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From The Catalog of Hurian Fuana by Aziz ib-Sahan (Naturalist of Lyhia)

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Hurian rock yak

The Hurian rock yak is a mostly domesticated long-haired oxen known for their wild swept back horns and silky brown and gray hair. Hardy animals that can survive long periods of time on little food these herbivores survive mostly on what can be had in the valley meadows of Huria. Another prominent feature is their bulbous glossy black eyes that appear like black portals to another realm. While domesticated by many tribes rock yaks can be a surly beasts especially in large numbers and in mating season. To avoid aggressive behaviors they are often put out to pasture with specially trained handlers to protect them. Shaman use their strange twisted horns to create instruments that are said to be able to summon sky devils to fight alongside them.

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Ponga Men

The practice of brain mutilation in the Hypraxian kingdom of Tha’raka is well established. Most believe the surgery is to enhance the magickal prowess of sorcerers but it is also used for a more monstrous end; to create mindless hulking abominations. Tha’rakari brain surgeons have discovered using a combination of mutilation and powerful drugs that a human can be made utterly obedient, fearless and blood thirsty.

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Ozena & Pzar

Ozena and Pzar are the Hvar goddess of the moon whose forbidden love destroyed the other gods, leaving them alone to rule over the heavens. Ozena & Pzar are portrayed as two tribal women, one imposing like a bear the other delicate like a winter flower.

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Bleak Legionnaires

In the Dinorian faith the Bleak Legionnaires are the rank and file soldiers of the legions of Drankus, the king of hell. The Bleak Legionnaires are not demons but the souls of soldiers that were consumed by the dark spirit of war in their mortal years. Only a fraction of those who have gone to war as soldiers are cursed to eternal torment, those men and women who reveled in violence, those who killed and terrorized without compunction. In Dinorian eschatology the Bleak Legionnaires will be unleashed upon the at then end times, when destroyed they only return to fight again. In art the Bleak Legionnaires are depicted as soldiers from a thousand nations all armed and armored as they were at the time of death.

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Black breath

With this spell an infernalist channels a noxious miasma from the infernal depths and belches fourth a cloud of corrosive gas. Depending on the power and corruption of the infernalist this cloud can be confined to a small area or across an entire battlefield. The noxious miasma rarely kills but can easily sicken, temporarily blind and disorient all who come into context with it.

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White Men of Hidazoka

The White Men of Hidazoka are scuramancy bred soldiers under the control of Clan Utuhida, the most powerful family of the Kyhashu Shogunate. How the Utuhida Clan came by the resources of employing powerful scuramancers is still a mystery. The White Men of Hidazoka are like the thurgilmen of Thelesia; powerful obedient warriors with no fear of death. The mysterious creators of the White Men imbued their creations with a number of powerful and frightening abilities amongst them immunity to fire, regeneration and a poison bite. The White Men of Hidazoka are a ghastly looking lot with their ashen skin, yellow eyes and skin marred with ritual mutilations.

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War golems of the Temple

Within the Fifth Temple of the Star of Light, the holiest location in the Elshar faith are said to be golems constructed of clay and empowered by the name of god. Few have seen these constructs but they are said to resemble hulking men with no faces and clad in bands of gold bearing scripture. Said to be in the depths of the temple where they guard the Crucible of Atonement, where the true presence of Elshahim is said to reside. The war golems are immune to the weapons of man and can only be made to submit by the Shimzak, the highest priest of the temple or by the will of the Almighty.

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Sketch of a flesh node from the Codex Alkalcum by Ezrion gul-Miriun.

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Flesh node

The vile sorcerers of Gaz Zicarum have a grotesque practice of using constructed masses of writhing flesh and pulsating organs to generate ethereal energy for their scuramantic sorcery. Deep in the bowels of their fortress these undulating masses of flesh grow like malignant tumors, the larger they get the more esoteric power they generate. The sorcerers must be weary because if these abominations grow too large the power they generate can open portals for cosmic abominations to enter our world.

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Pyrataph

The pyrataph are a race of godlike beings that roam the darkest gulfs of space. They resemble mighty four sided pyramids made of solid starlight aglow with the plasma of creation. Within these pyramids are said to be the vibrations of fallen gods so they do not come to know oblivion. The pyrataph seek out beings of chaos and those who hate life and they snuff them out with their weapons of terrible power.

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Sha-pang Mountain

Sha-pang Mountain is the highest and most sacred peak in all of Ungju. In Ungju folklore the mountain gave refuge to the last uncorrupted souls when the earth was flooded in a deluge of blood. Protected by the king’s law only holy men and pilgrims are allowed to visit the mountain on the winter solstice.

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Mikthar, Laugher in the Darkness

The worship of the god Mikthar began in the Nykan free city of Prosa where for centuries he was little more than a petty deity with an inconsequential cult following. It was not until a century ago when the meek leader of Mikthar’s cult, a man remembered only as the Laughing Cantor fulfilled a great prophecy that that haunted the city since its founding, the Ghost Plague Prophecy.

After the Laughing Cantor saved Prosa the cult of Mikthar became a wildly popular religion eventually driving all other gods from the city. In the following decades followers of Mikthar have spread out across the world preaching the word bringing their faith as far as Romeria and Hypraxia.

Mikthar is the god of spirits and gateways between worlds, a facilitator that allows the dead to pass to and fro the world of the living. His priests that allow spirits to enter their body are known to deliver prophecy and council with strange and an often dark sense of humor. Prophecy is a vague thing and we should consider it with great caution but with that I said I have been impressed, and disturbed with the accuracy of Mikthar’s prophets. The Laughing Priests of Mikthar wander the world attaching themselves to seemingly random individuals whom they help guide to positions of influence.

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Blood eaters

The blood eaters are nightmarish creatures said to haunt the mountains of Huria hunting the savage tribes that call it home. The blood eaters are said to appear as brutish humans, a lesser evolved simulacrum of man. Living in caves the blood eaters come out only to hunt for living flesh. Despite their thick limbs and hunched over bodies they are said to have preternatural speed, the ability to walk in shadows and control fire. Among the shamans and medicine men of Huria it is whispered that the blood eaters were once a less developed species of man that became possessed by alien spirits that descended to our world sealed inside a meteor.

“Their souls are older than the stars but they wear the skin of savage children.”

-Vroka Sorok the Whisperer of Huria

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Ghor Mhaag

Ghor Mhaag is a mindless star worm whose leviathan body is covered in plague filled pustules the size of mountains. Spoken of in Erushan lore Ghor Mhaag is the idiot father of all sickness who can only be felled by the righteous hand of the Black Goddess.

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Abiogenesis

Abiogenesis is the occult belief that life can spring from, or be created from inorganic material. While it is widely dismissed as a fraudulent belief in the deepest esoteric circles there is allegedly some truth to it. The master sorcerers of the Old World were said to be able to create living flesh from stone and metal. The only known examples of Old World rituals involving abiogenesis can be found in the rare codex Libur Nahlus.

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From the War Journal of Empire Vol 14 written and illustrated by Ehud el-Sharhem.

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