Mini-Contest for the World of Aiers Group

Kobolds. While in their original acception they are to be a sprite stemming from Germanic mythology, and surviving into modern times in German Folklore, their depictions of worlds of "sword and sorcery" as Dungeons And Dragons varied much from such depictions.

While the most common descritions of the mythological Kobolds make them either to be invisible shapeshifters who can materialize, or having humanlike figures of the size of small childrens, they are depicted to be hunched and ugly, while on Dungeons and Dragons they will evolve from a sort of goblinoid creature to reptilian humanoids. Other games and worlds make them to be some sort of dog or rat-like creatures... or the infamous Cutebold -of TG or 4chan origin? My internet knowledge isn't that deep.-

In myths, they can be house spirits of ambivalent nature, or to haunt mines and ships.

The kobold's origins are obscure. Sources equate the domestic kobold with creatures such as the English bohhart, hobgoblin and pixy, the scottish brownie or the scandinavian nisse or Tomme. But I have no idea what made them become small reptilian creatures in "Sword and Sorcery", a sometimes even smaller nuance for adventurers than goblins... while in other adventures they could be quite dangerous.

The thing is, despise once having listed Kobolds to be part of World of Aiers, I never did anything with them, as I feel like the goblins filled quite nicely already the niche of the goblinoid kobolds, the siggos and draak harg (dragon me) the reptilian kobolds, and the more sprite-like Kobolds seemed better to be part of myths than peoples of Aiers...

until now, at least

THE CONTEST

As a small contest for the World-of-Aiers, you -Yes! YOU!- can now design a Kobold for the World of Aiers!! Write down or draw, whatever you feel more comfortable -or both- a depiction of your own aierian kobolds, be of whatever nature you want them to be.

Will them be what? how they will look like? What will be their culture? language? religion? inteligence? Settlements? Are they peoples of Aiers? artificial creations of demons? monsters or abominations? a kind of elf? a beastman? a gobloid? just a myth or a legend?

There will be two limits, and these are:
- The only thing I have actually statted about Kobolds: they live deep underground in the Underworld of Kazrrad (at least as a primary habitat
- Them to be "cannonical" will only depend of myself, and I reserve myself the right to do some editions if necesary for them to fit better the World of Aiers.

TO PARTICIPATE
To participate, post the link to your deviation -in deviantart- in this journal!!

THE PRIZES

The first prize will be that the choosen Kobolds will become the adopted Kobold for Aiers -as peoples or myths- and I will ilustrate them. Aside of the cannonization of the winning Kobolds and a Kobold illustration -theme depending of the winner-, they get as well a free request for an illustration.

The Second and third places will have as well free requests, but limited to World of Aiers in the thematics.

UNTIL WHEN?

Basically, until when there are enough entries and some interesting concepts of Kobolds... but if that doesn't happen before -and I give a proper warning-, it will be the final set date for participating the 28 Juni 2015

JUDGE
This is an authoritary regime! So it will depend with exclusivity of me!


Hope you like the idea, and you decide to participate!!

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THE ENTRIES!
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Mature Content

Droutiz : Concurso de koboldsKOBOLDS
Fisiología:
Los kobolds son un híbrido resultante entre las especies K´nir, Hakkar y Draak Harg, por lo que presentan características de estas tres especies. Debido a su herencia Hakkar son algo más bajos del ser humano medio (1,50 m) aunque puede variar notablemente, y son algo enclenques, lo que explica su pequeña fuerza, apenas superior a la de los trasgos Ur Dur.
Debido a que fueron concebidos al principio como un experimento sobre los límites en la hibridación de varias especies distantes entre sí, cada kobold tiene un aspecto diferente, puesto que las proporciones entre las tres especies principales que los forman varían. El kobold común posee cabeza Draak Harg con cuernos de carnero sobresaliéndole de la cabeza, un pecho y extremidades superiores a medio camino entre las escamas de un reptil y el pelaje de un K´nir; y las extremidades inferiores de un Hakkar. Sin embargo, como dije antes, la proporción
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Jathis : Kobolds!History/Creation: There are stories about the Kobolds that the Drow down below created centuries ago. Several magic-users had become bored one day and a bet was made regarding the ability to create a race that would serve as both target practice and a kind of pet for the little ones. Several attempts were made to do this but they had all ended up becoming a small disaster.
One magic-user over several months however managed to succeed in their attempt. They used the runts of her riding lizard's clutch of eggs and transmuted them with a few Dwarves that had been taken during a recent raid. The first few results were bloody failures, piles of flesh and bone that sizzled and popped ominously. These were thrown down a gorge while no one was looking and the experiments continued with more zeal.
In the end she did manage to create a brand new race with the last Dwarf at her disposal and the Kobolds were born. They were reptilian in appearance, the size of an adult Dwarf thanks to their mixtur
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:bullteblue:larqven : Kobold Contest'''K O B O L D''', ''Caverna Aqua Fossor''
'''Race:''' Kobold
'''Species:''' Kobold
'''Other names:''' Beak Faces, Hair Balls, Deep Cavers, Swimmers, Flat Tails, Cave Haunters, Grabbers, Subterraneans, Earth Dwellers, Mole Men
'''Allegiance:''' unaligned, sometimes serve [[illithids]]
Kobolds are a hairy, beaked semi-humanoid that live in deep [[Kazrrad]], often on the shores of flooded caverns.
==General Description==
Kobolds are a small furry, beaked, cave folk that live in deep aquatic places.  They have a wide range of attributes that are not often seen together as in a chimera like fashion.
===Chimera Attributes===
Some of these chimera attributes are oily fur, mammary glands, hard, protruding beaks, poison glands, electro-reception, and egg laying.  They are adapted towards a subterranean, aquatic lifestyle that serves them well in on the shores of the sunless seas of the flooded caverns of deep [[Kazrrad]].  They are diggers of holes for their nests and traps.
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Raja-Ulat : World of Aiers: Kobold Challenge EntryAiers: Kobold Challenge
Disclaimer: This is my entry for the kobold challenge hosted by Shabazik at [http://shabazik.deviantart.com/] and I hope that it would be well-received.
Kobold
Species: Aminiotas
Race: Kobold
Habitat: Mainly places which are warm and are moist
Diet: Mainly invertebrates and fishes but are opportunistic carnivores
Alignment: Unaligned
General Description
Kobolds are a small humanoid race which possess features similar to that of salamanders or newts. These features include semipermeable skin, no more than four digits on the hands, no more than five digits on the feet, long tails which allow them to be effective swimmers and may be prehensile, and blunt snouts. Due to having semipermeable skin, Kobolds must keep their bodies moist hence why they are most often found in places that are near freshwater and/or humid. Examples of favoured habitats for kobolds include underground caves which are connected to freshwater rivers and tropical forests with humid air. They a
rushvin : Kobold for ContestKobold for Shabazik race making contest
Physical
Physical form
Kobolds physically resemble Dwarves in that they are short with stocky builds.
General height is 4-5 feet tall but the weight can be surprisingly heavy going from a light 100 pounds to nearly 1,000.
They generally have almost no body hair.
The skin is pale in color and  never tan just burn from too much sunlight if exposed for long periods.
The eyes have very large pupils leaving almost no white areas visible normally.
Ears are vestige being small to nonexistent.
The teeth are in three plates on top and bottom, so 6 'teeth' instead of the human number in the thirties.
Breasts are used not for infant feeding but water retention. Depending on how much a Kobold has drank the breasts can go from flat-chest to DD cup. Females can 'carry' more water then males. The inhalation of so much water increasing chest size can cause pain if they have their armor on constraining the chest's expansion. There seems to be a natural limit
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