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D6 | These svirfneblins are |
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1 | pale and potbellied, with thin and rubbery-cartilaginous limbs - they move through the tight spaces of the underworld by wrapping themselves up and rolling. |
2 | utterly veinous, with blood so darkly crimson it's nearly black, and are flattened front-to-back like a planarian. |
3 | frightfully spindlesome, with many-jointed limbs and digits, and glassly translucent bodies. |
4 | loosely- and wrinkly-skinned, with long buck teeth and vellum-thin skin stretched over milky eyes. |
5 | porphyryan malproportioned forms of graven whimsy. |
6 | vaguely molluscoid, with slimy purplish-green flesh and eyes and ears which protrude on stalks. |
D6 | These svirfneblins are |
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1 | born from the cosmos attempting to fill in the person-shaped holes in reality left by the feeding of a beast of the deepest underworld which devours its prey utterly. |
2 | a species descended from the same root as gas spores - though resembling murderably-annoying gnomes rather than beholders - but evolved to be able to reproduce without parasitism. |
3 | descended from survivalists who ensconced themselves in vaults deep beneath the earth to escape a catastrophe that ravaged the surface. |
4 | descendants of neanderthals who retreated deeper into their caves rather than accepting assimilation or extinction, and ended up in the underworld, and adapting to it. |
5 | fairies from the New Moon who fell down to the world in a conjunction of the celestial spheres - the darkness beneath the earth is the closest place they can get to their old home. |
6 | beings from across the stars, whose living ship crossed vast distances via the warping of space. An accident caught them in this world's gravity well and interposed them within its depths - they are bound to the deep by the dying cries of their ship. |
D6 | These svirfneblins live |
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1 | at the cores of expansive, stone-boring hyphaeic networks, chemically-interfacing with the fungus to monitor their territorie and guide the protrusion of edible, pharmacological, and stipewood-producing varieties of mushroom. |
2 | around chemo-volcanic pits, using their arts to merge stone and glass and bacteria into useful and beautiful forms. |
3 | in the taproots of giant trees, which plunge thirstily into buried seas that the svirfneblin ply in canoes of worm-fought wood. |
4 | in weir-villages along the banks of subterranean rivers, living off snared flotsam and the meat of alabaster oysters whose shells they wear as jewellery. |
5 | in cavitous geodes, furnishing omni-directional spires of glittering gem-stone. |
6 | in cathedrals of carved-out stone, painstakingly-shaped to focus the tectonic reverberations which feed their gardens of symmetrical cymatic lichens. |
D6 | These svirfneblins tend |
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1 | to observe hospitality to a degree otherwise unheard of in the scarcity of the underworld - though they've got a voracity for stories & knowledge from guests. |
2 | to deal honestly & fairly with outsiders, only very rarely murdering the weak and taking their stuff. |
3 | to stymy and war against the worst of the monsters and polities in their region, out of a pared-down sense of chivalry. |
4 | to hold love & friendship in high esteem. |
5 | to practice customs which limit coercive hierarchies and encourage democratic decisioning. |
6 | to worship a goddess of mercy, and so forgive debts and tend to the suffering. |
D6 | These svirfneblins can |
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1 | sustain themselves by eating coal and drinking petroleum, but this gives them painful stomach-cramps and noxious flatulence. |
2 | hock super-gluey loogies with enough accuracy to stick an enemy's eye or ear shut. |
3 | emit the scent of anything they've smelled before from their "perfumer's gland" - a sort of camouflage against the sightless creatures of the underworld. |
4 | speak with worms and other such things which wriggle beneath by drumming their tongues against earth and stone. |
5 | shrug off magic and mortal injury by self-petrifying for a long while, eventually reverting to repaired flesh and flaking off their rocky carapace. |
6 | see even in seeming-darkness by the light of stars refracted in a non-Euclidean fashion through macro-crystals. |
D6 | A delicacy of these svirfneblins is |
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1 | their own dead - desiccated and ground up and pressed into wafers. |
2 | morels that grow only in the darkest and quietest parts of the night below the world, the pores of their honeycomb drinking in sound and exploding if not harvested in total silence. |
3 | a salt that's only found in the marrow of the titans whose corpses form the foundation of the world. |
4 | a terribly chewy candy spun from the silk of moths that have never witnessed light. |
5 | a sweet, tarry syrup like molasses "milked" from a sort of barnacle that clings to the sides of aeolian caves and filters the wind for edible particles. |
6 | the hepatopancreas of the solifulgurae, lethally-toxic if not consumed sparingly, and in the thinnest slices. |
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