You step forth, over the cowering remnants of those who dared to attack you, who broke at the sight of your power, and you make them an offer. Perhaps twenty of the survivors rise up and stagger over to you to kneel. None of the shamans do, or the more experienced warriors. They watch those who join you with level eyes, but they do not condemn them. Their gazes do not shift even when you grab one of their number and chew on him, eating him slowly. A few commands are given, and Samana and Banner begin organizing the new followers, sending them off to various tasks as the soon to be sacrifices are led over to your altars.
A dozen men accompany you as you begin walking in a spiral around the Bastion, searching for those who have fled from your wrath. To your frustration, you only find a single man, whose mind breaks at the sight of you. He is led back to join the ranks of your slaves, his empty eyes staring at horrors only he can see.
As you return, you find Damena and Azen have gathered the corpses and carefully flayed them. Good. As they begin doing the same to the captives, whose stubborn silences begin to shatter, you pour some of the energy you have gained into the flesh, merging them into a banner. Skin and bone flow like water, warping together, forming a tall stone staff. Atop it is a strangely stiff rectangle of dried skin with crossed scythes burned into it. Low moans rise from all around it, as shivers of a dark pleasure and pain wrack their body. Banner kneels before you, and you ram the bony rod of the banner into his back, merging it with his spine. The dark green veins of his flesh bulge and spread, and his eyes turn into pitiless green orbs. Those who follow him into battle will know neither fear nor pain, only a twisted pleasure that is an agony of its own.
Banner’s roars drown out the screams of the sacrifices as at long last they die, and he drops to his knees again. “I serve.” He whispers. And you laugh.
Good, Beast of Battle.
Current form: A mighty man with the head of a bison and vicious, bloody claws.
Arms: 30.5 (Weapon) (Sacrifice)
Body: 31 (Weapon) (Sacrifice)
Mind: 31 (Weapon) (Sacrifice)
Magic: 32 (Weapon) (Sacrifice)
Other: Holding Bonebiter, the Bloody Maw.
Samana
Arms: 4
Body: 3
Mind: 1.5
Magic: 0.5
Damena
Arms: 1
Body: 1
Mind: 4
Magic: 5.5
Banner, the Beast of Battle
Arms: 3
Body: 4.5
Mind: 3.5
Magic: 0.5
Azen
Arms: 1
Body: 1
Mind: 3.5
Magic: 2.5
95 followers
64 slaves
41 servants( 5 Leplenas, 25 Rouses, 1 Burnwolf, 4 Rockcrushers, 1 Elephanea, 5 Mole-creatures)
Scythes of Beleth
95 cultists
43 power (5 for totems, 18 for worship, 10 for weapons, 5 for mining)
6.5 resources (+1 per week)
Secrecy(1-5): 2
Led by Samana and Damena.
The Shade Bastion
Population: 156
Copper mines, watchstalk fields
Defenses: Barricades, terrain, fields of corrupted plants (provide early warning)
Other: Magical hoop, strangely resistant to corruption. It’s defenses are gone, and you can try to warp the magic as you will.