Ruana

Ruana is a cowboy native to Eldham, he was hatched out of a petrified frog egg incubated by a snake. He likes small and cold spaces in where to crawl and protect himself from the sun.
He can talk and say the traditional YEE HAW! of his cowboy brethren, but it sometimes fails him and just ribbits really hard. Despite being a frog, he's very civilized; taking aside the fact he tends to steal food from the trash bins.
==History==
Ruana is an oversized frog that was originally believed to be an urban legend, as tales of a giant frog-man that bit people to death started circulating in parts of Eldham around 20 years ago; this started off from some of its alleged survivors as a way to explain the unfortunate death of several travelers that adventured themselves into the desert.
The nearby Cowboys, famous for their immense territoriality, were originally blamed for these deaths, until bodies of fully armored soldiers started to be found with their possessions intact.
Since the cowboys (or anybody with a brain for that matter) would ever avoid looting trespassers and risking valuable artifacts to be degraded by the elements, they were eventually exonerated of any guilt, and the death of travelers remained a mystery. It's worth mentioning that it's said not one of the found corpses had a trace of food or water, and many just assumed people misjudged the dimensions of the cowboy desert, starving to death or dying of thirst midway trough their journey in the sand.
Around 7 years before the discovery of Eldham, people had already started to avoid entering the desert alone, although this was mostly due to cowboy activity in the area, by then the very few who dared trespassing did so through specific pathways far away from core cowboy territory, through which heavily armored and supplied caravans also crossed the desert in what became an increasingly settled area. Incidentally, this caused the amount of wild life and people present in the desert to decrease dramatically.
As winter approached, and weather became the most tolerable in the desert thanks to the great tropical monsoons of the season, the annual infestation of frogs hit the towns of the Cowboy Kingdom as it was already tradition. But this time, one of the cowboys found Ruana stuck in a potato barrel in Gunspeak, trying to steal food from them.
Normally, if anybody dared to do this they would be immediately killed as a warning to anyone trying to bandit the cowboys. However, frogs are a sacred animal for them, the reason why is heavily debated but most just assume it's because the only times water can be naturally found in the desert is also when frogs start appearing in the area. Nevertheless, the Cowboy King believed Ruana was the frog-man many of those rumors were about, pardoned the frog of all its crimes and adopted him as a cowboy.
After that, Ruana adopted his current name and created a pond to not dry out and die, as he would be living in the middle of the dessert. This was allowed by the King, though cowboys were warned that if any of them dared to drink from it and break their water cow-bow, they would be punished with death.
It eventually became apparent Ruana was indeed the frog-man of legend since, in every fight they got in, people started to realize Ruana never stole anything from them, with the exception of all their water and food. Turns out Ruana had no idea how valuable armor actually was and just focused on stealing things he could eat, and armor generally tasted terrible. It's believed the cowboys are still trying to make him understand what armor is and why he should loot it from trespassers to this day.
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