Empire 6: Embers of Dawn IC

[Tychris1]

Creatures of Ancient Ways
Tarandi Region 137 The Carrion Ward

Wounded-Vulture-That-Nests-In-Skystruck-Tree

Actions

1. [MILITARY] SPECIAL 5 Recruit Hero "Old Lion, No Pride, No Death": The Ancient has returned! The Land walks amongst us and we tremble! He who gazed upon the sky as it bled! In ages past the stories go when the Old Lion was Young Cub he fled his Pride in the Scavenger Wars to travel the wider world. A roaming Adventurer's Spirit. But his Pride was ravaged and when he returned in wizened age he found no refuge in the caves of the Carrion Ward! We cast him away as he descended into a senescent demise. The Coward clings to an unwanted life, a centenarian monster of no home, and stubborn refusal of death. Many cycles have taken place since last No-Death has returned from roaming to the Carrion Ward, longer still than even some Vultures have lived, and his latest attempt at reclaiming a spot in his ancestral home as heralded a change in the winds. Some chitter at the Gray Lake that his death could soon be at hand. Others know better.

2. [MILITARY] Raise One Unit: Lions leave their regal caves! Rats make haste to swell the Warren. Hyenas of open plains and craggy rocks swear bonding pack oaths beneath the new moon and Snow Leopards sing out in the dead of night. Some travelers through the Carrion Ward report strange shifting clouds of a twilight shade, the swarming patterns of Wasps or Flies who have banded together.

3. [SECRET]: Now sleep, awake in times of deception, and dream of distant dreams where insensibility is history. Roll

4. [DIPLOMACY] SPECIAL 5 Cultural Identity "Natural Philosophy" (2d8 on Conversion Rolls): Scavengers are Natural Philosophers. Many a denizen of the Carrion Ward spends countless sessions in the Poppy Fields dreaming of strange sights, reciting stories of lives past, and pondering the nature of the world. They are extraordinarily quick studies in the field, Flies capable of proselytizing with adamant fervor, and memorize talking points and ritual with frightening accuracy. A spiritual bond felt not only amongst themselves but with a number of creatures in the mortal world.

5. [DIPLOMACY] Attend Event: Wounded-Vulture-That-Nests-In-Skystruck-Tree heads north in Tarandi on word from a Truthseer that the Two-Legs were gathering to speak of the Cerulean Crow that banished the blooded sky and returned us to blessed twilight. A step towards the Unbroken Dream. She is accompanied by a Fly she adopts along the way, Sleeps-In-Fire, and a Cave Hyena she helped nurse back to life when she was younger, Highrock-Songs. They have little hope for convincing the Two-Legs the error of their ways but Skystruck-Tree is hopeful that the tales of Two-Leg hearts being gripped by darkness are hyperbole. To at least some extent.
Event Sub-Actions: Gift Writing to Shandole (SHN), Sangar (SAN), Brayewen Tribes (BRA), and Eleftheria.

Non-Actions:
- Accept the Dreamspeakers offer to explore Southwest of Region 137 The Carrion Ward.
- Accept the offers of Delegations and the uplifting of animals from Sangar and Shandole
- Send a Snow Leopard, Rain-Spotted-Leopard-Who-We-Found-In-New-Moon, to Aran Viska to observe their people and begin the work of education and spirituality

News and Rumors:
- A Rat quickly gains prominence as a holy figure. Duskeyed-Rat-Of-Dreamcut-Tail, who translates the meanings of their strange Poppy induced visions in the form of dance, has gathered a following of several Scavengers who look to them for wisdom.
- Hunters are spotted near the heart of the Carrion Ward for the first time in dozens of cycles. They are swiftly mauled by roving Snow Leopards picking them apart one by one but not before their presence unsettled the still waters of the Gray Lake. What this could mean is feverishly discussed at the holy site and all consider it an ill omen.
- Highrock-Songs returns from northern territories to her pack though rumors spread of her dissatisfaction, most evident from her lackluster howling on her eponymous craggy stage.
-A gang of Beetles begins the work of driving off the ancient whose name is spoken in disgusted whispers, Old-Lion-No-Pride-No-Death, and have made a habit of dropping dung on him from the tops of trees before fleeing.

Spoiler: BOOKKEEPING

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D: 5
M: 5
O: 1
F: 4
I: 4

Expected Stat Increases: +1 Dip, +1 Mil

New Ruler Next Round?
No

Military Units 0/6
- none

Heroes:
- none

Embassies:
- none

Technologies
Temporary Cultural Identity - None
Permanent Cultural Identities - EMPTY

Tactical Doctrines
- Reckless Charge
- Skirmishing
- Cautious Advance

- Special Materials
- Armor
- Weaponry
- Ranged Weaponry
- Cavalry
- Scouts and Logistics
- War Beasts
- Combat Drugs and Medicine
- Fortifications
- Sappers and Siege Weapons
- Subterfuge

Trading posts (1)
- 137 (Taiga Poppy) TP1