[D&D/backstory talk] When you've made a character weeks ago and upon some research realize you've now got a character that's probably considered a dangerous heretic by his people.

This is about Skir, my new Lizardfolk Artificier.

So upon doing some research into Lizardfolk it turns out that their technology level is so low because they actively despise and shun intelligence.

This is because most Lizardfolk worship the god Semuanya who represents instinct and decisiveness over Kecuala, their god of reason and intellect. Mostly because their stories talk about how Kecuala thought too much to act and ended up causing all kinds of problems.

As such the average intelligence of a lizardfolk is 7. A really intelligent leader might have an intelligence of 10 to 12. Skir has an intelligence of 20

Now in his backstory he became an Artificer because he collected the schemas and writings of a human adventurer his tribe had captured and eaten and started applying them.

I didn't realize at the time that he'd be spitting on the core ideals of the Lizardfolk religion by doing so

So not only am I realizing he was probably thrown out of his tribe for being too smart but he's probably being actively hunted under the orders of the various shamans and warlocks dedicated to Semuanya for fear of him ending up spreading Kecuala's teachings.

Naturally I'm now leaning all the way into this and even marked Kecuala as his preferred deity.