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Boggins

Boggins are small, repulsive creatures, which look a little like stunted misshapen Orks. They range in height from only a few inches to about two feet. They may have tough rubbery skins in shades of green, brown or grey, or they may be covered with hair, sometimes sparse, sometimes thick and coarse. Their eyes can be huge, small, or even non-existant, with wide snuffling noses serving to guide their rampages instead. They may have poisonous teeth, or spines, or scent glands which would make a skunk blanch. They can be found in mountains, forests, bogs or open land.

They only thing which is certain about a boggin is that it will have lots of razor sharp teeth, and that it will not be alone.

Plagues of boggins spread across the Orks lands from time to time. Their population can swell dramatically if the boggins come across a rich food supply, than just as suddenly dwindle as the food runs out and the boggins turn on each other in a cannibalistic frenzy. There are always some survivors who, fat on the flesh of their packmates, can slip into hibernation somewhere tand wait for the mysterious signal which brings them forth to breed new packs. Boggin reproduction is as chaotic as everything else about them. Boggins canreproduce asexually, or a particular group they may have two sexes, or three, or more.

As destructive as locusts, boggins have some features which set them apart from ordinary vermin. Boggins can learn from what they eat. If you meet a boggin which can string together a few words of Orkish, then you can be pretty sure what was on the menu recently. More fundamentally, boggins are what they eat. Their plastic bodies respond to their diet, producing spiens, poison, hair and colouration which matches their latest meals. Boggins in a particular pack usually ressemble each other quite closely.

Boggins are exquisitly sensitive to Elven magics. It is said that a boggin can smell elven magic from miles away, and packs converge on sources of magic, playing, hoarding, and ultimately eating whatever they can find. Legends say that the rapacious and tiresome attentions of the boggins are what drove the Elves from the areas now occupied by the Ork tribes.