Frostgrave - Chef de Guerre Gnoll

After an ancient law banned human fighters from the arenas, the Beastcrafters
exploited a loophole and created numerous varieties of anthropomorphised animal
hybrids. While many different species were exploited to this end, rats, dogs, and
hyenas provided strong, reliable subjects and were amongst the most common
hybrids. After years of Beastcrafter tinkering and manipulation, robust strains that
drew from these three species were perfected. These gnolls, as these strains came to
be collectively known, were bred in the thousands in the years before the cataclysm,
and sold as slaves and gladiators to the arenas and as shock troops to the armies of
foreign powers. When the great storm struck, several groups of the hardy gnolls
survived, trapped in isolated colonies deep beneath the city. Over the next
millennium, they multiplied, forming numerous tribes and packs, warring with each
other in their underground warrens and hunting the great worms.