[h3]Gutterfolk[/h3]

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[sub][i]Figure: Two Gutterfolk trying on various clothes.[/i][/sub][/center]
Gutterfolk are small, genderless, humanoid creatures that reside in nearly any environment with sufficient trash, refuse, or similar elements. They are non-aggressive, energetic beings with a strange affinity for collecting manmade clothes and wearing them at all times. Gutterfolk are believed to have first originated as a result of a Ruse - or collective of multiple Ruse - condemning an entire village into a massive sinkhole, burying its inhabitants beneath the heaps of garbage that had accumulated there. Following thus, Gutterfolk began to emerge from the trash heap and spread about the land. Nowadays, people mostly consider them to be a nuisance equatable to rats, only larger. On rare occasions, however, they are kept as companions/pets.

Gutterfolk breed similarly to insects and fowl, occasionally laying what appear to be separated egg sacks in secure piles of refuse, to be fertilized later by another specimen (imagine a water balloon with a fetus in it). They will produce anywhere around a dozen or two dozen offspring at a time, and it is common for mercenaries and exterminators to be hired to clear out nests before they can become overpopulated with Gutterfolk.