Editing Gnolls (section)

==== City Gnolls ====
Sometimes, though rarely, a Gnoll might leave their tribe and live in cities of other species.<ref name=":9" /> In doing so, they cut their ties to Gnoll society, and are considered outsiders among tribal Gnolls,<ref name=":9" /> who are referred to as Plains Gnolls by comparison.<ref name=":60">[[Chapter 6.09]]</ref> There is no active shunning involved; Plains Gnolls and City Gnolls will still talk to each other.<ref name=":9" /> Nevertheless, the term “City Gnoll” is sometimes used with pity, disdain, or confusion.<ref name=":6" /> Why would anyone forsake the bonds between Gnolls for ''that''? They just don’t understand.

The City Gnolls themselves, meanwhile, have a different perspective. They cherish their personal freedom, not being required to submit themselves to their tribe’s needs, and not having so many... connections, to potentially thousands of family members.<ref name=":60" /> And perhaps they disagree with the traditions of Gnollkind, as well. Perhaps they feel that an established city is a more comfortable place to live than a temporary camp. Perhaps they feel that their tribe would not provide them with the means and the approval to follow unusual dreams - like those of the Gnoll who lives in Pallass, the ‘City of Inventions’, and tries to develop a means to fly without magic.<ref>[[Chapter 5.01]]</ref> Or perhaps they harbor unusually well developed xenophile tendencies. City Gnolls are certainly much more at ease talking to strangers and integrating with - or even marrying<ref name=":60" /> - other species than their tribal cousins. And naturally, any Gnoll children born to City Gnolls are never exposed to the traditional way of tribal life, and thus they automatically are also City Gnolls.

There is a curious incongruency, though, in regards to achieving significant rank or status in a Gnoll's chosen city of residence. Because that status, no matter how important it might seem to city's dominant culture, does not translate into Gnoll hierarchy at all - not unless it also grants the Gnoll worth in the eyes of other Gnolls. And this even extends to Plains Gnolls. Even a well-known City Gnoll senator might instinctively know themselves way down the social ladder when meeting a Plains Gnoll with actual pull in the Gnoll hierarchy.<ref>[[Interlude – Numbtongue (Pt.1)]]</ref> Perhaps the ties that bind Gnolls together are not so easily severed even for those who willingly and vocally choose to do so...

Among the [[Walled Cities]], Oteslia is the one with the highest relative percentage of Gnoll citizens.<ref name=":71" /> However, [[Liscor]] likely has even more. A decade ago, the [[Silverfang Tribe|Silverfang tribe]] sent a large number of crafters and traders to live and work in Liscor.<ref name=":39" /> Although that ostensibly makes them City Gnolls too, they have not forgone their affiliation with Plains Gnoll society - they just happen to live there temporarily, because their mission requires it.<ref name=":6" /> Still, they admit that they have come to cherish the bonds they have built there,<ref name=":6" /> and have developed many qualities of City Gnolls, such as being generally more open-minded towards other races.