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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hawk Diesel" data-source="post: 7423256" data-attributes="member: 59848">I don't know if they would need any penalty for heat. Some penguins live as far north as South America and New Zealand.As others have mentioned, resistance to cold and fast swim speed are a must. I think proficiency in Survival would also be good.And while penguins may be clumsy walkers on land, they often slide along on their stomach to move more quickly. Maybe the penguin race has a naturally forming ever present sheet of ice on their chest and stomach. This helps regulate temperature in hotter places, and gives them an ability to move more quickly on land similar to the Naga player race ability in Planeshift: Amonkhet. This can also be culturally significant as well. Perhaps unlike their Kenku brethren, these penguin people sacrificed their ability to fly and moved to Frostfell to guard some ancient evil. Maybe this evil is some kind of ice devil, and they contain it by splintering the devil's essence and binding it to the heart of each of the penguin people that is ever born. Think the kalashtar from Eberron, but rather than offering those Quori protection as refugees, this turns each penguin person's soul into a prison. The result is that each are marked by ice that forms over their chest and gives them a curse where despite never being impacted by the cold, they are always freezing and seeking warmth. Culturally they may believe that a "sunny" disposition and a heart full of love, laughter, and warmth can help manage this cold that never leaves. And as long as the race survives, they believe this ice devil will never be able to reform.</blockquote>

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