The text dated back to
at least May 2000:
The Gnoll Slayer: Marton Sayor in the cottage in Qeynos Hills is concerned about the safety of his infant son. He says he will give you the gnoll slayer long sword if you help him. Marton mentions a named gnoll named Lord Elgnub who speaks common tongue, and has threatened his family. Well, Lord Elgnub can occasionally be found wandering around blackburrow. He looks like a Splitpaw Gnoll and is approximately level 20. If you kill him you will get a lore/no drop item Baby Joseph Slayer. Take the baby back to his father and the grateful man will give you a Gnoll Slayer sword, which is a 1H slashing, 6/28 lore weapon. Not altogether exciting, but he mentions something about the true potential of the sword. If you inquire further, he mentions there was once an enchantment placed upon a gnolls eye which was embedded in the sword that gave the sword powers to protect against disease and call forth a wolf to fight for you. (Sounds like the scimitar of the Mistwalker). He then says this eye has been stolen, along with the only book that can restore the enchantment and eye to the sword. The thief is a great, one-eyed, white gnoll. I have been told that you need to give him a preserved gnoll eye and a gnoll hide tome along with the sword and he will give you back a better version ot the gnoll slayer (the stats I was given were 9/30, +10 sv disease, and summons a wolf). I haven't confirmed this yet.
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It would appear that no one on Allakhazam knew how to complete the quest at the time. But there is no indication that the mobs were not in the game at the time.
Regardless, the initial sword you obtain from the Blackburrow quest is the 6/28 version. However, the upgraded version you quest from Split Paw is what was in question.
Having gone through hours of work camping the named mobs I would like to make sure we have the undeniable proof that these mobs were not in the game
after the revamp was made to Split Paw.
My Bard really enjoys having it even if it is pretty slow, but I will live without it if it goes poof, life goes on.
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