Prophecy
Door: Michael van Gemen
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04 September 2017 | Nederland, Velden
After Thassilon's collapse and the volcanic eruption that destroyed nearly a quarter of the city, many of Xin-Shalast's slaves found themselves suddenly freed, yet without the gear or experience to make escaping the city possible.
Instead, they retreated to the deep caves below, where they found themselves safe within cysts that formed among the ruined buildings.
Led by a woman named Mesmina, a powerful Cleric of Lissala who had abandoned her loyalty to Karzoug with the empire's fall, they remained beneath the notice of the remaining inhabitants of the city above, and over the course of hundreds of generations, they evolved into something beyond humanity; a race of chameleonlike humanoids called Skulks.
Calling themselves the Spared, these survivors believed in a divine mandate handed down from Mesmina that they were meant to survive, no matter the cost, and find freedom in the city that once oppressed them.
Over the years, the Spared excavated a series of tunnels through the earth and grew to know the tangle of caverns connecting various cysts and partially intact buildings buried in the flow.
They scavenge vermin and what plants and fungi are able to grow in their humid tunnels and only rarely make use of their hidden surface entrance.
After centuries of undisturbed isolation, trouble has come to the tunnels of the Spared. recent diggings to expand their warrens broke through into the passages of the Hypogeum.
Though the breach was quickly repaired and camouflaged to avoid the notice of the savage tribes occupying those subterranean quarters, it was not done quickly enough, and something passed undetected into their tunnels.
With this creature, a hideous abnormality known only as the Hidden Beast, the Spared find themselves once again enslaved.
It is ensconced within the inner chambers of these tunnels, surrounded by dominated Skulks who do its bidding.
The ancient prophecies of Mesmina say that when the Spared become enslaved once more, strangers like their ancestors pictured (and described) in their murals will come to free them..
"
Then the eater of Giants arrives, Music follows,
Minds bent around the Veil, and the Hammer falls,
Enslaved are freed, all are Spared
"
Instead, they retreated to the deep caves below, where they found themselves safe within cysts that formed among the ruined buildings.
Led by a woman named Mesmina, a powerful Cleric of Lissala who had abandoned her loyalty to Karzoug with the empire's fall, they remained beneath the notice of the remaining inhabitants of the city above, and over the course of hundreds of generations, they evolved into something beyond humanity; a race of chameleonlike humanoids called Skulks.
Calling themselves the Spared, these survivors believed in a divine mandate handed down from Mesmina that they were meant to survive, no matter the cost, and find freedom in the city that once oppressed them.
Over the years, the Spared excavated a series of tunnels through the earth and grew to know the tangle of caverns connecting various cysts and partially intact buildings buried in the flow.
They scavenge vermin and what plants and fungi are able to grow in their humid tunnels and only rarely make use of their hidden surface entrance.
After centuries of undisturbed isolation, trouble has come to the tunnels of the Spared. recent diggings to expand their warrens broke through into the passages of the Hypogeum.
Though the breach was quickly repaired and camouflaged to avoid the notice of the savage tribes occupying those subterranean quarters, it was not done quickly enough, and something passed undetected into their tunnels.
With this creature, a hideous abnormality known only as the Hidden Beast, the Spared find themselves once again enslaved.
It is ensconced within the inner chambers of these tunnels, surrounded by dominated Skulks who do its bidding.
The ancient prophecies of Mesmina say that when the Spared become enslaved once more, strangers like their ancestors pictured (and described) in their murals will come to free them..
"
Then the eater of Giants arrives, Music follows,
Minds bent around the Veil, and the Hammer falls,
Enslaved are freed, all are Spared
"
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