Cave Kobolds

The Cave Kobolds (Goyi: Dije'xun) are a subspecies of Kobolds who live in subterranean caves and tunnels which spread throughout Ezevria. Due to their subterranean home, the cave kobolds have adapted to lowlight environments and find it difficult to survive on the surface. Cave kobolds typically have extremely pale skin with some limited bioluminescence, and have larger eyes that are adapted for night-vision. Due to generations of no exposure to sunlight, cave kobolds are unable to endure sunlight without immediately getting painfully burnt, and thus wear heavy cloth wrappings and eye protection when emerging from their caves for the rare sojourn to the surface.

Cave kobolds typically keep to themselves, and are known to have numerous factions and city-states divided across tunnels everywhere beneath Ezevria. These factions and city states occasionally fight massive wars against each other deep underground, invisible and unknown to the surface world. Cave kobold politics and society is complex and revolves around the scarcity of resources and the need to protect the integrity of tunnels, as well as a shared hatred of the Emerald Empire. Having lost much of their magical knowledge, cave kobolds usually possess only rudimentary earth elemental magic, and rely heavily on innovative pneumatic technology to make up for their lack of magical ability. Cave kobolds also uniquely follow a ten-hour day, using specially marked candles to measure the time.

Due to their shared subterranean environment, cave kobold factions occasionally come into bitter conflicts with dwarf populations.

Factions
Cave Kobold society is divided into dozens of city-states and factions, some of which continuously war with each other.

Pha'xun Empire
The Pha'xun Empire (Pha'xun Jukan; Pure Beings Empire) is a mid-sized state consisting of three known cities as well as numerous outposts. Claiming to be the upholders of pure Kobold culture, the Pha'xuns are highly xenophobic and strive to rid the subterranean world of non-Kobolds through genocide, and potentially bring this genocidal war to the surface as well. Considered one of the more advanced and wealthy Cave Kobold states, the Pha'xuns are hampered only by their constant war with the Cong'gi Union.

The Do'mei Commonwealth
The Do'mei Commonwealth (Do'mei Hankan; Beautiful Subterranean Alliance of States) is an extremely wealthy, large and powerful faction in the underground. Controlling and maintaining several tunnel arteries and numerous mines, the Do'mei Commonwealth controls a lot of subterranean trade.

Do'gesh State
The Do'gesh State (Do'gesh Kan; Glittering Subterranean State) is the most powerful and stable Cave Kobold state, and is the one that most often deals with the surface. Occupying the sprawling subterranean city of Do'gesh Se, which is one of the largest cities in the world, as well as surrounding tunnels and some satellite settlements, the Do'gesh State also operates the only surface Cave Kobold settlement, the Misty Palms Oasis trading post.

Cong'gi Union
The Cong'gi Union (Cong'gi Ren'kan; Ideologically Congist Union of States) is the largest Cave Kobold state in existence, and occupies large amounts of tunnels and cities. It is continuously at war with the Pha'xun Empire.