Editing Grung (section)

==5e Grung==
[[Forgotten Realms]] grung are brightly colored, aggressive and territorial humanoid tree-frogs native to the tropical rain forests and jungles - they are only found in areas with plentiful moisture, since they require pools to mature their tadpoles in, and must spend at least an hour a day bathing, or else they'll begin to fatally dry out. Arrogant and elitist, these Lawful Evil creatures divide themselves into a strict hierarchy, which places grung above other races and divides the grung into different castes based on their color. This might be because whilst all grung secrete a poisonous slime - which can be used to enthrall humanoid creatures, thus allowing them to assemble great legions of slaves - each color of grung is able to induce a unique flavor of madness when they afflict a creature with their slime in its natural form, as opposed to the diluted "thrall-juice" they normally use. 

Green grungs are the tribe's warriors, hunters, and laborers, and blue grungs work as artisans and in other domestic roles. Supervising and guiding both groups are the purple grungs, which serve as administrators and commanders. Green grung slime induces an uncontrollable urge to either climb the nearest high place, or hop around like a giant frog. Blue grung slime compels the afflicted to shout, scream, or otherwise make the loudest noise that they can. Purple grung slime induces a maddening sensation of being boiled in one's own skin, compelling the victim to find cool water or mud to soak themselves in to alleviate the psychological heat.

Red grungs are the tribe's scholars and magic users. They are superior to purple, blue, and green grungs and given proper respect even by grungs of higher status. The slime of these grungs induces an insatiable hunger.

Higher castes include orange grungs, which are elite warriors that have authority over all lesser grungs, and gold grungs, which hold the highest leadership positions. A tribe's sovereign is always a gold grung. The slime of an orange grung overwhelms a victim with paranoid delusions, whilst golden grung slime enthralls the victim, compelling them to obey the golden grung's orders and even magically enables them to understand the grung's language.

These tree frogfolk inhabit shaded treetop villages, centered around assorted well-guarded ground-level pools, where their eggs must incubate. Like [[Greyhawk]] grung, it takes nine months for a grung egg to reach full maturity, spending three months as a tadpole. Each caste maintains its own hatching pool, and the juvenile grunglets - which are all a dull greenish gray until they reach maturity - join their birth caste immediately after leaving their pools. That said, grung are meritocratic, to a degree; on rare occasions, an individual that distinguishes itself an earn an invitation into a higher caste - a process centered around ritual spells combined with herbal tonics. These lucky grung permanently ascend to their new status, and their offspring will likewise belong to that caste.

Whether this means that grung can be punished by being forcibly transferred to a lower caste isn't brought up in the book.

As stated above, grung are slavers, forever on the lookout for creatures they can capture and enslave. Grungs use slaves for all manner of menial tasks, but mostly they just like bossing them around. Slaves are fed food that has been spiked with a carefully diluted form of grung slime, just powerful enough to keep them lethargic and compliant without afflicting them with madness. A creature enthralled in this way over a long period of time becomes a shell of its former self and can be restored to normalcy only by magic.