Bugbear Kagan

Description
Kagans were to Garrish bugbears as knights were to Pressonian nobles. Each representing one of the six clans of Loqosa, these towering goblinoids swore their lives to the Gray Banner and offered their name to the hobgoblin queen, Glonkad the Unkillable. If Glonkad accepted the gift of their name, she granted them a Life Quest. Typically, a Life Quest involved fulfilling a series of dangerous missions or causing havoc in the name of the Gray Banner. Until the Life Quest was completed, the bugbear kagan remained nameless; without a name, the bugbear could not pass into the afterlife.

Kagan Nicknames. Because the kagans were without their true names, most were granted nicknames by their respective clans. Usually, these nicknames were indicative of the kagan's quest, but might sometimes simply be a moniker that befitted 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 hailed from the goblinoid town of Loqosa, one of Gar Wabrizz's oldest settlements following the Return to the Sun. Loqosa was divided into six distinct clans: Fare, Gob, Meimei, Turbl-tod, Vind, and Waag. Loqosa meant "six-fingered paw" in Goblin. As such, each clan considered itself a "qosa", or claw. While separate in their own right, each claw was part of the same paw and much more dangerous together. However, an old bugbear idiom went: a paw only needs five claws to be dangerous and even less when holding a weapon. Thus, the six qosas constantly fought for dominance over all of the clans.