Greyscale
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(SUBJECT TO FUTURE EDITING) Zanthar is a diplomat of the lizardfolk Greyscale tribe training for the days he will take over as the village elder, unbeknown to him he soon finds himself locked down in a deadly conspiracy at the castle town of Riverworth. How will his tribe fair both starving and teetering on the edge of war?
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