Is there any fluff of backstory or something that could indicate that lizardmen could betray each other or work against each other?
I hope you have read some of the Fanfiction in the
Lustriapedia
Bob covered some examples but he was not exhaustive. Roughly half of our fan-fiction pieces involve internal conflicts within Lizardmen society (though it's usually a subplot to external conflicts).
My fluff pieces have a backstory of the Slann falling into two philosophical camps. This divide is largely split between the large cities and the small cities. The idea of Slann killing other Slann is unthinkable. They have yet to make an ultimatum because if an elder Slann makes a demand and a younger Slann refuses, their millennia old system of order will collapse. The elder Slann are instead trying to tie the hands of their dissenters by requisitioning their soldiers and resources and keep their minions occupied with busywork.
@Fhanados' fluff piece has a similar conflict in the backstory between Mazdamundi of Hexoatl and the Slann of Itzl though the conflict is mainly occurring via their top level Saurus and Skink aids. His protagonist has even shed blood over disagreements.
A lot of pieces have Saurus and Skinks get in relatively mild disagreements over how to accomplish their goals. My piece
The Orphaned Temple City relies heavily on the Skink Priests being condescending jerks to the other servants of the Old Ones.
So could a lizzie live amongst people?
@spawning of Bob's work on comedy/dramas relies on this extensively. His first novel dealt heavily with a group of Lizardmen traveling with a crew of seafaring Ogres. Now they are stuck in the Old World. His
current novel deals with their travels through a wide variety of Human lands. I also lampooned Lizardmen living with humans in story seven of
our first short story contest. Bob lampooned my lampooning in story one of
our second short story contest. We have agreed to a ceasefire for our third contest but you should still check out
contest number three. Voting is open for a little over nine more days.
I am not aware of a fluff writer writing about a Lizardman living amongst Humans in a non-comedic piece, but I did write a short piece about Humans living among Lizardmen from the
Slann's point of view.
@discomute wrote two stories from the human's point of view. One from a
luckless rebel and one from a
luckless loyalist.
I've been reading up and what i get is that lizardmen spwan out fully matured, they don't grow. Is this correct?
While we all seem to agree on the basics there is wiggle room. Whether Lizardmen emerge from spawning pools mostly full grown or completely full grown. Each writer can draw the line wherever they want to decide how much knowledge and how many skills a Skink, Saurus, or Kroxigor is born with and what knowledge or skills they have to learn. Not just life skills, but this includes knowledge of Lizardmen society, reverence for the Old Ones, and the vocabulary of the Saurian language
You basically are free to make these decisions yourself for your own fluff pieces, and no one can tell you are "wrong."
Your Lizardmen emerge from their spawning pools with exactly the size and mental aptitude
your stories require. BUT if you write multiple pieces in the same literary "world" or one really long piece you need to stay consistent. If one Skink emerges from a spawning pool with the mind of an infant early on and pages later another emerges as an eloquent speaker and master hunter you need a good explanation or the inconsistently will pull readers out of the immersive narrative you are trying to create.
