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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Electric Wizard" data-source="post: 6051045" data-attributes="member: 83982">Canyon of the Cactogre (18.28)Connected to 17.21, 15.28Thanks to its position beneath favorable mountain slopes, this corner of the Singing Waste is always blessed by the Shrouded Lands' annual rainfall. The cacti, which are stubby and thin in the rest of the desert, grow as tall and fat as hardwood trees here. The desert animals congregate here in all seasons to compete for the abundance. Gnoll hunters, however, are careful not to follow prey too far into the canyon for fear of provoking the wrath of Grandfather Cactus. Known in human tales as the Cactogre, Grandfather Cactus was old even when the rains were banished. When the rains stopped, he was one of the many petitioners to travel into the Kingswood to plead for a return of the rains. The Bloodied King was moved by his account of the dying land and he granted a reparation. Grandfather Cactus was provided a nymph to accompany him for the rest of his days. The lovely creature placated him, and he was able to accept the invading desolation.Last year, after an age of companionship, the nymph has left him for Huw, an exiled Thringish knight. After failing to best a lion in the trail to become a Brother of the Lion, Huw was condemned to a life among the lion prides of the Devil's Fingers. In the pride's migration, he discovered the Cactogre's Canyon and the nymph. He romanced the nymph, and within a week, they eloped.Grandfather Cactus now roams the canyon in fits of jealous rage, flinging stones and breaking anything in his path with his dozen great arms. His anger has been so great that he has begun pursuing gnolls deep into the wastes, bellowing and impaling those who fall behind on his great body. He was asleep during his nymph's courtship, and is convinced that a gnoll kidnapped her. In his rampages, arrows, spears, axes and even fire do not seem to slow him. Many gnolls of Abbalah-doon fear that he will crash into their village one day and massacre them.Hooks-Do any other great cacti still exist?-What other reparations has the Bloodied King granted?-Where are Huw and the runaway nymph now?-Will Grandfather Cactus settle for anything less than the return of his beloved?</blockquote>

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