Bowkrak

Bowkrak Goblins
Category Hills
Continent Brucrumus
Region Grashakh
Map Mirtheon

Bowkrak is a hilly expanse extending northeastward from the Bileddanul Mountains to the southernmost periphery of the expansive Ugradrath mountain range.

The most distinctive feature of Bowkrak is its moss-green stones. These stones are scattered in piles, alone, buried, and along the banks of swamps and waterways. They are decidedly unusual in this region, having arrived during the Demon Spawn War when the demons attempted to shift an entire city from an Abyssal world to Bal-Kriav. This bold endeavor by the demon lord Ahnuthall, to transport a whole city from one distant realm to another, was an utter failure.

The rift he opened beneath the city was discovered prematurely by the weave spiders. They instinctively plunged their magic-draining mandibles into the rift's borders, dismantling it. The rift's subsequent implosion devastated an entire city and nearly all of its inhabitants.

Arcana documented some observations regarding this incident and postulated that certain phenomena may simply be too massive to traverse a rift. She asserted that the rate of movement through a rift correlates with an object's mass, with something as substantial as a city theoretically requiring up to a day to fully transition, whereas a human-sized entity would necessitate merely half a minute. This sluggish passage engenders heightened magical vibrations, consequently summoning weave spiders to fulfill their sole purpose of safeguarding The Weave.

Bowkrak's distinctive stones possess no exceptional qualities beyond their hardness. Many were employed in the construction of the city Argruxiel; this may appear a significant quantity, yet estimates of the demon city's destruction, with its debris strewn across Bowkrak, suggest it was nearly five times the size of the current city.

The goblins are the most numerous people in Bowkrak. Numbering in the hundreds of thousands, most are descendants of an army that once served under Maglubiyet during the Demon Spawn War. This army was nearly annihilated in the bogs of Droonesh when it found itself caught between two demon armies, one serving Demogorgon and the other serving Baphomet. The three armies turned on each other, with Maglubiyet's forces caught in the middle and taking the brunt of the attack. The demon armies then wiped each other out, retreating in the direction they had come. The remnants of Maglubiyet's army remained in the general area, with the trolls settling in Droonesh and the goblins taking to Hangath and Bowkrak. The goblins of the region are renowned for their mastery of missile weapons while mounted on dire wolves. They also field heavier cavalry units employing dire cave bears and giant sloths, though not together as the latter is the prey of the former. These powerful tribes have resisted the efforts of the Orchish Empire to bring them under its sway. When they do decide to assist the Orchish Empire, they join as mercenary elements.

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