Crabs

crabs

Water Ritual Liquid	water
Initial Player Reputation	-475
Parent Faction	Beasts
Relationships	Arachnids: Neutral0 Reputation Cats: Neutral0 Reputation Others: Hate-100 Reputation Robots: Neutral0 Reputation Snapjaws: Neutral0 Reputation
Interested in Learning	underground locations
Interested in Sharing	underground locations
Skill Taught	Calloused (-200 reputation)
Old^?Whether this faction existed during the sultanate, which determines if they: can be obliterated can be fabricated can be Cherubim	yes
ID^?Use this ID to Wish for faction reputation Example: `factionrep:Crabs:100`	Crabs

Crabs are an old faction in Caves of Qud that initially dislike the player character. They all have skills in the Cudgel tree, since their pincers are considered cudgels.

Culture

Crabs are one of the few factions that have two kinds of legendary generation, and both of them pull from different corpuses. The first kind only applies to legendary eyeless king crabs, who have names that focus on hard consonants like k, t, x, and c.^[1] This is similar to how crabs speak by "raucous croaking".

The second name generation has a more varied sound palette and are used for dynamically generated legendary crabs. There is no explanation to why these differences exist or what it says about crab society.