810: The world changed and time rolled on, yet my big brother's tactics kept playing out again and again

The Broken Fang Clan was the poorest of the five great clans.

Its territory lay on the edge of the Misty Coast, a barren wasteland with scarce resources and no notable produce. Even among the Dark Mountains, where conditions were poor overall, it was a place of "barren hills and harsh lands." But living in such an environment for generations had made the Broken Fang gnolls tough as nails.

They were too stubborn to get along with the other clans, and guarding the sacred grounds had given them a sense of "superiority." On top of that, the Broken Fang Clan had originally been made up of problem gnolls unwanted by the other clans. All these factors combined to give them a terrible reputation among gnolls.

They were the "savages" of the gnolls.

The Bloodsworn Knights, who had dealt with gnolls for hundreds of years, would put it quite bluntly: the Broken Fang Clan were the "Transians" of the gnolls.

That was certainly no compliment. It insulted both factions at once, and if you said it in the wrong company, both the Broken Fang Clan and the Transians would gladly give you a loving slap.

Still, the Broken Fang Clan kept to its own territory and rarely went on the offensive. That made them the most "trouble-free" of the gnolls. They didn't even take part in the Black Calamity, which, as far as the civilized factions were concerned, basically made them "harmless."

In this sufficiently impoverished region, the Broken Fang Clan's only enemies were the pirates entrenched along the Misty Coast. It wasn't that the pirates provoked them; rather, whenever the Broken Fang Clan got so hungry they couldn't go on, its members would swarm through the "Death Canyon" connecting their territory to the coast and raid the pirates.

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