Continuing with a trend, I present a thread on what kobolds look like in your setting.
In mine they look a lot like highly evolved rhesus macaques. Because they are highly evolved rhesus macaques.
Way back when, when the world was a mite warmer than now, the ancestors of the rhesus macaque could be found living throughout the archipelago which would one day become Europe. As Africa moved north and Europe was uplifted to become the continent we know today conditions changed. Temperatures became cooler, the climate became drier, and European primates pretty much died off.
Except for remnant populations scattered here and there throughout southern Europe. One of these the fellow who would one day become the kobold god took an interest in. In fostered them, insuring their survival up until the Ice Ages, and the arrival of the genus Homo.
Over the millennia Kurt watched as other gods guided their pet projects to full sapience and gained understanding. He decided he wanted worshippers and started work on his pets. Just making them bipedal took 500,000 years. Tool use, language, and a sense of wonder/creativity was simple in comparison. (Matter of fact, he found the genes responsible for the last among humans and 'borrowed' them for his kobolds.)
Except for small colonies they stayed in Europe pretty much. Originally confined to the southern Balkans, they migrated to what is now southern Germany during an interglacial. Where they managed to survive despite hunting by neanderthals, orcs, and ogres.
This all changed when humans arrived. In humans kobolds found protectors and kindred spirits. In human legends koblods became forest spirits, responsible for keeping things right. In kobold legends humans became giant guardians and protectors, dedicated to the eradication of the evil orcs, neanderthals, and ogres. For awhile there Kurt took on human appearance whenever he appeared to his people. The more traditional kobold look familiar today didn't replace it until the coming of the Middle Eastern agriculturalists in the Neolithic.
There's more to be said of kobold history, but this is getting long enough as it is.
The modern kobold is small, no more than three feet in height and weighing about 50 pounds. They are slender in build, and tend towards a slight obesity in old age. Fur ranges from a light cinnamon for the Scandinavian population, to a dark brown for the small colony of Egyptian kobolds. Eye color ranges from a very pale green to a very dark green. While stories of kobolds with eye colors other than green have been bruited about, no known kobold has blue, brown, or grey colored eyes. There is no truth to the story about kobold sorcerers having gold flecks in the iris, the flecks are silver.
They tend to conservatism, clannishness, and behavior a certain RPG would call Lawful Evil. With the exception of the French they get along with most everybody. (They forgave orcs and ogres a long time ago, since those races only wanted to eat kobolds, not exterminate them.)
And there you have a look at my kobolds. What do yours look like?
In mine they look a lot like highly evolved rhesus macaques. Because they are highly evolved rhesus macaques.
Way back when, when the world was a mite warmer than now, the ancestors of the rhesus macaque could be found living throughout the archipelago which would one day become Europe. As Africa moved north and Europe was uplifted to become the continent we know today conditions changed. Temperatures became cooler, the climate became drier, and European primates pretty much died off.
Except for remnant populations scattered here and there throughout southern Europe. One of these the fellow who would one day become the kobold god took an interest in. In fostered them, insuring their survival up until the Ice Ages, and the arrival of the genus Homo.
Over the millennia Kurt watched as other gods guided their pet projects to full sapience and gained understanding. He decided he wanted worshippers and started work on his pets. Just making them bipedal took 500,000 years. Tool use, language, and a sense of wonder/creativity was simple in comparison. (Matter of fact, he found the genes responsible for the last among humans and 'borrowed' them for his kobolds.)
Except for small colonies they stayed in Europe pretty much. Originally confined to the southern Balkans, they migrated to what is now southern Germany during an interglacial. Where they managed to survive despite hunting by neanderthals, orcs, and ogres.
This all changed when humans arrived. In humans kobolds found protectors and kindred spirits. In human legends koblods became forest spirits, responsible for keeping things right. In kobold legends humans became giant guardians and protectors, dedicated to the eradication of the evil orcs, neanderthals, and ogres. For awhile there Kurt took on human appearance whenever he appeared to his people. The more traditional kobold look familiar today didn't replace it until the coming of the Middle Eastern agriculturalists in the Neolithic.
There's more to be said of kobold history, but this is getting long enough as it is.
The modern kobold is small, no more than three feet in height and weighing about 50 pounds. They are slender in build, and tend towards a slight obesity in old age. Fur ranges from a light cinnamon for the Scandinavian population, to a dark brown for the small colony of Egyptian kobolds. Eye color ranges from a very pale green to a very dark green. While stories of kobolds with eye colors other than green have been bruited about, no known kobold has blue, brown, or grey colored eyes. There is no truth to the story about kobold sorcerers having gold flecks in the iris, the flecks are silver.
They tend to conservatism, clannishness, and behavior a certain RPG would call Lawful Evil. With the exception of the French they get along with most everybody. (They forgave orcs and ogres a long time ago, since those races only wanted to eat kobolds, not exterminate them.)
And there you have a look at my kobolds. What do yours look like?
