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An Enemy Like and Yet Unlike No Other |
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In the Fall of Yuri 72, a great need arose from the Kingdoms, as General Blight,
the Beast of Nagnang, after having been healed of his grievous wound, had gone
in search of the Four. After many weeks with no word from him, suddenly Kija,
Prince of Nagnang was sent a messenger scroll from Blight. The enemy, the Wuhu
Luanhua, the very same insidious evil Blight had fought back beside the Four,
had amassed once again. These numbers were said to have been greater than that
of the population of Nagnang itself. This advance force was sent to sneak into
Nagnang under the cover of darkness, infiltrate her borders and then conquer
her. Made all too readily possible as the enemy was comprised of many sorcerous
and evil shape-shifters. The Four have been moved and their fate was unknown.
Blight called to Kija to not only defend the borders, but to find out whatever
he could about this enemy whose only goal seems to be the assimilation and
annihilation of all life.
Prince Kija who had seen first
hand those evils infiltrating the Vale while bravely fighting alongside the
equally brave Prince M'hul of Koguryo knew he must do something. Together they
and many of the courageously concerned citizens from all the Kingdoms worked
hard numerous times to beat those of the enemy who sought a foot hold in our
sacred grounds. Still, with Blight's missive so direct and the times dire, he
turned to the Historian Qantao for any information she could find out about the
enemy so that the Kingdoms could have a chance of destroying them and turning
them back. Qantao, ever a lover of research and history, was more than happy to
comply. Thus follows the information she has amassed thus far about the Wuhu
Luanhua.
From the west and northwest of our peaceful
Tri-Kingdom lands, there are five tribes (the five Hu: Xiongnu, Xianbei, Di,
Jie/Sogdian, and Qiang) which through their barbarous and treacherous doings
have conquered much of this land and made up thirteen smaller states. These,
are the Wuhu Luanhua. Their name translates roughly to Five Nomadic Tribes
Throwing the Land into Disorder.
Disorder and chaos which
come from the unnatural powers some of them have acquired through pacts with
evil spirits. While many Shamans and others are able to shape-shift into animal
forms to commune with their totem spirits, the shape-shifters of the enemy have
taken a horrific step into merging with and then becoming creatures of the dark.
These great dark ones have powers including
shape-shifting into horrific parodies of human or animal forms (often times they
are combined to make something even more vile), the ability to speak to humans
and animals without moving their mouth or making a sound, the ability to mimic
animals in a sick parody of the animal (usually harnessing the anger and
aggression and other animal instincts within the sound to convey evil emotions),
the magic of moving instantly from place to place without using their wings or
legs, and the sorcery to appear uninvited in the dreams of the living (both day
and night). They are masters of illusion. Those who are weaker, often times
appear as something bigger and more frightening than they really are. Those who
are most powerful, sometimes seek to take a shape of godlike proportions in
order to gain acceptance and obeisance.
Unearthing a
particularly interesting scroll inscribed by Naxi Shamanistic Priests who are
called Dongbas, has shed a little light on ways to perform a Chu sui, or a
casting out of these evil spirits. The
"Ha zhi p'i" discusses those of the
Wuhu Luanhua are those who have chosen to cleave their human halves to those of
the evil spirits. The human houen and inhuman koueis unite into one shadowy,
strong entity. They can separate at will and act in two different places at the
same time. However, united they are even more terrible to behold.
When moving to take over the land to be conquered (like the
Tri-Kingdoms perhaps?) they create a portal using something from the lands they
wish to conquer to anchor them to the land. Setting up dismal deathly
labyrinths from which to work from, they then move about in their evil shifted
forms, and maim and kill the inhabitants. However, those who are unlucky enough
only to be maimed and who are found to have powers, are forced into the unholy
pacts which then create more legions of these evil parodies of humanity.
The only way to completely eradicate the enemy, is to beat
them back into their own portal. Once there, that which anchors the portal to
the land must be removed (often times in little pieces) and a ritual preformed
to cleanse that which was used to anchor the portal of its evil taint. Only
then will the portal disappear.
Signed,
Qantao, Kingdoms'
Historian
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