Smoking Stones

An ancient Pyroi Warband that formerly occupied the foothills of Khar Ulan, but has been driven back further and further over the generations. The Smoking Stones were founded in the earliest known histories of Pyre by a group of Pyroi Flamehearts who no longer wished to maintain their entirely nomadic lifestyle, and settled on the Smoking Fields, where they maintained their Flameheart practices in a more tribal and settled fashion.

Shortly after settling they were driven out of the Smoking Fields by the Eight Tribes of Gab-Dragomir and they settled on the mountains leading to Khar Ulan, that is until the Jebtsuk Temple was built at its base. The Jebtsuk Temple Volcano-Priests declared that the Smoking Stones were heretics and were driven beyond the mountains and onto the Thundering Grounds by the Jebtsuk Temple Guards.

They remain in the Thundering Grounds today, and as such, their culture focuses not only on the hardy survival tactics of the Flamehearts, but has adopted the fighting tactics from other hunting parties. They remained a rugged nomadic tribe hunting the Thundering Grounds for hundreds of generations until the rapid rise of the Leatherwing Cult on the mountains of Khar Ulan, just a few generations ago. As the Leatherwing Cult grew in size, so too did their need for food, and so the Leatherwings began raids on the Smoking Stone encampments and hunting grounds. These attacks diminished Smoking Stone resources until they declared war against the most powerful Warband on Pyre - a grave mistake, as their once great tribe struggles to survive now.