The sewers of the seven cities are rife with all manner of unsavoury creatures but the most pervasive are the Sewer Goblins or Jisha (literally "pisslings") who dwell in the rank filth exclusively. Their culture is one of scavengers who take great delight in killing each other or anything else that they think they can overpower. At heart the Jisha are cowards who will flee rather than face an equal or greater foe than their current numbers allow. They are quite intelligent in their own way and adaptiveness has earned them some praise from some scholars.
They breed like vermin and the cities of the Caliphate conduct yearly purges of the undercity population, usually follow reports of rising numbers of bold Jisha raids to the above city. Completely eliminating them has proven elusive as they are resilient to the many attempts of genocide that has been committed against them. They seem to only evolve to slightly stronger or smarter variants when purged and often elect the strongest or most intelligent to lead them out of their calamity. Goblin shamans and arcanists are rare and their magic weak when compared to the High Born of the Caliphate but still capable of endless mischief. They occassionally get called upon as minions for darker and more dangerous creatures of the deep undercities or from other reality realms.
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