2314 YAKIN LEY (Hamlet): Conventional; AL N; TL 7; 100 gp limit; Assets 1,163 gp; Population 372 (Able bodied 93); Mixed (hill giant 95% blink dogs 5%); Resources: berries. Spaen Brotbuckle (Assassinated), male hill giant CG Ftr10. Important Characters: Jutum the Devourer, male hill giant CG HD10; Aknekkle Seven Blow, male hill giant CG HD10; Acaref, male hill giant CG Clr8 (shaman of Hei). The hill giants of Brotbuckle Clan are a warty, blubbery and shy sort, preferring not to interfere with humans. However, if they can get away with something, they will blunder on, doing it openly. They fight ferociously but prefer not to. An occasional hill giant will develop a taste for human but are usually thrown out by the giants themselves for causing too much trouble. Spaen Brotbuckle, leader of the Clan, got his position accidentally and is now held in awe by his fellow giants. The Yakin Ley hill giants long feared a creature called the Moaning One of the Hundred Hands who dwelt in Rock Hollow. Hecatoncheires (the thing’s real name) claimed to control the weather and threatened vile storms or worse if proper offerings were not given. One day, the Moaning One came demanding a collection of powerful magical items called “The Magical Three” as a sacrifice. Unable to obtain the items, the giants were thrown into a panic. Spaen, being even denser than most Giants, thought the Moan said “The Magical Tree” and so he risked the wrath of the Wood elves (actually, he was too scared to think about it) and ripped up the Holy Tree of the Magical Branches in Elsenwood, carried it all the way back to Yakin Ley and threw it into the Rock Hollow. The Moaning One was never heard from again and Spaen was a hero. The giants
are, hefty but slightly rotund, have many warts and have a penchant for talking bones and singing harps. Jutum the Devourer and Aknekkle Seven Blow with their pet blink dogs guard the Yakin Ley giants.
With the assassination of King Spaen, Aceref now leads the tribe in all but name.
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