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==Chaggrin==
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Chaggrins, also known as ''Soil Beasts'', take the form of a bipedal, man-like form made of disgusting, slimy, lumpy wet clay, with its asymmetrical, ugly face permanently set in a vicious expression, its small eyes gleaming with feral light. They can also assume the form of a yellow, hedgehog-like beast with a fanged skull-like head, or a large but normal-looking mold.

Vicious and cruel, chaggirins love to torment victims; their most common tactic is to assume beast form and then lunge at a foe, digging its long, razor-sharp foreclaws into its victim and then hanging on for dear life as the poor bastard tries to dislodge them. Their presence disrupts all earth-based spells within 40 feet.

Chaggrin are sometimes enslaved by the dao or crysmals to serve as diggers or as watchdogs. Most other races consider them too hateful to be efficient workers or reliable guards. On their own, chaggrin scratch out a living from rich mineral veins, which they devour. They live in extended families, sometimes cooperating in a limited way but often feuding among themselves. These families seldom accept new members by choice; mates are stolen from other families in violent raids and forced to adapt to their new circumstances. A chaggrin that leaves its family or is exiled never returns. To start a new family, it must capture a mate of its own.

Chaggrin encountered on the Prime Material plane are outcasts, exiled from their family for some treachery and unable to return to their own plane. They often agree to serve evil masters of the Underdark, such as [[derro]] and [[duergar]]. Most [[drow]] consider them too small and loathsome to be of much use. Evil [[gnome]]s who worship [[Urdlen]] consider chaggrin sacred and pamper them in underground temples.

Because they devour valuable minerals, chaggrin are considered vermin on the plane of elemental Earth. Most sentient races there exterminate them without mercy, but some few tolerate them – some crysmals, for example, use their psionic powers to make the chaggrin harmless and keep them around as servants. Some of the earth elementals consider chaggrin delicious and will go to great lengths to obtain them. Mages sometimes capture chaggrin and use them to dispel earth-based magics placed by their rivals; elementalists are especially prone to this.
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