Rehk-Ug

Example Names: Dingbat, Shiny, Bitegrab, Ponger, Centipede, Dirt, Sneakstab, Thiefling

Rehk-Ug naming conventions are very simple. Generally speaking, they're objects, concepts, animals, or even noises the parents enjoyed. Sometimes these are combined into longer names, and usually Rehk-Ug pick up a nickname or two over the course of their life for doing something particularly hilarious or impressive. If the Rehk-Ug particularly likes the nickname, generally he'll discard his original name to use the new one.

Example Nicknames: Cowsteal, Quick Grab, Manrider, Dogslasher, Stuff Snatcher

The Gremlins are a species of Rehks that rummage about the world eating foul, oftentimes rotten food, made tasty by their deformed palates, and made edible through generations of eating putrefied foods. Though they are commonplace the world over, due to their minds being plagued by an inherited disease, they only find comfort within their own communities. Living in small shanty homes that usually litter river banks and the coastlines of desert regions, these small beasts are scavengers by nature, dragging large carcasses with teamwork sometimes great distances to their little villages to feast.   Due to their habits of rummaging through the garbage of towns and communities, they have long been seen as foul and putrid by the other races. However, because they tend to drag the filth they eat back to their little communities, they can frequently find a home within the ecosystem of larger cities, clearing away the filth naturally produced in those places. Many consider them to be a disgusting, though useful little evil.   The Gremlins have developed a unique way of speech, croaking and speaking with an impediment to their sentences whenever they communicate. Their ability to tinker and create is one of the most odd traits expressed in their kind, thought to be a result of them being forced to innovate with the scraps and garbage that they salvage from wherever they make their home. It is not uncommon for gremlins to be seen in hordes, as they are sometimes hunted down and killed for sport by the other inhabitants of Gaia. They find both strength, and a cure for the paranoia which plagues their addled minds, in numbers. Though their battle has been tough to establish themselves as a community and species, they reproduce in great numbers, and are now so many that their extinction from the face of Gaia is a worry of the past.   Almost all Rehk-Ug speak Rehkish and Common.

Religion

The Rehk-Ug do not outwardly support any religion. Inwardly, they almost all worship demons of one type or another, depending on the temperament of their little community. A Rehk-Ug would never admit to this however, except under pain of hideous torture, as they are almost all heavily indoctrinated by the "elders" of their community. The Rehk-Ug believe, with some evidence, that early on they were helped by Moloch, the King of Despoilation, to create their little kingdom and become fruitful, and so the worship of him has spread far and wide throughout their society. Generally speaking, Rehk-Ug will make sacrifices of small animals to the god, killing the creatures and allowing them to rot a bit before devouring them raw in offering to their foul deity, and paying deference to the roaches, who are his servants.

Family

If the reproductive cycle of a Rehk-Ur is strange, the cycle of a Rehk-Ug is absolutely insane. When a Rehk-Ug gets pregnant, they will feel start to feel immense claustrophobia for a week, and then the tremendous urge to vomit afterwards, forcing them to go outside for this duration until they have a vomit in their specially prepared (or more usually, completely unprepared,) field. Generally speaking, this will result in between three and six Rehk-Ug growing from the ground in a large mass of cabbage-like structures. Out of these, at least one will be a hideous, mutated little monstrosity, and generally one or two will be stillborn. The remaining will rapidly grow into (relatively) healthy little Rehk-Ugs! Rehk-Ugs see themselves as one big clan, the best clan no less, and thus see no reason to integrate with anyone else, forming insular little clanlike communities, and furthering the problem of inbreeding in their subspecies.

Food

The single thing a Rehk-Ug enjoys eating more than garbage is sugary sweets. What is disgustingly sweet to a human tongue is absolute ambrosia to a Rehk-Ug. The only semi-permanent structures or businesses within their little communities occurs when a Rehk-Ug figures out how to make candy, at which point it jealously guards the secret, and, if it is clever, uses it to become the ruler of its little community, doling out the sweets in order to keep his fellows in line and himself on top. This usually ends with the candy Rehk-Ug going mad with the power and being killed by his fellow Rehk-Ug in a dominance struggle.

Rehk-Ug typically wear nothing more than loincloths and simple bits of armor strapped together to cover their bodies. They almost never get the currency to purchase real armor, so many of them simply wear whatever they can get their hands on.

Accessories

Though they're unable to afford or craft jewelry, many Rehk-Ug will take the skulls of kills they're particularly proud of and wear them. This doesn't have to be kills they themselves made, as they frequently scavenge corpses wherever they are, rather any kill that they are proud of, in general. This can range from particularly delicious small animals they killed, all the way up to horned bucks and rhinoceros skulls. They aren't picky, so long as the particular Rehk-Ug fancies the look of the skull.

The only art Rehk-Ug value is the practical art of who can brew the strongest alcohol, and who can steal the nicest garbage to eat. They are a simple folk, and almost exclusively enjoy that which they can eat or drink. The only minor exception to this is candy making, which Rehks appreciate greatly.

Creation Story

The Gremlin are a species very similar to the Rehks in the respect that many of their traditional values stem from the history of the beasts. However, how gremlins came to be is a story that is not one of glory nor triumph. The first gremlin to exist was a Rehk possessed of great physical deformities and mental disabilities. Due to his stature and disadvantages, he took his wife from an arranged marriage and fled one of the Rehk kingdoms in hopes that he would not be killed for his deformations. The cretin went on to have many sons and daughters but due to their isolation and interbreeding, these physical deformities remain and plague the creatures minds and bodies. Soon enough a community formed from these bastard Rehks and they were labeled “Gremlins” by the outer world.

The Rehk-Ug have almost no presence on Anoma at all. You may change that however...
Though the Rehk-Ug have no major cities of their own, they exist in almost all other major cities of every other race, gathering their garbage and catching their rats to sacrifice, occasionally bursting into violent civil wars in the sewers and slums, which are usually not interfered with unless the violence begins to spill out into other populations.