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 The teller always begins the legend of Zoggir by insisting that everything the listener has heard about Zoggir is a lie (perhaps even that someone who just told the story must have got that slander from Zoggir’s enemies). During the great time of famine many bands of orcs had gathered together to form a vast army with the sole purpose of hunting down a dragon for its power before they starved. But as is often the case with great organizations made by the other species, somehow the leaders of this army were only the most incompetent and egotistical from among the orcs. Zoggir was a young warrior from (usually when the story is told the teller inserts their own tribe). Usually, Zoggir is a braggart who insults the leaders of the great army claiming that they could do better, but some tellings of the story differ. Regardless, the leaders of the army wish to see Zoggir dead for this insolence and send them on six seemingly impossible tasks. These tasks differ in the telling but common favorites include moving a mountain out of the way of the great army (sometimes Zoggir splits the mountain in two with a single blow, other times they rearrange the camps in the middle of the night such that the army is facing another direction and the incompetent leaders are none the wiser, among myriad others). Each time though through some feat of might, diplomacy, or cleverness Zoggir prevails. Finally, Zoggir has won the support of the entire army and it is clear they will soon revolt against their leaders. In anger the leaders say “fine, if you’re so amazing slay the dragon yourself, why do you need our army in the first place?” To which Zoggir replies something like: “I could do it myself, but without the help of my brothers and sisters I would surely die performing the task.” Of course it is eventually agreed that Zoggir will do it alone, and through some mixture of cleverness and strength they accomplish the task dying in the process just as they predicted.
 
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 The Legend of Ystosk and Kluatra
 Culture(s): Atnian orcs, and to a lesser extent indigenous humans who live with them and share the same gods, though these are never so popular as Zoggir among non-orcs. 
 
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 Ystosk and Kluatra were 
 
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 Culture(s): Goblins
 
 Now of the creatures with hands the ogres, orcs, and humans all had thick hair that kept them warm in the winter, and the goblins were covered in sharp protective scales that made them tougher to claw or bite into. The insects had no such thing, and lacking in both hair and scales they would freeze more often in the winter, and were easily eaten by their predators. And so they got to thinking, what with how small they were, that even if they had a tiny bit of the hair and scales the bigger creatures with hands had they could do much more with it. They even dreamed of ways they could use hair to sense the world around them, and scales to store water on their backs. And so their jealousy finally turned to entitlement: they could use these things much more than those who had them, and they would barely miss them if they were gone. So all the insects of the world gathered to make a plan to trick the bigger creatures out of their hair and scales.
-	So first the insects whispered in the ears of goblins that they should hold a contest for all the creatures in the world, a grand tournament to see who would be the fastest, strongest, and most intelligent and whoever won would get to make a request of the others. The goblins, being sure that through their cleverness they could win any such contest, begin the work of organizing it and calling all the species together. 
-	First all of the species engage in a race. Only the goblins even realize the insects are competing, and at first all think that the humans won. But the arbiters quickly determine that a moth crossed the finish long before anyone else. The next contest is one of strength, and each of the species engage in an arm-wrestle. Three bees – one for each species, sacrifice themselves by stinging the hand of their opponent to get them to yield. And the insects win another round. 
-	Finally comes a contest of wit, as each species asks the others a riddle until finally one can come up with an answer that all others must accept but none can guess before it is revealed. The humans and orcs are now angry after their defeat in contests they felt they should have one, and complain that the insects must speak through the goblins and cannot give the riddles themselves, and finally after some discussion the insects are disqualified from this contest. Quickly however the humans and orcs are outmatched by the wit of the goblins and the knowledge of the world of the ogres, who go on telling each other riddles for many hours before finally the ogres emerge victorious by a hair in the dead of night.
-	The insects, having won two of the three contests, get to make a request of the other species, and they ask for the hairs of the ogres, orcs, and humans, and the scales of the goblins. Since the ogres won one contest, they may make a counter-request, and the ask that the insects allow each of them to keep some of their favorite hairs and scales so that they might still feel as themselves. The insects graciously assent, for they never needed very much hair or scales in the first place. And this is how beetles got their shells and bees and flies and many other things got their hair, and how it came to be that humans are the only monkeys without hair over their whole body, orcs are the only hyenas with large patches without fur, and ogres came to be the only bald bears. And of course how goblins came to only keep the most important scales on their backs. 
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+So first the insects whispered in the ears of goblins that they should hold a contest for all the creatures in the world, a grand tournament to see who would be the fastest, strongest, and most intelligent and whoever won would get to make a request of the others. The goblins, being sure that through their cleverness they could win any such contest, begin the work of organizing it and calling all the species together. 
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+First all of the species engage in a race. Only the goblins even realize the insects are competing, and at first all think that the humans won. But the arbiters quickly determine that a moth crossed the finish long before anyone else. The next contest is one of strength, and each of the species engage in an arm-wrestle. Three bees – one for each species, sacrifice themselves by stinging the hand of their opponent to get them to yield. And the insects win another round. 
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+Finally comes a contest of wit, as each species asks the others a riddle until finally one can come up with an answer that all others must accept but none can guess before it is revealed. The humans and orcs are now angry after their defeat in contests they felt they should have one, and complain that the insects must speak through the goblins and cannot give the riddles themselves, and finally after some discussion the insects are disqualified from this contest. Quickly however the humans and orcs are outmatched by the wit of the goblins and the knowledge of the world of the ogres, who go on telling each other riddles for many hours before finally the ogres emerge victorious by a hair in the dead of night.
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+The insects, having won two of the three contests, get to make a request of the other species, and they ask for the hairs of the ogres, orcs, and humans, and the scales of the goblins. Since the ogres won one contest, they may make a counter-request, and the ask that the insects allow each of them to keep some of their favorite hairs and scales so that they might still feel as themselves. The insects graciously assent, for they never needed very much hair or scales in the first place. And this is how beetles got their shells and bees and flies and many other things got their hair, and how it came to be that humans are the only monkeys without hair over their whole body, orcs are the only hyenas with large patches without fur, and ogres came to be the only bald bears. And of course how goblins came to only keep the most important scales on their backs. 
 
 How Insects Became so Small
 Culture(s): Goblins