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-1 Races of UndaliaKepitings

AKA: Crabmen, Carcinins, Shelled Slaves

Medium Monstrous Humanoid (Aquatic, Verminoid) +4 STR, -4 INT, -2 CHA 20 ft speed +4 Natural Armor 2 Natural Attacks: 2 Claws (d6) Low-Light Vision, Darkvision 60 ft Stability (As a dwarf) +1 Racial bonus on grapple checks +2 Racal bonus on Hide and Spot checks Amphibious: May spend any amount of time on land or underwater Immune to sleep effects

+4 on saves versus mind-affecting abilities Verminoid: Are treated as if they were of the Vermin type for the

purposes of Ranger favored enemies, Bane weapons and the like. Automatic Languages: Aquan. Bonus Languages: Common,

Sylvan, Sahuagin, Draconic, Terran Favored Class: Fighter Often Neutral

Beneath the waves of the Swollen Ocean, a race of crablikehumans toiled in slavery for a thousand years. Kepitings, or crabmen,are as their name implies, humanoid creatures hose features resemble

those of crustaceans. Kepitings range from 4 to about 5 feet tall, but areusually very wide and stocky. Their bodies resemble shelledhemispheres, the sides of which taper into spines. The upper halves oftheir shells are usually colored brown or green, but turn blue duringmating seasons. Instead of humanoid hands, long, many jointed limbsprotrude from gaps beneath their spines. They end in claws not unlikethose of a crab, except that the lower pincer possesses an additionaljoint, not unlike a human thumb, giving the Kepiting surprising dexterity.From around the same areas as their hands protrude 3 more limbs oneither side, all of which end in chitin-encased human feet. The front oftheir oblong bodies house 6 inch long eyestalks, which can swivel with

some degree of independence. Their mouths, their most unsettlingfeature, lies ust beneath their eyes. Their shells display a large hole,inside of which their mouths can be seen. They appear in all respects ashuman mouths, but instead of teeth they posses large boney plates forgrinding food. Kepitings, slow to breed and unorganized, wereoverwhelmed and enslaved by Sahuagin war parties 400 years beforeBalas arrival on Undalia. Until the sea devils encountered the

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Huntsman, Kepitings were used as slave labor and had their culture andsociety universally crushed. When the Huntsman met the Sahuagin, theyopposed his attempts to enslave their leaders. The Huntsman, using hispowers over weather, defeated them and discovered the crab people,who were previously unknown to all but the most scholarly sea-elves. A

vast majority of the Kepitings adopted the pirates lifestyle forthemselves, but many more did not. Kepitings have been observed asadopting other cultures practices and customs at a whim and discardingthem after a few years. Most find this offensive, but others view them ina more positive light, a race robbed of its soul, seeking one that willfinally fit their oblong form.