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Personality: Hobarth is petty, cruel, mean, and
vicious. He has a short temper when events go
against him, and he is a pig in his personal habits.
He indulges all sensory pleasures, as his huge, disgusting
form reveals. Hobarth especially enjoys sacrificing
victims to Bhaal, savoring their death-cries.
Hobarth absolutely hates the water. Any significant
body of water terrifies him; the ocean surrounding
the Moonshaes is abhorrent to him. (Perhaps
this aversion to water explains some of his personal
habits.) He also hates dogs for some reason.
Locales Frequented: The Moonshae Isles.
History: Hobarth came to the Moonshaes from
Amn at some undetermined time, and observed
Bhaal’s attacks on the Isles and the Earthmother.
In the year 1345 DR, the Lord of Murder, Bhaal,
corrupted one of the Earthmother’s Moonwells of the
Moonshae Isles. From this Darkwell, KAZGAROTH
the Beast attempted to destroy the Earthmother and
ruin the Moonshaes. Kazgaroth was defeated and
killed, however, but the Beast’s stonelike heart survived.
During this time, Hobarth struck an alliance
of convenience with the evil wizard Cyndre to take
control of the Isles from within. Together, the cleric
and the wizard worked to bring down the druids of
the Isles. Cyndre tried to have Prince Tristan
Kendrick assassinated, and Hobarth sought the
druidess Robyn as a sacrifice to appease Bhaal’s
hunger for murder and blood.
Along the way, Hobarth used his decay spell on a
boat that Tristan Kendrick was to voyage on. The
boat rotted away beneath its passengers in a storm
later conjured by Hobarth’s control weather spell.
Kendrick survived, however.
Hobarth later used the heart to raise an army of the
undead to attack Myrloch Vale, the center of the
Moonshae druids’ religion and the concentration of
the Earthmother’s power. Hobarth’s undead army
won the day at Myrloch Vale, but the Earthmother
saved many of her druids from death and worse by
transforming them all into stone; all except young
Robyn who was spared because she had been separated
from the others earlier.
Hobarth then fouled the Vale’s Moonwell by tossing
the bodies of the dead and pieces of the undead
into its pure waters, polluting the Moonwell and
corrupting more of the Earthmother’s power.
Hobarth held this strategic position even while
Cyndre and his forces, which included a troop of
Bhaal-worshiping sahaugin (MONSTROUS MANUAL
tome, p. 306), were defeated by the heroes of the
Isles and the waning power of the Earthmother.
Many sahuagin survived however, and all the dead
from the battle were soon animated into a second
army of undead to be sent against the Moonshaes.
Still in possession of the heart, Hobarth was able
to return the Isles’ Great Druid, Genna Moonsinger,
to a form of life from the stony statue the Earthmother
had transformed all her druids to in an effort
to save their lives. While Genna returned to life, she
did not return to herself. The heart passed into
Genna’s stony form and turned it back to flesh, but
the presence of the evil artifact also consumed
Genna’s goodness and force of will. The Great Druid
was now totally devoted to the service of Bhaal (and
the petty desires of Hobarth). While she mysteriously
still possessed her druidic powers, they were
now put to evil use. Hobarth gave Genna her first
major mission: to upset the union of Prince Tristan
Kendrick and the young druidess, Robyn, by seducing
Tristan and arranging for Robyn to catch her
love being unfaithful. Genna was successful in this
mission, but the love the young couple shared eventually
brought them back together.
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