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Lemernis
Senior Scribe
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 Posted - 08 Jan 2007 : 23:55:22
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I have actually come up with my own organizational structure for Sythillis army, which does place ogres well above hill giants in the hierarchy.
The ogres so vastly outnumber hill giants in Sythillis army (a ratio of literally 100:1) that one wonders why ogres flourished in the region when hill giants apparently did not.
Sythillis' army includes only 45 hill giants (the Skullgnasher tribe), whereas he has 4,800 ogres. Sythillis' army trained in a secret complex within the Small Teeth for 14 years prior to the invasion of central Amn in 1370. I'm now trying to invent an explanation for why the hill giant numbers are so low compared to the ogres. |
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Koushiro
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 10 Jan 2007 : 09:19:15
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The answer could be as simple as that when the ogres started consolidating into a single tribe, they began attacking any hill giant that would not jion up with them, and with the hill giants seeing themselves as being above ogres, only a few were willing to.
This could also be used as a reason how the various ogre tribes were formed into one group. The ogre mages pionting the hill giants out as threat towards ogre society if they were unwilling to become a part of it, thus making the tribes fear the giants and want to become part of a larger group so as to protect themselves against them. This is all pure speculation, and none of it is based in canon though. |
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Lemernis
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 10 Jan 2007 : 22:32:27
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Thanks, that's definitely a sensible idea!
As far as I know there's no canon explanation for it. I consider stuff like this left open for the DM to fill in the blanks, so it need only be consistent with canon. Any further suggestions will be appreciated. :) |
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Underdark hobgoblins and drow
