerful and composed of dense fiber spindles with a greater power‑to‑mass ratio than is found in [[humans]]. Swift muscle contractions create a whiplash effect, allowing the Kroot to deliver powerful blows with great rapidity. On the ground, the Kroot tend to move with a bounding, hopping gait, but in dense forests, they can spring from tree to tree at great speed. The {{Fn|9}} Crowning the heads of Kroot are elongated, flexible quills which are powerful sensory organs. These combined with their strong sense of smell and eyesight make Kroot formidable trackers and pack hunters.{{Fn|18a}} Waste is excreted from a Kroot body in the form of an oily sweat that serves as insulation and an antibiotic slave as well as giving Kroot the ability to leave pheromone trails, mark territories and communicate with each other in silence.{{Fn|18a}} They favour primitive garb: harnesses worked from the hides of animals and adorned with bones, handcrafted amulets and circlets.{{Fn|9}}
[[Image:Kroot6.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A squad of Kroot{{Fn|8b}}]]
They are unable to effectively shape the [[living metal]] of the [[Necron]]s, and doing so produces hideous effects as was demonstrated on [[Caroch]].{{Fn|10}}
===Known Variations===
====Psychic Kroot====
The [[Silver Skulls]] of the [[Adeptus Astartes]] encountered Kroot that had assimilated DNA from the [[Eldar]] and gained powerful [[psychic]] powers, which allowed them to cover themselves in an illusionary disguise that hid their true nature, appearing instead as dark, midnight-blue creatures with smooth skin, long sinewy limbs, clawed fingers, and large amethyst-purple eyes set in a comparatively small, elongated face that came to a triangular point with two nostril slits at the end, no visible ears, and a mouth full of a double set of razor-sharp teeth. Their psychic disguise was only ruptured when their cerebral connection was broken, such as when their head was severed, after which they would revert back to their true Kroot form.{{Fn|5}}
===Subspecies===
Kroot subspecies are variations of Kroot whose ancestors pursued strands so regularly that they became fixed in their attributes and have lost their ability to evolve with new strands. Subspecies have also lost much of their intelligence as well as their ability to speak the Kroot language. However they can still understand the verbalizations of the Kroot and the pheromones secreted, making the link between Kroot and their subspecies in battle seamless.{{Fn|18a}}
====Known Subspecies====
*[[Krootox]]
*[[Kroot Hound]]
*[[Knarloc]]
*[[Great Knarloc]]
*[[Krootworm]]{{Fn|18a}}
*[[Twelve-leg]]{{Fn|18a}}
== History and Culture ==
