Yeux

ECOLOGY

Environment any
Organization solitary or pair

Yeuxs live in small clans, usually no more than a dozen individuals. They are relentless hunters, either in small parties of their own kind, or leading packs of hunting beasts and enslaved humanoids.

While they can be territorial and secretive, they are also notorious as marauders, slavers, and ruthless traders. Near large settlements, they are active in black markets, sometimes forming power blocs within organized crime. They sometimes inhabit valuable ruins, or build secret hideouts in humanoid cities, from which to exert control over their surroundings. Their clans often rule sparsely populated lands as warlords. Yeuxs are always interested in acquiring magic, technology, and wealth that grant them ever greater power.

The most dominant yeux in a group is an aggressive female, who reproduces with a chosen mate. Young yeuxs are male, becoming female through the passage of time and positions of dominance within the group. When their numbers become too numerous, they spread out to conquer new lands, or they engage in a spirited contest for dominance and survival to cull the weak from among them. The death of a matriarch triggers males to mature into females, replacing the previous matriarch and often causing the clan to spawn several new, independent groups.

Yeuxs stand between 6 and 7 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds.