Victarion
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We need an epic crypto series in some medium...
North America.
The wilds are haunted by primitive elementals, driven by singular emotions. Neanderthals build societies around shamanistic religion designed to use the elementals as a source of protection from the beasts stalking the untamed continent. Strange, scaled creatures and scaled simians begin appearing in the Neanderthal territories, forcing one of the Neanderthal shaman to bargain with the Wendigos in the north. Bargaining with the Wendigos results in the shaman being given a hunger to utterly destroy his enemies within the Neanderthal tribes. In order to sate his hunger, the shaman goes south to the Deltas of Time. In the mist-shrouded deltas, echoes of the past and future coalesce to fill the swamps and bayous with songs of deals gone bad, dreams fallen into ruin and celebrations of outlaw banditry in the marshes. In the deltas, the shaman duels with the Crossroads Picker--shamanistic magic versus the sorcery of the Picker's guitar (something foreign to the Neanderthal)--and the Picker allows the shaman to win their duel. The Picker takes the shaman on a journey through the deltas, wherein the Neanderthal experiences the dehumanizing brutality of slavery--the slaves' being abused, the freed slaves being hunted like dogs, and other slaves that participated in bloody uprisings against their masters. In the plight of the slaves and their masters the Neanderthal sees his own people as the slaves and the masters as the scaled simians and their reptiles.
Meanwhile the leaders of the scaled simians begin creeping into Neanderthal society, disguised as medicine men and shaman. The elementals show favor for both the Neanderthals and the scaled simians in accordance with nature as emotions given corporeal form. Infiltrating the Neanderthal tribes allows the scaled simians to sow dissension while the aforementioned shaman is away in the Deltas of Time. Some abduct young Neanderthals and perform experiments on them, creating creatures modeled after various cryptids: the goat man, donkey woman, the melonheads etc. A select few of the experimented Neanderthals fight to retain their humanity--and will go on to become the gods of the various Native American tribes that emerge with the recession of the Neanderthals. The scaled simians emerged from a pocket plane that drifted out of the Deltas of Time, settling around the Earth's core--which acts as a sort of sun for the pocket plane. The leader of the scaled simians opposes the Crossroads Picker; they are eternal enemies. The scaled simians' leader also believes that the Neanderthals are a brutal, stupid people who are better subjugated or eradicated. They are dangerous weapons in the hands of the Picker.
The Neanderthal shaman--having completed his journey with the Picker--is lured into a bargain. Ultimately, it is human nature that will determine the course of time. The Deltas of Time are a myriad of shifting possibilities. The Picker wants to ensure that a particular reality comes to pass, and thus must find a way to force that reality to become the course for the future. The shaman's bargain grants him the Picker's hellhounds--beasts of rage, victimization and abuse given form--and a verse of song that will give the Neanderthals total control over their elemental patrons.
Returning to the Neanderthal tribes, the shaman uses the song--and in doing so forces a joining between Neanderthal and elemental in which the Neanderthals' humanity is ripped, violated, and scavenged by the elementals. This forces a physical change in the Neanderthals, giving them a more bestial appearance. Some of the Neanderthals escape with the help of those transmogrified by the scaled simians; these eventually give rise to the first Native American tribes, while the mutated Neanderthals become known as sasquatches, swamp apes, and other simian cryptids. One of the transmogrified Neanderthals, tired of it all, flees to the east coast. In the barren wilds, mourning the loss of her people and the unwanted intrusions of the scaled simians' genetic modification, she begs for a return to the rosy nostalgia of the days when the Neanderthals lived alongside the elementals. Before the coming of the scaled simians and the shamans' song that gave birth to the simian cryptids...the Crossroads Picker hears, and from the mourning Neanderthal is born a beast similar to the Jersey Devil.
The Jersey Devil seeks out the sasquatches, the scaled simians, becomes enemies with the emerging Native Americans and finds solace in working as a sellsword warlock for the highest bidder.
North America.
The wilds are haunted by primitive elementals, driven by singular emotions. Neanderthals build societies around shamanistic religion designed to use the elementals as a source of protection from the beasts stalking the untamed continent. Strange, scaled creatures and scaled simians begin appearing in the Neanderthal territories, forcing one of the Neanderthal shaman to bargain with the Wendigos in the north. Bargaining with the Wendigos results in the shaman being given a hunger to utterly destroy his enemies within the Neanderthal tribes. In order to sate his hunger, the shaman goes south to the Deltas of Time. In the mist-shrouded deltas, echoes of the past and future coalesce to fill the swamps and bayous with songs of deals gone bad, dreams fallen into ruin and celebrations of outlaw banditry in the marshes. In the deltas, the shaman duels with the Crossroads Picker--shamanistic magic versus the sorcery of the Picker's guitar (something foreign to the Neanderthal)--and the Picker allows the shaman to win their duel. The Picker takes the shaman on a journey through the deltas, wherein the Neanderthal experiences the dehumanizing brutality of slavery--the slaves' being abused, the freed slaves being hunted like dogs, and other slaves that participated in bloody uprisings against their masters. In the plight of the slaves and their masters the Neanderthal sees his own people as the slaves and the masters as the scaled simians and their reptiles.
Meanwhile the leaders of the scaled simians begin creeping into Neanderthal society, disguised as medicine men and shaman. The elementals show favor for both the Neanderthals and the scaled simians in accordance with nature as emotions given corporeal form. Infiltrating the Neanderthal tribes allows the scaled simians to sow dissension while the aforementioned shaman is away in the Deltas of Time. Some abduct young Neanderthals and perform experiments on them, creating creatures modeled after various cryptids: the goat man, donkey woman, the melonheads etc. A select few of the experimented Neanderthals fight to retain their humanity--and will go on to become the gods of the various Native American tribes that emerge with the recession of the Neanderthals. The scaled simians emerged from a pocket plane that drifted out of the Deltas of Time, settling around the Earth's core--which acts as a sort of sun for the pocket plane. The leader of the scaled simians opposes the Crossroads Picker; they are eternal enemies. The scaled simians' leader also believes that the Neanderthals are a brutal, stupid people who are better subjugated or eradicated. They are dangerous weapons in the hands of the Picker.
The Neanderthal shaman--having completed his journey with the Picker--is lured into a bargain. Ultimately, it is human nature that will determine the course of time. The Deltas of Time are a myriad of shifting possibilities. The Picker wants to ensure that a particular reality comes to pass, and thus must find a way to force that reality to become the course for the future. The shaman's bargain grants him the Picker's hellhounds--beasts of rage, victimization and abuse given form--and a verse of song that will give the Neanderthals total control over their elemental patrons.
Returning to the Neanderthal tribes, the shaman uses the song--and in doing so forces a joining between Neanderthal and elemental in which the Neanderthals' humanity is ripped, violated, and scavenged by the elementals. This forces a physical change in the Neanderthals, giving them a more bestial appearance. Some of the Neanderthals escape with the help of those transmogrified by the scaled simians; these eventually give rise to the first Native American tribes, while the mutated Neanderthals become known as sasquatches, swamp apes, and other simian cryptids. One of the transmogrified Neanderthals, tired of it all, flees to the east coast. In the barren wilds, mourning the loss of her people and the unwanted intrusions of the scaled simians' genetic modification, she begs for a return to the rosy nostalgia of the days when the Neanderthals lived alongside the elementals. Before the coming of the scaled simians and the shamans' song that gave birth to the simian cryptids...the Crossroads Picker hears, and from the mourning Neanderthal is born a beast similar to the Jersey Devil.
The Jersey Devil seeks out the sasquatches, the scaled simians, becomes enemies with the emerging Native Americans and finds solace in working as a sellsword warlock for the highest bidder.
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