Lizardine

Lizardine
Statistics
Skill	8
Stamina	8
habitat	Towns
type	Humanoid
reaction	Neutral
intelligence	High

Lizardines were a species of dragon-like humanoids.

Description

Lizardines were strange creatures with a long snout and deep red, scaly skin. A long pink tongue darted quickly in and out of their jaws, which were full of rows of sharp teeth. They looked like dragons that had a human's proportions rather than those of a lizard, with longer arms, straighter legs, and no wings. They usually wore a few clothes or wrapped themselves in a cloak to fit better into human society. They spoke in a low, hissing voice.

When encountered, lizardines could sometimes be found selling magical trinkets from far away lands. The most common of these were scorpion brooches of different metals such as gold, silver, and copper. These brooches usually cost 6 Gold Pieces each, and would bring fortune, good health, strength, or protection to their wearer, but they could also sell other items too. Lizardines sometimes mixed cursed items amongst their treasures to deter foolish thieves.

Origins and Distribution

The origins of the lizardines were obscure. They would appear out of nowhere, stay for a few years, and then move on, as if they had never been there at all. They tended to be discreet and secretive, keeping to themselves as much as possible. They would base their businesses in the merchants' quarter of a town or port, where they were lost among the many other bizarre and foreign inhabitants.

Indeed, the only known encounter in Titan canon with a lizardine occurred in Port Blacksand and it was likely that they were found in similar cities across the three continents such as Tak, Kharé, the Port of Crabs, and the City of Mazes.

Different scholars have said that lizardines came from a hidden kingdom beyond the eastern jungles, an island in the southern seas, or a mysterious land across the Western Ocean.

One intriguing possibility was that they may have originated in the city-state of Zamarra, in south-west Khul. Adding credibility to this was the fact that the lands around Zamarra were home to a similar humanoid race, called dragonmen, that could well be a relative of the lizardines. Indeed, a fragment of lore discovered by the sage Landor Shanzuul claimed that both lizardines and dragonmen were created in the region now known as Zamarra in the past. As part of an attempt to create a human-dragon hybrid, the priestess Gwarthran created both the lizardines and the dragonmen.

Special Abilities

When attacking, a lizardine could breathe fire from its mouth, which will hit its target often causing damage in addition to any normal fighting damage caused by its claws. It could do this quite often.

Further Notes

• Lizardines appeared as one of the 100 creatures in the "Out of the Pit" bestiary in issue 2 of Warlock.

• The Bushel bar in the city of Arion in north-eastern Khul had seats covered in mock lizardine leather. Given that lizardines were already sometimes persecuted by frightened townspeople due to their appearance and fiery breath, the fact that their skins (or imitations of it) were used as tavern upholstery could only increase the suspicion with which they viewed humans!

Further Information in Canon

More information can be found at:^Source
Out of the Pit (Large) (pg76#*)
City of Thieves (para80*, para186, para215, para315, para392#)
Deathmoor (para211)
Warlock Issue 2 (pg4#)
Encyclopedia Arcana Vol I - Treasures'(pg122)

Notes

# - denotes a reference with statistics
* - denotes a picture

See Also

• Dragons

Appendix

Appearances

Adventures

• City of Thieves (book)
• Secrets of Salamonis

Sourcebooks

• Advanced Fighting Fantasy – The Roleplaying Game (mentioned)
• Beyond the Pit (mentioned)
• Créatures de Titan
• Encyclopedia Arcana Vol I - Treasures (mentioned)
• Out of the Pit