Kobold

Kobolds are small, reptilian humanoids with mammalian features such as black snoots, velvety ears, and short goat horns. They generally live in old, overgrown ruins, and have a tendency to offer their fealty to the nearest powerful being. This can range from a powerful mage, a local dragon, or an active piece of Forebear tech. Kobolds will follow their “demigod” around, carrying out tasks for them and bringing them offerings. Commonly kobolds infest dungeons, gathering treasures and trinkets to add to their own tiny hoards.

Strength In Numbers
Kobolds are egg-laying creatures. They mature quickly and can live to be "great wyrms" more than a century old. However, many kobolds perish before they reach the end of their first decade. Physically weak, they are easy prey for predators. This vulnerability forces them to band together. Their superior numbers can win battles against powerful adversaries, but often with massive casualties on the kobold side.

Tunnelers and Builders
Kobolds make up for their physical ineptitude with a cleverness for trap making and tunneling. Their lairs consist of low tunnels through which they move easily but which hinder larger humanoids. Kobolds also riddle their lairs with traps. The most insidious kobold traps make use of natural hazards and other creatures. A trip wire might connect to a spring-loaded trap that hurls clay pots of flesh-eating green slime or flings crates of venomous giant centipedes at intruders.

Reverence for Machines
Wormwood kobolds are best known for their reverence and downright worship of Forebear technology and machines. Seemingly drawn to these places on instinct, kobolds often make their homes in Forebear machines, attempting to resuscitate the slumbering technology with their own haphazard machinations. This almost never works, but does cause kobold communities to be built between winding wire, gigantic gears and puffing pistons, making their homes seem more industrious than they really are. Despite their great knack for invention and technological ingenuity, kobold creations have a rather spectacular rate of failure. "Kobolds and The Titans""The kobolds instinctual draw toward Forebear technology often pulls them towards 'Titans,' the dormant corpses of giant Forebear beings that many historians believed to be dead Forebear gods. Kobolds will build cities within these corpses and attempt to bring them back to life, regarding these beings with cultish reverence."

Kobold Names
Kobold names are short and sweet. Most of the tones in their names are harsher, but some more melodic and softer tones are found here and there as well. Kobold names are supposed to have meanings based on the individual's appearance or behavior, but these meanings are only known to those who speak their language.

Kobold Names: Soss, Nov, Kug, Men, Tora, Snurka, Rulpi, Robo, Snukbo, Ilta, Kiv, Has, Ziks, Gon, Rahli, Norte, Muro, Gugno, Urpo, Vitre.