Before I present what will hopefully be my final rendition of the Lizard Folk Species (look for it on Monday!) and hammer out the last of Bluestone Isle's Past (look for it... in the future!), I just have a small thought for today.
Lizard Folk, by nature of being cold blooded, lay eggs in which their young hatch. The way I see it, hatcheries are a communal place, where those females who are about to lay fertilized eggs go to be with other expectant mothers and mid-wives, it's a place made to be humid and warm and the children are raised up together after hatching. They are not abandoned strictly to midwives or some such after birth, the mothers stay with the young for a few years as they mature and most fathers come and visit, but Lizard Folk development at a young age is communal.
Just a random thought to help separate them more so from simple be "humans skinned slightly different," like many species end up in fantasy games and makes for good visuals, I still need an artist who enjoys working for free...
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ReplyDeleteLizards don't lay eggs because they're cold blooded. Birds are warm blooded, and they lay eggs. Hell, platypuses lay eggs, and they're mammals. But platypuses are more or less the exception to every rule in biology (they're venomous, can detect electrical fields, and have a duck bill). Just pointing that out for the sake of nerdrage.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I totally forgot about the egg laying and this is an awesome idea.
(previous comment deleted due to a typo and me not realizing it until it was too late.)
@xwd:
ReplyDeleteAh, touche, I should have said "like most cold blooded animals,"
Would that have helped?
That works for me. There are lizards that give birth to live offspring instead of laying eggs (thanks Wikipedia!), but they're exceptions, much like how the platypus is the exception for many mammal traits. Thanks for letting me nitpick on stuff - you know how I get about using the proper terminology for everything.
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