Piglets | Beastmen

LORE & BACKGROUND

The Porcine Beastmen birth large and frequent broods, and life is cheap among them. Once weaned, the young are simply left to fend for themselves with no ceremony and no grief. The rotund little swine linger at the edges of the drove, scurrying through filth and wreckage to feed on what the adults spill and discard. A raid leaves rich pickings: torn sacks, scattered grain, half-eaten flesh, and offal trampled into the dirt.

Even so, survival among the swinefolk is merciless. When food grows scarce, the adults readily turn on their own young, consuming them without hesitation. Hunger outweighs kinship, as it outweighs all else. The young learn quickly, not through teaching but through need, rooting and biting wherever they can.

Alone they are a nuisance, bold and repulsive as they steal rations and snap at hands. In numbers they become something worse. They swarm, whickering and cavorting as small muzzles tear and worry at anything that falls, stripping flesh to bone amid churned mud and scattered scraps. To be pulled down by them is a dreadful, undignified end.

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