Now that you have found the best way to make Heightned, you decide to add to their numbers. The rouses begin to fight, tearing each other apart. You keep a sharp eye out, both for when enough have died and for those fighting with the most viciousness, cunning, and ferocity. By the time seventy rouses have died, you have found your champions. The power is drawn into them, and they grow larger, stronger, two have their heads split as the magi Heightened did, while the rest simply swell in strength, cunning, and cruelty. One swells up like the rouse which died when you turned it, but instead of exploding it simply lays there, barely able to move. A second rouse pokes its head out of the stomach. It’s tiny, and hairless, and covered with weeping sores.
They feast on the bodies of the fallen, all of them together, snapping and snarling over choice morsels, and you leave them to it. Several times, you sense the gaze of the stone creature pass over them as it eats.
You have more important things to worry about. You call forth the Seductress and two slaves, and spend some of the power you have gained from worship, smoothing her features, making her look less like a withered hag and more like someone who was just a little on the old side. The slaves, you bend and warp, making them into squat creatures with long claws and stony flesh, breaking their minds and leaving them with nothing but a will to serve you.
Current form: A mighty man with the head of a bison and vicious, bloody claws.
Arms: 25 (Weapon)
Body: 20 (Weapon)
Mind: 25 (Weapon)
Magic: 25 (Weapon)
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
Arms: 2.5
Body: 4.5
Mind: 3
Magic: 0.5
Azen
Arms: 1
Body: 1
Mind: 3.5
Magic: 2.5
94 followers
64 slaves
86 servants ( 5 Leplenas, 1 Burnwolf, 4 Rockcrushers, 1 Elephanea, 5 Mole-creatures, 4 Heightened(mages), 11 Heightened(warrior), 1 Heightened(breeder))
1 Seductress
1 Crow Spirit and 1000 crows
1 Alpha Rouse Spirit and 9950 rouses
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)
Led by Samana and Damena.
The Shade Bastion
Population: 156
Copper mines, watchstalk fields
Defenses: Barricades, terrain, fields of watchstalks
Other: Magical hoop, strangely resistant to corruption. It’s defenses are gone and you can warp its magic as you will.
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