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    “Fallen is our Golden Age of Bronze, now we lay in a Era of Poison Iron and Ruins"

    The Current Age:

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    Helagro:

    The Blessed Realm of Hapinebu

    WiP Note: Egypt, cold war (fanatical priestess vs patriarchal warlord), once big player

    History:
    Hapinebu was once part of the Sacred Kingdom before Chrysithea burned the First City and destroyed their tongue. It is said that she was going to do the same to Hapinebu until Isial intervened, presented one of her priestesses to Chrysithea and so they did lay to together, gifting a daughter to the priestess who would unite the land in a single nation as the first Sun Queen. Since then Hapinebu has been the oldest continuous nation in the Known World cycling between expansionist and isolationist Queens. Civil war. Roc kills princess

    Location:

    The Land of Tombs

    History:
    When the gods created humanity, they placed them in a great garden of ringed canals with a massive mirrored ziggurat at its center, whose top reached the clouds and whose bottom went down to the very roots of the world. As humanity outgrew the bounty the garden could provide, the people learned to sow and reap, plan and build, crafting from their ringed garden the First City. Eventually the Priest-kings wished to spread farther, and decreed that all the world be scattered and sown under a Sacred Kingdom. At their height they lorded over all the Known World, though only the Heartland lay directly under the Priest-kings’ control. Little more is known of the First City and Sacred Kingdom, for their destruction was more complete than any nation in history. It is debated by philosophers what sin did the Sacred Kingdom commit. It is known only that Chrysithea's rage was so great, not even Enosidas would oppose her.
    First did She claim all the souls of those She considered innocent before melting the very rock of the mountains to seal away the waters of the Great River. Second, She darken her flame before riding into the sky with the liver of Qamukan, ripping it open and raining the Titan’s twisting blood on the Kingdom. She took the very spirit of their language and smeared it in Tiasbu’s desecrated excrement, to curse the very tongue toxic. Finally did She descend, in the brilliance of Her truest form, and burn the land until the very soil dried and turned to sand.

    Since that time, the Sacred Kingdom has been known as The Land of Tombs, or even the Cursed Land.

    Location:
    The Land of Tomb is a vast desert of rolling sand broken up by ruins, blood pools, and nomadic camps. The Divine Ziggurat acts as a central landmark, able to be seen from most areas of the cursed desert. The only modern constructions of note are the, now abandoned, forts and expedition towns set up by Hapinebu and Universities before the Calamity. Before its destruction, the Sacred Kingdom, and especially the First City, was known to possess wealth, crafts, and magics that rivaled or even surpassed the Great Nations of the pre-calamity. This attracts a great number of treasure hunters and scholars to the land, many of whom die. Indeed, between the curses, monsters, and hostile land; the only ones able to truly live in the Land of Tombs are the native Dumah nomads.

    The Dumah:
    The Dumah are a strange, nomadic people known for three things. The first is that they can, and choose to, live in a place as cursed as the Land of Tombs, a place most consider uninhabitable. The second is they speak with their hands, having their tongues cut out when they are children. Third is that they are the only group of note to not worship some version of the Dual Pantheon, instead worshiping a single goddess called The Mother of Stars.
    The Dumah are split into six independent tribes, and a seventh childless “holy” tribe made up of members of the other six who act as the priests and priestesses of The Mother. Tribes nearer Hapinebu are willing to hire themselves out as guides, and they also sell basic goods; but all tribes seem hostile to outside approaching the First City.

    Environment and Dangers: - blood beatles filter water
    The Firegem Desert
    Isial’s Womb & The North
    Urnin
    Isle of Marran
    Isle of Syber
    The Old Boar Forest
    Isle of Atala
    The Underworld
    Land of the Gods

    Worship:

    The Titans, Gods, and even most Spirits live independently of if they are worshiped or not, Divine Beings are ethereal forces of creation so as long as their domain exists so will they. Prayer, ritual, and sacrifice do however imbue the Divine Being with the worshiper’s Aether, making the being more like them. The Gods and Spirits enjoy mortal sensation and so reward worshipers. It should be said that outside high ranking priests and priestess few know and understand this, with most just seeing the worship of the Gods as a normal part of life without questioning why.

    Titans:

    Spawn of the primordial chaos and creators of the known world. “Within the sea of stars five Titans, traveling in ships of their own creation, hunted and slew a great leviathan. Yrdair butchered the corpse, and after removing the meat, then gave to each a different part of the body, only keeping the eyes for themself. To Imdim went the bones and skin which they used to create an island on which to stand. To Nuaspu went the Stomach and Bladder which was used to create the waters of the world. Qamukan took the Lung and Heart to imbue life and breath into the land. Lastly Tiabu took the Brains and Fat , and set them on fire, creating Chrysithea, the Sun, to warm their land. Happy with their work they used the meat and blood to cook a feast and danced so greatly they fell into a full and drunken sleep. From a forgotten bone Chrysithea shaped a great axe, and one by one chopped off the heads of the Titan. She then threw their heads upon their boat and loosened them from their moorings. But the Titans do not die, and their ships are now wandering stars in the sky ever circling their home.”

    Named Titans:

    Gods:

    Gods of beings of place and thought. They were born during or after the creation of the world. “When Enosidas pulled himself from the primordial depths to the surface of the world, he claimed that as the first god born of the world he had claimed rulership over all of the world, including Chrysithea. Enraged by this claim the Sun Goddess leaped from her heavenly boat, axe in hand, and attacked Enosidas. The Conflict to follow would see the birth and even the death of gods, as well many monsters that still plague the world today. Eventually the two came to a stalemate and begrudgingly agreed to share the world as equals. Chrysithea claimed the Above, the sky, wind, weather, and mountains. Enosidas Claimed the Below, the sea, depths, the underground, and the unclaimed dead. In the Between they would share power placing the goddess Isial as its stewart. As an act of peace the Gods all came together to shape a new race of beings of their shared creation, and thus were made the first humans.”

    Named Gods

    Spirits

    Lesser beings of specific areas, landmarks, or great items.

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