Those two were. No doubt others are like the Mandrill guy in Chris Gidlow's and your imagination. Maybe all the Anubises are serious and the Mandrills more fun-loving?
Here's everything else I know about baboons, collected from various larger pieces I've written:
MONKEY RUINS covers a vast expanse, but much of it is covered by blown sand and dust. In depressions in the earth, plants have grown up to hold down the dirt. Elsewhere, blown soil periodically covers and uncovers weird and alien ruins. Surviving building materials include marble, granite, obsidian, and sandstone. Sometimes, visitors find unrecognizable building stone. Nomads still search buildings when the wind has uncovered a seemingly-intact structure. Increasingly rare finds of metal make the time taken worthwhile. The nomads also put some other artifacts found to use. They have found pretty rocks, carved stones, preserved wood, clay pots, and bones. They ignore the murals and mosaics of regal and civilized baboons, and the baboon-shaped masks.
The baboon clans come here on pilgrimages, to worship their ancestors and relive their ancient glory. Sometimes during Sacred Time pilgrimages, the ruins spring to life and masked, spectral baboons move about doing incomprehensible things.
The nomads never dig there, but allowed a free-spending Lhankor Mhy group to dig there some time ago. They were tightlipped, like all of their cult, so no one knows what they found.
On levels of conflict:
Baboons fight for dominance with all forms of unarmed combat.
Baboons are one of the rare peoples who often duel with magic.
Baboon language:
This is a highly modified form of the hoots and cries of
unintelligent normal-sized baboons. Emphasis is indicated by
volume and repetition.
On pilgrimage:
Baboons go to the Monkey Ruins. On one night in Sacred Time, they hold frenzied dances with the spirits. They also have some less sacred sites in Prax and the Wastes (Cults of Prax describes one). In general, their rites resemble those of other ancestor worshipers.
Baboon Personality Characteristics (on 0-20 scale)
Trait Roll Opposite (20-n)
- ----- ---- ---------------
Chaste 2D6 Lustful
Energetic 3D6 Lazy
Forgiving 3D6 Vengeful
Generous 2D6+6 Selfish
Honest 2D6 Deceitful
Just 2D6 Arbitrary
Merciful 2D6 Cruel
Modest 2D6 Proud
Pious 2D6+7 Worldly
Prudent 2D6+4 Reckless
Temperate 2D6 Indulgent
Trusting 3D6 Suspicious
Valorous 2D6+6 (male) Cowardly
2D6 (female)
Honorable n/a
Directed Traits: Suspicious and Vengeful (only-men) +2D6
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