Eggheads

For most of the Drakiss in Morton, Jorrath's Egg is an important symbol of their heritage and the centre of many parts of their culture. For the Eggheads, however, it has a much greater religious significance as a promise of the future coming of the drakkunn who will return them to the proper role for a community of drakiss - the crew of a great drakkun, and not the enseen engineers of human waste.

To themselves they are not Eggheads - a disparaging term used in reference to them, but "Mariko Allivud" - "Heralds of the Dawn"

Origins of the Eggheads

The Eggheads can be thought of as the hard core of the Cult of the Egg. In any group, some will take a founder's philosophy and run with it, taking it to extremes not intended by the originator. Do this to Vigrepar "Longnose"'s philospphy and you will end up with the Eggheads.

Beliefs of the Eggheads

Their beliefs are similar to those hald to be the Cult of the Egg, but held with the conviction of true believers, rather than as a social allegory. The key principles are:-

• That the Jorrath's Egg will hatch.
• That this can be brought about by adhering to proper drakiss tradition.
• That the drakkun will free them from their subserviance to humans

It goes without saying that while wider drakiss society does not reject these principles, they do note that few thousand year old eggs are known to have hatched, that the drakiss have almost as many traditions on any given point as there are drakiss crews and that many drakkun are, at best, hard to live with.

Approach of the Eggheads

At any one time the numbers of true Eggheads are small, a scant handful, but they move within the more mainstream Cult of the Egg trying to nudge it in the direction of their beliefs. Occasionally some will prompt for more positive action but the leaders of the Morton Drakiss are well aware of the Egghead's existence and can get almost human in their vindictiveness to rabble rousing and the more extreme fundamentals of the Eggheads.

Both their own approach and that of the more secular authorities is in part driven by the secession of a group of the first Eggheads in the years following Vigrepar "Longnose"'s death - Fivunisel's Treck, which saw the loss of the second egg left in the care of Jorrath's Crew. Perhaps once in a generation one or two Eggheads will go in search of the lost egg; and much thought and debate has taken place to try to understand why Fivunisel's group failed and how they can bring about the hatchingof the remaining egg.

Fivunisel's Treck

Some 20 years after Vigrepar "Longnose" died the more extreme of their adherents had come to the conclusion that the Morton Drakiss were not a fit group to have the care for a drakkun's egg. Six of the firmest in the belief, stole one of the two eggs that the Crew had from Jorrath and Sbrithnir's clutch, and headed for the mountains.

Most of the Morton Drakiss were scandalised by this and the more messianic teachings of the Cult were suppressed. Six months later one of the absconders - Fivunisel returned to Morton as a stowaway on a river barge, with a harrowing tale of how the group had turned against itself and the egg had been lost in the River Durran