No cats. Dogs are rare. Cats are seen as bringers of disease and baby eaters (which they honestly kind of are, lizardfolk babies are much smaller than a human infant, perfectly preysized. And gram-negative bacteria found in mammal saliva covers their whole body thanks to groomig. I like cats but they would be terrifying to most sapient reptiles and birds)
Insectkeeping like bees, ants, and termites is big. (Fun fact, tegu lizards love honey.)
No crop fields, but do change landscape and encourage the growth of certain plants.
Do grow plants in pots, for medicine, spices and garnishes. (Pink flowers are the equivalent of parsley or a lemon)
Fowl are domesticated so that thier own breeding season matches up with the lizardfolks, so the lizardfolk have a ready supply of eggs to feed the hatchlings.
Several speceies of birds and snakes have been domesticated , or likely domesticated themselves, as guardians of lizardfolk nests. Their own eggs are taken away and they are placed in a lizardfok nest which they will then guard until hatching.
What if instead of always having human faces, their head resembles whatever sapient race they were born near (or just take their parents face if they are sufficiently isolated.)
Sort of like how the spider-people aranea have their “disguise” form based on whatever race they “imprinted on” at birth.
They’re the monsters under the bed turned into a d&d race, but its only recently recently online communities are starting to go “hey, these guys are written to be stealthy!”
Personally I also think they should be naturally flexible race, basically similar to Tooms from the X-files in getting into places they shouldn’t with their size.
…That honestly explains why a bugbear might wear armor not easy to take off in town, it puts other races at ease that they can’t sneak around easily.
(I’ve stated before my idea of having hobgoblins having a sort of inborn mental toolkit for architecture, likely artificially induced in their genesis by an ancient race trying to “uplift” goblins. Hobgolbins thus believe they have a duty to “civilize” the world.)
The hobgoblins empire has in a surprise turn, become a proponent of the lizard folk race.; a shocking change their previous repeated genocide attempts in the name of “protecting trade routes”
While a few attempts seemed successful, in some areas the population mysteriously recovered despite the high number of confirmed kills.
The trick was that lizardfolk young do not require parental care to survive.
The young, mistaken for nonsapient pets and escaping the destruction, were able to rebuild; completely from scratch in the few cases where all adults had been successfully killed.
Possibly in an attempt to save face , the empire has thus decided that like themselves, lizardfolk are one of the few “inherently civilized” races , like themselves.
The few lizardfolk communities that have been integrated are treated condescendingly, but as having more potential than other non-hobgoblin races, even getting preferential treatment over other varieties of goblinoids
And another question on the matter- is the goblin-wolf the only possible combination? Or can someone found a way to unite other races with other beasts? Can there be more “barghest like” demons?
And there is one more mystery, who the barghest experience all too painfully, and others probably don’t even consider- How is it, to leave with Hunger, constantly inside you? Always desiring, pushing, insisting? How does it feel that for you to live, you must erase all shred of existence from others? How is it to feel the world hates you? The gods hate you? Thatyou have no place, neither on the material plane or another? And the cruel catch- that in order grow stronger, protect yourself, advance like others do, all that waits you is madness and death? Is it a wonder they hate everyone else, SOOOO much?
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