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<blockquote data-quote="Mirtek" data-source="post: 8284801" data-attributes="member: 40810"><p>Pre-4e the gnoll's origin was unknown even to the gnolls themselves. None of their previous pantheon actually claimed to be their creator deity. That helped Yeenoghu to lure the gnolls away from their gods, who then withered and died save for a few leftovers desperately hanging to the last crumbs of divintiy (chief among them Gorellik, but 2 others were later mentioned IIRC). The gist was that Yeenoghu ensnared the gnolls into his worship, but he had no true claim to them.</p><p></p><p>In 4e they were apparently unhappy with that background and made them into even more mindless beasts of Yeenoghu.</p><p></p><p>First words from 4e Monster Manual about Gnolls: </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It does not get any better after that intro.</p><p></p><p>When they then released the Monster Vault as one of the core books for D&D Essentials (basically a D&D 4.5 to save the edition) it also didn't get better. It repeated what was already said in the MM and added stuff like</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I couldn't help myself but dig for when the part of them being an actual creation of Yeenoghu was first mentioned, as this is not in the orginal 4e MM and also not in the MV (although I knew it had to be from much earlier in 4e's lifetime than the MV).</p><p></p><p>So I just googled "Gnolls 4e" and looked at the sources listed and then found it. <strong>Dragon Magazin 367</strong>, the article <em>Playing Gnolls</em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This, to the best of my knowledge, is the first time that credit for the gnoll's origin has been attributed to Yeenoghu.</p><p></p><p>However, there's something more which I did not remember until this very research:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So while 4e brought this idea into official D&D lore, it did not fully confirm it. That honor does then indeed belong to 5e.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mirtek, post: 8284801, member: 40810"] Pre-4e the gnoll's origin was unknown even to the gnolls themselves. None of their previous pantheon actually claimed to be their creator deity. That helped Yeenoghu to lure the gnolls away from their gods, who then withered and died save for a few leftovers desperately hanging to the last crumbs of divintiy (chief among them Gorellik, but 2 others were later mentioned IIRC). The gist was that Yeenoghu ensnared the gnolls into his worship, but he had no true claim to them. In 4e they were apparently unhappy with that background and made them into even more mindless beasts of Yeenoghu. First words from 4e Monster Manual about Gnolls: It does not get any better after that intro. When they then released the Monster Vault as one of the core books for D&D Essentials (basically a D&D 4.5 to save the edition) it also didn't get better. It repeated what was already said in the MM and added stuff like I couldn't help myself but dig for when the part of them being an actual creation of Yeenoghu was first mentioned, as this is not in the orginal 4e MM and also not in the MV (although I knew it had to be from much earlier in 4e's lifetime than the MV). So I just googled "Gnolls 4e" and looked at the sources listed and then found it. [B]Dragon Magazin 367[/B], the article [I]Playing Gnolls[/I] This, to the best of my knowledge, is the first time that credit for the gnoll's origin has been attributed to Yeenoghu. However, there's something more which I did not remember until this very research: So while 4e brought this idea into official D&D lore, it did not fully confirm it. That honor does then indeed belong to 5e. [/QUOTE]
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