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Grummites are amphibious frog-like primitive humanoids native to the Shivering Isles, with a complex life cycle surrounded by myths. Like other creatures native to the Isles, Grummites take differing forms depending on whether they inhabit Mania or Dementia
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Grummites are amphibious frog-like primitive humanoids native to the Shivering Isles, with a complex life cycle surrounded by myths. Similar in size to that of a human, although more robust, this beast-folk has large mouths filled with small sharp teeth, reminiscent of gills on its back and arms, small residual tails, strong legs adapted for jumping, and clawed feet and hands with interdigital membranes that facilitate swimming. Like all creatures of that Oblivion Realm, they vary in appearance and mood according to their existence in Mania or Dementia.
When someone crazy enough ventures into the Shivering Isles, both in Mania and Dementia, it is possible to find remnants of ruins apparently belonging to a much more developed Grummite civilization from the past. Legend has it that they were perhaps the first inhabitants of that Realm, and the countless statues of Grummites among these rubble denote that yes they once had significant importance. Grummites can be often found scavenging these ruins in search of equipment and weapons.
Scholars claim that like the civilizations of Goblins, Rieklings and Riekrs, so Grummites were once a more developed and civilized civilization, which devolved in recent times to primitiveness and violence. It is believed that with each Greymarch, the Grummite civilization devolves, returning more bestialized than before, and despite some reported cases of interactions and exchanges with human residents of the island, with some grummites even working as farmers or even butlers for some residents, most Grummites are seen as nuisanse and troublemakers, assaulting travelers, and even attacking small villages, especially fishermen, with the Golden Saints and Dark Seducers often having to intervene decimating entire groups of Grummites.
Their equipment is sparse, and mostly scavenged from the ancient ruins of their formerly developed civilization. They use armor parts made of iron rusty by time, ornamented with indecipherable inscriptions, complemented with leather, and a set of trinkets made up of shells, runed stones, bones, parts of crustaceans, barnacles, ropes, hooks, fishing nets, and everything that they can find and/or steal. They use heavy daggers, cludgels and cleavers made of heavy rustic iron and bone as weapons, also craved with the same unknown symbols, in addition to bone bows and shields made of horseshoe crab shells. They collect poisonous animals and plants from the swamps with which they poison their weapons, causing extra damage.
Like frogs and toads, they have different stages of development, from completely aquatic, to semi-aquatic, to almost completely terrestrial.There are many confusions and myths about this cycle. Due to the mental state of the island's inhabitants commonly not being the best, neither is their capacity for assertiveness very clear in most cases. There are myths of Grummites being cursed men who got lost in the swamps and were transformed into these creatures, until myths that they have a cycle shared with other creatures like Scalons. These are all confusions, and some things can be taken for granted:
According to the book "From Frog to Man", written by Meekus Ralbrek, Grummites lay eggs in puddles of water in small clusters such as frogs, which hatch in small Pollywogs the size of human hands, totally aquatic, formed by a head, mouth and tail, without limbs, which grow rapidly in a few weeks, transforming into the semi-aquatic quadrupeds Baliwogs, which for about two years grow to the size of a man, when they then bury themselves in the mud, and for several months undergo a metamorphosis until emerge as a Grummite, when it meets with other Grummites in a reproductive frenzy. Grummites tend to live more on land than in water, but never far from it. Although the author says that Grummites generally do not defend their eggs, this is not always the case, with many Grummites being found ostensibly defending their nesting grounds fiercely.
As for the myths of Grummites evolving into Scalons, or even Baliwogs evolving into Scalons, whether some or all, this is also a confusion. Scalons and Grummites really are related, but just as Trolls and Grahls are, nothing more. As Relmyna Verenim wrote in the book Reptilian Appetite Conditioning, in her questionable experiments with Baliwogs and Scalons, she created them since they both were hatchlings, making it clear that they come from different evolutionary cycles.
A type of mythological creature from the Isles, known as Spawn Mother, very rare to be seen, and by many even considered non-existent, is credited as the origin of the Grummites and Scalons, being the ancestor of both that arrived in the Isles swimming in the deep and unknown waters that surround the Realm. Giant, with some being described as the size of mountains, with algae, corals and barnacles dipping all over their greenish bodies, and long fins covering limbs, back and head, these beasts are very similar to Lurkers, and due to the known connections between the Isles of Sheogorath and the Apocrypha realm of Hermaeus Mora, with several portals for this latter plane hidden in the most remote ruins of Dementia, it is possible to elaborate a possible connection between Spawn Mothers and Lurkers, and even a possible origin of the first in this kingdom, which has originally an architecture and inhabitants with oceanic characteristics, such as the traits of these strange group of creatures that lives in the Shivering Isles, composed of Grummites, Scalons and Spawn Mothers.
As in the case of the Goblin-kin, the devolving of the Grummite civilization has made magic scarce, and nowadays the existence of magical Grummites is punctual, and not very significant when it exists, with some inhabitants even considering it an impossible madness. In Nirn they appear to be summoned by Manic and Demented Mages, magicians who carry with them the spell tomes that will allow the player to also summon these creatures in all their variants.
(TWO LAST NOTES: First, this mod shares some files with my Grummite Weaponry mod. When installing both you may be asked if you want to overwrite files, and you can do it or not, whatever, they are files in common. But remember, to have the weapons, you have to have the Grummite Weaponry mod, and to have the Grummites you have to have the Grummite mod. Second thing, I saw a lot of confusion arising because tes legends launched scalons and spawn mothers as grummites. This is just their way of grouping the creatures, just as they did with spriggans and gnarls, it's no big deal. Yes, they do it because they have a connection, but the way it is done, it suggests something else. Luckily tes legends ended, as it brought a lot of confusion to people, and it was often done in a disrespectful way to lore many times.)
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If you like my work, don't forget to endorse this mod.
It's free, fast and very important for the continuation of this nonprofit work.
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Attention:
I do not supervise or test translations made by other users for my mods, not even those linked
on my mod pages. So, before using them, make sure they are in the same version as the current
version of my mods, if not, do not install them or they will mess with my current official version.
The same applies to ports for XBOX, I do not do the ports or test them myself,
so you should also make sure they are up to date with my official PC releases.
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Join us on my Discord server. A large community made up of
nice modders and mod users, where you'll feel at home:
CLICK HERE
Subscribe to my new Youtube channel to be
always up to date on my work:
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For Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):
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Grummites are amphibious frog-like primitive humanoids native to the Shivering Isles, with a complex life cycle surrounded by myths. Similar in size to that of a human, although more robust, this beast-folk has large mouths filled with small sharp teeth, reminiscent of gills on its back and arms, small residual tails, strong legs adapted for jumping, and clawed feet and hands with interdigital membranes that facilitate swimming. Like all creatures of that Oblivion Realm, they vary in appearance and mood according to their existence in Mania or Dementia.
When someone crazy enough ventures into the Shivering Isles, both in Mania and Dementia, it is possible to find remnants of ruins apparently belonging to a much more developed Grummite civilization from the past. Legend has it that they were perhaps the first inhabitants of that Realm, and the countless statues of Grummites among these rubble denote that yes they once had significant importance. Grummites can be often found scavenging these ruins in search of equipment and weapons.
Scholars claim that like the civilizations of Goblins, Rieklings and Riekrs, so Grummites were once a more developed and civilized civilization, which devolved in recent times to primitiveness and violence. It is believed that with each Greymarch, the Grummite civilization devolves, returning more bestialized than before, and despite some reported cases of interactions and exchanges with human residents of the island, with some grummites even working as farmers or even butlers for some residents, most Grummites are seen as nuisanse and troublemakers, assaulting travelers, and even attacking small villages, especially fishermen, with the Golden Saints and Dark Seducers often having to intervene decimating entire groups of Grummites.
Their equipment is sparse, and mostly scavenged from the ancient ruins of their formerly developed civilization. They use armor parts made of iron rusty by time, ornamented with indecipherable inscriptions, complemented with leather, and a set of trinkets made up of shells, runed stones, bones, parts of crustaceans, barnacles, ropes, hooks, fishing nets, and everything that they can find and/or steal. They use heavy daggers, cludgels and cleavers made of heavy rustic iron and bone as weapons, also craved with the same unknown symbols, in addition to bone bows and shields made of horseshoe crab shells. They collect poisonous animals and plants from the swamps with which they poison their weapons, causing extra damage.
Like frogs and toads, they have different stages of development, from completely aquatic, to semi-aquatic, to almost completely terrestrial.There are many confusions and myths about this cycle. Due to the mental state of the island's inhabitants commonly not being the best, neither is their capacity for assertiveness very clear in most cases. There are myths of Grummites being cursed men who got lost in the swamps and were transformed into these creatures, until myths that they have a cycle shared with other creatures like Scalons. These are all confusions, and some things can be taken for granted:
According to the book "From Frog to Man", written by Meekus Ralbrek, Grummites lay eggs in puddles of water in small clusters such as frogs, which hatch in small Pollywogs the size of human hands, totally aquatic, formed by a head, mouth and tail, without limbs, which grow rapidly in a few weeks, transforming into the semi-aquatic quadrupeds Baliwogs, which for about two years grow to the size of a man, when they then bury themselves in the mud, and for several months undergo a metamorphosis until emerge as a Grummite, when it meets with other Grummites in a reproductive frenzy. Grummites tend to live more on land than in water, but never far from it. Although the author says that Grummites generally do not defend their eggs, this is not always the case, with many Grummites being found ostensibly defending their nesting grounds fiercely.
As for the myths of Grummites evolving into Scalons, or even Baliwogs evolving into Scalons, whether some or all, this is also a confusion. Scalons and Grummites really are related, but just as Trolls and Grahls are, nothing more. As Relmyna Verenim wrote in the book Reptilian Appetite Conditioning, in her questionable experiments with Baliwogs and Scalons, she created them since they both were hatchlings, making it clear that they come from different evolutionary cycles.
A type of mythological creature from the Isles, known as Spawn Mother, very rare to be seen, and by many even considered non-existent, is credited as the origin of the Grummites and Scalons, being the ancestor of both that arrived in the Isles swimming in the deep and unknown waters that surround the Realm. Giant, with some being described as the size of mountains, with algae, corals and barnacles dipping all over their greenish bodies, and long fins covering limbs, back and head, these beasts are very similar to Lurkers, and due to the known connections between the Isles of Sheogorath and the Apocrypha realm of Hermaeus Mora, with several portals for this latter plane hidden in the most remote ruins of Dementia, it is possible to elaborate a possible connection between Spawn Mothers and Lurkers, and even a possible origin of the first in this kingdom, which has originally an architecture and inhabitants with oceanic characteristics, such as the traits of these strange group of creatures that lives in the Shivering Isles, composed of Grummites, Scalons and Spawn Mothers.
As in the case of the Goblin-kin, the devolving of the Grummite civilization has made magic scarce, and nowadays the existence of magical Grummites is punctual, and not very significant when it exists, with some inhabitants even considering it an impossible madness. In Nirn they appear to be summoned by Manic and Demented Mages, magicians who carry with them the spell tomes that will allow the player to also summon these creatures in all their variants.
(TWO LAST NOTES: First, this mod shares some files with my Grummite Weaponry mod. When installing both you may be asked if you want to overwrite files, and you can do it or not, whatever, they are files in common. But remember, to have the weapons, you have to have the Grummite Weaponry mod, and to have the Grummites you have to have the Grummite mod. Second thing, I saw a lot of confusion arising because tes legends launched scalons and spawn mothers as grummites. This is just their way of grouping the creatures, just as they did with spriggans and gnarls, it's no big deal. Yes, they do it because they have a connection, but the way it is done, it suggests something else. Luckily tes legends ended, as it brought a lot of confusion to people, and it was often done in a disrespectful way to lore many times.)