Earthen Guard

Grell
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Classification	Small Fey
Homeworld	Azeroth
Environment	Temperate forest
Area(s)	Teldrassil
Organization(s)	Gang (2-5)
Alignment	Usually neutral
Sources: Monster Guide, pg 86-87

A small type of fey, grell are similar in appearance to imps, but are generally larger in size, lack the characteristic horns, and are not devils. Grell come in both melee and spell caster variants. They are common to Shadowglen and Fel Rock in Teldrassil and Bashal'Aran in Darkshore.

This small, skipping creature looks a bit like a thin, gangly, orange goblin. Large ears spread from its bald head. Its pupil-less yellow eyes stare as it raises a clawed paw. Grell are small, playful creatures that can be encountered in wild areas. They are not particularly dangerous individually, but in gangs they can pose a threat to outlying night elf and furbolg communities; they may be small and unimpressive, but their claws are sharp. Scattered groups of them are actively malicious. Some grell wear earrings, which scholars believe may possess magical traits. Grell are fond of hyacinth mushrooms. Combat Grell are not particularly hostile; generally, they are content to leave potential dangers alone. If an opponent attacks, however, they defend themselves fiercely. Grell in a gang feel no particular connection to each other, it seems, and are as likely to assist their comrade as to watch the combat idly.

Notes

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• Wild Grell are a type of humanoid grell. Wild Grell live near Vile Sprites, to which they are likely related.

• Some creatures that share the grell model are also known as sprites, although this term is shared with the more benign faerie dragons and wisps.

• A lot of creatures that share the grell model, including demons to elementals, although the original species is neither according to lore. Its unknown if the varied types are separate races entirely, corrupted grell by magic, or simply given those templates for game play mechanics.

• For unknown reasons grell, along with all creatures in World of Warcraft that use the same model, twitch their thumb on the hand which holds their main hand weapon and continue to blink when dead.

• If you compare pictures, you might notice that grell look like a type of wild, deformed goblin.

Grell species and grell-like creatures

• Grell
  • Wild Grell
  • Grellkin
  • Vicious Grell
• Sprite
  • Poison Sprite
  • Rascal Sprite
  • Dark Sprite
  • Shadow Sprite
  • Vile Sprite
• Flamekin
  • Flamekin Rager
  • Flamekin Spitter
  • Flamekin Sprite
  • Flamekin Torcher
• Homunculus