#zoreyar

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witch girl, dark-eyed

the gods are cruel to you, aren't they?

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the "we are going to beat you to death" lesbian polycule

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офелія смертельна ілюзія

розсипала лілії там де молюся я

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dark-browed loverwoman

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in the folk beliefs of nebokraj, zemjeci are restless spirits of those who died after breaking a taboo against the earth. in their undeath, they are cursed to serve the serpent king for seven hundred years.

krajans beliefs are such: if one kills a snake during the snake festival, or in its sleep, or while the snakes are making love; or if one takes from the earth what they do not need during winter; or otherwise performs a harmful act to the land without giving anything in return; such people in their death become zemjeci.

while on their duty, zemjeci are denied entering the otherworld properly. they are one of many kinds of what nebokrajans call restless dead, or unclean dead — ones who after their death keep the ability to visit the living.

zemjeci are believed to care deeply for their still-living relatives, even trying to help them with husbandry and fieldwork. but such attempts often result in harm and mischief, for zemjeci, no longer being human, do not remember how to act human. their state is unnatural, and so the nature can not accept them. when a zemja tries to herd the cows, the herd, striken with madness, runs away, causing harm to themselves and others. when a zemja tries to weave, they do it backwards, spoiling the fabric. a zemja mother may try to lull her infant child, suffocating it in the process.

zemjeci work for the serpent king, whose husbandry is at the in-between. they herd his oxen, sew his clothes, clean his household, play with his kids. they can act as his messengers to the living. zemjeci are also believed to be tending the snakes, and are often euphemistically (so to not invoke them) called the serpent herders.

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hurja the sun-faced on his wedding day

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cylegme by swine_skin