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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thegreyman" data-source="post: 3936735" data-attributes="member: 30303">You would know that several conditions affect kobold leadership choices.  Typically, the most powerful shaman runs the tribe with a group of his close followers, all of them either magic users or the craftiest warriors.  Sometimes, a powerful warrior will run the tribe with the mage as his adviser, but this is more rare.  It is male dominated society, with pups and females being slightly better than cattle.  In spite of this, they have a very rigidly designed tribal structure with each kobold knowing his/her specific place.  The pecking order is just as hotly fought over in the female hierarchy as in the male.  Advancement is achieved by proving your intelligence, cunning, or magical prowess.  Upstarts are killed out of hand, and it's legal to kill your superior (if you do it with enough guile).Obviously, something is extremely wrong for this tribe to only have one male according to the texts.  With the numbers you've seen of females and pups, there should be at least 10 more adult males.ooc:  That would fall under Knowledge(Local) having to do with (legends, personalities, inhabitants, laws, customs, traditions, humanoids).  In this specific case, arcana also helps since this typically a magocracy governed race.  And for the record, you <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=1421570" target="_blank">Knowledge</a> is awesome...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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