Mudwort

Mudwort was a gnoll in Maligor's army as well as a reluctant Harper informant.

"The gnoll snorted. The information he had been passing on to the Harper was common knowledge in Amruthar. Still, it was another matter to reveal the Red Wizard’s present location to an outsider. Perhaps it was a test, Mudwort considered. Maybe the Harper was Maligor’s puppet, and the Red Wizard was testing the gnoll’s loyalty."

Description
Mudwort was an average gnoll in his appearance. He wore a misfitted crude studded leather armor with a flame on a purple field emblazoned on its chest. The same symbol was adorning the round battle-worn wooden shield that Mudwort handled together with a spear. The spear was festooned with a dirty red ribbon.

Personality
Mudwort was not very bright, somewhat clumsy, and greedy. He showed paranoid tendencies seeing the Red Mages secretly testing his loyalty. The gnoll spoke broken common in short monosyllabic sentences.

History
In 1362 DR Aglarond council contacted a Harper druid Galvin tasking him to investigate Maligor's activities and growing army, fearing a looming war with Thay. Mudwort the gnoll was the informant and a spy who met with the druid in First Escarpment area on the Lake Umber shore. The gnoll gave information that was the common knowledge in Amruthar covering the name of the Red Mage amassing the army but hardly anything else. Having the overshadowing his greed for coin, Mudwort ended the intel exchange. Galvin growing frustrated tried to stop the gnoll, instead, provoking him. In the ensuing fight, Mudwort was killed by the druid in his cave bear wildshape. The gnoll died being sure that the druid was a Red Mage, and Galvin himself was left with regrets over needless death.

Meanwhile, Maglior was informed by his naga assistant Asp about Mudwort's strange absence rising suspicions of him being a spy. The Red Mage sent a darkenbeast to murder the spy. The flying best witnessed the gnoll's murder and continued following Galvin instead.

Appearance

 * Red Wizards