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My dealer: got some straight gas💯🔥it’s called “The Golden Flame” you’ll be zoinked out of your gourd😳
Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit
10 minutes later: dude, I swear we’re maggots feasting on the divine corpse of God.
My good friend Caeshos pacing: something moved in the water.
P cred @windchillfactor
Day 5 After the Barrier/Overworld
Lets watch the sun rise and fall for the first time...Isn’t it beautiful?
The colouring is a bit messed up but oh well! Might fix it…. maybe….
Hope you like it!
@fransweek
Varieties of Death ch.1
Necromancy is considered illegal and highly morally dubious, in the Ekimenae. As pulling someone back into the land of the living is highly traumatizing for the victim.
It’s important to know that communing with the dead is not considered necromancy.
A form of necromancy that can only be used on victims that have died recently, is piercing the victims sternum to trap the soul underneath. Note that the weapon has to be made out of metal, if it’s made out of something like wood, the soul will escape.
The band of warriors known as the Fearni-drun drink a concoction before battle, so that if they die mushrooms will shoot out all over their body and puppet them to fight again.
In 416 A.D. (after dark) an incident called the great pickler massacre happened. The council of Ur-ula decided that the process of pickling is necromancy, and all picklers are necromancers. So over the course of twenty years, seven hundred picklers were killed. This decision was eventually reversed.
~Varieties of Death by Hashur, of house kairos, 156th of its name, etc
Single bladed strike
This combat style is on focused on placing all your energy in to a singular attack. While this will exhaust even the most devoted of practitioners, their victims usually die almost instantly.
The single bladed strike combat style was commonly used by those devoted to the death Gods, especially in their war against the immortal mage-kings of Kara-kesh.
Unfortunately it fell out of use as other combat styles specialized in ways that it could not, it’s also really hard to learn. Now only a few monastery and a single family still practice it. That family’s name is Ammuna. Knowledge of the single bladed strike has been passed down for 17 generations, to the eldest child.
A popular Sehellic folktale about the style, says that the famous archer Septiop used it to pierce through 8 heads of his rivals.
~manual for war makers
Sun Fall
The port-city of Nakaida
Nakaida is one of the most important cities in the Riverlands. Even if it’s overshadowed by its sister city of Tel shelad. It is an incredibly important holy site for the cult of Kairos, as it’s said that this is where they appeared to bless the high Prophetess, long ago.
When I first arrived at Nakaida, the first thing I noticed was the smell. It wasn’t bad, it was just very intense, a thousand different perfumes and candles, food and birds. The second thing I noticed was how colourful everything was. People were waving flags everywhere, and I saw many different and strange people. I met up with my guide, a Nokk by the name of Voski. We travelled down a canal into the heart of the city. Apparently Nakaida is famous for its network of canals, most of them were built after a great flood submerged most of the city.
Most people in Nakaida can read, as all of the shrines also double as schools.
Voski told me that the ziggurat in the middle of the city, is where the high prophetess is buried and it’s where the city council lives.
~The journey to the east by Arippus, of the six river walk
The fifty year war
The fifty year war was a series of raids and skirmishes in the 3rd century A.D, happening mostly on the northern half of the Bul-redalir river.
The aggressors were a group of pirates from the bay of Akkrae, they mostly attacked small villages and hamlets with little defences. There was at most, around 350 of them. Nobody from Akkrae has ever confessed to being apart of it, and some even deny it happening.
Raiding has always been a problem in that region, but never to this extent. The agreed upon, first raid happened in the village of Ibra niwan. A few got hurt and nobody died, but most of the village burned down and all valuables were stolen.
This continued for years. The raids growing intensity and frequency, as they travelled down the river, until the raiders attacked Asharada. It’s an incredibly important city even today, the entrance to the central Riverlands, and a holy site for the Cult of the bleeding God.
The raiders sieged the city for one and a half weeks, while Asharada called for help. City further down the river, sent reinforcements, fearing that if Asharada fell, they would be next. The reinforcements attacked the raiders from the back and killed most of them.
Raids still happen in that region, but significantly less and most people agree that the war ended there.
~A traveller’s guide to the Ekimenae by Viktor Dumont
