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With a loud cry, the truth began to spread through Blackwick County. The mysterious egg sac once nestled into the recovered nest structure had been stolen and its guards coldcocked. Now, the Blackwick Group must trace it down, confront whoever\\u2019s taken it, and bring it back\\u2026 before a curse falls on Blackwick yet again.

This week on Sangfielle: The Candle Factory Pt. 1

The Almanac of the Heartland Rider

Peoples

Caprak (cap-ROK): The goat folks of the northlands, where they put up with dust, ash, snow, and the unilateral \\u201cjustice\\u201d of the Pale Magistratum.

Carpana (car - pahn - a): They\\u2019re little folks, three to four feet tall or so. A little like capybara, I suppose.\\xa0

Devils: Once, they were contained by (and made to administer) some vast network of hells. But they fought their way out, took over Aldomina, and nurtured a fledgling empire into an expansive one.

Drakkan (drah-KAHN):\\xa0 I\\u2019ve always thought we look like seahorses. Skin pulled across spiny, exo-skeletal armor. Bright colors. Good looking.\\xa0

Heritrixes (hare-uh-trixes): Heritrixes are immaterial beings, sometimes confused for ghosts, demons, or other sorts of supernatural spirits, who enter into contracts with physical hosts.

Human: A smooth-skinned, hornless type of person, mostly found in the Heartland and in the Unschola Republica these days. Unremarkable. \\u201cExcept in variety,\\u201d you\\u2019ll often hear a human say, revealing only that they\\u2019re more prideful than wise.

Ojantani: The Ojantani, who share traits with buffalo and water oxen, are as often melancholic or timorous as they are the loud, stereotypical minotaur sort.

Places

Yellowfield: Before the Panic this little valley of yellow flowers was the territory of a petty wizard and the subjects he frightened or beguiled. He called it his Xanthic Demesne, but these days we just call it Yellowfield. In the center of the valley, there\\u2019s a candle factory, and it is here that the old axiom refers: \\u201cAll the candle light in Sangfielle was made with just twenty odd hands.\\u201d

Facts and Figures

Rana (she/her): An lonely devotee of Kaitankro who now lives out her days attending to one of her chosen god\\u2019s many kite-shrines.

Agdeline (she/her), Ettel (he/him), and Larch (he/him): This devil, drakkan, and human trio once spent time mining in the hills of Blackwick. In recent times, they\\u2019ve found that poorly armed travelers make for better prospecting. Sometimes called \\u201cthe Toll Collectors.\\u201d

Bucho (he/him) (mentioned): Whether you first hear of him as \\u201cBig Bucho\\u201d or \\u201cTwo Step Bucho,\\u201d once you meet him, you\\u2019ll understand that no name does the gallant Shape Knight justice.

Organizations

The Covenant of Kaitankro: You\\u2019ve seen them, haven\\u2019t you? The unsettlingly gregarious priests with the strange, chitinous crow masks? Of course you have, with their stilt-legs and their stilt-houses and their collection of stakes and strings and, of course, the kites. I asked one once if it was a pun: Kite and Crow, chitin crow. Something like that. The priestess told me that Kaitankro was a very real god, if a funny one, and that one day, he visited her. Like every morning, she raised each of the town\\u2019s kites up to the winds in daily worship, and Kaitankro landed on the smallest one\\u2014a sight to see, she said, since her god is so large a being. And like a carnivalist, Kaitankro walked down the wire, tips of her talons, until he met the priest at the bottom. There, I was told, they whispered in the priest\\u2019s ear a single phrase: \\u201cBetter to live as birds on wires than die as men in the wind.\\u201d Chaos, it seems, breeds community, too.

The Shape Knights: It took people with clear minds, great ingenuity, and implacable spirit to face down and defeat one of the living trains of Sangfielle. In the time since, they\\u2019ve crafted armor from their slain foe, and with that have come to be experts of all things train. They herd, they breach, they redirect. But they haven\\u2019t yet killed a second.

Hosted by Austin Walker (@austin_walker)

Featuring Janine Hawkins (@bleatingheart) Sylvi Clare (@sylvibullet), Ali Acampora (@ali_west),\\xa0Andrew Lee Swan (@swandre3000)

Produced by Ali Acampora and Austin Walker

Music by Jack de Quidt (available on bandcamp)

Text by Austin Walker

Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot)

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