Porcine

 

Physiology

Porcine are pig-folk with round features and large snouts. Some have quite thin body hair, and present as pinkish skinned, while other have full fur coats with spotted or stiped patterns, normally in blacks, whites and browns. Still others have thick, coarse coats - usually brown or black - that can grown even thicker around the neck like a mane and down the back in a ridge. Females tend to be larger than males and will usually have a dozen nipples as they tend to have large litters of children. Porcine average 150 cm in height and weigh 95 kg. They have a 3 year long life cycle, just as with avians, halflings, humans, taurans and ursans.

Life Cycle

Porcine have a strong tendency toward traditional male-female relationships and toward lifelong monogamous partnerships. Porcine families tend to be large with females often giving to a dozen or more offspring at a time, and porcine families often exceed thirty individuals. Porcine families are hierarchical, with parents (and their siblings in their extended families) all working to support child-rearing and parenting, and with each cohort of 8-12 siblings having clearly defined roles and responsibilities that change as they 'graduate' to the next level of responsibilities when the next cohort arrives. This highly structured organization of the family unit enables porcine to be highly productive and efficient members of organized society and makes it all but impossible for them to find themselves destitute.

Culture

Porcine culture is fundamentally built upon the structure of their family units, which are astonishing consistent everywhere. This structure makes porcine exceptionally well-suited to agrarian life, and the vast majority of porcine are farmers or farming-adjacent rural peoples. They have an innate love of the land, and a natural affinity for tending crops, raising and breeding livestock and operating and managing farms. Their families, and their ability to muster significant labour resources at the family unit level make them excellent at this.

Porcine are pro-social and get along well with other species, particularly when those species map well to certain sterotypical contexts that conform to a traditional porcine world-view. Notably, they get along very well with rural halflings, and with tauran who embrace a lifestyle of rural labour. They socialize well with canis; particularly those who establish themsevles in positions of authority.

Adjustments

Porcine are physically strong, gain a bonus to their Strength and to the damage they can do. Thier strong sense of community and their overwealming desire to conform grants them a bonus to their Conviction. While they are determined and hard working, which grants them a bonus to their Resolve, they are also utterly guileless and often naive, suffering a penalty to their Cunning. They are a large and a bit awkward in their movements, which gives them a penalty to their dodge. Porcine have excellent noses and all of them have the Olfactory Sense perk. They also start with Apprentice level of mastery and a free initial roll in the Farming skill field.