Shaman Karnov

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Shaman Karnov, @, is the Caveman quest leader. Despite his name, he is not a priest or a spellcaster of any kind, and is in fact mostly indistinguishable from other quest leaders.

Origin

Karnov is a reference to an old 1987 platform arcade game. Karnov is an ex circus strongman of the east soviet union. He has huge muscles and he also breads fire.

Encyclopedia entry

Note: Tiamat is actually the Chromatic dragon.

Making his quarters in the Caves of the Ancestors, Shaman
Karnov unceasingly tries to shield his neanderthal people
from Tiamat's minions' harassments.