Psionic energy suffuses the bellows of the Underdark, but few have ever been able to harness its potent gifts save for those few beasts who lead the hulking quaggoth tribes; these leaders call themselves thonots. Deep within the cruel network of tunnels and caves under the earth, Nosk Shatterbone narrowly escapes his tribe's rage fueled howls as they give chase. The bloody mark of his kin's claws and teeth do not pain him as much as their disgust and hate. One day, before they knew his secret, he might have become thonot. Yet, he could not do was that which they demanded. Build a family. Take a wife. Breed children. Make war on other tribes and thonots. He refused. Now he must join with his male drow lover who also seeks to flee a society that rejects them and the role they are demanded to fulfill.