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(Nation information from Beta 5.5)
Overview[]
Leda is a frozen land peopled by peculiar avian beings who are at home both on the land and in the sea, but who thrive only in the coldest of climates. They use weapons of magical, never-melting Ice, and their capital is built around an ancient and mysterious monolith, called the Eternal Ice, which inexorably spreads their bitterly-cold climate to lands outside their dominion.
Background[]
Leda is a strange land of hard, frozen tundra surrounded by frigid seas and glacial ice. It is the home of the Ledani, a peculiar avian people at home both in the water, where they hunt and tend to their bountiful fisheries, and on the surface, where they have raised intricate and majestic structures of magical Ice. Though the Ledani are odd of shape and awkward, they are surprisingly sturdy, agile and adaptable. They are strongest in cold and aquatic environments, and become weak and vulnerable in warmer lands. Ledan society centers around a mysterious and magically-radiant monolith they call the Eternal Ice, which freezes the lands and enables the crafting of wondrous objects, both practical and artistic, from enchanted, never-melting Ice. Once a reclusive and isolated people, the Ledani have found in it the power to spread beyond their ancestral land and forge an empire. Now, the ascendant god of Leda seeks to cover the world in its icy embrace.
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(details about Ice Keepers cult, bear cults?)
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Eternal Ice | 200 | 160 | 4 | W3A2 | |
Abilities: | #battlestartsummon Ice Guardians/ #domsummon Iceskin Templars / #noitem / #immobile / #inanimate / #amphibian / #pierceres / #slashres / #unteleportable / #gemprod 1W per month / #gemprod 1A per month / #coldres 50 / #fireres -10 / #poisonres 25 / #iceprot 3 / #coldpower 1 / #cold 20 / | ||||
Description : Many years ago, ice sculptors carving a new coastal home discovered a large block that was impervious to their tools and could not chipped, etched or even scratched. As they carved out the ice around the strange block, a fae wind began to blow in toward it, and it seemed to fill the cavern with a comfortable icy chill. Excited at their discovery, the sculptors studied it for many months, and found that inside the block was a dark obelisk adorned with an odd symbol. More importantly, they found that they could use its power to form tools and other objects of Ice that were not only as hard and resilient as the ones their icecrafters have made since the times of old, but that would not melt even when placed in fire. These sculptors formed the Order of the Eternal Ice, and called themselves the Ice Keepers. Only a few of them know that the Eternal Ice itself is alive and has awakened, and has its own secret purpose, which it now seeks to fulfill by becoming Pantrokrator of this world. | |||||
Neboled | 160 | 3 | |||
Description: According to the stories of the Ledan elders, the Ledani were once a flying people, with beautifully-plumed wings that sparkled in the sun. Their ancestors could effortlessly fly great distances over the world when it was still untainted and properly covered in ice. But when this paradise was lost, they left the skies and took to the oceans to glide among the fish, settling in the only part of the world that kept its crystalline beauty. The Ledani have since forgotten how to fly, instead becoming sleek swimmers, agile of limb and strong of body. While some Ledani are still born with limbfeathers, there are fewer and fewer every generation. The Neboled, the Ledan titan of Air, was a king of old and is the last of the flying Ledan, able to soar above the lands, keeping watch over the children of his people. He has little fear of lightning and dances on the highest mountaintops during storms. | |||||
Vodled | 160 | 3 | |||
Description: The Vodled is a mysterious being revered by the people of Leda as the first of the Ledani to dive beneath the waves, leading his people in their exodus from the warming skies. He is the embodiment of Water, and is often celebrated in their art and hymns as a titanic Ledan who roams the seas near their glacial settlements and swallows entire schools of fish, sharks and other delicious sea creatures to bring back to the beaks of his people. He is indeed a Ledan titan, though he often chooses to walk the lands as a Ledan of normal size but of striking aspect. In either form, he has three ‘tails’ on his head, instead of one, and the cult of the Wavefighters honor this by wearing their peculiar three-tailed helmets. The Vodled has an enormous appetite, though when in the sea he is capable of satisfying his own needs while still providing bounty to his people. | |||||
The Frozen One | 110 | 3 | |||
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Description: The Frozen One is the guardian of the Eternal ice and the warmaster of the Ledani. He is never mentioned in the old tales, but according to the prophecies of the Ice Keepers he is a sacred titan of the Ledani who has lain hidden, deep in the glacial ice, for ages, and will come if ever there is danger to the Eternal Ice. This time has come and the Frozen One has surfaced to lead the people of Leda to victory against their enemies. The Frozen One is a huge, strangely-alien being composed of pure, living Ice. He carries a great Ice trident and exudes a bone-chilling cold. The people of Leda both revere and fear him, as he shows no compassion and little tolerance for error, questioning or disrespect. | |||||
Blood Altar | 160 | 300 | 2 | ||
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Description: The Frozen Altar is a mysterious artifact discovered near the Eternal Ice. Thought to be a fragment of the sacred monolith, it was declared a sacred object and taken to the Frozen Tower for study. Unfortunately, it disappeared within a fortnight. A hue and cry was raised by the Council of the Ice Keepers, and the garrison arrested many and searched every corner of the city, but it was never found. Unknown to the vexed Keepers, the fragment was taken by the Blood Cult, likely with assistance from inside the Tower. Hidden in the cult's secret tunnels beneath the city, the blood mages of the cult used magic to mask its location while they performed dark rituals and sacrifices over it. Eventually, their work came to fruition, and the magic of the fragment was warped by a powerful demonic sentience who came to abide within it. This sentience, freed from an ancient prison, has corrupted the Ice Keepers and rules over Leda, eager to drive it to conquest its bid for ascendance. | |||||
Ancient Totem | 160 | 300 | 2 | ||
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Description: The Ancient Totem of the Ledani is an intricately carved pillar of enchanted Ice that represents the ancient traditions of the Ledani upheld by the Cult of the Bear. No Ledani know its age, but it is an ancient object, described in the sacred writings long before mention of the discovery of the Eternal Ice. The spirit which inhabits it is a spirit of the living beings that roam the tundra and the oceans, and heals the faithful brought before it. A wise, oracular being, the spirit of the Totem uses the eyes, ears and noses of its many animal servants to observe the omens protect its people from ill fortune and calamity in their city. Brought by the Ice Keepers to touch the Eternal Ice, the Totem is now bonded with the monolith. It continues to permit the Cult of the Ice Keepers to rule, a fact resented by the traditionalist Cult of the Bear. The Ancient Totem has a strong allure to all living beings, and animals of the ice frequently come to do its bidding. | |||||
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