hermes421 wrote:
I am very interested for any scenario, ressource, everything about Volucreth,
I recently started a new campaign set in Ongus with a plot involving Volucreth.
The Volucreth have a civilisation (similar to that of the Aztecs) deep in the mountains of the Mungodan continent. They regard themselves as the only truly civilised race with the most advanced culture and technology (and on some of the technological aspects they certainly exceed what is seen in the Coradian/Ta'ashim lands. They regard humans as a reasonably intelligent race suitable as slaves, and occasionally as trusted servants or agents - but they have been baffled by the recent arrival in the coastal areas of their continent of ships from both the Ta'ashim lands and the Coradian lands that are far in advance of Volucreth vessels and carrying humans who have obviously gained control of technologies that the Volucreth considered beyond humans - advanced metal working, etc. Incursions and explorations of these human peoples have started to get reasonably close to the actual lands of the Volucreth - still hundreds of miles away, but close enough that the Volucreth realise that they will eventually get there - and as stories and rumours of Cities of Gold are filtering through to these people they are becoming very eager to push further into the interior. So far the most valuable discovery they have made is the potato - which is taking some of the cities of Coradia by storm - especially Ongus.
There is considerable debate among the Volucreth Priest-Lords as to whether or not these man-beasts from the east (and also from the west - it's hasn't happened to quite the same extent yet, but landings have been made on the western coast of the dark continent of sailors from Khitai) represent human slaves of a very advanced group of Volucreth ('so advanced that even their slaves have similar weapons and technologies to us') or whether they actually represent a genuine human civilisation. To this end, the Volucreth have begun sending ships east - but their nautical technology is very limited (they've never really seen the need for much in the way of sea going vessels before) and so most never arrive - or never get back.
One group has recently succeeded in getting to Ongus - they managed to follow a trading vessel all the way up the river partly drawing on the powers of a High Priest who was aboard (a powerful Mystic - though Volucreth Mystics aren't the same as the ones familiar in Coradia - different spells etc). They were astonished when they arrived in what was clearly a large city - not as large as the biggest they'd seen, but large enough - almost entirely populated by humans. They hid out in an empty building, stole furs and sea-coal for warmth - these lands are terribly cold - and set out to try and learn what they could. But the High Priest who had been unable to carry out his religious obligations on the ship, insisted on some of the humans of this city being bought to him by his own human slaves for ritual sacrifice.
Even in Ongus, a person disappearing each night to be found gutted and eviscerated laid out in the grounds of a religious site (the Volucreth not understanding the religion of the people of Ongus treated all religious sites as equivalent - while most bodies were dumped in churchyards simply because they are by far the most common religious sites in Ongus, one was dumped in the ruins of an old Selentine Temple, and one on the stump of a giant Oak tree that is part of the ancient local faith) attracted attention. And as one of the first victims was the mother of one of my group of sixteen year old PCs....
The main clue left behind at the first scene was a large feather - and as there is a visiting Chaubrettan circus whose central act involves a man dressed in a suit of feathers flying across the largest open space in the city...
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