as she had aided the ghouls in their conquest of the moonbeasts , so would they aid her in her daring voyage to realms whence none had ever returned ; lending her not merely a few of their allied night-gaunts , but their entire army as then encamped , veteran fighting ghouls and newly assembled night-gaunts alike , save only a small garrison for the captured black galley and such spoils as had come from the jagged rock in the sea .