Pig
The pig, also known as swine or boar, is a highly adaptable and intelligent animal present all across the Fifth World. Some descend at least partly from formerly domesticated pigs gone feral after collapse, but many descend primarily from wild pigs. Feral pigs possess incredible intelligence, enormous size, and terrible strength.
#Human relations
People of the Fifth World frequently hunt pigs. They eat the pigs' meat, make clothing from their hides, make brushes from their hair, and make jewelry and other decorations from their tusks. Additionally, some who live near herds of pigs pay close attention to where the pigs go, watching them for signs of mushrooms and truffles.
#Specialization
- A community specializing in relationship with pigs most likely lives as hunter-gatherers, roaming the forests and hunting wild pigs as one of several game animals they hunt. Due to pigs' fearsomeness, hunting them takes great skill, ingenuity, and courage. Hunters of wild pigs take their lives into their hands. As a result, such a community would greatly honor feats of bravery. Perhaps they use a young hunter's first pig hunt as a coming-of-age ritual, painting the initiate in the stripes of a piglet until hen has successfully taken down a pig, at which point they ritually wash the stripes off. Perhaps they have legends about enormous, monstrous boar and the heroes who finally took them down. Regardless, they certainly respect the pigs' strength, cunning, and tenacity, and make sure never to take more pigs than the Keeper of the Game has told their wizard they may take.