Xantalos

RYE - Buried Secrets

Excavate the Ship (1 4th and 26 5th Generation slann)

The frozen carcass of the mountain rose above the snowy plains like a titan's dwelling fallen into ruin. The neck-deep drifts of snow that blanketed the rest of the far north avoided it as if out of reverence, or perhaps fear, and the fierce skeins of wind blew frigid gusts of arctic air that coiled and snapped around its exterior but did not dare to penetrate within. It was a monolith too big for the world, a piece of grand impossib...

RYE - The Dazzling Wheel

The Old Ones, it was said, had known all there was to know of the innate structure of creation, and it was this knowledge that freed them from the limitations of flesh and spirit, letting them perceive existence on an axiomatic level. The revelations they received from this were never spoken aloud, but the slann had puzzled out fragmentary pieces over the millennia, deducing unspoken intent through careful study of the commands and actions of their makers. Among the most profound of these les...

RYE - The Spire

For as long as they had existed, the lizardmen had contemplated the night sky. The Old Ones had shown them the meaning behind constellations - how the alignment of the stars could foretell future events, allow the past to be uncovered, and even influence events in the present. It was for this purpose that the First Spawning of slann were made - while their younger kin attended to the particulars of the design of the Fated Place, the elder toad-mages reshaped the night sky itself, using spells...

August Character Poll

Another poll! This one I've included a bit more information as to what each character is about, so as to provide more context to what you're voting for. As before, Wave Denizens get an overview of the character, Sentinels get that and an interview with them, and the Conclave gets that and my authorial thoughts on them, what I might want to use them for, and where if anywhere I got the inspiration for them (assuming they're an OC, which some of these aren't).

Oh, and feel free to ask any...

Mazdamundi Character Overview

When the enigmatic entities known only as the Old Ones came to the planet later known as Mallus, their will was conveyed through the toadlike mage-creatures known as the slann. These immortal emissaries, the first batch of which was personally crafted by the very hands of the Old Ones, were born from the purest of waters in five distinct generations, each of which was made for a distinct purpose in the grand design of the Old Ones. From the comparatively young Fifth Spawning, which still reta...

Mazdamundi Character Interview

A/N: This is Mazdamundi as he appears in canon Warhammer, without the experiences he goes through in Respect Your Elders. Just in case some of the details here seem a bit weird to readers of that quest.

Basics

- What is your full name? Do you have a nickname (if so, who calls you this)?

I am Mazdamundi. This is my designation; my name is written on my soul and within my actions. Titles will suffice for this conversation.

RYE Turn 15 (Summary)

Time marches on, and with the major obstacles standing in the way of global expansion removed, the lizardmen have entered into a period of unprecedented growth and progress! The network of temple-cities expands across the jungle continent of Mochantia like a tiled mosaic, each metropolis a shining jewel in the endless sea of green. On and on do the lizardmen labor, their work as ceaseless and untiring as the planet itself, and for the moment there seems to be nothing to interrupt it.

Character Poll #2

Second verse, same as the first! Vote for whichever character you’d like to see outlined. Do note that I’ve included some new options at the bottom - I’d have done more but I ran out of poll options.

The Xan - Overview

The Xan are an entity of unknown but considerable extent whose presence has been documented in every corner of the Patchwork Places. Their origin realm is, as of yet, unknown, and the method by which they use to transit between the borders of realms is equally shrouded, but they seem to be most densely populated in Places where the laws of reality are malleable and there are large societies present. Some speculate that this is owed to their method of feeding, while others contend that their e...

The Xan - Interview

The following is an interview taken from a basic template meant to flesh out your characters a little, and so you can see what their voice and mannerisms are like.

Basics

• What is your full name? Do you have a nickname (if so, who calls you this)?

• I am Xan. I am always Xan.

• Where and when were you born?

• This is unimportant. I am here now, this is all that matters.

• Who are/were your parents? ...

  2024-07-11 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

RYE Turn 14: Long-Due Revisions

Give Them Minds: Mazdamundi, 24 Third Gen, 2 Fourth Gen. 2 Petals invoked

The great debate within Itza’s warded halls had seen an outpouring of verbosity from the slann that was unequaled in any record save for the recent campaigns of Uax extermination. Every mage-priest, young and old, gave voice to their thoughts, allowing magic to pour from their vocal chords in ever-more complex patterns until a veritable ecosystem of spells swam around them, each representing a different i...

July Character Poll

This is the first in a series of character inspections I’ll be doing - whichever character wins the poll will get a few write-ups about them, available to various tiers:

• Wave Denizens get to vote in the polls and see a write-up/summary of the character that wins - think of it like a profile of sorts. Free members get the summary of the previous character when the next is released.
• Sentinels get the summary and a preset character interview, where the character answers vari...
  2024-07-04 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Status Update

Hey all - been a bit and I’m getting back into writing, so I figured I ought to give y’all an update on how that’s going, what to expect in the future, and what I’ll be doing for y’all here.

• RYE update is progressing smoothly. I’m working 3 jobs right now so my actual time I have to write is less than I’d prefer, but I still should have it done before the month is up. I’d say I’m about 70% done right now.

• Circle of Vengeance will be recieving a c...

  2024-07-04 05:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Indefinite Pause (I’m Sorry)

I apologize for this, but I’m going to have to stop writing for a while, hence why the patreon is closed. I won’t get too into the whys and wherefores, both out of reluctance to disclose my personal situation and the fact that for y’all’s purposes it doesn’t really matter. Suffice it to say that my finances and living situation have reached the point where it’s necessary for me to give up my free time, and thus writing, until I’ve sorted my life out.

Why close down the pa...

RYE - Shattered Tedium

Scry and Spy, The Northern Remnants - 5 slannpower (5 5th-gen)

Slann Construction Protocol - 95 slannpower (95 5th-gen) (2 Actions; toward constructing a city on the Northern Continent, see Stewardship)

Slann Spawning Service - 12 slannpower (12 5th-gen) (+4 Population; Northern Continent outpost)

Excavate the Ship - 15 slannpower (15 5th-gen)

Over the course of the last several centuries, the orks of the northern continent had gone from famine to feast and back again....

RYE - A Petal Gifted

Consulting the Lifeweaver (Exploit the Jungle)

[Desired Species: Stealthy warbeasts to accompany chameleon skinks; animals capable of ranged attack; small 'attack dog' terrestrial or flying creatures (fast, agile, preferably pack-oriented); medium-to-large digger/tunneler species.

Rolling for primary focus, 1d4: 2, Ranged Attack Animals.

Rolling for secondary focus, 1d3: 1, Stealth Creature, Chameleon Skink appropriate.

Generating…

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Puum’kynzid...

Circle of Vengeance - Glimmering Shell Fin.

Winning Vote: Whisper that Glimmer's dream is pretty, but stupid. The Captain will just use you up and toss you aside. Again. Stand on your own, painfully, but do not fight any more. (Concede the fight. Try to break Glimmer's morale.)

<<<---<>--->>>

Your spittle is more blood than saliva, and it stains Glimmer’s hand and forearm with a dappled patina of red as you put your utmost vitriol into expelling it. Even that effort hurts, but it’s worth it for t...

RYE Turn 14 - The Quango

Juvenile Colossus Examination - Quango

The Quango and its child had flown together for a time as they brought the icy wrath of the stratosphere down upon the uax infestation. The juvenile, while still larger by far than any other thing that flew in Mochantia’s skies, and growing larger with every passing day, had at the time not quite reached its full strength, and so sheltered under the frigid mantle of its forebearer when fleets of uax aircraft had attempted to sho...

RYE Turn 14 - Relic Priest Consultation

Relic Priest Consultation, Equipment Research

Above Huilcatlan, the sky was bubbling.

The Sky City was never subject to completely normal atmospheric conditions, of course - the metropolis’ spawning pools had a propensity for producing Azyr and Aqshy skink priests with far greater frequency than usual, and the magical layout of the city attracted the mages like a lodestone, the vast currents of the red and blue magics that pulsed through the brickwork enabling the skink priests ...

RYE - Iron Limbs, Floating Stone

Iron Limbs

It had, for some time, been a known and accepted fact among the slann that any technology acquired from the Uax was at best incomplete without the presence of the creatures. In much the same way that the Geomantic Web buffered and supported the functioning of the lizardmen in an innumerable variety of ways, the Waaagh!!! Field supported the insane contraptions built by its fleshy extrusions, patching over the myriad errors, incompetencies, and physical impossibilities that wo...

RYE - The Great Reorganization

The Great Reorganization

--[X] Garrison Disbanding (Free) - 226 population redistributed

---[X] 15 pop each to Amamaniliztli, Tenqu'itzcal, Ocelotl, Illuxoni, Chuq'xla, Tekiutlan, Huilcatan, Xitzlak'patl, Pahkypx, Chiz'chaq (total: 150)

---[X] 12 pop to Qotlpetl

---[X] 11 pop to Yagoqua

---[X] 9 pop each to Kimilik, Tekuanzi, Tletl'notec, Muukhexla (total: 36)

---[X] 8 pop to Yenehectua

---[X] 5 pop to Itza

---[X] 4 pop to Xlanh...

Circle of Vengeance - Glimmering Shell Pt. 4

Winning Vote:[X] Fish - Barrel

--Shoot Glimmer, a lot

--Try to maneuver her into the crossfire from other gangsters shooting at you, using your own movement and positioning as well as the shots you take

--If she closes use Burning Venom Palm and Wind-Style as needed to tear at points of weakness and fragility along her torso or head

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The slight pause before your next breath hangs in the air for a small eternity. Neither you or Glimmer move, your eyes locked on...

RYE Turn 14 - An Architect's Vision

Stewardship Actions:

--[X] Construct Sacred Sites (Hexoatl, Tlaxtlan, Yenehectua, Chalkaro, Aztlan, Kimilik, Tekuanzi) - 14 Actions

--[X] Raise the Domes (Hexoatl, Tlaxtlan, Xlanhuapec) - 6 Actions

--[X] Improve Cities (Chalkaro L3, Aztlan L3) - 6 Actions

--[X] Found New Cities (total: 5 City Actions)

---[X] East of Itza, Level 2 - Awanabil'tat, 2 Actions

---[X] East of Qotlpetl, Level 2 - 3 Actions

--[X] Repair City (Itza) - 1 Action...

As Close To A Free Month As I Can Do!

Apologies for the radio silence, all - had a bit of a turbulent time IRL with moving and such, which caused me to sort of fall off the writing wagon for a bit. I'm back at it now, but in recognition of the fact that I haven't really provided anything for several weeks and because it's my birthday this month, I'm pausing billing for a cycle. RYE Turn 14 will be out soon, and so that and any other stuff I release onto the Patreon in the intervening time will hopefully function as a sort of free...

RYE - The Great Discussion

In the wake of the Waaagh!!!-shattering ritual’s conclusion, the armies that had dedicated themselves to the grueling task of withstanding the onslaught of the Uax found themselves reassigned to the equally extensive job of cleaning up. Itza was covered with the detritus of combat - spent shell casings, buildings damaged by mortar fire, errant scorch marks from spell and flamethrower alike, and, of course, corpses. Millions upon millions of bodies littered the First City, with a fair share ...

RYE - Culmination

Ten years.

For ten years, the First City had stood like an immovable mountain of black stone, unperturbed by the storm that raged against it. For ten years, Mazdamundi had stood atop its utmost peak, channeling such extremes of power that all extraneous thought was banished from his mind lest an errant idea disrupt his task. For ten years, the beast before him had screamed and bellowed without remit, writhing against the bonds of the eldest slann’s spellcraft with just as much relentl...

RYE - Armageddon Descending

Time ground onward. Mazdamundi’s ritual progressed inexorably towards its completion. The battle at Itza raged ever fiercer as the decade approached its close. Every second was strife, every minute a massacre. The all-encompassing onslaught of violence and destruction churned around the First City like water caught in a drain, feeding on the blood and life of lizardman and Uax alike and growing ever more apocalyptic with every passing moment. The noise was unavoidable, a calamitous cacophon...

Quick Note - Updated Tier Descriptions

Hey y'all! Just a brief note that I've updated the descriptions and benefits listed in the various tiers; mainly taking out the bonus content poll (which I might resume in the future as a public post thing, but not paid) and clarifying how many pre-public release updates you can expect to get per tier  - 1 for Waves, 2 for Sentinels, and 3 for Conclave.

I am moving this week so there hasn't been a new Conclave post yet, but I'll backfill that as soon as everything's unpacked and su...

Respect Your Elders - The First Slann's Chambers

The path to Itzkaitlazloqtzaqitzali Kroak’s sanctum was, to the unwary eye, unguarded. Tik’tokrok had lived for centuries, had spent cumulative decades focusing his attention on the smallest possible details of his work. He was capable of noticing chips in stone tiles that were micrometers wide, and on the long, long trek up the many stairs within Itzoatl, he saw no trace of any flaws in the stonework or any guards to bar his path. This did not, however, mean that he was...

RYE - Metropolis Preservation Barriers, Pt. 1

Metropolis Preservation Barriers (400 Slannpower)

It was a well-known fact by the Slann that the lizardmen’s cities had been designed around their capabilities, or perhaps it was they who had been shaped for the use of their cities. Opinions differed on the matter within the Sublime Communion, and the official stance of most Slann of the Third or earlier spawnings was that it made little difference, for both were products of the Old Ones, and were each meant to support the other. The ...