Kobolds

Kobolds are a race of small, reptilian people that can be found all over the world, similar to goblins. Their simple, boistrous nature is generally considered a nuisance to the larger people, and the rigid rules regarding "property" and "personal space" people have tend to tax kobold understanding. As such, kobolds tend to live a respectable distance away from human settlements, for everyone's mutual happiness: truly, the inability to understand the difference between "mine" and "yours" is one of the main obstacles between kobold integration into larger society.
Kobolds are a short, bipedal people, generally reaching no more than 3 feet in height, who have very strong lizard-like characteristics. They have rounded muzzles, short, stiff tails and boast scales of a wide variety of colours depending on what region they live in. Their fingers and toes are particularly long, clawed and dexterous. Their eyes are yellow and catlike; they possess highly acute vision in darkness, but they are are colourblind and sensitive to bright light. Their other senses, particularly that of smell, tend to outweigh those of humans. Males are a bit smaller than females, and possess a decorative frill around their necks. Kobolds only tend to live between 20 and 30 years. They have a larger habitat range than their more powerfully-built and intelligent cousins, the lacertians, who almost invariably live around the equator; kobolds can be found nearly everywhere warmer than the taiga.
Predatory by nature, kobolds consist mainly on a diet of rodents, birds and insects, though they are known to take down larger animals if they have the opportunity. Despite this, they are very peaceful creatures who rely on stealth and numbers to protect them from larger predators. Kobolds do not regularly show innate magical talents, but every once in a while a kobold is born with the propensity for it.
Kobolds, while of lesser intelligence than the other races, have an uncanny propensity for savant-like qualities. A large number of kobolds seem to have talents and skills that even they don't fully appreciate the depth of. All kobolds have an affinity for digging and tunneling; they prefer closed spaces to wide open land, and tend to spend much of their time underground. 
Kobolds live in large, tight-knit warrens that are very communistic in nature. The members live simple lives apart from the other races, who tend to not want to bother with them. Communal living is innate in kobolds, and only a rare few can even grasp the concept of "me" and "you". For the vast majority, the two words mean the same thing: "us". It may be because of this deep-rooted desire for comradery that they tend to view all other kobolds, and usually all other sentient beings as well, friends until proven otherwise.
While kobolds don't often wear full clothing, they love to wear accessories, especially belts and hats. A stylish kobold is one who has the most "danglies, jinglies and shinies".
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