I recently wrapped up a discord play by post game of Travail Saga. I decided (for reasons that make sense within the game world and its also because its cool) that each of the players remained in the game world and slowly turned into an imperial demon with their own kingdoms. Those demon kingdoms will be the campaign setting for the next discord play by post game (which will be a heavily dark souls inspired diceless game. See: https://lizardmandiaries.blogspot.com/2022/12/diceless-travail-saga.html ). Here is the first Horgorlie the Unstoppable!
(Mid journey art)
Horgorlie the Unstoppable: The holy sun crab god, a behemoth of man and chitin. His carapace has hardened to anointed bronze and the bronze has formed into the sharpest holy knife spines and razor claws. From a distance he glints and glows in all of glorious holy splendor. When nearby the world becomes darker as his chitin consumes the sunlight.
He can blind, and curse, devour all magic. His body is ever growing and healing. He can expulse torrents of putrid disease miasma. His claws and spines can cut through the hardest of metals. No door can withstand him. No column can withstand him.
From the crab mouths that cover his form come endless holy hymns, chanting in many sonorous voices. He only sings, he does not discourse with any being. He cannot be questioned. Only he knows his will and purpose.
What summons Horgorlie: An excess of shadows, magic or sickness (to consume and dispel), An excess of sunlight (to consume).
His Kingdom, Lhieg: An itchingly hot, rocky mud plain. A land of temples and holy men. A land of theives and muggers. All people are honest here, even the criminals - a mugger may kill you for your gold, but he would not lie to you to get it. Worship of the sun permeates every activity and habit. The hot muddy temple towns of Lheig are host to great festivals of wrestling and pugilism - bare chested grappling a form of worship to the holy sun. Crab meat is both staple and delicacy, the only livestock of the mud plain.
(Fill the _ with letter of choice!)
Suggested naming conventions for places: _orlie, _org, _orl, Goh_
Suggested naming conventions for people: _eg, _ig, Lho_, Hor_
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