Editing Awnshegh (section)

==The Boar==
Within living memory, a cruel and rapacious nobleman picked a fight with a bunch of druid-priests while despoiling a forest on a hunting expedition and lost.  He abandoned his fellows and fled into the woods, and, like all those who split the party, was struck down by the DM shortly thereafter, as he disturbed a mother boar who gored him to death.  Unfortunately for everyone involved, one of her tusks pierced his heart, and the boar in question promptly turned albino and doubled in size, becoming the fearsome awnshegh now known as the Boar of Thuringode.  In the years since, many have tried, and failed, to slay the Boar, and every time it successfully kills a would-be hero and feasts on their flesh it grows in size.  It's currently bigger than a house, and strong enough to plow huge sections of woodlands like a clear-cutting logging company in an episode of ''Captain Planet'' when it makes a charge and gore attack.  It's not truly ''evil'' (it's still pretty much just an animal, after all, if a bad-tempered one), but it's a problem for the local druids and a deadly danger to many of the forest's inhabitants.  

It doesn't have any real powers beyond monstrous size and strength, Regeneration, and Invulnerability, and, Erik be praised, it ''does'' have a suggested method of potential permanent destruction listed.  The sage compiling this information theorizes that cutting off its head and removing its tusks might finish it off for good.  It doesn't completely control its forest as a Holding, which is still just considered a province of Massenmarch, though its influence has turned it into a spooky and ominous place.  The forest is a bit of a haven for bandits, goblins, and gnolls, at least in part because it is one of the few such forests free of human logging and exploitation.  Notably, the local druids and dryads are in conflict with the nominal owners of the place, who want to get at the choice timber there, and the latter often accuse the former of trying to find a mate for the Boar.  This means that while all parties involved want to be rid of the awnshegh, they are still very much in conflict with one another.