The High History of House McNasty (Grundulbine branch) from 469 to 479 IY

Fresh from his dazzling victories in the Holy City, Angus "Mr. Fabulous" McNasty decided that the Grundulbine McNasties were once again ready to take their place at the center of Melvek Gnomish affairs. Loudly proclaiming his current pre-eminence, due to the recognition by the Prelate of the Church of Bor himself (signed and everything), Angus packed up his clansmen and moved away from the Northern Marches back to the Melvek Wilds (or as they are properly known the Empire of McNastia). He seized upon a glorious cave complex, known as the "dungeon of skulls" for some reason, and with the aid of his trusty cousin Beavis, drove out a host of monstrous squatters. After spending some long months in magical device construction, spell research and commerce, Angus hired laborers and began to make his new capital "McNasty Grande" into a reality (or at least the semblance of reality). Soon afterwards, Angus and his wife Mrs. Fabulous announced the birth of their first child, a son named Hamish McNasty (a.k.a. Fabulosus).

Although there was some trouble with other McNasty chieftains, culminating in the great radish hubbub of '73, McNasty Grande became a prosperous, albeit small and drunken, gnome town along the Chid River. There was however, more serious trouble from remnants of the army of the Black Plague. Lord Strydor himself had to be chased off the premises on one occasion. At least that's what the watch-gnome Gummo McNasty claimed. It was at this point that Beavis McNasty got it into his tiny brain that only retrieving the lost "Monkey Paw of the Mysteries" would make his cousin's new town secure. What followed was known among the gnomish tale-tellers and accountants as "The Adventures of Beavis McNasty in the Forbidden Zone." When Beavis went to consult the dwarves of the mountains, they told him they didn't know about any lost monkey paw, but if he were smart he would stay away from the borders of Tor Manash. "No dwarf is going to forbid Beavis and his mighty pick from his rightful claim to the Monkey Paw!" Responded Beavis. And despite the fact that the dwarves claimed they were only trying to give him advice, he stormed off in a blind rage. Beavis spent the next two years ineffectually mounting expeditions against Tor Manash, incidentally almost starting a major war between the dwarves and the Manashians. During one of these raids he caught site of a Manash wizard with what looked to be a monkey paw. Beavis spent the next three years scraping moss from the inside of a Tor Manash slave-pit, but was at last rescued (quite accidentally as it happens) by Angus who was looking for a particular brand of pickled relish you just can't get around McNasty Grande. Beavis had quite forgotten about the Monkey Paw of the Mysteries by this point and Angus decided to let the matter drop.