Gnolls.
A low-level humanoid Monster that lived on the Aifala Continent.
Unlike the Green-skinned Goblins, whose development had been tortuous and whose entire racial traits had undergone earth-shaking changes, these savage beasts, hideous in appearance like upright wild dogs, had a clear and traceable origin.
The famous historian Zoltan, the "Abyss Gazer," had once given a detailed and comprehensive argument for the origins of Gnolls in his work hyena Dynasty: The Unrecorded Ancient Civilization of Gnolls.
According to the book, Gnolls were not natural creatures that had evolved within the Material Plane. Their filthy bloodline, filled with evil and murderous intent, came from Yeenoghu, the Demon Lord known as the [Bloodthirsty Beast] of the 422nd layer of the "Abyss."
This powerful existence, fourteen feet tall and delighting in sowing despair and fear, longed to transform the Prime Material Plane into His livestock farm for meat, and had once stirred up a bloody storm across the Aifala Continent in ancient times.
Though He was ultimately banished back to the Abyss, while He was ravaging and roaming the continent, He had also left behind the evil seed of slaughter.
He transformed a pack of Hyenas conquered by His power, who willingly followed in His footsteps, into the Gnolls of today. After He left the Material Plane, they gradually multiplied and grew, becoming common low-level Monsters on the continent.
Logically speaking, as scions of the Abyss who had inherited a Demon Lord's bloodline, Gnolls ought to possess stronger combat ability and higher intelligence.
But perhaps as the price for their numbers being able to expand rapidly in a short time, the strength of these upright Hyenas was nowhere near as formidable as one would imagine from "children of demons."
The average Challenge Rating of a typical adult individual was roughly "1/2."
By comparison,