Editing Thri-kreen (section)

===In the Forgotten Realms===
Thri-kreen in the [[Forgotten Realms]] occupy the areas generally known as "The Shining South", pursuing an existence as nomads in the Eastern Shaar, the Shining Plains and north of the Lake of Steam, sometimes ranging as far east as the [[The Horde|Hordelands]]. Thri-kreen are also believed to exist in lands beyond the northwestern badlands and deserts of [[Maztica]], leading to the native Azuposi people telling fantastic tales about them - this subsequently inspired their existence as a native race in [[Anchorome]].

The [[Spelljammer]] adventure "Skull & Crossbows" would ultimately reveal that the thri-kreen of Faerun (or at least the Shining South) are the degenerate descendants of a former spelljamming thri-kreen empire, who reverted to barbarism after being stranded on Toril.

Thri-kreen of Athas specifically states that the Shaaran thri-kreen are essentially a native variant of the T'keech, but with a sandy-yellow and brown-striped coloration and a lowered chance of [[psionics|wild talents]] (from 50% to 30%). [[Anchorome]] is called out as another potential home of thri-kreen, and [[Al-Qadim|Zakhara]] is said to be home to both thri-kreen and [[trin]].

====In Anchorome====
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When the same madlads who updated [[Maztica]] to 5e decided to flesh out the hitherto untouched neighboring sub-setting of [[Anchorome]], they had to turn their attention to one of the races mentioned alongside that setting's existence. Whereas the thri-kreen of the Shaar may be stranded spelljammers, those of Anchorome arrived via portal in the distant past, transported from a world all but stated to be [[Dark Sun|Athas]] to a patch of territory formerly occupied by first the Batrachi and then the Aeree towards the climax of the Dragonfall War. Unpleased by this sudden shift in environment, they have dug in and made it their own as best they can, despite occasional clashes with the humanoids of Anchorome, and in particular successive waves of insectile invaders in the forms of the [[Abeil]] and the [[Baraca]]. For this reason, the realm these three bugfolk races collectively inhabit is known as "The Land of the Insect Men" to the humans of Anchorome and Maztica.

In fact, the arrival of the thri-kreen was caused by a combination of a splintered fragment of the god [[Jergal]], which had rebelled against his stepping down from godhood and giving up his throne to [[Bhaal]], [[Bane]] and [[Myrkul]], and the [[Spellweaver]]s - this fragment had possessed a mighty spellweaver lord named Al'Akar, and sought to exploit the spellweaver plan to reverse time in order to regain his divinity. But this plan centered around the need to find a lost gemstone artifact from the time before time, and for that, he needed laborers to dig into the depths of the earth to find it. With a single mighty psychic command, he has shaped the culture of the tohr-kreen, setting them to dig and dig until he finds what he needs.

As on Athas, the thri-kreen of Anchorome come in a number of subraces - some similar to their Athasian kin, others unique. Collectively, they are known as "Mantis-Folk".

'''Thri-kreen''', or "nomadic kreen", are the most common subrace. These kreen, as their name implies, pursue a nomadic hunter-forager existence and are basically identical to the "standard" 5e thri-kreen, save for a more advanced language that has changed very little (if any) from their homeworld.

'''Tohr-kreen''', or "settled kreen", are kreen who have fully embraced the call of the Great Dig and have settled into permanent hive-cities, mostly concentrated in the holy land of Yistl'cha, where they are digging down towards the batrachi city as Al'Akar commanded. These are sometimes known as the ''"Gigantea"'' subrace, being notably larger and stronger than their thri-kreen cousins. Rather than the traditional dasl, they favor gear crafted from the strange crystals they have dug up underneath Yistl'cha.

'''Zik-chil''' are a subspecies of small, pale-green mantis-folk who are immune to the psychic compulsion of the Great Dig and, in fact, are mostly united in standing against it, believing that whatever entity issued the command does ''not'' have the kreen race's best interests at heart. They are masters of [[psionics]], especially the art of [[fleshcrafting|[psychometabolism and body alteration]], and have secretly been sabotaging the Great Dig for generations.

'''Apleurus''' are the least common of the kreen subraces of Anchorome; a single pack that has, somehow, developed the ability to shapeshift into a mass of living sand and back again. Reclusive and xenophobic to the point they distrust even other kreen, they inhabit the most barren regions of the Land of Insects, and have used their powers to steal the secret of glassteel from the [[aarakocra]].

'''Smaragtin''' are a species of ''amphibious'' kreen, bio-engineered by the zik-chil from common tohr- and thri-kreen origins to cull dangerous predators from the waterways. The experiment was a huge success, and these semi-aquatic mantis-folk are now true-breeding and even forging their own fledgling civilization.

'''Ulyssies''' are another zik-chil engineered subspecies, created specifically to inhabit mountain forests. Marked by their incredible leaping abilities, they were bred as scouts and advance warriors to conquer new territory, in the form of a mountain range that borders the southwestern corner of kreen territory in Anchorome.