Froglins

== Froglins ==
Froglins are distant relatives of the Toadlings. They are slightly smaller and scrawny than their toad-faced elders and live in secluded stilt villages. Their appearance resembles erect frogs, although their faces and bodies also bear some fish-like features. They feed exclusively on fish and insects, and they particularly like catching maggotpox mosquitoes with their long tongues. Froglins are usually armed with wooden spears, which they only use for defensive purposes. Unlike the Toadlings, they have no endogenous poison. They are among the most peaceful inhabitants of the swamp, but are shy and generally suspicious of strangers, which may be due to the fact that cooked froglin thighs are a coveted and extremely tasty delicacy not only in the witches' swamps. They don't like violence and if you manage to gain their trust, they might even hospitably grant you shelter and food for a few days in one of their Hidden Villages. Unfortunately, due to the fact that they are at the bottom of the swamp's food chain, their numbers have declined drastically in the last millennium. They call their remaining congregation the Slippery Diaspora since being decimated at large numers by rapacious Kikimori. For every 100 males there is only one larger and fatter female, who lays thousands of eggs per year, from which tadpolings hatch, with at least ninety percent of them usually being eaten by predators. When a froglin broodmother is pregnant, she will eat copious amounts of food brought to her by the males. Due to the fact that they also eat meat and larger creatures during this breeding phase, it is advisable to avoid Froglin Villagers at this particular time, as the survival of their own kind is still their top priority.
== Toadlings ==
Toadlings are humanoid walking canetoad creatures they are relatively peaceful hunter-gatherers found throughout the bogs. They secret hallucinogenic, highly poisonous foam when threatened
== Ulwogs ==
Ulwogs are a colossal species of amphibian swamp dwellers. They are distant relatives of the Toadlings but of considerably less intelligence. Their language sounds like deep bubbling and quacking noises and consists of only thirty phrases, the most important being "there food", "attack" and "hungry". Their jaws are extremely muscular and can bite through entire tree stumps. Unlike the Toadlings, their body venom is significantly less toxic, but can cause itchy skin irritations, warty rashes, and fungal-like infections. They feed on leeches, fish and various swamp creatures, basically anything that moves, is smaller than them and stepts into their territory. Some Ulwog tribes engage in territorial feuds with the swamp ogres, who are almost equal to them in terms of strength and physical stature. Their largest settlement is Muckmarsh, a semi-aquatic swamp village consisting of large round mud structures mounted on stilts at various heights, vaguely reminiscent of oversized frog spawn. A slimy secretion that the Ulmogs secrete from their abdominal glands allows them to waterproof the clay burrows and construct these dwellings both above and below the water. The Ulmog are generally antisocial loners and mostly roam the swamps in search of food, since there is hardly any food left for them in the vicinity of their home ponds. During the mating season they collectively return to their foul-smelling home villages and the males engage in brutal fights over the strongest females, resulting in large numbers of dead Ulwogs every year. The horrifying sounds of these gruesome courtship fights alone are enough to send even the most hardened and vicious swamp dwellers fleeing. If an Ulwog cannot find other food, it will resort to cannibalism.
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