Editing Manscorpion (section)

==Greyhawk==
Manscorpions are a feature, arguably ''the'' feature, of the Bright Desert. Anthony Pryor introduced them in ''[[WGR3: Rary the Traitor]]'' (1992), p. 15 then the appendix.

"Over 2,000 years ago" so ''circa'' 1500 BCY - better, 700 FT - the Bright Desert hosted a Flan kingdom called Sulm. Its rulers made deals with dark powers, in a ceaseless struggle against unincorporated nomads. The last human king, <strike>Shattariel</strike>Shattados, pled from one of these maleficent deities to be crowned "his people's unquestioned ruler"; receiving, in return, a crown shaped like a scorpion. So, um. It worked!

From The Shat's ruined palace his subjects, driven by self-loathing, have plagued the Desert's tribes ever since. Since the [[Greyhawk Wars]], Rary now "the Traitor" has to put up with these belligerent bugmen too. Rary wants the crown foremost to bend the scorps to his will, not (yet) knowing it will make him into a Master Scorpion too. If the crown (an artifact) is destroyed, all the manscorpions and monarch scorpions perish.