Editing Gnolls (section)

=== Magical Qualities ===
As a tribal culture, Gnolls have access to tribal magic.<ref name=":14" /> This means that a special caster class, a [Shaman], can channel the mana of nearby tribe members to invoke magical effects.<ref name=":6" /> The more tribe members are nearby, the more powerful the [Shaman] becomes. It has been said that Gnolls are apparently very good at tribal magic,<ref name=":45">[[Chapter 2.46]]</ref> perhaps even more so than other tribal cultures.

Classic [Mages] or variations thereof do not currently exist among Gnolls. Wistram, the academy of magic, maintains that this is because the entire race is magic-deficient.<ref name=":14" /> The Gnolls themselves have never accepted this claim, and have sought to prove otherwise<ref name=":39">[[Chapter 2.41]]</ref> - but so far with little success. Any Gnoll who attempts to gain a magic class either becomes a [Shaman], or fails entirely.<ref name=":6" /> This has been going on for at least a few centuries now, and the Gnolls still have no idea why.<ref name=":6" /> But they maintain that, in the past, even Gnoll [Archmages] have existed.<ref name=":6" />

[[Mrsha|Two]] [[Ferkr|Gnolls]] have recently bucked this trend, and managed to obtain a caster class other than [Shaman].<ref name=":20" /><ref name=":63">[[Chapter 6.38]]</ref> Drake Magus [[Grimalkin]] of [[Pallass]] considers the entire affair to be a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy - that Gnolls have stopped being able to become [Mages] only because something or someone convinced them that they couldn't.<ref name=":63" /> [[Teriarch]] also considers it strange that anyone would think or claim that a Gnoll couldn't learn magic.<ref name=":45" /> Still, even Grimalkin admits that there seems to be something odd going on in recent generations with regards to Gnolls accessing their own innate mana reserves, and that it requires an unusually high amount of effort to overcome.<ref>[[Chapter 7.02]]</ref>

However, it is revealed that the Fissival teleportation network was repurposed to suppress the magical potential of all Gnolls. During the recent Meeting of Tribes, a giant magicore crystal was unearthed and smashed by Gaarh Marsh's Earth Elemental, restoring the magic back to the Gnolls.<ref name=":75">[[Chapter 8.42]]</ref> During the Arbitration Council, Chaldion divulges that two Walled Cities and several Gnoll tribes were involved in this conspiracy to suppress Gnollish magic.<ref>[[Chapter 8.49 M]]</ref> As such, any Gnolls who were born too close to one of the network's magicore crystal has had their mana well permanently crippled. 

At the end of Volume 8 this was reversed, with the dead souls of all the Gnoll [Mages], [Archmages], [Archshamans], [Shamans], and more along with several living Gnoll [Shamans] preforming a massive ritual. Granting all Gnolls across the world their magic back. How many can actually use said magic is questionable, but all of Fissival’s teleportation network was destroyed in the rituals apex. Leaving Gnoll magic unable to be harmed for the time being. What this means for the relationship between Gnolls and the Walled Cities is unknown, but thanks to the Terra’s faction. A group of Gnolls was already promised admittance into Wistram.