Board Thread:Fan-made Monsters/@comment-24701421-20140918125324

 Kobold 

Species: Lizardman Subspecies

Habitat: Caves, Mines, Settlements

Disposition: Friendly, Mischievous

Diet: Carnivorous

An unusually small subspecies of Lizardmen, closer to the size of Goblins, Kobolds are skilled as miners, housekeepers and shipwrights. As such, they are surprisingly widespread in both the Human Realms and the Demon Realms. Kobolds also prefer to stay as a group so when there is one Kobold, there is a good chance that there is at least another one nearby. It should be noted that Kobolds are highly resistant to fire and fire-based magic.

As stated before, Kobolds are skilled as miners, housekeepers and shipwrights although most would specialize to one skill as a profession. When specialized as miners, Kobolds are skilled diggers as their tough claws allow them to dig tunnels with ease and would often work together with Dwarves who are also miners. If they act as housekeepers instead, they would often help to complete household chores as a small team of maids and may become subordinates to Kikimoras whom they would acknowledge as senior maids. Kobolds that work as shipwrights on the other hand will always make sure that the ships under their care are in good condition and will ensure that whatever damages a ship may have will be repaired to the best of their abilities.

Despite their friendly dispositions, Kobolds are infamously crafty and are sometimes considered to be even more dangerous than their larger kin. This is because all Kobolds, regardless of profession, are expert trappers and are capable of preparing traps which even heroes can fall victim to. Not surprisingly, any mine, home, or ship that they inhabit or work at will be often loaded with numerous traps that can frustrate even the famously agile and skilled Elves. Thankfully enough, the traps are usually harmless, if immensely embarrassing to get caught in, and Kobolds are just as skilled in disarming traps so that their friends and family can be spared of the traps that they had set up.

When it comes to getting a human husband, Kobolds would usually work together as a group and prepare a trap or a series of traps to ensnare him so that they can basically kidnap him and have their way with him. Another method would be to willingly employ themselves to a chosen human employer and slowly gain his affections, although that would not stop them from using the first method should they get impatient. Kobolds also get along well with Lizardmen and Salamanders and would even work together with them by preparing traps which will force a human man to duel with their larger kin. If the Lizardman or Salamander has no interest in the human man as a husband, the Kobolds will happily take him instead if they are interested in him. Regardless, it is common for a man who is ravished by a group of Kobolds to end up with having the entire group as a harem, and having to put up with getting ensnared by traps as a form of harmless fun and erotic foreplay for the Kobolds.

Besides Salamanders and Lizardmen, Kobolds also have an odd sense of kinship with Large Mice and are willing to cooperate with them. When they do cooperate, Large Mice would form the “offensive” raiding parties while Kobolds would form the “defensive” trappers which will make their shared lairs very hazardous to enter. On the other hand, it is not uncommon for Kobolds to be in conflict with Large Mice, usually due to Large Mice raiding wherever the Kobolds have settled in for food and men, thereby leading to the Large Mice having to deal with their traps. Not surprisingly, Large Mice despise being caught in Kobold Traps, especially the infamous “Mouse Traps”. If the two groups somehow manage to reconcile, a Kobold’s husband may very well end up having the Large Mice added to the harem.  