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====== Bugbear ======

Courage and honor are prized traits among the Bugbear.

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====== Notable Characters ======

  * [[brimlough|Brimlough]]
  * [[bork_ungerton|Bork Ungerton]]
  * [[yonlok|Yonlok]]

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===== References =====
==== Bugbear's Oath - Deathmatch at the Colosseum of Ashes (RPA-TE) ====

A Bugbear gladiator will offer to negotiate his freedom with you at the Colosseum of Ashes;

>//The northern gate opens, and a Bugbear gladiator emerges. He is armored and wields a battle axe in one hand and a warhammer in the other.// - Tome of Encounters (RPA-SQ1)

  * Throw the match and he rewards you with the gold he has on him.
  * Refuse his offer:
      * Quickly defeat the Bugbear and move onto the next round of the games.
      * The match persists, and the Bugbear exhibits his acrobatic skills.
      * The Bugbear wins the fight and leaves the Colosseum of Ashes free.

====Ascending Kethra's Steppe (GS-ADV4)====

A group of Bugbear have established a [[bugbear_encampment|camp]] near [[goldbelly_mountain|Goldbelly Mountain]] and [[redtooth_peak|Redtooth Peak]]. They have recently led a raid on [[lorkheim|Lorkheim]], a nearby [[dwarf|Dwarven]] village.

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===== Backstory Encounters =====
=== Damaged ===

A Bugbear prisoner of [[kulbak_prison|Kulbak]] reveals hidden runes written on the cell walls;

>//After boiling the tea, she allows the steam to soak the walls of her cell. Doing so reveals strange writing etched into the stones. The letters glow faintly like magical runes.// - Backstory Codex - Damaged (RPA-BC)

  * Translate them for the Bugbear, and inform the [[dragul|Dragul]] of the existence of the [[opaunka|Opaunka]].
  * Keep their true meaning to yourself.

=== Doomed ===

A Bugbear prisoner of [[kulbak_prison|Kulbak]] gets confrontational with a [[dwarf|Dwarf]];

  * Lay into the the [[construct|Construct]] guard and earn the respect of the onlooking prisoners.
  * Defend the [[dwarf|Dwarf]] and receive bruises and a coin.