Physically, they are very small and slender, with a height that rarely exceeds 2.5 feet. They have willowy bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs, and tails in both tadpoles and adults. They rarely have more than four toes on their hands and five on their feet, and their skin is permeable and lacks scales. The skin is moist and smooth to the touch and can be drab or brightly colored, exhibiting various patterns of stripes, bars, spots, blotches, or dots. However, the majority of them have black skin with showy yellow spots. Unlike the other two Anthro amphibians, their tadpoles are born ovoviviparous, meaning they hatch within the mother's body. After being born, they stay together in a water basin for several years during their period of maturation and change.

The Salamander people have always been extremely shy and difficult to contact. Despite being numerically very present, the vast Morkearasa rainforest, with its huge tropical trees and intricate plant labyrinths scattered among the numerous streams and rivers, makes it difficult to conduct a census of this people. Even the Anaconda people, after conquering the rainforest, were astonished at the impossibility of both effectively exploring the forest and knowing how many settlements are within it. This trait was exploited by the Salamander people to maintain a semblance of independence, as they've always lied about not knowing all of their people's settlements. The few known large settlements that actually respond to the hissing empire are now readjusted under Anacondas’ policy, but little is known about their pre-empire society.

The Salamander people live in small or medium-sized settlements formed by mound dwellings built with mud and wood on top of burial mounds to prevent tropical floods from destroying everything. Upon closer inspection, almost all of their buildings have the same architecture: from residential to community buildings and even actual burial mounds, it is usually only they who can distinguish which building is used for which function. They produce many different artifacts such as ceramic vases, statues, masks and headdresses, ear and lip jewelry, and more. They also have a rich culture of funeral urns devotedly buried in the floors of their houses. They are a peaceful, reserved, and very closed people who live and survive mainly thanks to harvesting, cultivating tubers and breeding bugs, and a thriving river fishing.