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  • Path of the Ivory Gate

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    Lore The Path of the Ivory Gate is an ancient, shamanistic faith centered on the belief that the physical world and the spirit world are not separate, but are intricately carved from the same essential substance. The faith’s lore, preserved not in books but in epic narrative carvings, tells that when the first Nunamiut souls…

  • Way of the Whispering Sky

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    Lore The Way of the Whispering Sky is the ancient, animistic faith of the Inugsuk people. It is not a religion of gods and masters, but one of spirits and balance. The lore, passed down through millennia of oral tradition, teaches that when the first Ukaliq souls arrived on the vast, frozen island, they were…

  • Kor Runa

    Kor Runa

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    The Kor-Runa, or “Stone People,” are the ancient and predominant race of the Chavín Hegemony. Their origin myth is not one of arrival from a distant world, but of a terrestrial birth; they believe their ancestors were the first sentient life to sprout from the island’s sacred soil, their shells a gift from the living…

  • Sakha 901 of the Woven Seam

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    NAME: Oloyon’s Veil-Catcher LORE: The oloyons of the Sakha901 tradition understand a fundamental truth of Saṃsāra: the world is a great garment stitched together from the fabrics of countless other realities. They know that sometimes, the seams of this garment fray. These “reality-scratches” or “spirit-leaks” can be dangerous, allowing confused energies, alien thoughts, or small,…

  • Sakha 218 of the Deep Chant

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    NAME: The Oloyon’s Delving Gauntlets LORE: The shamans of the Sakha218 clans hold that the Middle World is not merely a surface upon which people walk, but a deep, layered vessel of history and spirit. While many oloyons journeyed up to the sky-realms or down to the worlds of shadow, there was one named Borso…

  • Sakha 734 of the Spirit Spoon

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    NAME: Oloyon’s Tasting Spoon LORE: In the sprawling Taiga of the northern islands, the clans of the Sakha734 learned that not all battles are fought with steel or overt magic. They understood that the body is a vessel and that the spirits of the world, both benevolent and malevolent, could influence them through what they…