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=== Drozh ===

	Drozh have long existed as slaves throughout the world and indeed appear to have been bred precisely for this purpose. Plentiful only in the fields and mines of the wealthy, the Drozh seem to have little capacity for independent action and other men view them with a mixture of pity and scorn.

	Physically, the Drozh are a good deal shorter than Crudags even accounting for their noticeable stoop, but of larger girth. They have thick, heavily muscled arms and legs with dense grey skin that is resistant to punctures and burns. Combined with their muscles, their bones are denser and they have a greater number of tendons, making them fearsomely strong for their stature. As a result, they excel in hard labor such as land clearance, mining, herding, plowing, longshoreman – essentially any activity that requires an abundance of strength and stamina, but little precision. Psychologically, Drozh are unusually docile and delight in simple amusements, quite content with their mundane toils. This is no doubt a matter of design rather than happy coincidence. They seem all together disinterested in higher intellectual pursuits and they seem incapable of complex abstraction, as is appropriate for a slave species. They have the capacity to learn the languages of their masters, but their vocabulary and comprehension is limited and their locution ponderous. Their lifespan also suffers from drastic, inbuilt limitations: a remarkable 95% of all Drozh die within a year of their 35th birthday. 

	Despite this inherent inferiority, a small percentage of Drozh are more independent and clever than others, and naturally come to resent their servitude. In more barbarian realms, these ‘Wild Men’ are quickly killed, but occasionally a few escape to form their own rudimentary societies. Such was the case with the (grossly exaggerated) Wild Men tribes along the Drozh-Ghan river in ancient Siobia. Such individuals are exceptions, and the Drozh have produced no lasting civilization of their own. They are, however, immensely fecund – females have a gestation period about 15% shorter than Crudag females and typically give birth to two or three offspring at a time. 

'''Average Lifespan''': 35 years

'''Average Height/Weight''': 5’2”/170 lbs
 
'''Possible Breeding''': Fertile: Creel

'''Traits''': Extra Fatigue, Fit, Illiterate, Light Hangover, Reduced Sleep, Single Minded, Early Maturation, Chummy, Hidebound, Innumerate, Low Empathy, Self-Destruct, Subjugation