#grania

[venicepearl]

"Grania questions the druid", illustration by Henry Justice Ford in The Book of Romance (1903)

Gráinne (Irish pronunciation: [ˈɡɾˠaːn̠ʲə]), sometimes anglicised Grania, is the daughter of king Cormac mac Airt in the Fianna Cycle of Irish mythology. She is one of the central figures in the Middle Irish text Finn and Gráinne, as well as the 17th-century tale The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, which tells of her betrothal to Fionn mac Cumhaill, leader of the Fianna, and her subsequent elopement with Fionn's warrior Diarmuid Ua Duibhne.

[cyraelin]

Was grania's and lilianna's death in the original draft unexpected or by purpose and who made the land mines?

No, the 3s were supposed to set up the landmines. It was not something that would just happen out of the blue because I don't like sudden deaths that don't have any build-up or an explanation.

[leviathansloft]

File#NR-4a

Classified - Class 2

Sentient species registry

Schola identicaida

Harrion culips

Schola iskariin

Yalt

Pronunciation

y-all-t

Appearance

Standing an average of twelve units in height they are mostly humanoid, though a desiccated husk of one. Their flesh is a mottled grey with massive chunks of it missing leaving a festering wound behind that does not bleed.

No yalt has been seen with eyes leaving a gaping hole where they once may have sat. When asked, the yalt known as Ever-wandering-crafter warned the official. "Never ask again child of the guardian for I shall not answer."

From their back juts out spires of bone that often become home to many birds which will remain at peace with one another in the presence of a yalt due to the excess food in the way of flies, maggots, and beetles.

It has been recorded during a discussion with star-bound-healer that the yalt in question broke up a dispute between a sparrow hawk and an aging owl for a spot among its back spikes before mediating them by growing silent, before after a moment of concentration another spire of bone grew for the hawk.

Their maw stretches their face when opened to full capacity showing off a throat filled with long fine teeth that shred anything that a yalt consumes.

Diet

Rarely eating, yalt are able to consume any meats that they can fit in their mouth often filling their mouth with the muulnir, cattle, and deer of Grania's plains.

Location

Yalt prefer solitude and often travel alone through the plains of Grania.

Reproduction

Classified - Class 1

Communication

Yalt are capable of communicating through mental and auditory stimuli, of which they are capable of initiating both in a way that is understandable by most recorded sentient species.

Diplomacy

Yalt do not often initiate any meetings as they do not require many things, but when recorders track down a yalt they are generally genial in conversation once they have determined that their is no threat.

Prauna capabilities

Capable of powerful illusions yalt have been recorded as only using the illusion branch, once recorded as even managing a projection some fourteen imperial dak.

[leviathansloft]

File#NR-1a

Classified - Class 4

Sentient species registry

Schola identicaida

Aquita Cularin

Iskariin identicaida

Mourgh

Pronunciation

M-or-g

Appearance

Mourgh are large bipedal creatures that can reach heights of thirteen to fifteen feet yet hunch to around two feet less then their max height. Their legs are digitrade taking up 1/3 of their height.

They have feet that posses three forward facing 'toes' that are wide as well as webbed with two spires of bone that act as the heel that they balance upon.

Their arms go 2/3 the length of their body. They are built with shoulder elbow and wrist joints and while their hands are humanoid they posses elongated fingers with webbing between them.

Their skin colors differ (males dark brown - light tan)(females light cerulean to midnight blue) with blue or white stripes coming from their eyes down to their tail to continue towards the end.

Their faces are smooth. Projecting forward from the neck with a psuedo hood. From the back of their head and lying on top of the upturned 'hood's comes a head tail that split into three manipulators with serrated tips for males. These headtails reach to the back of their knees and as they grow older can reach even further.

Communication

Mourgh are capable of human speech and though their own is quite complicated it can be taught. Their voices are made using thin vibrating plates that cause them to sound musical in their speaking and allowing a wider range of noises.

Location

They can be found anywhere warm where fish are found. They often move in groups as large as 30 members and though they prefer fresh pure water they can live in swamps and on the coast.

Reproduction

Mourgh breed during spring when fish are aplenty, and easier to catch due to them traveling in larger swarms.

When a female Mourgh is pregnant they are waited upon by the others in their pod for the seven months it takes for the newborn to be born.

Once the young mourgh is born it will be able to walk, though a bit wobbly. They will grow quickly over the next seven years until they have reached maturity.

Prauna capabilities

So far there have been two documented Mourgh showing magical abilities.

One by the name of Suuwo was the leader of a coastal pod, and used powerful magic to draw in shallow fish, rays, and sharks.

The second was a young Mourgh based in a river pod that died after using magic that caused his blood to turn acidic. It is unknown how he managed this which has baffled many scholarly mages over the years. His name was never given.

Additional

Their appetite is so large that when a pod is asked inland often large pots of fish stew is made by Granian chefs to keep them fed.

[leviathansloft]

File#O-1

[CLASSIFIED-Class 3]

Lost Pariah Protocol

This protocol is only to be acted on in a titan level event.

This protocol allows for operatives to use area denial magic with no limitation.

Should this protocol be acted upon, the operatives shall be declared terrorists that sought the destruction of Granian resources and shall be declared killed in a reactionary assault.

The operatives shall now fall under the designation of the Braun clan and are to send a report through [======] to [====] dictating the use of the Lost Pariah Protocol.

Should use of the Lost Pariah Protocol be accepted affected operatives shall be granted a chest of whent, and given travel to a continent of their choosing within reason.

[leviathansloft]

Granian resource report: N-4-7a

Granian fermented Loira

As one of Grania's most expensive exports, only three hundred velts of it are sold, legally, a year.

Made from the fruit of a Yert tree, the fruit grows hanging in sets of three sky blue pods that are skinned before being pulped.

A series of heady spices are added to the mix then poured into a clay pot that is then sealed for the next sixteen years with workers checking the drink every four years to check look, smell, and taste.

Finally, after sixteen years of waiting the pots are checked one final time.

At this point, the drink is a midnight blue and smells of heady spice.

These pots can go for as much as twelve whent, for export. Within Grania, it would cost as little as one fifty for a lower grade pot of loira.

The reason loira is so expensive is due to Grania's fierce protection from the spreading of yert seeds and pirates and smugglers protect them from the black market buyers to keep the price high. The velt tree is also a very picky plant requiring massive amounts of water and only able to grow in mineral heavy soils. This means the few seeds that get through export fail to sprout.

[leviathansloft]

Granian information report: P-884-C-6

Granian reports

Grania possesses a massive log of information held within the Schola Operandis that holds a copy of every report ever made since it's creation in 104 AHL.

When the schola was first created reports on many things needed to be created in case of government death that another could rise in it's place to protect the people of Grania's territories.

To fix this instead of corporal punishment failing soldiers, scholars, and nobles would be forced to write, copy, and file reports on mundane things within the empire.

These are the main line of report classifications used in punishment.

C - Civilian

D - Daily

H - Historical

M - Military

N - National

O - Operational

P - Policy

[leviathansloft]

Granian settlement classifications

Community - A gathering of families that fall under Granian perview should they rest within its borders, should the needs be dire military personnel are allowed to request tythes from communities.

Req.

Territories must lie within Granian space.

Population must reach one hundred.

Village - The lowest taxed populace at two thousand cresc a year or it's value in supplies. They receive a small amount of protection through right of being Granian land, but few worry about such minor transgressions. The important part of claiming village rights is to be put on all gov't maps from that point on.

Req.

Territories must lie within Granian space.

Population must reach one thousand.

Town - With a reasonable tax at four thousand cresc, or it's equivalent in value, they must also provide a ready dasher of able-bodied men (Four groups of ten.) at all times, and should a military unit ever seek shelter it will be provided free of charge. In exchange they are granted a prauna enhanced weapon, (Though High Morrow was gifted with a chalice that, when holding water, would boil away wards from any object dipped into the water.) a town hall enhanced as to protect its citizens, and the right for an armed militia.

Req.

Must already be declared a village for one year.

Territories must lie within Granian space.

Population estimates must reach twenty thousand.

City - Three noble houses are founded and gifted with an enchanted set of armor. They are also provided with a trained force of justicars and Granian soldiers. Perhaps most importantly the silver road is extended to reach the new city providing new jobs and easier travel. In exchange for this they are saddled with a ten thousand cresc tax to be filled out every year, they are also to have a block of people (Ten teams of dashers.) ready at all times.

Req.

Must already be declared a town for one year.

Territories must lie within Granian space.

Population estimates must reach one hundred twenty thousand.