_________________________________ Blacktooth Grin PLAYER’S GUIDE Second edition, version 2.0. October 9th, 2014 Written and edited by Margar and Faquarl, with contributions by “Big Louie” Louzzik, the Smashblade, and helpful input from numerous others. World of Warcraft, The Black Tooth Grin Clan, the clan banner, and various character and place names are trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment. We thank them for building us such a compelling environment for our stories. Thanks must also go to White Wolf Games, from whom I shamelessly repurposed many merits and flaws to help with character development. Special thanks to the Smashblade, for breathing new life into this forgotten Orcish clan, to leading our server in the creation of legends, and to a long line of his officers, who sometimes held it all together with string and chewing gum. No portion of this document may be reproduced or published in digital or printed format without the written consent of Faquarl, which can be easily gotten by writing
[email protected]. Please send corrections and comments to the same address. ________________________________________________ Prologue: A Gathering by Torchlight You hear the distant drums, beating like dying hearts in the gray-green fog of the Black Morass. Or, what remains of it, stretched out between you and the distant sea, this bone-strewn swamp of sorrows. The narrow mountain pass, littered with sun-bleached skeletons, crawls down into that hungry fog. Spiders skitter and scrape their hacksaw kneecaps in the vine-wrapped Cyprus groves, and serpents coil and slither in the muck. You descend along the road, the lifeless gray of Deadwind Pass behind you, into the Sorrowmurk.