Editing Tumerok Lore (section)

=== On Dereth ===

Tribal warmongers by nature, Tumeroks were rejected as slaves by the [[Olthoi]] for being too brutish. <ref name=OrigManual64/> 

The face of the Tumeroks known to humanity was that of warlike humanoids. In the early years after the retreat of the Olthoi, Tumerok raider bands were a constant threat to human settlements, sacking towns from Holtburg to Yanshi. Humanity rarely came out the better in these engagements; at one point the entire adult population of Holtburg was slaughtered or taken as slaves.<ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/>

This was not the true nature of the Tumerok. They once enjoyed a peaceful, communal culture, rich in oral tradition, and a unique magic system based on ritual drumming.<ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/>

But as humans always arrive on this world at one of the nine portal-nexus towns of Osteth, so do the Tumeroks always arrive on the [[Marescent Plateau]] of [[Marae Lassel]]. This trapped them on a much smaller landmass. They found themselves in a life-or death struggle with the brood of a second Olthoi Queen – not the one slain by [[Thorsten Cragstone]] and [[Elysa Strathelar]]. The Tumeroks found a way to pen in the Olthoi (which they call “Wharu”) that was as idiosyncratic as their culture.<ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/> <ref name=PaintingTumerok>2010-/06 [[Shifting Gears]] - [[Tumerok (Town Network Painting)]] </ref>