The origin of the Boglin people is lost in the mists of time, for writing is a skill come to the Boglin only of late, if at all. Nonetheless, the Boglins are an ancient race indeed, and had control of the Stone Bowl Mountains before the Dwarvani came southwest, fleeing the fall of the Old Dwarvan Kingdom in the months after the Cataclysm.

The Dwarvs had decided to settle and even begun to mine before they met the deep-dwelling boglins. Once a Dwarv has made up their mind, it is precious hard, as everymost knows, to get them to give up an inch. Thus began their centuries of long battles, fought in the dark and echoing places beneath the earth. Boglins and Dwarvs truly hate each other after so many years of warfare, contesting back and forth in the dark for control of their ancestral territories.

The Boglin has largely come out on the losing end of these wars, and mant have uprooted their homes and even moved out into the surface world. Thus the infestation of the plains and woods which lie between Na Zhiraz and Kazakhad, and their recent danger to travelers through these regions.

The boglin has physical features of gray complexion with slate eyes and an emaciated appearance. Many boglins prefer a diet of human meat, slightly decomposed, which necrophageal dietary preference makes them unwelcome in human-settled regions. Lengthy border wars have been carried on for generations in contested areas between boglin tribes and human settlers. Boglin settlements range from the frozen ranges of the mountains at the northlands of Antra to the edges of the deserts at the far south.

The family clan is the norm for a boglin social grouping. Some very large and well-organized family clans held small regional confluences, but they had not before then banded together in any form of larger social unit. Their discovery of the potential of "herding" larger food sources has given them the ability to become a great threat, instead of a minor nuisance.

The boglins are of simple intelligence, and have a crude society based on family and clan. They have a language, though it is limited in scope of expression. Several thousand boglins surrounding a city and feasting on the inhabitants to the last man, woman and child is a gruesome possibility, made viable by the actions of the rogue wizard Dzpyr, who banded together thousands of displaced members of the various boglin tribes and led them in an assault on the City of Antra in ¥2000.