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 ====== Ravelcrux ====== ====== Ravelcrux ======
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 +Sequel campaign to Ravelcrux Part I, of which no written records survive. No chronicle was kept; this is basically a tl;dr encyclopedia to keep track of all the weird cultures and lore that were sloshing around. 
  
 ^Ravel ^ ^Ravel ^
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 ^Wizzani (Gnomes) ^ ^Wizzani (Gnomes) ^
 |The diminutive Wizzani originate from deep distant forests where they developed exceptional skills at gardening and growing all sorts of plants, whether for food or for aesthetics. The Wizzani also possess a unique defense mechanism: when stressed or frightened, a Wizzani may turn themselves to stone temporarily (including everything they are holding or wearing). The Syncretism has had great success in integrating the Wizzani, although there is at least one hidden and unregistered village of gnomes underground somewhere that rejects the teachings. | |The diminutive Wizzani originate from deep distant forests where they developed exceptional skills at gardening and growing all sorts of plants, whether for food or for aesthetics. The Wizzani also possess a unique defense mechanism: when stressed or frightened, a Wizzani may turn themselves to stone temporarily (including everything they are holding or wearing). The Syncretism has had great success in integrating the Wizzani, although there is at least one hidden and unregistered village of gnomes underground somewhere that rejects the teachings. |
-^Maltani (Succubi) ^ +^Maljani (Succubi) ^ 
-|The Maltani are highly androgynous beings that can change their bodies to switch fluidly between male and female sexual characteristics, even mixing and matching them on a whim. They also produce pheromones that cause others to love them on contact, which they used to use to rule over others in any way they pleased. When first discovered and introduced to the world, their leader decided to use its powers to enthrall all other world leaders and install itself as absolute dictator- a plan that was foiled immediately by the presence of the troll leader, who like all his kind fervently desired the destruction of the thing he loved most and carried his desires out with a table-knife. Today succubi are by and large as respectable and upright of citizens as any, and have mostly abandoned the exalted positions of power and rulership their race once enjoyed. |+|The Maljani are highly androgynous beings that can change their bodies to switch fluidly between male and female sexual characteristics, even mixing and matching them on a whim. They also produce pheromones that cause others to love them on contact, which they used to use to rule over others in any way they pleased. When first discovered and introduced to the world, their leader decided to use its powers to enthrall all other world leaders and install itself as absolute dictator- a plan that was foiled immediately by the presence of the troll leader, who like all his kind fervently desired the destruction of the thing he loved most and carried his desires out with a table-knife. Today succubi are by and large as respectable and upright of citizens as any, and have mostly abandoned the exalted positions of power and rulership their race once enjoyed. | 
 +^Notani (Mummies) ^ 
 +|Before the Ravelcrux, a great Humani civilization flourished in the lands rimward of what is now the Boiling Sea. They carefully preserved the bodies of their exalted dead and laid them to rest in complex subterranean tombs, surrounded with treasure. A few decades ago, those same dead started to re-awaken. Mummies have no memory of who they used to be, and truthfully it doesn't matter. They trade away their millenia-old finery for food and goods, turning their old houses of death into homes for living. The Notani cannot die of old age, but are as vulnerable to violence and accident as any of us. Being undead, they cannot reproduce. When the last Notani dies their race will be gone forever, perhaps. | 
 +^Maerani (Sprites) ^ 
 +|Every spring, a new generation of sprites hatches in their alpine lake homes. They dwell underwater in the homes constructed by their ancestors, bonding and exploring and carefully recording all of the knowledge they possess in their community's Memory Palace for the benefit of future generations. Come the next spring they enter cocoons for a week, then emerge transformed. A mature sprite has beautiful wings that it uses to leave the water and take to the air, but no mouth. A mouth isn't necessary, for a mature sprite has but one function: to mate wildly and then to die, strewing the mountainside with their little finger-length corpses. Eggs are laid in the community lake, and shortly afterward a new generation hatches to start the cycle again.| 
 +^Caynani (Werewolves) ^ 
 +|A werewolf is born with two bodies from the same womb: a wolf puppy and a Humani-looking baby with golden eyes. The two are inseparable in all but the most literal sense until the onset of puberty, where the two bodies slowly and awkwardly fuse together into a hybrid form. By the time a werewolf becomes a mature adult, they can switch between their two shapes at will with ease. Once considered savage and highly mistrusted by more civilized peoples, the Syncretism has for the most part tamed the wolves and brought them into the fold. Werewolves have strong family bonds, excellent senses of smell and almost never choose vegetarianism. | 
 +^Sharjani (Treants) ^ 
 +|Long ago, an evil spirit called the Gardener turned hapless people of all nations into helpless trees while maintaining their sentience and ability to feel pain. The Four Saints slew the Gardener and released its hundreds of captives from their ensorcelment, but soon after the Four Saints left all the members of this new society were slaughtered by another evil spirit, Zhao the Many. Sharji never forgot. When Sharji learned the secret of resurrection, he came back and put right the second great injustice done to these people. He did not know that when he reached beyond the veil of death to bring them back, he also brought back a splinter of the lingering tree-magic within them. In time, those that Sharji brought back sprouted branches, became covered in bark. They became a new race named for their savior. | 
 +^Gwarani (Mind Flayers) ^ 
 +|In the rimward Lightside desert where the extraterrestrial god-beasts crash down and are rapidly broken down for salvage by the Mortani, one particular god-beast strayed far from the normal regions and smashed down in a coastal scrubland outside the bounds of the lands the Mortani consider their own. As it happened, it was infested with humanoid parasites that drank its cerebrospinal fluid as an important supplement to their diet. The Gwarani managed to survive even when their host did not, and now they host a small, but successful village in and among its bones. Though they live in air now, the Gwarani still require access to cerebrospinal fluid and brain matter in order to survive- and have no qualms about satisfying this need from sentient creatures, should the need arise. Perhaps as a result of their alien origins or diet, the Gwarani are naturally telepathic and highly gifted in mental magics. |
 ^Refani (Phantoms) ^ ^Refani (Phantoms) ^
-| | +|The Refani are an enigma. In all ways, they appear and act just like normal Humani except for the fact they they only can be viewed- indeed, maybe even only exist- in mirrors. When a Refani moves or interacts with the reflection of a thing in the real world, the real world is affected equally by a seemingly invisible force- but take away the mirror, and the force disappears. Scholars have asked the Refani what existence is like for them when they aren't reflecting the real world, but it seems that our language has no vocabulary for the space outside the looking-glass. |
-^Thasani (Minotaurs) ^ +
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-^Yayani (Harpies) ^ +
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 ^Xiphani (Mothmen) ^ ^Xiphani (Mothmen) ^
-| | +|Thought by many to be only an urban legend, the Xiphani are real but only rarely seen. The appearance of a Xiphani in a settlement is a great cause for alarm, for everyone know that where a mothman goes horrific disaster is always only a few steps behind. The truth is that the Xiphani have a limited ability to see the future and appear on the dawn of catastrophe in an attempt to spread a warning, but are instead blamed for it due to their inability to communicate in any way other than pantomime and projecting emotions. |
-^Sharjani (Treants) ^ +
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 ^Hemani (Cyclopses) ^ ^Hemani (Cyclopses) ^
-| | +|The Hemani were created not by the Ravelcrux but by more artificial means in the Second Age and imprisoned in volcanoes around the world by their sorcerer-god masters to harness their exquisite smithing skills. It is for this reason that most remaining Hemani have cultivated an intense, personal hatred of all deities and would-be deities. Only the Hemani men are wise, skilled and immortal; Hemani women are much smaller and shorter-lived than the men (averaging a lifespan of twenty years) and possess the mental acuity of cattle. Only one Hemani child in a thousand is born male, and every female is near-identical in every observable and genetic sense. And so the volcanic prisons of their kind are generally structured around a single chained man and his harem of interchangeable daughter-wives. |
-^Cuirani (Animate Armor) ^ +
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-^Notani (Mummies) ^ +
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-^Umani (Fishmen) ^ +
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-^Gwarani (Mind Flayers) ^ +
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-^Drydani (Arachnitaurs) ^ +
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-^Ferani (Werewolves) ^ +
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-^Maerani (Sylphids) ^ +
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-^Jinnani (Genies) ^ +
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-^Duwani (Gorgons) ^ +
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-^Glubani (Ettins) ^ +
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-^Jhavani (Reptoids) ^ +
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-^Noktani (Incubi) ^ +
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 ^Felani (Catgirls) ^ ^Felani (Catgirls) ^
-| |+|There is no such thing as a catboy. The Felani are a one-sex race that is capable of having offspring with males from any other race, generally in groups of one to three little Felani kittens whose hair patterns resemble their father's race. It's also not unusual for a Felani to be raised solely by her father, and there is little or no distinct Felani culture to speak of. You'll find them around the edges of every culture, trying to fit in or failing that, slinking off in the night without a word to anyone to find more interesting lives elsewhere. |
  
 ===== Players ===== ===== Players =====
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   * **Fheraz the Joker:** Rosani owner of the Jenny Haniver. A charming scoundrel with a keen eye for business.   * **Fheraz the Joker:** Rosani owner of the Jenny Haniver. A charming scoundrel with a keen eye for business.
   * **Grishnak the Oily:** A troll. Fheraz's best friend and also his lawyer.   * **Grishnak the Oily:** A troll. Fheraz's best friend and also his lawyer.
-  * **Lapaka the Serene:** A Nogani woman. The ship's captain and chief navigator.+  * **Lapaka the Serene:** A Nogani woman. The ship's captain. 
 +  * **Tengill the Lost:** Has been here the entire time, but getting eaten by the Godgoyle's body erased him from the universe's memory.
  
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