Common Species

## Penguins, Frogs and Warhogs

### Penguins

Financially irresponsible, unabashed and filterless, Penguins are spacey little optimists who live in vast, over complicated cities that often hang together by a thread. Although commonly found throughout all of Good Earth, most Penguins come from the coastal regions, becoming more difficult to find the further inland one goes.

Penguin Wizards and Rogues can be extremely brilliant but often lack direction and understanding of the big picture, excited by details so minute it's difficult for anyone besides other Penguins of a similar nature to appreciate or even understand their niche interests and talents. It is often hard for Penguins to accomplish things as a team, as they tend to get distracted and abandon projects near the end of completion. Although very social in nature many Penguins prefer to work alone.

Despite all this, plenty of communities consisting almost entirely of Penguin thrive throughout Good Earth, with the majority of modern technological innovations originating from Penguin settlements. Whenever a new marvel of Penguin engineering sweeps Good Earth, whether it be an agricultural spell book that turns carrots into fish or a tiny cannon that fits inside your hat it’s a coin toss whether the immediate excitement and novelty their new invention provides will ultimately prove to be more inconvenient than a more straight forward alternative.

Penguins are very bad at counting when explicitly asked to do so, but have an innate understanding of numbers and mathematics that baffle other species. It is not difficult for a Penguin to guess the exact number of fish in a bucket of hundreds at a moments glance, and once they know that number they will never forget it. Penguins are also born with the ability to draw a perfect circle without any kind of guide or measuring tool, with basically any medium or tool.

Penguin societies rely on a socially complicated communal barter and trade mechanic that Kaiju who don’t live in Penguin communities struggle to understand, which makes the concept of money and property mostly trivial. When Penguins leave their communities, they are often are extremely good at making money and even better at immediately losing all of it, unaccustomed to more conventional forms of finance common to other societies like cost and saving.

### Warhogs

Nurturing, considerate, humble and hungry, Warhogs are warrior-horticulturalists who love to sit down. Designed by the Lich Lords a hundred years ago in the first Great War to be brutish killing machines, Warhogs have found new purposes as napper-gatherers, rebelling against their ferocious history through cultural shifts in Warhog society.

Warhogs live in small communities and tend not to leave unless forced to do so. These communities often travel around different regions of Good Earth, moving when necessary to find the best areas to graze, but it’s rare for a Warhog to leave the community that raised them. They are very shy and fear change.

Most Warhogs are vegetarian but eat objects considered unappetizing to most other species of Good Earth including wood, doorknobs, sand and mud. Their diet consists primarily of grass and flowers but a Warhog will eat basically anything given the right circumstances.

Because of their highly insulated skin and consistent internal body temperature, Warhogs are very resilient to extreme weather conditions and can survive almost anywhere. They prefer flat regions like grasslands and plains (Warhogs hate climbing) but just like Penguins can be found all over Good Earth. Central, inland areas have more Warhogs that coastal regions. Hooligan’s Bluff, Fungual Fields and any part of Cornstarch Beach that borders Stink Bog have the highest concentrations of Warhogs in Good Earth.

Their thick skin also makes them extremely resistant to forges and injuries common to blacksmithing, and as a result many Warhogs are excellent blacksmiths.

With the recent rise of dark magic in Good Earth’s soil due to the Lich Lords’ return, Warhogs that look like their ancient ancestors have started to appear. Plaguehogs, Warhog Raiders, Groghogs and Frost Hogs all resemble the Warhogs of old, chaotic brutes who lack the gentle heart and kind spirit of contemporary hogs.

In order to protect their homes Warhogs have begrudgingly been learning to fight again. Their great forges churn out swords and shields instead of ploughs and apple buckets once more.

### Frogs

Relentless, confident, dutiful and ambitious, Frogs are natural born leaders that are secretly self conscious about their height. Frogs live in suburban castles and gated fortress communities consisting of 50-100 homes, surrounded by a moat and defensive walls or barricades on all sides. Their cities tend to be smaller than Penguin dwellings but are extremely well fortified and built to withstand siege warfare.

Frogs are selfless protectors and are usually pretty well intended but often act with great confidence on thoroughly underinformed information. They are stubborn to a fault, and once a Frog makes up their mind about something it is extremely difficult to persuade them otherwise. Frogs argue with each other for fun and are extremely competitive. A great deal of Frog culture is based around playing competitive games that are used to settle various things, from massive political disagreements to how much they should have to pay for groceries. The two most popular Frog games are their own complicated version of Rock Paper Scissors (Log Mud Tadpole) and Loomby Bump-Bebo (roughly translated to “slap my hand until it hurts”).

Unlike Penguins who tend not to plan much or account for the big picture, Frogs are very good at big picture planning but lose sight of details easily. If you ask a Frog why they think something should be a certain way they will have a million answers. If you ask them how to execute that plan they will also have a million answers, but a majority of those answers might be wrong.

Frogs have a lot of idealistic views of honor and bravery and a strong culture of hero worship. Frogs who accomplish great deeds are immortalized in stories that are passed down from generation to generation (sometimes stories that contain many inaccurate, drastically exaggerated details, but this is understood and considered to be part of the fun of Frog storytelling). They are extremely loyal and once a Frog considers you a friend that bond will never falter.

As a physically small species that lacks the engineering capabilities of Penguins or sheer size and inherent combat aptitude of Warhogs, Frogs have had to work hard to learn how to defend themselves from some of the more dangerous species of Good Earth. They’re great fighters and are able to defeat enemies many times their size. Frogs never back down from a challenge and are always eager to prove themselves in battle. They’re also very superstitious and obsessed with the concept of luck.