Kerabin

The Kerabin are large, quadrupedal, beetle-like humanoids. They hail from a dangerous, lower strata that holds few resources. Unfortunately it is the only strata that has the kind of cavernous conditions that will sustain their eggs. So, in general, their situation has forced a utilitarian sensibility about things. In particular, they are willing to collect and use the trash and scraps that people from more enriched strata throw away.

Naturally this - in combination with their size, strength, and inability to use magic - has led to the general perception that they are simply dumb muscle. And many that decide not to stay in their home strata are employed as bouncers, bodyguards, and the like. Since not many are willing to venture deep enough to see how the Kerabin actually live, it is a perception that tends to go unchallenged.

Culturally, the Kerabin are divided. Since they are raised communally, they tend to have a strong sense of obligation to their peers. Thus, those that choose to spend their lives below tending eggs and collecting scrap from the higher strata view their more adventurous counterparts as selfish and aloof. While those that choose to live among the other races contend that what the others are doing isn’t living but mere survival.