Reptilian in a stove suit By Imperator-Zor Watch

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This fellow is a sapient reptile in a civilization about as advanced as the Renaissance. He lives on the Southern frontier of his empire, in which for three months every year the temperature usually falls below zero, water freezes and snow falls from the sky. Most of these exothermic people on this southern frontier spend the winter months in hibernation, locked in their cellars. Even so a smattering of individuals remain awake: nobles, scribes, warriors and a few artisans, workers and ranchers who spend the cold months in heavily insulated buildings kept warm with heavy furnaces. Even so, occasionally they need to venture out to defend against wildlife or primitive mammalian tribals smart enough to make use of simple tools and weapons. To prevent them from going into torper in the chill, these reptiles wear Stove Suits. Heavy garments of leather and canvas with small cast iron stoves to produce heat, distributed around the body with canvas tubes. While bulky, they can maintain an internal temperature of 20-30 degrees and allow them to function even when the snow is deep.

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