Blight Gnolls

Blight Gnolls

Design and concept by Min, written by Shin

Size: 7'-8'

Weight: 200-400 lbs

Strength: Above average

Agility: Average

Health: Very good

Intelligence: Average

Willpower: Average

Skills: Varies greatly, though alchemy is a common practice

Gnolls are a relatively common species of hyena-like humanoids, known for their primitive and violent culture. Most of them aren't particularly relevant to this archive, with one very notable exception, known as blight gnolls.

Whereas most gnolls favor plains, blight gnoll settlements are found almost exclusively in swampland. While their form is indeed that of an anthropomorphic hyena, they're easily distinguished from their more common kin at a glance. Their fur is a pale green-grey, their eyes glow green, and their otherwise lanky figure is broken by their distended, swollen gut.

Said gut is filled with a bright green ichor. Produced in excess, this ichor is spewed out by the gnolls every few hours. This ichor, called blight ichor, has simple, but effective alchemical uses, increasing the duration and potency of nearly any potion it's mixed into. This benefit, combined with the ichor's ease of production, would revolutionize alchemy entirely were it not for an insidious side-effect: long-term use of blight-infused potions slowly transforms the imbiber into a blight gnoll themselves. While the transformation caused any single dose are easily overlooked, they are permanent, and once they're about half-transformed, they begin producing blight ichor within their own body. At this point, there's no practical way of preventing full transformation, though transformees tend to retain some subtle hint of what they used to be.

While not as violent as the common gnoll, blight gnolls aren't inherently peaceful or benign, either, and different tribes encourage different behaviors. While they're often open to outsiders, it's not unheard of for these gnolls to spike a visitor's food or drink with their bile.