Editing Meeting of the Tribes (section)

== Chronology ==
The Meeting of the Tribes is an event that gnoll tribes have prepared for for decades and was hinted at many times during earlier volumes. Notably, the Silverfang Tribe prepared a gift by sending a large delegation to Liscor and collected magical spellbooks that they would present to gnollkind. These books were accidentally burned down, though and the tribe had to start over.

The actual Meeting of the Tribes took place across much of Volume 8. Here, many tribes met and deals were struck as usual, but it wasn't until the ending of the meet that major revelations were uncovered. As a part of different tribe's gifts three major ideas were uncovered:

#'''Drakes restricting magic from Southern Izril''' - In a combined attempt to hinder gnolls, drakes repurposed large crystals that they had used as a teleportation network to instead take magic from Gnolls stopping them from casting standard arcane magic. Shamanic magic was still available to them, but any gnoll in the southern plains could no longer cast magic otherwise. The crystal found was broken and magic was returned to the gnollish people.
#'''The existence of Earthers''' - While many individuals knew of Earthers, gnolls were the first species to share this knowledge to all or at least all of their powerful people. The [[Longstalker’s Fang Tribe|Longstalker's Fang Tribe]] and the [[Silverfang Tribe]] both brought humans to the meeting along with technology that proved the existence of Earth.
#'''Doombringers being Doombearers''' - [[Satar Silverfang]] uncovered the truth that white haired gnolls previously considered bringers of doom, are actually those that are simply marked by the tragedies around them. They have a way of controlling luck from this, but are not necessarily the cause of destruction that they were thought to be.

These events - particularly the last two - led to a three-pronged war between two groups of gnolls and the drakes. The drakes launched a preemptive attack once they realized that their deception about gnollish magic was revealed, and the gnolls split between traditionalists that considered white haired gnolls to be doombringers and more progressive gnolls that considered white haired gnolls [[doombearers]]. The war encompassed all of plains gnollkind. By the end of the war, many factions were involved outside of gnolls and drakes as well. Some switched sides part of the way through and most had varying motivations. The following is a list of factions and casualties in the final fight of the Meeting of the Tribes.