From the introduction: The civilised and imperial races are not the only creatures who have chosen to try and settle in Ramulia, the ‘monster’ race known as Gnolls have been trying to settle in it’s wild lands with little success for years. Beaten back from the forests by the Kalag and driven from the fields by bandits the Gnolls of Ramulia have been forced to hide themselves in the forgotten god tombs of the land. There peoples natural hostility to the gods have made these refuges dangerous and inhospitable, many of the older Gnolls have been cursed by sickness and deformity by the poisonous miasma that soaks the air of these tombs.