Tepol

Tepol is a small farming village located off the south-eastern shore of Aztlan. It enjoys a semi-tropical climate and fairly mild weather, as well as proximity to the College of Biogenesis.
For the last fourty years the village has been tasked by the college to do one thing and one thing only: Breed Silly Snakey Salamander Fiends™ for commercial sale.
The creatures start life as mere eggs and are easy to care for. They simply need fresh water, sunlight, and room to grow. Once they hatch and reach an age of 1 year they will have grown to about seven inches in length and have matured enough to be shipped off to a pet store somewhere in the world.
While this may sound like an easy job tens of thousands of these tiny, wet skinned animals must be raised every day to meet the world’s salamander-based needs. It keeps the whole village of Tepol busy all through Spring, the season in which the animals are hatched and grow. Come Summer they are sent off to be adopted by families all over the globe.
Naturally this is a lucrative business for the College of Biogenesis and helps fund much of its own private research, but the town benefits greatly from the arrangement too. Because they are raising an exotic animal the wealth the work brings back to the farmers is substantial, allowing for the town to maintain itself and the people to enjoy an above average life style with fairly minimal hard manual labor beyond moving barrels of salamander feed around and filtering the water these little guys live in.
The males get sold as pets while the females are left by the village for breeding purposes. Every female can be expected to lay hundreds of eggs in her lifetime resulting in massive numbers of everyone’s favorite snakey salamander friends every year.

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Village