Origin Type: Native / Dumped
Known Regions: Urban sprawl sectors, Rift-border shantytowns, Warlord-controlled ruins
Affiliation: Tribal Gangs, Rogue Factions, Riftguard Cells

Overview

Gnolls are feral survivors, hyena-featured humanoids forged in the crucible of chaos. Muscular, agile, and deeply instinctual, they are built for environments where hesitation means death.

Though often seen as wild or criminal, Gnolls are more than brute force—they are community-minded, spiritually driven, and fiercely loyal to their own. Most operate in matriarchal gang structures, with mystical bloodlines and primal rites dictating their roles in Genesis’s crumbling ecology.

They don’t fear predators. They are what predators fear.

Physical Traits

• Hyena-like facial structure with canine ears, snouts, and powerful jaws
• Fur color ranges from earthy browns to ashen grays
• Eyes often amber, yellow, or blood-hued
• High muscle density and digitigrade legs grant speed and flexibility
• Emit laughter-like vocalizations—used both as language and intimidation

Hyenaris

Exceptional females known as Hyenaris possess unique reproductive traits—capable of both siring and birthing offspring. This biological anomaly defies traditional roles, placing Hyenaris at the apex of Gnoll society.

Hyenaris often lead gangs, form blood cults, or serve as high priestesses. Their presence commands reverence, fear, or obsession.

Abilities

• Heightened Senses – Can detect changes in magical currents, Rift distortions, and blood tension in the air
• Feral Instincts – Reacts fluidly to chaos, often outmaneuvering more "trained" enemies
• Ravenous Bite – Bone-breaking jaws capable of bleed-inducing or armor-shredding strikes
• Versatile Diet – Can consume spoiled food, organic waste, and rift-altered materials without illness

Society and Role

Gnolls form matriarchal gangs, often dedicated to supernatural patrons, gods, or forgotten instincts. Each gang develops its own culture, slang, colors, and internal rites.

• Territorial: Control broken city zones, scrap markets, and ritual spaces
• Spiritual: Maintain worship or bargain-based rites with forgotten deities
• Criminalized: Viewed by some factions as scavengers or bandits—but they see themselves as liberators of the unwanted

Urban Gnolls live by ritual, rhythm, and fear—fear given, and fear earned.

Culture

Gnoll culture prizes strength, adaptability, and survival over politics or diplomacy. Gangs often perform rite-of-pack trials, enforce territory through symbolic totems, and protect their weakest as fiercely as their leaders.

Though many view them as anarchic, most Gnolls have a deeper code rooted in loyalty, personal honor, and divine contracts—especially among Hyenaris-led groups.

Gender Dynamics

• Female dominance is the norm
• Males are rare and often viewed as protected assets or wildcards
• Hyenaris disrupt these roles by embodying both creation and destruction

Their presence elevates a gang’s status and often redefines its power structure.

Related Notes

• Their spiritual rites can sometimes repel certain Echo-Type entities—though no one knows why
• Gnoll gangs have been hired as both enforcers and exorcists depending on the region