Briney Podlet (Basic Lore)

Briney Podlet (CR 9)
Chaotic Evil - Medium - Monstrous Humanoid
Briney's are a race of heavily-built, strong, warty, and slimy-green-brown-yellow toad-like humanoids. As aquatic monsters they are often confused with things like sahaugin, or embarrassingly, Aboleth. In truth, Briney's intensely dislike and contest with Sahaugin and to a lesser degree, the mighty Aboleth. This mistaken identity is easy to understand, as all of the aquatic-based races, to the eyes of the shore-dwelling, tend to look alike. The fact that most land-living beings rarely get a clear look at their watery foes may contribute to this. A wet scary thing attacking in the water is hard to see, after all. In truth, Brineys are a completely seperate race, amphibian in nature, more closely resembling giant and frightening toads than anything jelly, fishy, spiney, or crustacean. Indeed, just as Elves have a dark 'twin race' in the Drow, and Dwarves are evilly reflected in the Duergar, and Humans are reflected by the Orcs, Brineys are often classed by mages and cyphers and scribes as the dark reflection of the Grippli. While grippli are decidedly non-human, they are wonderful people who possess the Spark in full measure. Brineys, on the other hand, are vile in the extreme, at least as awful as Orcs in contrast to Humans, if not considerably worse. Brineys can be found anywhere there is water, although as they seem to be arisen from toads, they are very amphibious and have been found living and thriving amazing distances from water. Caves, dungeons, ruins, forests, especially swamps and marshes, beaches, and of course, in or near rivers, ponds, lakes, and the seas, Briney can be amazingly common if they are left to their awful devices. Anywhere there is a Grippli, it is not unusual to find some Briney's. Indeed, Brineys are often a scourge for Vanx communities as well, and they are even known to haunt the sewers and alleys of the cities of other races. Brineys are uniformly awful, hunting, scrounging, murdering, stealing, and ruining. They will take anything they can get, and are cheerful cannibals of all warm-blooded creatures, on top of all their other charming qualities. Brineys have long, sticky tongues, poison excretions, and claws and biting scutes in full measure, making them tough foes indeed. Briney Podlets are the fully 'adult' Brineys, who, unlike the hungry and aggressive Spawnlings, are less likely to go out searching for things to eat and steal and murder...instead taking the things the Spawnlings bring back to the clan-pod as their own. Spawnlings that object too strongly wind up as meals.