Garuum

Level 2 Boggard Warrior

*"Boggard go die." "WHAT!"*

*-Garuum and Ichor*

An exiled Boggard and a would-be king, Garuum is an outcast from his kind and he is filled with a seething hatred for those who expelled him from his clan.

## Description

As a boggard, Garuum resembles an anthropomorphic frog or toad, complete with webbed hands and feet, large eyes, and an overly wide mouth. One of his hands is a poorly healed and mangled mess, the result of pulverizing it with a stone to escape confinements long ago.

## Personality

Garuum is a somewhat unpleasant individual, filled with a boiling distaste for other boggards. His quest for revenge is all-consuming, borderline suicidal at times. That being said, to those he's not against, he can be relatively cordial; when communicating the little common he knew with The Kingmakers upon first meeting them, he was insistent on a truce and did not try to start a fight unless they invaded his land. Garuum stands at about 5'0.

## Abilities

As a Boggard Warrior, Garuum has many tricks at his disposal. He is able to release a long, froglike tongue to bat at opponents from a distance and grab them with it, as well as release a loud croaking noise which can be dangerous to non-boggards within range.

## History

Once a member of the greater boggard tribes found to the west in the Hooktongue Slough, Garuum made a terrible mistake the day he decided he should be the one to rule his tribe. In order to prepare for his one-boggard coup, he gathered and devoured several dozen of the tribe’s sacred blue dragonflies, hoping to gain great power and skill from the insects. Alas, while the feast bolstered his self-confidence, it did nothing for his battle skills. He rode his slurk, Ubagub (a toad the size of a cow with white, slimy skin and walrus like tusks) into the center of his tribe and killed several other boggards to declare war, whereupon the tribe’s priest-king, Sepoko, immediately captured him and sentenced him and his slurk to death after a day of humiliating punishment. Fortunately for Garuum, luck had not entirely deserted him. He was placed in a pen, but his captors soon lost track of him after growing insensibly drunk on bog whiskey. Late in the evening, after the moon sank to shadow, he escaped his bonds by using a rock to pulverize his left hand in order to tear it free from his manacle, then freed his slurk and fled eastward into the Narlmarches. Following his escape, Sepoko branded him an exile and demanded that he be slain on sight should he ever return.

Garuum set up his own "kingdom" in the Greenbelt, two ruined buildings left over from previous kingdoms in a swampy marsh. In 4710 AR, The Kingmakers found their way to this area, and Garuum hurriedly attempted to dissuade them from coming to his land. The only words in Common he knew were “boggard, bug, slurk, snake, truce, hungry, me, you, die, and go”, making communication difficult- especially when Garuum advised them to kill any other boggards they saw (Boggard Go Die), leading to the Kingmakers panicking that he was about to off himself. Eventually, the Kingmakers parted ways with him, considering him merely an oddity.

In 4714, as the Boggard Blockade of the Hooktongue Slough worsened, Garuum approached the Kingmakers in an attempt to strike an alliance with them. Thanks to a casting of Comprehend Language, Ichor Eteocles was finally able to understand Garuum and understand his goals- to go back to M'Bottu and take down Sepoko in order to make him the new king. He traveled alongside The Kingmakers, several Candlemere Lizardfolk, Jubilost Narthropple and Birch as they travelled to M'Bottu to investigate the disturbances. The Kingmakers found that the Boggards here were being manipulated by Ngara, a Spirit Naga dominating Sepoko into offing his own tribe as sacrifices to her. The Kingmakers refused to kill Sepoko, as they did not wish to interfere with the politics of the tribe... but did at least steal his hat for Garuum to make him feel better. Following this incident, Garuum happily returned to his "kingdom" in the Greenbelt where he "ruled" as king once again.