Kobolds

The kobolds keep very little in the way of history, and almost none about their creation. The few who do record the past belong to the priestly calling known as dragonspeakers, and their tales tally with legends preserved by the Petari of Ladonia, which tell of the Elder Wyrm Kulmarak the Shimmering Mind.
Kulmarak was a third generation Elder Wyrm in the entourage of Malcidis. The legends of the kobolds are vague and varied, but broadly agree that Kulmarak served as a courier, and was one of those trusted with conveying to the Elder Wyrms of the first generation the divine power which they would use to create the Dragonborn.
In transit, some of the divinity was lost from each of the fifteen celestial ewers. Some versions of the story state that Kulmarak was attacked and the divinity spilled onto the soil. Others say that Kulmarak stole the missing divinity and mixed it with mud. In both versions, e then used the resulting divine clay to create a sixteenth phalanx, the Phalanx of the Cave, whose purpose was to tend the hearth and maintain the comfort of the other phalanges.
Whether due to a shortage of material, of time, or of skill, the dragonborn of the Cave come out very differently from the others. They were smaller, with dull scales of various colours, long snouts and short tails. When they have horns, they are blunt, thumb-sized nubs. The other dragonborn and Elder Wyrms were not impressed.
Kulmarak was imprisoned under the watch of the amethyst Elder Wyrm Bylastaran the Relentless Fortune. Legend has it that Kulmarak survives inside eir prison, and that Kulmarak and Bylastaran are now the last of the Elder Wyrms. It is said that the kobolds, especially the dragonspeakers, hear the distant Dragonsong of Kulmarak and seek always to be closer to em. In truth, the dragonspeakers are essentially divine receivers, and what they tune into is almost a matter of chance. Kobold warrens thus end up worshiping an eclectic mix of minor, cthonic deities, and occasionally Devils or Demons who almost inevitably find their lack of focus infuriating.
Meanwhile the Phalanx of the Cave was disbanded, its members relegated to menial tasks. The dragonborn were given the name yla donai by their eladrinate allies. The term, which meant 'lordly warriors', was treasured as a badge of pride, but may well have been intended ironically. The latter supposition is supported by the Eladrin name for Kulmarak's creations: ekoi balad; the great and wise. The newly named 'kobolds' probably knew that they were being mocked. Nevertheless, they took it as a true compliment and treasured it. After they were expelled from Ladon, they spread across Aiaor and adopted humility as their shield, insignificance as their cloak.
Modern kobolds are looked on by others as the scattered remnants of a failed race; small tribes inhabiting deserted ruins or families eking out an Existence in the slums of more civilised races. What no-one really realises is that these are just the tip of the iceberg. Kobolds keep most of their Warrens hidden beneath the ground, digging down and out to create sprawling and surprisingly sound tunnel complexes, while they search for that thing that they barely remember that they need to find. Frequently spurned and scorned, they are - by numbers - the most successful lineage on Aiaos.

Kobolds and Identity

As with other dragonids, kobolds do not have a gender identity, and regard biological sex as an issue only in regards to reproduction.
Key to kobold identity are their Callings and their Paths.