Wednesday, January 10, 2024

D6x6 Thriving Thanoi

Thanoi are walrus-men. Official D&D. Ain't that grand.

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D6 These thanoi
1 braid their whiskers around slivers of iron, preferably meteoric iron, to enhance their electrosensitivity.
2 scrimshaw their tusks with images of their greatest achievements - young and foolish thanoi tend to take up all their tusk-space with laughable, petty things.
3 engage in ritual duels with only their tusks and flipper-blades, in order to obtain aesthetic scars.
4 attach symbiotic oysters to their necks to gain the ability to breath underwater.
5 glue patches of preserved shark-skin to their hide to reduce their drag in water.
6 pierce thick rings through their noses and the fattier parts of their flesh.
D6 These thanoi dwell
1 in a complex carved into an iceberg encrusted onto the back of a giant eelspout.
2 in pyramidal harbour-towers stacked atop islands.
3 in huddles on rocky beaches, having little need for shelter, with their structures mostly just for storage.
4 in air-filled pockets dug into the underside of the ice.
5 in tubes of stitched seal-skins inflated into long houses by channeled wind.
6 in a stone fortress held together not by mortar, but by the tension of its own weight and friction.
D6 These thanoi traverse the waves
1 from below, alongside tamed whales they can hitch themselves to when they tire of swimming.
2 in big coracles of bone, hide, and shell, harnessed to ghosts which raise a swell the craft rides.
3 in gas-float canoes, rowing upside-down as they hover above the surface of the water.
4 in tremendous pykrete battleships, the terror of the freezing waters.
5 in sailing hydrofoils, rapid yet prone to wiping out spectacularly, highly-personalized and fitted with colourful streamers by their daredevil crews.
6 in tank-like paddlewheelers that can crawl across ice as easily as water, driven by teams of giant domesticated hares.
D6 These thanoi's kagog ("spiritual leader")
1 was possessed by an entity of the oceanic abyss while astral-swimming, and now goads the thanoi into raiding for captives to feed its bottomless appetite.
2 is a venal glutton whose behaviour is causing their people to splinter off in disgust, to seek new ways and beliefs.
3 unleashed horrors into the region in a duel with a foreign sorcerer.
4 is ailing, and issuing quests to find a worthy successor. Those the kagog disfavours have been given quite difficult and ridiculous quests.
5 has prophesied a coming ice age, and has gathered an army under their banner in preparation.
6 has been kidnapped by glassy-veined locathah, and is being held hostage at the bottom of the sea.
D6 These thanoi wield
1 tridents in formation alongside unfoldable horn-slat shields. They consider it a delicious insult to kill an enemy with a tiny trident, as one might use to catch small fish.
2 sickle-like blades made from the jaws of arctic predators.
3 paired war-picks, good at climbing cliffs and puncturing skulls.
4 enchanted clubs made from the baculums of their heroic ancestors.
5 harpoons launched with an atlatl-like tool attached to their tails.
6 barbs and razors affixed to their tusks, as weapons which bring the most prestige to fight with.
D6 These thanoi are
1 ranging further into warmer climes every decade, as merchants and pirates, as their seafaring techniques develop.
2 serving as hired muscle for a lich who wants to hide their phylactery in the remotest corner of the world.
3 gathering resources for an expedition to the other side of the world, where it's said their people split in mythic times.
4 at war with intelligent dire polar bears cloned as guards in the buried facilities of an ancient race.
5 being pushed into colder, less hospitable territory by humans armed with dangerous magics to serve as proxies for a distant empire.
6 losing many of their younger generations, who leave to win glory and riches as mercenaries and gladiators.

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