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of adventuring party. At best, a gnoll adventurer is willing to go along with good-intentioned comrades, provided he’s paid well for his services and given the respect he feels his prowess deserves. Gnoll Racial Traits Gnolls have the following abilities and characteristics. • +4 Strength, +2 Constitution, –2 Intelligence, –2 Charisma: Gnolls are tough and strong, but are not especially bright or personable. • Medium-size. • Land speed 30 feet. • Darkvision: Gnolls can see in the dark up to 60 feet. • Racial Hit Dice: A gnoll begins with two levels of humanoid. This provides 2d8 Hit Dice, a base attack bonus of +1, and base saving throws of Fort +3, Ref +0, and Will +0. • Racial Skills: A gnoll character’s humanoid levels give him skill points equal to 5 × (2 + Intelligence modifier). Gnoll class skills are Listen and Spot. • Racial Feats: A gnoll’s humanoid levels give him one feat. • Natural Armor: +1 natural armor bonus. • Weapon Familiarity: Gnolls treat battleaxes and shortbows as simple weapons. No gnoll grows to adulthood without learning something about fighting. • Automatic Languages: Common, Gnoll. Bonus Languages: By region. • Level Adjustment: +1. A gnoll has an effective character level (ECL) of 3 plus class levels, so a 1st-level gnoll ranger would have an ECL of 4. See the Powerful Races sidebar. • Favored Class: Ranger. A multiclassed gnoll’s racial Hit Dice and ranger class do not count when determining whether he suffers an XP penalty. Hagspawn Sons of malicious, predatory mothers, hagspawn are not a complete race, as there are no females of their kind. Hags continue their awful lineage by taking human males for mates, usually murdering and devouring the hapless captive later. The female children of a hag quickly grow into hags like their mothers, but the male children are hagspawn, half-human outcasts. Feared and hated by normal humans, hagspawn must make their way in the world by dint of their strength, hardiness, and sheer determination. Hagspawn are found in any land but are especially common where many hags dwell—Rashemen, for example. Personality: All too often, hagspawn are filled with the malice, violence, and resentment of their monstrous parent. They are quick to take offense and view even the most innocent remark as a hidden slight. People regard them as illtempered monsters, and many hagspawn perpetuate distrust of their kind by behaving exactly as expected. They look out for themselves first and regard companions as temporary RACES OF THE EAST 12 allies to be discarded when convenient. Unlike many other evil-natured creatures, though, hagspawn are capable of working furiously to achieve a desired end and do not shy away from physical hardship or danger if the reward seems worth the risk. Many hagspawn overcome their evil tendencies and strive to get along as best they can in human society, enduring the suspicions of their neighbors while proving themselves through their actions. Stoic and uncomplaining, a hagspawn of this sort can be a great force against evil. Physical Description: Hagspawn are tall and powerfully built, with long arms, big hands, and a hunched posture. Their black hair is long and lank, and their eyes gleam red with malice. Their faces are heavy-featured and coarse, and their skin color often hints at their mother’s subrace—pallid blue for the sons of annises, sickly green for a green hag’s spawn, and so on. In lands where hags are scarce, a hagspawn might pass for a loutish and ill-favored human, but the folk of the East know them all too well. Relations: Hagspawn don’t get along well with anybody, although they have a certain sympathy for half-orcs and tieflings. Dwarves, elves, halflings, and other civilized nonhumans generally judge a hagspawn based on his deeds, but not so humans. In Rashemen, hagspawn are infamous for their evil tempers, violent natures, and depraved crimes, and they can expect no welcome in a Rashemi village. A few individuals have overcome this social stigma by proving themselves loyal and true, but most hagspawn either leave Rashemen or die bitter and young, having finally done something awful enough to rouse their neighbors against them. Alignment: A typical hagspawn is a malefactor through and through. Those who conquer their violent heritage don’t fit in with very lawful societies but do best where an individual is judged on his own merits. Religion: Hagspawn most often adopt a faith that appeals to the lonely, embittered, and vengeful. Bane, Shar, and Cyric are common patron deities, although the elemental fury of Talos and the battle skill of Tempus also speak to the hagspawn’s violent nature. Good hagspawn most often worship the deity of whatever community they eventually find a home in. Language: Hagspawn speak Common, Giant, and the human language of their native region (usually Rashemi). Bonus languages depend on their home region. Names: Hagspawn usually take simple human names for themselves in the language of their home region. In Rashemen, these include Bor, Dor, Josel, Kurg, Sergel, and Vladir. Some claim their father’s surname, while others who do not care to hide their heritage call themselves “Hagson,” or use their monstrous mother’s name. Adventurers: In one sense, almost all hagspawn are adventurers, with dim prospects for staying at home and living as normal members of a human community. Many are wandering brigands, thugs, and sellswords, never staying too long in any one spot lest their neighbors blame them for some crime or misfortune. Hagspawn make good fighters and rogues and are well suited to a life of violence and robbery.
Hagspawn Racial Traits Hagspawn have the following abilities and characteristics. • +2 Strength, +2 Constitution, –2 Charisma: Hagspawn are strong and hardy, but are sullen and ill-tempered. • Medium-size. • Land speed 30 feet. • Monstrous Humanoid: Hagspawn are not subject to spells or effects that affect only humanoids, such as charm person or dominate person. • Darkvision: Hagspawn can see in the dark up to 60 feet. • Natural Armor: +2 natural armor bonus. • Spell resistance of 11 + character level. • Automatic Languages: Common, Giant. Bonus Languages: By character region. • Level Adjustment: +2. A hagspawn has an effective character level (ECL) of 2 plus class levels, so a 1st-level hagspawn barbarian would have an ECL of 3. See the Powerful Races sidebar. • Favored Class: Barbarian. A multiclassed hagspawn’s barbarian class does not count when determining whether he suffers an XP penalty. Spirit Folk Spirit folk are the descendants of humans and various spirits of nature. They are not common in any land but are found most often in and around Rashemen, a land renowned for its guardian spirits. A small number of spirit folk can also be found in Thesk, among Shou immigrants from distant Kara- Tur. The spirit folk of the Unapproachable East belong to two distinct branches—mountain spirits and river spirits. Personality: Spirit folk tend to be serene, attuned to their surroundings and at peace with the world. Their ancestry gives them an awareness of the spirit world, but they have little desire to manipulate that world through magic. They manifest a love and enjoyment of life that many humans envy. Physical Description: Spirit folk look human, although they are fine-featured, with small mouths, thin eyebrows, and pale or golden complexions. They have no facial or body hair, but the hair on their heads is thick and luxurious. They appear in all the diversity that humans display, although most spirit folk in the East show Rashemi features and coloring. Many are strikingly beautiful. Relations: Spirit folk typically live as part of human society, although they rarely remain in any one village or town for more than a single human generation. Spirit folk prefer to blend in with the surrounding population, acknowledging human rulers and making their way through life as any fullblooded human would. Their neighbors don’t realize how different the spirit folk truly are and regard them as “wise ones” who understand things most people do not perceive. Spirit folk get along well with elves and fey creatures of all sorts, as well as the spirits of Rashemen. RACES OF THE EAST 13 Alignment: Perhaps because of their strong ties to the natural world, spirit folk seek a benevolent balance between extremes. They tend toward neutral good alignment. Religion: Spirit folk share the religious habits of their human neighbors. In Rashemen, they often venerate Silvanus, Mielikki, and Selûne. Language: Spirit folk speak Common, Sylvan, and the local human language of their native region—usually Rashemi, but sometimes Shou or Tuigan. Names: Spirit folk of Rashemi descent usually have Rashemi names. Male: Andar, Chevik, Daumar, Hladislak, Ilvik, Olek, Pergaur. Female: Ayvarra, Belmith, Emmezel, Gevarra, Iseldra, Karra, Ranya. Surnames: Antonin, Fyodorin, Gudenny, Kerska, Molotva. Adventurers: Some spirit folk more acutely feel their differences from their human neighbors and take up the life of an adventurer to find their way. More rarely, sheer wanderlust impels spirit folk to explore the world and experience its natural beauty. Regions: Most of the spirit folk found in the Unapproachable East are native to Rashemen or Thesk and choose the appropriate region. The Shou region is also appropriate for spirit folk immigrants from Kara-Tur. Mountain Spirit Folk Racial Traits Mountain spirit folk have the following abilities and characteristics. • Medium-size. • Land speed 30 feet. • Mountain spirit folk have a base climb speed of 30 feet. They gain a +8 racial bonus on all Climb checks. The mountain spirit folk must make a Climb check to climb a wall or slope with a DC of more than 0 but can always choose to take 10, even if rushed or threatened while climbing. A mountain spirit folk who chooses an accelerated climb moves at double the listed climb speed and makes a single Climb check at a –5 penalty. Mountain spirit folk cannot use the run action while climbing. They retain their Dexterity bonus to Armor Class (if any) while climbing, and opponents get no special bonus to their attacks against climbing mountain spirit folk. • Low-Light Vision: Spirit folk can see twice as far as humans in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of poor illumination. They retain the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions. • +2 racial bonus on Balance, Jump, and Tumble checks. Mountain spirit folk are at home on steep slopes and sheer pinnacles that would terrify most humans. • Once per day, a mountain spirit folk can use speak with animals to speak with any bird. This ability is innate to mountain spirit folk. It has a duration of 1 minute (the spirit folk is considered a 1st-level caster when using this
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Dread Warrior Dread Warrior Human W
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MONSTERS OF THE EAST Shrieking Hag
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Hagspawn have the following abiliti
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divide at the end into stubby, stro
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work normally. Orglashes can be rai
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Spirit folk are the descendants of
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• +4 Strength, +2 Constitution, -
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Thomil A thomil is an animate piece
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COMBAT A fell troll’s tactics are
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Skills: Bluff +9, Diplomacy +5, Dis
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Artifacts of terrible power lie ent
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A Shadowmaster at work ADVENTURING
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Dungeons in the Unapproachable East
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that are stopped or camped normally
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16-17 14-15 Blooded one (UE) 1d3+1
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TABLE 7-9: LAKE ASHANE (COLD RIVER/
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TABLE 7-15: UMBER MARSHES (TEMPERAT
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Major Geographic Features From its
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The Fang The Fang is the part of th
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The Wizards’ Reach is not part of
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with the half-elves left for the we
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History of Aglarond The past of Agl
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Government “Loose” is a generou
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(47); Militia: War1 (241), Com1 (65
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NOTABLE BUSINESSES There are two ex
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inflamed the anger of the society
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Major Geographic Features The two d
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A ghost of the Great Barrow THE GRE
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the Dalesfolk and shield them from
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While the Dalesfolk don’t like ou
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-970 The Nentyarch of Tharos builds
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the only other settlements that mig
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Mettledale and Spearsmouth Dale Alo
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Foreigners view Rashemen as a myste
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with earthquakes, freakish storms,
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wealth. The water is glacial runoff
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others believe it is a gift from th
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People of Rashemen The people of Ra
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and are the face of the Rashemi peo
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THE VREMYONNI While the wychlaran s
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Rashemen’s forces except the Witc
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efore reaching the keep, and the go
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Mulsantir (LARGE TOWN) At Mulsantir
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Best known for the crimson-robed Re
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more than 17,000 feet high. In the
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Thayan bombards (see Chapter 5: Mag
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into the rock, highlighting the dif
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those on foot. As well, the lands a
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Tyraturos The tharch of Tyraturos i
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nobles, and his sergeants are Rashe
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The most successful soldier-breedin
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The zulkirs appoint tharchions, or
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Aglarondan spy who keeps an eye on
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too juicy a target for the Shadowma
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This has built up some resentment o
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Thesk is most famous for the Golden
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potential to be the most fertile la
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slaves of the Tuigan Horde or refug
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disciplined mercenary companies. Th
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Today, the Shadowmasters control or
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on supplies. Orc miners take over P
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his prodigious fortune and business
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hands just outside its walls. The 3
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The Wizards’ Reach Between the Th
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sinister past, concerned as they ar
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An Unapproachable East FORGOTTEN RE
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