#15 - Mudmancers

The Living Swamps are curious entities. No one really knows how they came to exist - was it just all that leaking magic infusing a realm so teeming with robust life that it needed only a bit to form consciousness? Or was it some xenotech influencing the natural rhythms of the bogs and marshes to give it a semblance of sapience? The origins of their existence are now shrouded in mysteries and in obfuscating legends of the kin and folk that lives within their embrace. Bog Goblins, who worship them as gods. Tiffingtons, which enjoy the darkness and the safety of brambles. Gasipeds, living off the various fumes of the swamps. And of course, the Mudlings, tiny beings made of the very essence of the swamp, mud, moss, lichen and mischief. Most form mobile communities, making spherical, easy to roll houses of baked mud and sticks and leaves. Some though, considered holy in their peculiar faith, have the very power of the mud and the bogs, being able to form and manipulate it at will - due to their magical potency they are considered both priests and staunchest defenders of the mudlings clans, for they can form mighty golems and battle shells for themselves and their kin to combat many perils that would otherwise be unsurmountable for the diminutive creatures that they are...