Editing Gnolls (section)

=== Decline ===
But then, the Terandrian Humans invaded, bringing with them magical artifacts of unbelievable power.<ref name=":27" /> And they attacked both Gnolls and Drakes indiscriminately, taking merciless advantage of the fact that both of Izril’s major native races had already torn their lands and resources, and each other, to pieces over centuries of total war. The Humans just had to mop up what was left. Both Gnolls and Drakes were driven into the south.<ref name=":18" />

This southern retreat played out differently between the Drakes and the Gnolls, however. Southern Izril had always been predominantly Drake lands.<ref name=":18" /> And they still had Walled Cities there, where they could retreat and regroup. Not so the Gnolls, once the Kingdom of Gnolls fell for unknown reasons ([[Raskghar|Raskghars]] may have been involved, and the Plain's Eye tribe blamed the [[Doombearers]] for it), leading to a dark age for the Gnollish people.<ref name=":74" /> The north was their ancestral home, and the vast majority of their holdings. They fought tooth and nail for it.<ref name=":18" /> When Gnolls declare war, they mean business. They, as an entire species, almost fought down to the last Gnoll. They very nearly went extinct in the process.<ref name=":18" />

Afterwards, what little remained of the Gnolls made grudging peace with both Humans and Drakes,<ref name=":18" /> and retreated into the wilds, focusing entirely on themselves and their survival. It marked the end of Gnolls as a world power - as anything other than a footnote to the Drakes, really. Even today, the Gnoll tribes are still not back up to the strength they had before the invasion,<ref name=":18" /> and the world has largely forgotten that they were ever relevant.<ref name=":6" />

Around four hundred years ago, their last great library was destroyed by the Plain's Eye tribe, with the accidental aid of the Wyrm [[Rhisveri Zessoprical|Rhisveri]].<ref name=":74" /> They lost more of their knowledge and history as a result, which allowed Plain's Eye to start vilifying Doombearers in the eyes of the other tribes.