Category:Gnoles

{|cellpadding="5" width="100%" It was the Shadow Lord himself who first unleashed these fearsome wolfmen upon the continent of Quon. Though gnoles are able to speak the common tounge, albeit in broken form, they have no unique customs or culture of their own. Never taking up weaponry, these ferocious beats rely solely upon tooth and claw guided by animalistic savagry to render their enemies into bloody and lifeless heaps. Some have gone so far as to speculate that the gnoles are the former vikings of the northlands, their bodies controlled by dark sorcery.
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General Information

 * System: Beasts
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 * Job: Monk
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Historical Background
The Gnole originates from modern fantasy literature, specifically in the short story “How Nuth Would Have Practiced His Art Upon the Gnoles”, found in the collection of short stories The Book of Wonder (1912) by Lord Dunsany (Edward Plunkett). These creatures were evil, cunning inhumans that were not described in much detail outside of collecting emerald and living in a house of some kind; the art accompanying the work portrayed them as giant apelike creatures. This creature was the inspiration for the Gnoll in Dungeons & Dragons (Gnoll may be a typo of Gnole, initentional or unintentional), which first appeared in Dungeons & Dragons- original edition (1974). These Gnolls were bipedal hyenas that were savage and worn gear made from horn, leather, and metal. This version's name origin was meant to be a merging of gnome & Troll.