Editing Thoul (section)

===Mystara===
[[File:Thoul MC Mystara.jpg|thumb|250px|right|This thoul's trollish ancestry is obviously quite strong.]]
The [[Mystara]]n Thoul, as mentioned above, was never particularly well-fleshed out. Their entire identity is wrapped up in their being a slave race to [[hobgoblin]]s; although we know they were magically bred from crossing [[hobgoblin]] with [[ghoul]] and [[troll]], we don't know who did it, how, or why. Their entry in the Mystaran MCA states that "Most thouls look just like hobgoblins: about 6½’ tall, dark skinned, and untidy. Some, however, show clear signs of their troll ancestry. Such thouls can have any of the following characteristics: relatively hairless skin with a greenish cast instead of the dark-red or reddish-orange skin of hobgoblins; slate gray or dull black hair, ropy in texture; long and tubelike noses like a troll’s, very different from a hobgoblin’s rather canine muzzle." Which raises a question of if the writer had ever ''seen'' the artwork for hobgoblins in AD&D. Like hobgoblins, they favor brightly colored clothing, usually favoring blood-red cloth and gleaming-black leather. Their weapons are always well cared for and brilliantly polished.

Socially, Mystaran Thouls either live as small isolated hunter-gatherer family groups, or are kept as slaves by [[hobgoblin]]s and [[orc]]s. Hobgoblin leaders particularly enjoy using thouls as their bodyguards, but hobgoblins are stated as hating their crossbreed kin: those wretches unfortunate enough to live amongst hobgoblins without a powerful sponsor are outcasts, and often heavily abused. Which is really a rather stupid thing to do seeing as how thouls have razor sharp claws, paralyze on touch exactly like ghouls, and regenerate just like trolls. Making this even stupider, Mystaran thouls actually have the ability to become spellcasters, achieving either 5th level as Shamans (Necromancy, Healing & Charm spheres) or 4th level as Witch-Doctors (Illusion/Phantasm, Enchantment/Charm and Necromancy schools), which is one of the reasons why they're so valuable to other tribes of humanoids in the first place.

Thouls are cunning combatants who typically carry a sword and a bow. Though they relish the feeling of ripping flesh with their claws, which allows them to utilize their paralytic touch, they are well aware of the fact that those pesky [[elves]] are immune, which is why they always carry backup weaponry.

Thouls are a viable race, and living beings despite their ghoulish taint, but they have the lowest birthrate amongst humanoids. They live an average of 50 years.