Pengu (Pen-goo)
Tengu native to the cold wastes of Vatenrelm, the pengu resemble penguins and are highly resistant to the cold.
Culture
Major language groups and dialects
Most pengu prioritize learning to speak Aquan over other languages, but like all tengu are likely to pick up a wide variety of languages.
Shared customary codes and values
All pengu have an innate desire to aquire wealth, and many stoop to means other races would consider untoward to do so.
Average technological level
The pengu are always innovating and trying to create new items that they can sell for profit.
Common Etiquette rules
Don't ever ask a pengu for a free item, as you are essentially asking the pengu to cut off a give a part of themselves.
Common Dress code
A pengus thick coat protects it from the intense cold of Vatenrelm, so they need little in the way of clothing. However, their love of items, and their desire to always be prepared means that they love to carry long coats, pants, and vests that can hold a multitude of items.
Art & Architecture
Pengu often have multiple places of residence, usually owning property in a mixed race city and having a more personal igloo built more inland on the edges of a stretch of cold wastes.
Birth & Baptismal Rites
The pengu parents carry their egg with them at all times, hiding it in their feathers, often taking turns carrying it. Even after it hatches, the chick often spends the first year or two inside of it's parents fur.
Coming of Age Rites
All of age pengu must prove themselves by buying their "freedom" from their parents. The amount they need to pay varies by parent, and how they aquire such funds is not important. Much to the dismay of local guards, young pengu concoct elaborate scheme after scheme in their attempts to raise coin.
Funerary and Memorial customs
Pengu cremate their dead, and often keep most to all of the deceased possessions. Selling a deceased's possessions is akin to forgetting about their loved one, and thus only those in poor relationships sell such items.
Common Taboos
Pengu have few taboos, as most are constantly on a quest to gain more and more income. No pengu would leave another being to die in the wastes or on the high sea, but nothing stops the pengu from charging exorbitant prices or ludicrous favors from their rescuees.
Common Myths and Legends
A majority of pengu worship, Lopi, the tengu goddess of freedom and wealth.
Ideals
Beauty Ideals
Like most tengu, the pengu love to preen their fur. Many try to appear as presentable and professional as possible, so to lesser the stigma of thievery against them
Gender Ideals
Like most tengu, both male and female pengus are relatively equal in their society.
Courtship Ideals
Pengu often buy items for potential mates, and they mate for life. Pengu pairs are always heavily devoted to each other, often viewing each other as their greatest treasure.
Relationship Ideals
A pengus greed means it often struggled making true long term friends, as many realize that most of the time when a pengu tries to get close to someone means that they are trying to weasel something out of you.
Major organizations
Desiring great wealth, most pengu take up positions in the Overseas Merchant Guild, or the OMG, and consider it part of the family buisness, as it was founded by the pengu in the past. However, the coperation is incrediably cutthroat, and many pengu find themeslves struggeling to make a name for themselves, which will often lead some to abandon the company and take up a life of piracy in order to secure a fortune for themselves.
Random Pengu Homelands
| % Rolled | Homeland | Trait Gained |
|---|---|---|
| 01-25 | Tundra | Tundra Child |
| 26-46 | Coastline or Island | Fast-Talker |
| 47-67 | Ship-City | Crowd Dodger |
| 68-84 | Underwater City | Deepsea Native |
| 85-00 | Unusual Homeland | (Roll on Unusual Homeland table) |
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