One day, a small scaled creature said, "I could write a short essay on the ways different fantasy species would decorate themselves, and what that would mean for their cultural development."
And then it said, "Wait a minute. I'm 20-something. It's the middle of summer. Nothing's going on in my life. I really COULD write an essay!"

This is that essay. Plus a few more.

(also I'm kinda salty that DnD lore still hasn't made Kobolds a real, distinct people. Heck, lore in general doesn't like making Kobolds people! It's all humans-plus-feature that get the spotlight. If nobody will give us a happy ending, I'll make one for us myself, and jolly well put in a good word for the furries.)

For similar reasons, I'm making the humans and elves the villains of this piece. They've had the throne too long, it makes sense they'd develop an evil laugh.

And just for fun, I've thrown in a minor appocalypse. Because I crave the rain of hot, mana-soaked disaster on the unrepentant oppressor. They would not listen, so let their screams go unheard.

I may have a problem or two :)

• A collection of back-of-the-envelope, tip-of-the-horn worldbuilding asides.
• Physical descriptions of known sentient species.
• A pamphlet titled 'So you've been Isekai'd here. Now what?'
• A document about an as-of-yet un-named conlang.

• Badly illustrated casual description of formal first contact between Arkanian, Thalian, and Ilian officials.
• Essay on the way The Cloudmakers have changed over the course of their history.
• Lost textbook page describing the Thalian-Arkanian War.

• Illustrations of vertical door handle designs
• Incident report involving Tenya comitting guerilla public service.
• Cloudmaker internal memo regarding

• Who are The Cloudmakers?
• A couple band T-shirts.