The Hounds of Shadow
The seven Hounds of Shadow.
- Baran
- Blind
- Doan: imprisoned in Dragnipur, released by Ganoes Paran, whereabouts unknown
- Ganrod: imprisoned in Dragnipur, released by Ganoes Paran, whereabouts unknown
- Gear
- Pallick
- Rood: mangy brown, scarred, glowing yellow eyes (GotM, UK Trade, p.347)
- Shan
"Seven massive Hounds now sat around the man
Shadowthrone in the road. The eyes of these beasts glowed yellow, and all were turned in the same direction as the man himself."
GotM, UK mmpb p.17
"
Shadowthrone regrets leaving you outside
Hood's Gates - at the cost of two Hounds. Do you realize that those precious creatures had lived for thousands of years? Do you realize that no man - mortal or Ascendant - has ever before killed a Hound?"
- Cotillion
GotM, US HC, p.462
However, he does not say anything about other creatures, such as dragons or indeed other Hounds.
"There was around each beast an aura of dreadful competence, wrought with vast antiquity like threads of iron."
DG, UK mmpb, p.693
"A moment later, it became clear just how untested the Hounds of Shadow had been thus far. He felt the power emanate from the five beasts - so similiar was it to that of dragons, it rolled like a breath, a surge of raw sorcery that preceeded the Hounds as they sprang forward with blurring speed."
DG, UK mmpb, p.782
Origins
Mappo, speaking of the Ay: "An ancient wolf, from the age of the Imass. Their bloodline was harvested in the shaping of the Hounds of Shadow... but not the Hounds of Darkness. For those, it was the bloodline of a breed of plains bear. Ty'nath okral, in the language of the Bentract Imass."
DoD, mmpb, p.1038
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