Tag: lizardfolk

Lizardfolk agriculture and food

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.

Lizardfolk mythology

Due to various cultural genocides and population rebounds, lizardfolk culture is not really unified at all. In many cases the young, which do not require parental care unlike most mammals, had to restart society from scratch 

However, wherever lizardfolk territory contains crocodillians, they tend to play a role in myth of explaining where lizard folk got their strong hides from. 

Considering how many Fiends are mamallian…

Lizardfolk have quite the reason to be suspicious of most other races

Also ties into an interesting idea of a cosmic “retcon” from an rpg.net (included in sour ), proposing the the planes were more reptile-focused in a now mostly erased past.

It relies on the same logic as time paradoxes in Terry Pratchett’s work :“Yeah you had that sheep for years.. but did you always have that sheep for years?”. History itself was rewritten.

It leads to some interesting idea that the reason the genetic memory of most dragons varieties causes them to gravitate to default alignments (interaction with other beings in formative years could lead to a different alignment of course), is that before the multiverse realignment, they weren’t mortal, but outsiders. The fiends and celestials of the time, or maybe even the  fragments planes of the old wheel themselves given mortal form.

It also lead to interesting ideas (starting on page 52) of counterintuitive philosophies for dragons to reclaim the mantle of 

For Red Dragons, they have to give up having a treasure horde and devote themselves to experiences…specificially the experience of power over other living things.

Black dragons must make their territory attractive to settlers and torment rathher than kill

Green dragons must put aside their distate for socialization and openly rule with an iron paw.

Brass dragons must stop avoiding unpleasant things and experience life in its totality, laughter and pain together.

Silver dragons have to stop fleeing town and pay child support.

White dragons need to stop being adorable and bestial and start being more calculatingly cruel with the goal of bringing others down to their own level.

Lizardfolk and the pets of other races

virovac:

Lizardfolk sadly do not take well to cats or dogs and have banned cats in most communities. This is because bacteria harmful to birds and reptiles can be found growing around the claws of canids and felines: the increased risk of illness after being scratched has been noticed and the animals have are seen as unclean by lizardfolk communities

Adventurer lizardfolk, being weird like most adventurers of any species and with ready access to magical healing, may coo and fawn over cats and dogs just as the mammal races do.