
He trailed gnoll bands, living in their shadows, and exacting blood for his fallen people from stragglers and cast offs. He would have died many times, but the spirits of the sands called to him on the scorching wind and taught him their secrets – the secrets of the viper, the vulture, and the scorpion.įor a time the proud Badawi prince was fuelled by vengeance. Left for dead, Reta wandered the desert alone for many moons. In a rocky canyon they were ambushed and overrun by gnolls in greater number than had ever gathered before.

And so it was until Reta’s people met ones stronger and fiercer than they. They brooked no insult and took their fill from those weaker than them, living life in the harsh sand-swept plains of southern Katepesh to the fullest.

Fierce and prideful, his people raided and fought with their nomadic neighbours, and traded and intermingled with the Janni of the deepest desert.
