Post by Admin on Dec 16, 2021 13:29:40 GMT
Animal Masters
The dwarves of Clan Rumblefish practice a long-standing tradition of raising fearsome animals to stand alongside their warriors in battle.
Long before the cataclysm, the clan began to raise unique animal breeds to fight alongside their equally well-trained warrior companions. As the clan spread out from their underground strongholds to build their present cities along the Front Range of the Abbolith Mountains, each city cultivated specific breeds befitting the area.
The northernmost city of Clan Rumblefish, Khag Boldihr raises wolf/worg hybrids that retain the size of the worg but are more open to training as wolves. Gurum’s handlers train large boars bred through generations to be larger and more easily trained than their wild cousins. Rumblefish raises the finest ponies in all of Thirith, strong and far less fearful than normal equines. The southernmost city of Thineldur has cultivated a smaller and more agile breed of pigmy bulls, roughly half the normal size.
Cross training among clans is rare but not unheard of, and those who have learned to train multiple types of animals are highly respected in the trade. Animal masters rarely abandon their home city’s trade in favor of another region’s specialty. Those who do are shunned within the trade. Caldahk was one such animal master who switched specialties when he found a young boar in the forest east of Gurum while visiting to learn their ways.
When the false prophet Gugen Granlin was expelled from Clan Rumblefish in the common year 20, four animal masters, one from each city, were sent after him. Halfdar and his boar Treclus were sent to notify the other clans and to search the Eastern Mountains. Caldahk and his boar Ysgith were sent across the Abbolith Mountains to search the mysterious human lands. Gruum and his wolves Koron, Valoo, and Kaino were sent to north-west to search the realm of the frost giants. Rasha and his pigmy bull Sharad were sent into the Savage Plains.
Caldahk found the long-rumored human city of Coreth, where he fell in with a group of adventurers who had already encountered, and unfortunately killed, Gugen. The whereabouts of the other animal masters remains unknown. The chronicle of Caldahk shall be re-told through the centuries, but that is a story for another time.
The dwarves of Clan Rumblefish practice a long-standing tradition of raising fearsome animals to stand alongside their warriors in battle.
Long before the cataclysm, the clan began to raise unique animal breeds to fight alongside their equally well-trained warrior companions. As the clan spread out from their underground strongholds to build their present cities along the Front Range of the Abbolith Mountains, each city cultivated specific breeds befitting the area.
The northernmost city of Clan Rumblefish, Khag Boldihr raises wolf/worg hybrids that retain the size of the worg but are more open to training as wolves. Gurum’s handlers train large boars bred through generations to be larger and more easily trained than their wild cousins. Rumblefish raises the finest ponies in all of Thirith, strong and far less fearful than normal equines. The southernmost city of Thineldur has cultivated a smaller and more agile breed of pigmy bulls, roughly half the normal size.
Cross training among clans is rare but not unheard of, and those who have learned to train multiple types of animals are highly respected in the trade. Animal masters rarely abandon their home city’s trade in favor of another region’s specialty. Those who do are shunned within the trade. Caldahk was one such animal master who switched specialties when he found a young boar in the forest east of Gurum while visiting to learn their ways.
When the false prophet Gugen Granlin was expelled from Clan Rumblefish in the common year 20, four animal masters, one from each city, were sent after him. Halfdar and his boar Treclus were sent to notify the other clans and to search the Eastern Mountains. Caldahk and his boar Ysgith were sent across the Abbolith Mountains to search the mysterious human lands. Gruum and his wolves Koron, Valoo, and Kaino were sent to north-west to search the realm of the frost giants. Rasha and his pigmy bull Sharad were sent into the Savage Plains.
Caldahk found the long-rumored human city of Coreth, where he fell in with a group of adventurers who had already encountered, and unfortunately killed, Gugen. The whereabouts of the other animal masters remains unknown. The chronicle of Caldahk shall be re-told through the centuries, but that is a story for another time.