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<blockquote data-quote="chutup" data-source="post: 5900204" data-attributes="member: 6690844"><p>Oh man, a gnoll bard? Sorry, I have to write something about that...</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>The Howling College</strong></p><p><strong></strong>Additional information about hex 51.29</p><p></p><p>One thing that may surprise travellers to the City of Smoke is that despite their savage appearance and violent tendencies, the gnolls are in fact posessed of a rich culture of oral literature and song. One of the oldest buildings in the City of Smoke is the <em>kharghaha</em> (an untranslatable word that essentially means 'Building for the Teaching of Musical Stories in the City of Smoke'). To outsiders it is known as the Howling College. The building was abandoned and left in disrepair for many years, but has recently been refurbished by order of the Great Mother.</p><p></p><p>Gnolls have only one word for 'poem' 'story' and 'song'. All their music is narrative and all their oral narratives are musical. (Those few gnolls who have taken up writing find it very difficult unless they add notations for musical inflection.) The three classical genres that are taught at the Howling College are called Lowings, Whoopings and Gigglings, corresponding to the three forms of vocalization common to gnolls and hyenas. Lowings are tragic sagas, which always begin with a frank statement of how the hero will die at the end. Whoopings are heroic sagas, often used to inspire warriors on the eve of battle, which usually end on a note of climactic triumph. Strangely enough, a Whooping and a Lowing may well tell the same story in different fashions. The last genre is the Gigglings, the comedic genre, often bawdy or farcical but containing a serious satirical purpose at their core. Several well-known Gigglings have been banned by the Great Mother, but all know that these stories were around long before she was born and will be told again after she is dead.</p><p></p><p>Hooks:</p><p>- Why was the <em>kharghaha </em>abandoned in the first place?</p><p>- Tell me about a famous gnollish song-tale. Is it a Lowing, a Whooping or a Giggling?</p><p>- Why were the Gigglings banned by the Great Mother?</p><p></p><p>For an example of the three genres: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl0X81qht-E]Hyena Sounds Nkorho Pan 06/27/07 - YouTube[/ame]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chutup, post: 5900204, member: 6690844"] Oh man, a gnoll bard? Sorry, I have to write something about that... [B] The Howling College [/B]Additional information about hex 51.29 One thing that may surprise travellers to the City of Smoke is that despite their savage appearance and violent tendencies, the gnolls are in fact posessed of a rich culture of oral literature and song. One of the oldest buildings in the City of Smoke is the [I]kharghaha[/I] (an untranslatable word that essentially means 'Building for the Teaching of Musical Stories in the City of Smoke'). To outsiders it is known as the Howling College. The building was abandoned and left in disrepair for many years, but has recently been refurbished by order of the Great Mother. Gnolls have only one word for 'poem' 'story' and 'song'. All their music is narrative and all their oral narratives are musical. (Those few gnolls who have taken up writing find it very difficult unless they add notations for musical inflection.) The three classical genres that are taught at the Howling College are called Lowings, Whoopings and Gigglings, corresponding to the three forms of vocalization common to gnolls and hyenas. Lowings are tragic sagas, which always begin with a frank statement of how the hero will die at the end. Whoopings are heroic sagas, often used to inspire warriors on the eve of battle, which usually end on a note of climactic triumph. Strangely enough, a Whooping and a Lowing may well tell the same story in different fashions. The last genre is the Gigglings, the comedic genre, often bawdy or farcical but containing a serious satirical purpose at their core. Several well-known Gigglings have been banned by the Great Mother, but all know that these stories were around long before she was born and will be told again after she is dead. Hooks: - Why was the [I]kharghaha [/I]abandoned in the first place? - Tell me about a famous gnollish song-tale. Is it a Lowing, a Whooping or a Giggling? - Why were the Gigglings banned by the Great Mother? For an example of the three genres: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl0X81qht-E]Hyena Sounds Nkorho Pan 06/27/07 - YouTube[/ame] [/QUOTE]
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