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== Life Cycle == | == Life Cycle == | ||
As excerpted from | As excerpted from “[[The Divers Genitaliae of the Lizard-Folk, all Provocative and Discursive Notes and Diagrammes Left Compleat and Unexpurgated, with Novel Engravings of a both Titillating and Educational Nature]],” attributed to [[Pseudo-Reptilicus]], from the private library of [[Lord ————]] | ||
<blockquote>“Although Lizardfolk often adopt a masculine or feminine affect when traveling among mammalians, the simple male/female dichotomy is not an accurate representation of Lizardfolk sexual biology. A more enlightening paradigm could be borrowed from the social insects. The great majority of "Lizard-men" are in fact female, capable of reproducing both with males and through parthenogenesis. Females can be considered the "worker" or "warrior" caste. Worker reproduction, both sexual and asexual, invariably produces females, with parthenogenic birth producing exact duplicates of the mother. The male is smaller and weaker than the female, and in Lizardfolk society often considered useless except for reproductive purposes - a "drone" caste. Access to males is prized and frequently disputed. The smaller male cadre is held in the thrall of the Matrons - the "queen" caste - a "third gender" of significantly larger, significantly more intelligent Lizardfolk, dominant over their tribes and capable of mating with males to produce both male and female offspring. Rare as Lizardfolk males are, Matrons are rarer still, occurring only when a Matron's egg is incubated at the perfect temperature and humidity in the moist warrens beneath the fens. | <blockquote>“Although Lizardfolk often adopt a masculine or feminine affect when traveling among mammalians, the simple male/female dichotomy is not an accurate representation of Lizardfolk sexual biology. A more enlightening paradigm could be borrowed from the social insects. The great majority of "Lizard-men" are in fact female, capable of reproducing both with males and through parthenogenesis. Females can be considered the "worker" or "warrior" caste. Worker reproduction, both sexual and asexual, invariably produces females, with parthenogenic birth producing exact duplicates of the mother. The male is smaller and weaker than the female, and in Lizardfolk society often considered useless except for reproductive purposes - a "drone" caste. Access to males is prized and frequently disputed. The smaller male cadre is held in the thrall of the Matrons - the "queen" caste - a "third gender" of significantly larger, significantly more intelligent Lizardfolk, dominant over their tribes and capable of mating with males to produce both male and female offspring. Rare as Lizardfolk males are, Matrons are rarer still, occurring only when a Matron's egg is incubated at the perfect temperature and humidity in the moist warrens beneath the fens. | ||