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| **StingBjorn** are broad, muscular humanoids who stand between six and seven feet tall. Their skin ranges from dull olive to ashen gray, and most still bear the heavy jaws and lower tusks of their [[orc|orcish ancestry]], though the tusks are often worn short from use. What sets them apart is the thick, segmented tail that rises from the base of the spine and curves forward over one shoulder, ending in a glossy black stinger. A single, forward-curving horn of dark bone protrudes from the center of the forehead. This horn holds an acid substance and is a projectile weapon. The StingBjorn call this horn a AcidSpire. | **StingBjorn** are broad, muscular humanoids who stand between six and seven feet tall. Their skin ranges from dull olive to ashen gray, and most still bear the heavy jaws and lower tusks of their [[orc|orcish ancestry]], though the tusks are often worn short from use. What sets them apart is the thick, segmented tail that rises from the base of the spine and curves forward over one shoulder, ending in a glossy black stinger. A single, forward-curving horn of dark bone protrudes from the center of the forehead. This horn holds an acid substance and is a projectile weapon. The StingBjorn call this horn a AcidSpire. | ||
| - | At the base of every AcidSpire grows a rough, yellowish gem the color of drying blood. The gem is not worn or set. It forms naturally as the StingBjorn reaches adulthood. Tribal shamans claim the AcidSpire " | + | At the base of every AcidSpire grows a rough, yellowish gem. The gem is not worn or set. It forms naturally as the StingBjorn reaches adulthood. Tribal shamans claim the AcidSpire " |
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| The experiment’s subjects broke free. Those who escaped bred true. Their children were born with the same features. Today the StingBjorn exist as scattered warbands and clans. They remember the wizards only as hated “shapers” and view their mutations as both a curse and the source of their strength. Most still speak a harsh dialect of Orc mixed with Common, and many tribes ritually scar or paint their AcidSpires to mark kills, rank, or lineage. Removing an acidspire gem from a dead StingBjorn is considered an unforgivable desecration and subject to enraging any who see the act of removing it or a loose acidspire gem later independently. | The experiment’s subjects broke free. Those who escaped bred true. Their children were born with the same features. Today the StingBjorn exist as scattered warbands and clans. They remember the wizards only as hated “shapers” and view their mutations as both a curse and the source of their strength. Most still speak a harsh dialect of Orc mixed with Common, and many tribes ritually scar or paint their AcidSpires to mark kills, rank, or lineage. Removing an acidspire gem from a dead StingBjorn is considered an unforgivable desecration and subject to enraging any who see the act of removing it or a loose acidspire gem later independently. | ||
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