(POI) Sorkin Mountains (Overview)

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Sorkin Mountains (Overview)

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Gargun heads of various stages of decomposition are found along Noron’s Way.

Highest Peak: Mt. Esig 7,586 feet

[/url] are everywhere. The Sorkins tantalize the unwary with the promise of wealth but they are more often a place of death.[/ul]

History

Present Day

Geography

• Blue Range
  
  
  
  
  
• Noneth
  
  
  
  
  
• Rampart
  
  
  
  
  
• Sofyn Spur
  
  
  
  
  
• Southern Tail
  
  

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The Gargun

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Taken From Races of Stone

[/b] Fierce, quick-tempered warriors, garguns usually assume that the strongest individual is the leader, and they usually settle disagreements with some nonlethal test of strength. Despite this outward ferocity, garguns have a deep sense of personal honor and place a great deal of importance on self-reliance.

Physical Description: A typical gargun is as big as a goliath and larger than the largest half-orc. Most stand between 7 and 8 feet tall and weigh between 280 and 340 pounds. As with their goliath kindred, there is no appreciable difference in height or weight between male and female feral garguns.

Garguns are covered in smooth, thick fur. This fur ranges in color from white to light gray to dark brown. Although their bodies are humanoid in shape, the faces of garguns are similar to those of bears, and they have longer, narrower faces than other humanoids.

Relations: Most garguns have little to no interaction with other humanoid races, so when they do interact, they remain curious and polite, at least by their standards. They get along well with goliaths, who trade the garguns metal weapons and armor when they have them to spare.

Feral garguns hate giants. Bigger and better equipped than the garguns, a tribe of giants can usually drive a group of garguns from an area, or worse, capture and enslave them. Garguns attack and kill giants whenever they have the opportunity.

Alignment: Garguns tend toward chaotic alignments, valuing freedom and personal choice very highly. Even the most organized group of garguns is really just a collection of self-sufficient individuals traveling together for safety.

Names: All garguns remain unnamed until their second birthday. The infant mortality rate is high in the cold northlands, and leaving infants unnamed makes it easier for the tribe to accept the death of a young feral gargun when it occurs. On his or her second birthday, a feral gargun is given two names: a first name, and a last name taken from his mother’s name. The last name translates roughly into “son/daughter of [the mother’s name].”

A feral gargun can earn the right to adopt his father’s name by performing some great deed. This deed is never specified beforehand, and only a council of elder feral garguns can make this award. Few feral garguns actually earn their father’s name, and not failing to do so carries no shame or stigma.

• Male Names: Agam, Agath, Gethik, Gothan, Thokan.
  
• Female Names: Evva, Maka, Makin, Prenna, Vulla.

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