Born a Buddhist Die a Toady

A Brief Discourse on Toadies and the Jakz Species

There are countless ever evolving catchphrases used among the Jakz people. One relatively old saying that’s managed to stick around: Born a Buddhist die a Toady, basically sums up religion for the entire species.

The Jakz are amphibians with short lifespans. They’re born, have a limited unsupervised childhood, party way too much, breed like crazy, and die young. Their whole society is based around youth culture. They are basically fashion obsessed meter tall walking talking utterly social fun loving tree frogs. If you want to know what’s cool and trendy in the galaxy ask a Jakz.

For the last thousand generations, the species have been into a stylishly chic and somewhat half-assed version of galactic Buddhism. There hasn’t been an egg sack spawned on Jakz or abroad that wasn’t Buddhist by the time they were tadpoles. But within the next 10–15 years of their lifespan they all, without fail, come back to their roots and the Church of the Almighty Toad King. Deathbed conversions are often the case. These short-lived galactically advanced beings aren’t going to wait around to be reincarnated a bunch of times just to reach nirvana when they can convert and go straight into the Multiverse.