Kroxigor
Moniker
Member
- Messages
- 272
- Likes Received
- 52
- Trophy Points
- 18
In my gaming group, we've all come up with a little description of our armies to make the battles seem more important. Here's mine, inspired by the City of the Moon and the small passage describing the Slave Warriors of Tlaxtlan.
The venerated Mage-Priest, Lord Chuqa-Xi the Ebullient, has always been considered eccentric by the standards of his peers. Lord Chuqa-Xi mainly shares the same concerns as those Slann who also call Tlaxtlan their home. Primarily this means the destruction or removal of the Chaos Moon – known as Morrslieb in the tongues of Man – so that the City of the Moon can once again regain its legendary talent for astromancy and prognostication.
Lord Chuqa-Xi is not so single minded as his brethren of Tlaxtlan, however. He has convinced himself, over untold centuries of meditation and consideration, that the key to the plans of the Old Ones lay with the Younger Races. How not? Surely they were not created and nurtured for naught. Elsewise, in the great cleansing wars of the Saurus during the time of the Old Ones, all the smooth-skinned races would have been exterminated.
And so it was that when the first human travelers braved the fetid waters of the Piranha Swamps around the Amaxon delta they met with a grisly end, but not at the teeth of the region's voracious predators. A Lizardman army from the City of the Moon ambushed the raiders as they picked their way through the swamps, for Lord Chuqa-Xi had foreseen their coming. The Slann ordered the intruding warm-bloods captured rather then slain. They were brought to Tlaxtlan, and lobotomized in a bizarre ritual surgery. To this day, lobotomized humans serve in the armies of Tlaxtlan, drooling and incontinent, yet unflinchingly obedient to the will of Lord Chuqa-Xi.
Contact has also been made with the female denizens of the Amaxon, who are allowed to breed with the lobotomized warriors in Chuqa-Xi’s army. When a boy is born, he is indoctrinated into the armies of the City of the Moon, while girl children go to the fierce blonde warrior women.
As the armies of the world mobilize in this newest time of strife and war, so too do the cohorts of Tlaxtlan heft their weapons and march from their jungle homes. Lord Chuqa-Xi is determined that all must be learned from the Younger Races, that their place in the Great Plan may be known and their actions set to right – by any means necessary.
The venerated Mage-Priest, Lord Chuqa-Xi the Ebullient, has always been considered eccentric by the standards of his peers. Lord Chuqa-Xi mainly shares the same concerns as those Slann who also call Tlaxtlan their home. Primarily this means the destruction or removal of the Chaos Moon – known as Morrslieb in the tongues of Man – so that the City of the Moon can once again regain its legendary talent for astromancy and prognostication.
Lord Chuqa-Xi is not so single minded as his brethren of Tlaxtlan, however. He has convinced himself, over untold centuries of meditation and consideration, that the key to the plans of the Old Ones lay with the Younger Races. How not? Surely they were not created and nurtured for naught. Elsewise, in the great cleansing wars of the Saurus during the time of the Old Ones, all the smooth-skinned races would have been exterminated.
And so it was that when the first human travelers braved the fetid waters of the Piranha Swamps around the Amaxon delta they met with a grisly end, but not at the teeth of the region's voracious predators. A Lizardman army from the City of the Moon ambushed the raiders as they picked their way through the swamps, for Lord Chuqa-Xi had foreseen their coming. The Slann ordered the intruding warm-bloods captured rather then slain. They were brought to Tlaxtlan, and lobotomized in a bizarre ritual surgery. To this day, lobotomized humans serve in the armies of Tlaxtlan, drooling and incontinent, yet unflinchingly obedient to the will of Lord Chuqa-Xi.
Contact has also been made with the female denizens of the Amaxon, who are allowed to breed with the lobotomized warriors in Chuqa-Xi’s army. When a boy is born, he is indoctrinated into the armies of the City of the Moon, while girl children go to the fierce blonde warrior women.
As the armies of the world mobilize in this newest time of strife and war, so too do the cohorts of Tlaxtlan heft their weapons and march from their jungle homes. Lord Chuqa-Xi is determined that all must be learned from the Younger Races, that their place in the Great Plan may be known and their actions set to right – by any means necessary.
