Session 076: Earth Evil Prince Defeated & Hell Dragon Report
General Summary
Finishing up the fight against Ogrémoch, & Marlos Urnrayle was the Prophet of Earth and the leader of the Cult of the Black Earth.
Jekkar was able to land the kill blow on Marlos absorbing his epic level soul.
Teams A & B met up in the Fane of the Eye.
Forming new teams:
Hell Dragon
- *John
- *Apollo
- *Theron
- *Phoibe
- *Oren
- *Jekkar
- *Veronica
- *Hyakinthos
- *Khellendros
- *Anora
- *Hulgnir
- *Euadne
- *Krýstallia
- *Aetheria
- *Arkrainia
- *Sapheiros
- *Smarágdia
- *Pyra
- *Heldig
- *Ollidak
- *Jörmungandr
This nation of strong and beautiful women sits at the mouth of the Argent River. The Duchy of Perun's Daughter, as outsiders call it, lies several days downriver from the Free City and is a land of some interest to the people of Zobeck for two reasons: The nation controls the River Argent's connection to land and trade venues on the shores of the Ruby Sea, and its matriarchal and matrilineal country is ruled by the demigoddess Vasilka Soulay, the daughter of Perun, god of war and thunder and the greatest god of the East.
Perunalia is small but well ruled: rich in the trade of fish and oysters from the river mouth, in timber, in the crafts and fine jewel work, and in divine magic. None of these trades will ever raise the land to glory, but they keep its people happy, healthy, and give them time for reflection, trade, and the pursuit of art.
Aside from the Magocracy of Allain, Perunalia is the land most given to education, literacy, and the keeping of lore from ancient times, befitting a land that once held the seat of the elven empire, when the Golden Court stood among the Summer Gardens in the Gennecka Forest. The duchy's learning is not focused on the arcane, but rather on practical matters of mathematics, botany, agronomy, and architecture, all of which enrich the duchy's fields and its people. The Royal Konytari, the library in the capital city, is a wing of the royal palace; it is open to the public one day each week. The Perunalians accept noble daughters from the Crossroads region into their academies, including those from the Magdar Kingdom and the Greater Duchy of Morgau, but they never take male students. Zobeck's Azeleanara Perunisis, a retired Perunalian emigrant, sponsors several annual scholarships for worthy girls to attend Sephaya's schools.
Oddly, worship and theology are relatively neglected. Her Divine Transcendence, the Duchess Vasilka, grants boons and answers prayers to a small priesthood, though most of her people also follow the Green Gods and worship Lada.
Vasilka's power provides a bulwark against the centaurs and bandits of the Ruby Despotate, against the dragonborn legions of the Mharoti Empire, and (rarely) against the cunning cavalry of the Magdar Kingdom. Rivalry between the Magdar and Perunalians has waned with the Mharoti threat on their doorstep.
In times of trouble, though, they have a friend in the Free City of Zobeck; their mutual alliance dates back 90 years and remains firm. Perunalia is entirely capable of defending her people, though the duchy also hires entire centaur clans to aid in keeping the Mharoti at bay - and regularly allies with the Magdar against the Dragon Empire, their common foe. The Perunalian warrior tradition is primarily a female one: visitors remark on how strange it is to see only female city guards at the gates and are impressed when they see the duchess's horse guards riding by - every one of them a woman of skill and daring. The typical Perunalian response is a somewhat wry, "We have no idea why you trust men with swords and fire, given how they act with it." The most powerful of her defenders are the amazons of Perunalia.
Women who flee the Despotate, Blood Kingdom, or the Magdar Kingdom to the duchy's borders are welcomed and put to work as soldiers, weavers, and farmers. The Perunalian generals and marshals of the Order of the White Lions - a society of female paladins - are canny enough to raise levies from both men and women alike in times of war. The men, it is said, are inspired to greater courage by the bravery of the amazons who lead them.
The duchy is not entirely gloriously enlightened, selfless, and wise; the merchants of Zobeck consider Perunalians an especially sharp set of traders who sometimes take goods by force to feed their troops or negotiate contracts at sword point. The duchy is a realm like no other, and its people would have it no other way.
Within Perunalia, men are treated as the weaker sex, more for their assumed mental abilities rather than their physical ones. The female rulers deem males too driven by emotions like envy, rage, and sexual desire to take up the serious duties of defense, war, government, and business. Men's roles are therefore reserved for child rearing, maintaining households, and performing limited manual labor, in which their physical strength gives them an advantage. Hard work tempers them, gentling their emotions and making them more pliable for mating. Men may not own property or receive formal education.
Merchant and artisan trades, mining, soldiering, scholarship, and most other trades are reserved for women, but Perunalia's men do apprentice in certain allowable trades, performing jobs like blacksmithing, farming, shipbuilding, lumberjacking, animal husbandry, and the like. Their wives take care of the money gained from such endeavors, and they provide any needed protection. *Koboldpress.com's Midgard campaign book. The party was able to find a hidden room in the capital city's main school, where 10 labelled jars were discovered.
Theron pocketed them & drew the hell Dragon to the hells where they fought & Jekkar was able to defeat it.
Going to his domain, Jekkar spoke to the souls to discover that they were the true souls of the furniture that Lilith, the Hell Dragon replaced them with.
Perun feels familiar, & like an ally to you all, he is the lord of thunder, divine force of beer, & lord of war.
