Chapter 1: Begins with a Tale of Wonder

While in Dakla , the players are just in time for the Festival of the Jackal. It is a great celebration with lanters, small candied cakes shaped as the jackal, songs embellishing the tales of the Jackal, and at night, to the sound of thunder (large gongs and trumpets), the Jackal leaves gifts on the doorstep of good boys and girls (And jugs of beer for the men and women for putting up with a hour of “Thunder” at night. As the story goes… In the days of old, when Khemit first became occupied, the people of Dakla became desperate for food after bad drought and concessions made with the Hyborians occupying the kingdom. The people were starving, and they prayed for a miracle. That night, there was a great desert storm. Lightning struck the mountain. Embellishments say that the old gods were battling the new ones. To protect the people of Dakla, one of the old gods sacrificed himself in a great flash of light at the top of the mountain. In the morning, the river was beginning to rise and scattered around town up to the foot of the mountain, various coins and small Onyx statues of jackals were found. It was a miracle of wealth that brought prosperity to the town and saved it from starvation.