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D6 | These porcs look like humanoid |
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1 | bristly wild boars. |
2 | domestic pigs, fat and pink and squealing. |
3 | warthogs, with their weird knobby skulls, and warts. |
4 | red river hogs, strikingly coloured & tufted. |
5 | entelodonts, the hideous hell-pigs of prehistory. |
6 | babirusas, hairless with long tusks that sometimes grow all the way back into their heads. |
D6 | These porcs are generally thought of as belligerent |
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1 | because in ancient days they had a grand civilization that challenged the gods - for their hubris they were cursed so that if they ever gathered in sufficient numbers to rebuild their civilization they would be possessed by the sound of war-drums and be driven to aimless conquest and pillage. |
2 | because once a year their men enter a terrible frenzy, gathering into bachelor-bands to violently compete among themselves and drive others from their territory. Women and castrated men remain peaceable, and sometimes fall prey to indiscriminate retribution. |
3 | because their economy is based on taking slaves and spoils and redistributing them to reinforce social bonds and debts. |
4 | because their society is quite insular and xenophobic, so the interactions most people have with them are with gangs of bandit-exiles, or with watchmen telling them to fuck off. |
5 | because they're instinctually driven to tussle themselves and those around them into a rigid dominance hierarchy - though on the other hand they lack the human instincts for revenge and spite. |
6 | because there's been a war on with them for so long that few remember a time before. |
D6 | These porcs are known to inhabit |
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1 | the wooded foothills of mountains, where goodly folk fear to tread unless to render tribute to the monstrous lords of their peaks. |
2 | the savannah and steppe, riding burly and ornery elephant birds. |
3 | uncharted lagoons and isles on the coast, going upriver in flat-bottomed barges. |
4 | villages built around public wallow-pits, in a similar way to how human villages might be built around a bathhouse. |
5 | megalithic ritual sites older than agriculture, gathering seasonally to drink beer, feast, marry, and worship. |
6 | ziggurats with slanted levels, the zig-zagging ways up them confusing to outsiders. |
D6 | These porcs practice |
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1 | self-scarification, encoding their names, relations, achievements, and so on on their hides, so that their stories will not be forgotten with their deaths. |
2 | marriage of the spouses of and adoption of the children of those they honourably slay. |
3 | an art of squealing-song which is grating to most others yet oddly beautiful to those of discriminating taste. |
4 | some of the most advanced dentistry in the world. |
5 | adiposarchy, rule by the fattest - as a correlate for wealth, a de facto oligarchy. |
6 | ocular sacrifice - their eyesight isn't very good anyways, and its loss is more than compensated for by their senses of smell and hearing. |
D6 | These porcs like to fight |
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1 | with hollow-tipped spears stuffed with noxious and poisonous mixtures. |
2 | with their war-bats flapping about, biting enemies and shitting in their eyes. |
3 | with charges and shield-walls which leverage their mass to batter and compress enemy formations. |
4 | with great iron-shod clubs. |
5 | from atop something between a chariot and a palanquin, carried by their fellows, if they are of sufficient status. |
6 | with an axe-edged buckler in one hand that can chop weapon-hafts and flesh as well as parry. |
D6 | These porcs believe |
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1 | that they are the only people in the world who came into existence outside the divine plan, and so are the only people who are truly free of fate. |
2 | that humans cruelly split their children's trotters at birth to make toes. |
3 | that pigs are the reincarnations of porcs who were foolish in life. |
4 | that the sun hates them, and so avoid it when possible and wear wide hats when not possible. |
5 | that a bald head is lucky, and so sometimes collect bald heads if they don't have one themself. |
6 | that showing one's tail around strangers and acquaintances is shameful. |
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