![[gnoll2.png]] # Description Gnolls are tall, powerfully-built humanoids with both animal and human physical features who dwell in savannas, warm grasslands, and arid hills. Their frightening visage and efficient tactics have given them an ill-starred reputation. Gnolls are often practical and pragmatic hunters and raiders. To gnolls, honor is just another word for pointless risk. Any loss of a gnoll affects not just the individual, but their packmates and kin as well. Wasting time on anything but victory, whether it's mercy or cruelty, is seen as little shy of immoral. Gnolls see effectiveness as a cardinal virtue and believe that the best fight is one that never gives the opponent a chance to strike back. Gnolls are masters of ambushes, tactical feints, and psychological warfare—none of which endears them to their neighbors. Equally misunderstood is the gnoll practice of ancestor worship and endocannibalism. Gnolls consume their dead as a sign of reverence, holding a grand feast and transforming the bones of the fallen into art or weapons. Gnolls extend this honor to respected foes, hoping to bring their enemy's cunning or strength into the clan. While it's a sign of admiration, not everyone sees it that way.