Frostgrave Gnolls
The Frostgrave Gnolls box set contains enough parts to make 20 different figures. There are multiple heads, arms, weapons and accoutrements per frame, no two warbands will ever be the same.
Gnolls feature in Into The Breeding Pits as opponents in the scenarios and as random encounters. They should also be used as the soldiers for Warbands of Beastcrafter Wizards.
The plastic figures are 28mm sized, supplied unpainted and require assembly with glue. We recommend you use glue designed for plastic to get the best results.
*After an ancient law banned human fighters from the arenas, the
Beastcrafters
exploited a loophole and created numerous varieties of anthropomorphised
animal
hybrids. While many different species were exploited to this end, rats, dogs,
and
hyenas provided strong, reliable subjects and were amongst the most common
hybrids. After years of Beastcrafter tinkering and manipulation, robust strains
that
drew from these three species were perfected. These gnolls, as these strains
came to
be collectively known, were bred in the thousands in the years before the
cataclysm,
and sold as slaves and gladiators to the arenas and as shock troops to the
armies of
foreign powers. When the great storm struck, several groups of the hardy
gnolls
survived, trapped in isolated colonies deep beneath the city. Over the next
millennium, they multiplied, forming numerous tribes and packs, warring with
each
other in their underground warrens and hunting the great worms.
Today, gnolls form what is easily the most numerous group of living
creatures
inside the Frozen City. Most gnolls will belong to one of the many tribes,
clans, or
packs that claims large areas of the underground as their territories. While
gnolls only
rarely come to the surface, their hunting parties are occasionally encountered
by
explorers in the ruins.
Gnolls possess a low-level human intelligence. They are capable of limited
human
speech and can produce simple tools and weapons, though they prefer to steal
or
loot rather than create. Gnoll warriors include all of the same types found in
human
societies, though those that rely on specialized weapons or heavy armour such
as
knights and marksmen are uncommon.
A few wizards, mostly Beastcrafters, have convinced gnolls to join their
warbands.
While gnolls are naturally distrustful of humans, they can usually be persuaded
if the
price is right.*