Tepies are a race of anthropomorphic moles or platypuses inhabiting the world of Random Kingdom VX. While having bipedal gait, they are clearly animals in all other aspects of their appearance, showing traits belonging to several different clades apparently randomly assembled: they have a duck bill-like mouth and nose, arms shaped like vestigal wings, without discernible hands, and bird-like feet, yet their whole body is covered in fur rather than feathers. Their eyes are small and hardly discernible. They are born not to Tepie parents, but rather grow from the fruits of the Tepie trees, in turn planting more Tepie tree seeds. The odd mixture of biological aspects is not explained in-game, but the introduction explains that they were the result of genetic experiments by a civilization in a