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Lore: [Subject] (Culture, Institution, Field, etc.)
Posted on June 8, 2022 in Skill
Knowledge of a particular subject (1 per instance). Its cultural manifestations, practices, places, implements, and personalities relevant to the setting.
Lore: {Subject} of Cultural lore includes important city, region, and populations and how they interact. No deep understanding is necessarily implied, without related capabilities or powers. The Common Knowledge gained by any competent skill practitioner can easily be gained by questions and study of recorded information. The Lore Knowledge Levels follow the standard Learning levels.
Common Requirements: Significant time to acquire/achieve outside of Character Inception. All study must be done while Hale or it takes double the time without some intervening effect.
Frame of Reference: All Skills are bound by the character's Setting (physics), and the details that their culture/society's Science (gathered by Technology), direct experience, and/or collective Records are capable of revealing. A character may not be able to apply their full measure on a different world, with different species and tools. With a common frame of reference, multiple specific Lores can stack.
Subject Lore Examples
Black Mother (sect of Gloombringer)
Posted on June 7, 2022 in Steel-Realms
The Black Mother sect of Gloombringer predominantly a manifestation venerated as a core part of the Nurthling faith of Shadren. The Black Mother is able to grow anything in the dark, and helps to provide Sustenance and for communities and Nurth children. She teaches them strict observance of Nurth community norms and practices for the faith. Those that fail are “given over to the patch”. The Black Mother is she who turns the foul into fair, waste into produce, the broken are made well – all within the context of what these terms mean to the Nurth.
Mother’s Patch
A Mother’s Patch is a patch of fungus sacred to the Nurth community and imbued with the power to quickly process waste, sacrifices, and victims into nourishing fungus. The patch begins as an consecrated altar of the Black Mother – upon it are heaped the offal and waste of the commnity, and a sacrifice is made. It is from this patch that the “Black Mother’s Sourlings” – shrieker guardians, black slimes, green slimes, and death fungus’ – are brought forth. When a priest of the Black Mother dies, their holy presence and power are given over to the Mother’s Patch.
Guardian Shrieker Shared with Orrish: The Nurth have given over the Death Shriek Ritual to make the Shrieker to the Orrish through the Shadren faith of the Black Mother, but have kept the other creatures they Conjure from their patch a secret – these are the guardians of their communities. This is a fungus that looks a lot like a sponge. A potion of consecrated blood – unholy elixir, and excrement and waste cover it and within 24 hours a mushroom like “creature” will sprout, getting larger over the next few days. Within its caps are tubes and holes – those not of Nurth odor (or the odor of the grower(s) – who must remain close for a few hours) will set off its bellows like a shriek. The larger it grows, the farther its detection.
Cults, Sects, and Orders of Gloombringer (Gloom’s Bride)
Posted on June 7, 2022 in Steel-Realms
Gloom’s Bride
– This is the dominant order of the faith. It has common Group/Institution elements.
Cleric, Paladin – These are archetypes dedicated to serving and representing the faith in iconic roles as part of their function; Others may be available as Followers at GM discretion – serving as institutional officers, community officers, or simply through Conviction and shared liturgical beliefs.
The Common Face of Faith: Like most Faiths of the Steel Realms, there may be a multitude of denominations that make up Cults, Orders and Sects of Gloombringer. These share the common Workings of Faith, promoting worship to prove the truth of the Divine Principal's ideals and tenets, and allow Followers a means to prove worthy to wield power and secure a place in the promised afterlife. Gloombringer has a Dominant Presentation of their faith, clergy, and institutions that the folk of the realms look to.
Options for PC’s in the Steel Realms
i20™ Faith Details
Clerics in service to the faith have the callings (subclasses) of Death, War, and Knowledge; Others may be available at GM discretion or through other cults, sect, or orders. Paladins in service to the faith have the callings (subclasses) of Vengeance; Others may be available at GM discretion or through other cults, sect, or orders.
iCore™ Faith Details
Like all faiths of the Steel Realms, a single divine principal has multiple aspects but shares key qualities. There are several small cults and orders in addition to the larger and more well known ones.
There is even rumors of a sect of Gloom Bringer among the Ducateon, that follow the ways of “The Encroaching Darkness” and are killers of the priests of Maðr. They believe that Maðr is a deceiver and holding the Ducateon back in their rigid society. For them, the way to evolve is to turn inward, and the path is dark. The dark must be traversed in order to find the way.
Places, Locales, and Features of Bondeu (Riverdan)
Posted on June 5, 2022 in Steel-Realms
There are many Places, Locales and Features of Bondeu that cover the notable territorial and geographical areas of the Riverdan. Most were built for much larger populations, though now settlements are small and have ruins or areas left uninhabited. There are ruins to explore, though most have been so many times before and little remains in the way of “plunder” or loot that is not dangerously precarious or buried.
Common Experience
Characters coming of age in/from this locale will shape their perspective to the primary experience of Cultural Experience of the Riverdans.
Lowland [League] Territories (of Bar-Innis)
Posted on April 18, 2022 in Steel-Realms
The Lowland Territories of the Earldom of Bar-Innis in the Duchy of Dunstrand; It is a core part of The Lilylands. It is lead by the Council of Lowlanders, the league is a mutual trade and protection ring created to try and offset the economic advantages of the larger and more esteemed cities of Bar-Innis. Its council offices are in Osmail Mark, and is overseen by the Baron of that place.
Pine Tribe Descendants: The lowlands are home to the descendants of old pine tribe bloodlines. A few still incorporate their ways, but they are shadows of what they once were. They have been integrated into the local culture, which does dovetail into a lot of old notions of the Freelander Way.
Goods: The wet soil is extremely verdant and grows a bounty of vegetables. Cauliflowers, celery, spinach, groundnuts, garden pea, arugula, watercress, asparagus, mint, taro, skirret, cabbage, and black chokeberry.
Lowlands of Bar-Innis
