Aldani, also known as lobster men or lobsterfolk, are a race of crustacean beings endemic to Moog. They inhabit its many great rivers and lakes, but eventually isolated themselves to the swampy lakes of the Moog Basin.
An aldani resembles a lobster but is the size of a human. They walk upright on two legs, but swim like lobsters. Their faces vaguely resemble that of a human, though encased in chitinous armor and their eyes extend upon long stalks
Despite their appearance, the aldani are highly intelligent and quite civilized race of beings. They generally try to avoid conflict, thus whenever disputes arose among aldani they try to settle them with courtly tournaments, though such privilege are not be offered to non-aldani that fall afoul of them When disturbed by outsiders, an aldani will not resort to violence. Instead they try their best to frighten them away. Barring that, they try to bribe the creature into leaving them alone, offering treasures that they collected.
According to legend, the Aldani were once a peaceful tribe of fisherfolk, but when they brought all of the lobsters in a river to extinction by over-fishing, this angered The Great Old One, Janai'ngo, whose punishment was to turn them into the race of lobsterfolk. The fisherfolk readily accepted their punishment and new state of being. However, they were scorned by the rest of their Aldani tribesmen and cast out into the rivers they had so greedily plundered.
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