Grimscowl Bisonbreath

Grimscowl Bisonbreath is a Uktena Ahroun.

Overview

Those who discount the Uktena as fighters have never heard the tales of Grimscowl Bisonbreath, the greatest of Uktena Ahroun. Despite the bindings that trapped the Pure Lands' most powerful Banes, a few lesser Wyrm-creatures still roamed the isolated canyons and deep forests of the American continents. Grimscowl became their fiercest predator.

Many of the stories surrounding Grimscowl come from the cycle of songs crafted by Howls-Her-Brothers-Glory, a Galliard who accompanied Grimscowl throughout his career. If even half of Howls' tales are true, the landscape of the Near Umbra should be lettered with spirit-tombstones marked "Here Lies Another Bane, Fallen to the Talons of Grimscowl Bisonbreath."

The most famous tale concerning Grimscowl relates his discovery of a network of caverns extending across the Pure Lands all the way to its western shore. Entering that complex warren with his packmates, Grimscowl ranged along its entire length, uncovering a lair of Black Spiral Dancers who had traveled to the Pure Lands through Umbral pathways. In the last cavern, Grimscowl discovered an old, withered Dancer crouched over an opening in the ground mumbling an indecipherable chant. It was not until after Grimscowl slew his unwary foe that the Ahroun discovered the reason for his enemy's presence in the cavern's heart. Beneath his feet, a sleeping giantess stirred, roused by the cessation of the songs that had kept her dormant for many years.

Grimscowl took the place of the dead Black Spiral Dancer, lifting his cracked voice in song to quiet the giantess and keep her from shaking the Earth with her mighty steps. The stories say that Gaia made Grimscowl immortal, simultaneously punishing him for his rash behavior and blessing him for his responsible atonement.

Grimscowl Bisonbreath is a favorite hero among Bane Tender Ahrouns, serving as n example to those who claim that only Theurges can take on the grueling task of guardianship of the Pure Lands' Bane-prisons.

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