Splitpaw Lair

Key to the plan

Where you are

You enter at the bottom and the deepest named sits at the top. Your Y is your depth gauge — everything gets harder as it rises, and a falling Y means you are heading out.

Three bloody claws out of the plains, a dark hole between them

The entrance, centre of South Karana. Gnoll legend has their god setting his foot here; the hole sits where the centre of the paw would be and is easy to walk straight over

A pond at the top of a ramp

The underwater passage to the Ishva area

Gnolls in cells, and a human among them

The prison — Brother Hayle

A lone gnoll in a cave with nothing else in it

The one eyed gnoll, and the cleanest single pull in the zone

A level 25 shaman surrounded by far higher gnolls

The executioner’s block. That is Kurrpok, about to be executed — be there or lose him

Snakes in water, not attacking you

The widemouth pool at 900, 100. Non-aggro but social: pull one and you may get the pond

Three camps

Double Doors, low-to-mid 30s: the entrance up to the double doors and the rooms behind them. Judges and Executioner, mid 30s to low 40s: on through the next room, over the bridge, round the U-shaped room and over a second bridge, for near-continuous pulls and three named. The Ishva Area, 40 and up: off the first bridge, drop down, right, through a door on the left and up the ramp to the pond, then the underwater passage — thirteen mobs inside, and another area within swimming distance

Nothing in this zone sees invisibility. Invis and walk straight to the camp you want, and stay out of the safe room’s doorway: it is the recovery point for the whole upper half. Getting in, take Circle of North Karana (druid, group) or North Karana Portal (wizard, group) and run south; Evacuate: North Karana comes a level later and is an escape, not travel. It is a long walk from Qeynos or Highpass, so bind in Arena, or better, at the camp.

Reading a gnoll

The prefix is the class and the middle word is the power rank, so the name is the con. Power runs Mas → Mal → Val, weakest to strongest: a Tesch Mas Gnoll is an entry-band warrior and a Rosch Val Gnoll is a deep-band mage.

Tesch

Warrior. Hits hard, no surprises

Lteth

Rogue. Will backstab anything that lets it get behind

Nisch

Cleric or shaman. Heals its friends. Kill it first or interrupt — a Nisch in a pull turns a twenty-second fight into a two-minute one

Rosch

Caster. Mages, enchanters, necromancers. Pets and area damage

Four hazards

Cautions

• Runners Snare or root is not optional here. Gnolls flee, they have a lot of hit points and they cover ground fast, so a runner pulls in half a room or comes back with a healer.
• Nothing walks alone From the front door, nearly every gnoll is paired. You need to be able to take two at once just to walk in.
• Walls do not block social aggro Mobs know you are fighting their friends through solid rock. It bites hardest at the small room past the first bridge, where two tougher gnolls sit around the corner and through a gate. If you hear chains rattling, turn and run.
• The prison cells Step inside and the door shuts with the lever on the outside. The main prison hall does not do this — that door can be walked through freely.

Otherwise Splitpaw is a fair zone: mini-trains rather than Blackburrow-scale disasters, wanderers rare and solitary enough to learn, rare spawns in their own pockets away from traffic. One roamer is worth naming, on the bridge at the Double Doors camp. Do not pull it and the camp stays clean.

Position and behaviour

Named roster

Levels are pre-revamp wiki values. Where a named sits in a band the patch notes put at 40–42, expect it higher than listed.

One register

What drops

Gnoll-language names make this table harder to read than most, so the slot and the class list matter more than the name.