“You call that a castle?” Sen complained as he bathed in the lava around his new lair, “I demand at least seven towers! Work harder!”
“Yes, Emperor Sen!” the kobolds shouted back, while Sen briefly closed his eyes in satisfaction at the name. The minions had built a large bridge to carry raw material from the mountain to the castle, rebuilding the towers the dragon had destroyed during the War of the Hoard.
The hyena-like humanoid called gnolls carried most of the black stones making up the castle, the males doing most of the work under the supervision of their females. Sen found their spotted fur and their clothes funny to look at.
As it turned out, the encampments south belonged to gnoll tribes who lived in fear of the dread Furibon, who allowed them to live and keep their gold so lon
