Tortle

Tortles have a saying: “We wear our homes on our backs.”. Tortles don’t have a unified story of how they were created, but they all have a sense of being mystically connected to the natural world. Carrying their shelter on their backs gives tortles a special feeling of security wherever they go, for even if they visit a far, unknown country, they have a place to lay their heads.

Tortles exhibit the same range of coloration and patterns found among turtles, and many tortles enjoy adorning their shells in distinctive ways.

Culture

What many tortles consider a simple life, tortles sadly cannot experience it, bound to slavery by the yuan-ti, very few are the tortle who enjoy a sense of freedom. Tortles are born in the jungle, as soon as they’re able to walk on two legs, they are put to work by the Yuan-ti.

A tortle hatches from a thick-shelled egg and spends the first few weeks of its life crawling on all fours. Within a year, the young tortle becomes an orphan. A young tortle and its siblings inherit whatever work or task its parents couldn't achieve, a yuan-ti master having right over the child of its slaves.

Tortles hatch multiple eggs, and at least one of them usually is kept by the Yuan-ti Priesthood to serve as living sacrifices later on. Tortle are seldom found out of the jungle. Slavery lasting for centuries now, little is left of their original civilization.

Some lucky tortle manages to escape the grasp of the yuan-ti, running away in an attempt to live a better life, but even fewer are those managing to escape the jungle alive. As such, the tortle are not well known by most people, and a tortle character might strike the common folk as a surprising thing to come across, but people tend to feat what they do not know.

Names

Tortles prefer simple, non-gender-specific names that are usually no more than two syllables. If a tortle doesn’t like its name for whatever reason, it can change it. A tortle might change its name a dozen times in its life.
Tortles don’t have surnames or family names.

Male and Female Names: Baka, Damu, Gar, Gura, Ini, Jappa, Kinlek, Krull, Lim, Lop, Nortle, Nulka, Olo, Ploqwat, Quee, Queg, Quott, Sunny, Tibor, Ubo, Uhok, Wabu, Xelbuk, Xopa, Yog

General Information

Scientific name
Homo testudines
Geographic Distribution
Calames Jungle
Languages
Aquan, Common, Draconic

Physiologie

Average Lifespan
50 years
Size
Medium
Average Height
1.5‒1.8 m
Average Weight
200‒230 kg

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