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Fes'tering Hag -

These hideous, rotting corpses of female wizards are surprisingly
effective spellcasters. They love to lure single party members away
from a group and kill them individually.
Festering hags seem simple enough: half-rotted undead who
continue to practice magic in unlife. Their true story is more
dangerous and tragic. These hags are created by avatars and
powerful agents of Bertoxxulous to punish wizards, arcane
spellcasters who have spumed the art of necromancy. These
agents of the Plaguebringer lurk onan Outer Plane waiting for the
spirits of dead wizards to arrive. When they do, festering hags seize
the spirit, contort it, and force it back into the dead body. No one is sure why only female wizards are targeted for this purpose - or
if anyone does know, they are not telling.
Understandably, the return from the dead is not joyous. All
good is removed from the wizards' spirits in their ethereal contortion.
Then they are trapped in an animated, decaying body. Only
the act of working magic can renew the body, and the body
requires increasingly greater amounts of mana to sustain it. The
only way for these wizards to increase their magic supply and delay
the decay of their bodies is to kill wizards who are less effective
than the hag was in life. Harvesting new wizards, however, attracts attention from more
powerful wizards, who wonder what happens to their apprentices.
Instead, a festering hag uses divination magic to locate wizards
who are only slightly less powerful than she. Once locating a likely
target, the hag chooses an environment full of creatures that are
powerful- but notably less powerful than itself -- and manipulates
the wizard to "adventure" in that territory. It waits until the
wizard is meditating, and then attacks. Thus, the festering hag can
be assured of an easy victory over her target and any companions
the target brought with him or her.
When discovered before it can launch its ambush, a ,festering
hag allows itself to appear weaker and less powerful than it truly
is, sometimes even playing on the wizard's pity by telling him or
her the true story of how it came to be in such a state. Once a
festering hag has the measure of its target's prowess, it then
reveal the true nature of its powers, striking with sudden
fury.



Froglok -

Frogloks are a reclusive race of froglike, humanoid creatures
that inhabit Norrath's swamps and underground abodes. They
generally prefer to be left alone, but it is not unheard of for them
to trade with some of Norrath's races. Since ogres and trol1s feast
on smal1frogloks from a young age, however, frogloks will either
attack or flee from those races on sight, unless an individual ogre
or trol1has somehow proven itself friendly.
In addition to dozens of scattered tribes throughout Norrath,
froglokshave two large kingdoms on the known continents. The
Kingdom of Guk lies in southern Antonica, near Innothule
Swamp.The froglok nobility of Guk lead their kingdom through
several dire threats. The trol1s of Grobb pose a constant danger to
Guk, but the more dangerous enemy lies far below the surface. In
the deepest caverns of Guk, legions of frogloks have been cursed
with a form of ghoulish undeath. The lower reaches of Guk often
clamor with battles between the living frogloks and their undead
brethren, who seek to claim al1 of Guk as their own.
Froglok nobility carries a confusing array of titles, which are
generally earned through one's ability rather than through heredity
(although, as with al1 societies, some frogloks of inferior
prowessare promoted for political reasons). In ascending order of
importance, these titles include T uk, Gaz, Ton, Vis, Shin, Shinta,
Tal, Nokta, Tonta, Tsu, Tal, Urd, Dar, Wan, Kor, Yun, Zol, and
finally Guk for those nobles who receive orders directly from the
King. Outsiders who seek to deal with frogloks are best served to
recognizethese stations to avoid breaches of diplomatic etiquette.
The other major froglok kingdom lies below the ruined iksar
cityofSebilis in southern Kunark. Here, the frogloks are beholden
to Trakanon, their great dragon ruler. The frogloks of Sebilis are
more aggressive than their Antonican kin, sal1ying forth in great
numbers to expand their empire throughout Trakanon's Teeth,
into the Swamp ofNo Hope, and even to the very wal1sof the iksar cityofCabilisand the high elfoutpost of Fironia Vie. Thefrogloks
ofSebilis are awarded noble titles similar to their kin in Guk, with
the addition of such higher titles as Bok, Jin, Krup, His, and (the
highest station) Reet, for those powerful ones who hold audience
with Trakanon himself.


Shin Froglok
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Most frogloks who reach the title of Shin have proven themselves
fierce warriors. Some who become Shin have trained as
shamans or knights instead, but these tend to be leaders within a
group, bolstering the froglok combatants with their magic abilities.

Yun Froglok
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Froglok shamans who continue to demonstrate their ability are
promoted to the Yuncaste. They are knowledgeable in matters of
healing herbs and poisons, and they can bend the forces of nature
to their will. They share the secret of Yun powder, an alchemical
distillation that acts as a catalyst in the casting of certain shaman
rituals. Thus, they are highly valued by the shamans of Guk and
also highly sought out by shamans of other races for the secret of
their powder.
Yun frogloks who become ghouls lose their spiritual connection
to perform shaman magic, and such creatures' preferred class
is wizard.

JinFroglok
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Frogloks who are recognized early as having great innate
magical ability are well schooled in the spiritual path of the
shaman, although some have their talents turned to wizardry.
Eventually, such frogloks become quite powerful in their magical
arts: these are the Jin.

Krrup Froglok
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Krupfrogloks are high-ranking nobles who often oversee entire
froglok communities and lead froglok armies to battle. Krup
shadowknights are most common (they comprise the majority of
the defenders of King Lupzlup's court, for instance), although
many Krup ascend to this caste through one of a number of
spellcasting professions.

ILis FrogLok
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The Hisare the true ruling class of the
frogloks. While the Reet title is a higher
honorific and the His would cede to a
Reet's command as the voice of
T rakanon, in pragmatic terms, the
His rule the froglok nation and froglok
kings are chosen from among the ranks
of the Illis.

Reet Froglok
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Reet frogloks serve as attendants to Trakanon. Though the
mighty dragon seldom makes use of them, the Reet remain on call
to serve him and protect his inner lair from unwanted guests. The
Reet act as Trakanon's voice among the froglok nations on
Kunark and are sent across Norrath on obscure missions by the
prescient dragon.