Showing posts with label slaadi. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 31, 2019

An Alternative Slaad

Ideas presented here are partially adapted from Goblin Punch's slaad post, especially in terms of colour-hierarchy.

Slaadi are the multiverse's antibodies against a universe of pure order, and they look like frogs. Both of these points are equally important.

The true face of chaos.
(photo from Philadelphia Zoo website)
Slaadi are drawn to sources of chaos and unpredictability. They are enraged by stagnation, order, and law. A slaad would get as equally angry over an evenly trimmed lawn as it would over a fully lawful realm. When they find a source of frustration, they seek to change it. They do not destroy it: destruction can come as a result of this change, but the object or person in question must remain in some form post-slaad intervention.

Sometimes the simplest way to change something- or someone- into a more tolerable, unpredictable state is by making the creature of interest into another slaad. Like frogs, slaadi lay jelly-like eggs, which turn into tadpoles and metamorphose into adults. Like non-frogs, slaadi inject their eggs into hosts through their ovipositor-like claws.