I will escort these men back to safety. I will not allow any more harm to come to them by the hands of the Carrion King. He says flatly.
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The gnolls run off laughing. Naziri does some ranger type stuff around camp and finds some unusual tracks. Look here. These tracks look as if they were made by large scorpions but the indention's are much too deep. If these tracks were made by scorpions then they are of a type I have never seen before. These creatures would be very heavy for an insect. More like the weight of a man. The tracks all lead toward the Pale Mountain.
Naziri comes to you with a grim look on his face. There is a large gathering of the Al’Chorhaiv tribe of gnolls ahead. This is disturbing the Al’Chorhaiv are not normally seen this close to the pale mountain. Even more disturbing I do not see the characteristic swarms of scorpions that normally accompany them.
It seemed to me he wants us to kill the Carrion King for his own purposes. I for one look forward to locking blades with this king of the Gnolls.
From his constant hunting for the past year Naziri divulges the following information. Even before he claimed the House of the Beast as his lair, Ghartok 'The Carrion King' was a legend among the gnoll tribes of Pale Mountain. His disdain for the traditional gnoll goddess Lamashtu was well known—he had long told his packmates that there were better gods deep in the earth. Gods who were not soft and fragile like pregnant b@@++es— gods that deserved only the strongest and most potent of what the gnoll race had to offer. The gnolls also held the ruins on the north face of Pale Mountain in supernatural fear, but when Ghartok led a group of hand-picked gnolls into the ruins and emerged alone, victorious, armed with a powerful magic axe and nearly twice the size physically as he had been when he’d entered the ruins, his power only grew. As did his fame.
Naziri spends most of his year hunting Gnolls with Gandrik and some other young and up coming rangers. They almost completely wipe out the Three Jaws Gnolls as a result. Almah awards his service with 250 gold a month or 3K gold total. |