Various rumors may circulate within the dank, damp air of the Drain regarding the Black Leaf. Some may have noticed that the Black Leaf's ranks have been thinned. Some speculate that many within their ranks remain in the shadows, while others are based in other Black Leaf camps in far off lands. Regardless, if it is true that the Black Leaf ranks have thinned over the recent winter, what is evident and true to the naked eye is that the All-Girth has done anything but become thin. The tanarukk's appetite is insatiable, and upon each Black Leaf's return to the Drain from far off lands, their skull-trophies and treasure speak truth of swelling Black Leaf power.
The Black Leaf: a tribe of tanarukk, orc, drow, duergar, fey'ri, and tielfing. Some say that Resker Knives offered the Black Leaf a role within his own ranks of the Sewer Dwellers, alongside Skinny Fredek and his Fangs, Fero and his Wrongborns, and most recently, Pale and his Shunned. However, just as it was with the Blood Rain Mountain Tribe that arrived years ago in the Drain, led by the fierce tanarukk known as Rudd, the Black Leaf seem to use the Drain merely as a camp for whenever in the area, preferring the wild, open air of mountains, forests, and deserts, where it is rumored the Black Leaf have tucked away camps.
No, rather than bend a proud knee to Resker Knives, the Firstborn, the All-Girth, of the Black Leaf formed an alliance. The All-Girth has often been heard proclaiming in her usual boisterous voice: "As the Black Leaf's beast feeds and grows in power, so too will the Sewer Dwellers revel in the feast that feeds our common beast!" And so it was that the Black Leaf came to lease the east-wing and room, where the strong odor of brimstone lingers. It is also true that while many caliban and faction has come and gone, the Black Leaf have endured.
The Black Leaf have never been known to openly recruit, for whatever reason. But many a caliban has witnessed the Black Leaf accept recruits into what is called the "Ring of Fire," the Black Leaf's outer circle of power, where each is tested over time through many a battle, by muscle or guile.