"I have scoured the coasts of three continents, yet in all my years of roaming I have never fought anything like the cold-blooded men of Lustria. Their main troops, large bipedal man-lizards, are seemingly immune to pain, fighting on long after foes with any sense would have fled. Time and again I have seen them fight to the last, pausing only to tug crossbow bolts from their thick hides. Even in death I have seen these creatures attack, in one case a severed head continued snapping at us for three full days, and in another, the jaw, once clamped onto flesh, could not again be pried opened, but had to be cutaway from the victim - a process none could survive. - The smaller, smooth-skinned creatures are less hardy, but are no less dangerous. Like little darting lizards, they speed in and out of cover, and their use of poison-tipped weapons has ensured that any that are captured suffer painful death. Worse still, at times the smaller race fights alongside Troll-sized reptile-men, hulking beasts that can tear a man in two. With their two-handed mauls I am sure such beasts could stove in the side of a ship within a few blows. But it is the larger creatures I fear the most - enormous reptiles the size of Giants, ravenous monsters that broke our battle lines and reduced many of our ships to kindling. Now that I have seen Lustria with my own eyes I believe the tales are true - both of the gold that can be pried out of every ruin, and also of the denizens of that cursed land. Lizardmen, savage in deed and heart. It matters not the price, I will not return to those forsaken jungles again."
- —From the logbook of Vincenzo Corenzo, Mercenary Capitano out of Tilea.[1a]
"The observations in Corenzo’s logbook suggest the coatl is a beast of some intelligence, wondrous and ancient — a mystery even to the lizard-folk themselves."
- —High Priestess Stalmetz of Carroburg[2a]
Vincenzo Corenzo is a mercenary captain from Tilea renown for his knowledge about the Lizardmen of Lustria.[1a]
He visited Lustria attracted by the rumors and promises of gold. But Corenzo also met the Lizardmen and wrote about the different races and their terrible skills in combat in his logbook.[1a]