[366 Days of Monsters] Day 090/366 - Bugbear Kagan (Patreon)

Kagans are to Garrish bugbears as knights are to Pressonian nobles. Each representing one of the six clans of Loqosa, these towering goblinoids swear their lives to the Gray Banner and offer their name to the hobgoblin queen, Glonkad the Unkillable. If Glonkad accepts the gift of their name, she grants them a Life Quest. Typically, a Life Quest involves fulfilling a series of dangerous missions or causing havoc in the name of the Gray Banner. Until the Life Quest is completed, the bugbear kagan remains nameless; without a name, the bugbear cannot pass into the afterlife.

Kagan Nicknames. Because the kagans are without their true names, most are granted nicknames by their respective clans. Usually, these nicknames are indicative of the kagan's quest, but might sometimes simply be a moniker that befits the kagan's pesonality. For example, Elfskinner was a famous kagan known for his love of flaying captured Olyothyrians.

Six Clans of Loqosa. Most Garrish bugbears hail from the goblinoid town of Loqosa, one of Gar Wabrizz's oldest settlements following the Return to the Sun. Loqosa is divided into six distinct clans: Fare, Gob, Meimei, Turbl-tod, Vind, and Waag. Loqosa means "six-fingered paw" in Goblin. As such, each clan considers itself a "qosa", or claw. While separate in their own right, each claw is part of the same paw and much more dangerous together. However, an old bugbear idiom goes: a paw only needs five claws to be dangerous and even less when holding a weapon. Thus, the six qosas constantly fight for dominance over all of the clans.