Karameikos - Vaults of Pandius

The Rise of Dhrom DhumDhrom Dhumspeaks:I am Dhrom Dhum, shaman of Hela. I speak to all the humanoids inTra Gar and to all the humanoids in the world. I had a vision from mygoddess. I saw many wolves scattered around a big forest. Hunterscame to kill them. Many hunters with long bows. They came and killedthe wolves, because every wolf was alone. The hunters killed the bigwolves then, laughing, they killed the whelps. And I knew the wolveswere us. Killed by our enemies, the humans, one by one, tribe by tribe,because we were scattered in the world like the wolves of my visionwere in the forest. I speak to goblins and kobolds, to trolls, orcs andogres, to gnolls and bugbears. Our enemies will kill us all. Our enemiesare not the elves. Our enemies are not the giants, not the dwarves, norgnomes or halflings. Our enemies are the humans. They are asnumberless as lice, and they breed like rats, stealing our lands andkilling us all. They enter our caves and kill warriors and females andwhelps. They search for us in the forest, ten one day, a hundred the nextday, a thousand the next day. They search for us in the tallest andloneliest mountain and come to kill us. They want to steal the land ofall the other races, and they will kill us all. We have to forget hatredbetween tribes. We have to forget enmity with elves and dwarves.Humans have forced elves to hide in the forest, dwarves to hide in themountains. Many moons ago we were numberless, and here in theworld there were only us and the elves and the dwarves and halflingsand giants. Then humans came, and easily defeated us all, because wewere fighting each other. Now there are humans everywhere, and theyspread in the world like a pestilence. Their cities are bigger every moon,and every moon they want more land.They want all the world, and they will kill us all.THE NIGHTSTALKERSLed by the visionary shaman Dhrom Dhum(Goblin 7/Shaman 6), the Nightstalkers are atypical Goblin tribe, worshippers of Wogar,but also of Hel; the chief himself is a shamanof this northern Immortal.Dhrom Dhum controls five hordes of goblinwolfriders in the area between Highforge andPenhaligon, north of the Faz-Plak territory.The shaman has a powerful vision of aunited Goblinoid nation, and is trying tobring the northern tribes and those of theDymrak to his side, but he is opposed by theWitches of Dymrak and, indirectly, by thegreen dragon Argos.The Nightstalkers favour the use of handaxes, maces and short bows. They use greygreencloaks and their shamans carry wardrums in battle.120THRESHOLD: The Mystara Magazine Issue #1