I will be illustrating random words in alphabetical order and letting my imagination make a picture of my world.  I do this for practice in visual storytelling as well as sketching practice.

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Palu the Red was an astonishing warrior and seaman back in his youth.  He rid the city of Warida of many monsters that used to find its meat in the bustling coastal settlement.  Chief Palu is an old man now and is still a legend among the warriors in the city.

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Mayari is the Empress of the Nagini people and the last of her bloodline.  She is known to be a just leader and outlanders who have gazed upon her face say that she is the most beautiful young woman they have ever seen, despite her being hundreds of years old.  Her empire is in ruins from a war with the Aswang, but her wise leadership and loyal retainers keeps the remnants of her people faring well enough in the Bulok region (also known as the dead islands).

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Kika is the second in command of the famed mercenary ship: Rompecandado, but she likes her space and is clandestine about where she spends her time during shore leave.

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When the Duende Chiefs and Nuno Ketus try to make treaties, the area both creatures occupy becomes full of dissonance and then name calling.  One wonders why they even try.

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Many in the Three Towns call the Painted Clan savages as their short temper is well known and is a weakness in diplomacy, but no one complains when the Painted Clan use their innate ebullition in war to defend their villages and cities.

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The Elder Margos who owns most of Tolos thinks of himself as a great man and loved by his people because of his accumulated wealth.  The Tolos villagers who struggle to live, think differently of their elder who used his station to get richer while they became poorer and view Margos as a faineant leader among other things.  Though Margos is lacking in respect he has much coin and large guards.  Power and greed has a way of skewing one’s perception.

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The Wakwak Clans are at home in the darkest and most inhospitable jungles where terrible beasts live and grow to devour the weak.  The Wakwak warriors wear a jawbone gorget necklace of their first kill.  The younger Wakwak wear various animal jawbones to start from hunts while the senior Wakwak wear a rival warrior’s jawbone from war; the stronger the warrior the more prized the jawbone trophy.  The Wakwak also believe they will gain protection by their deep gods through the fetish.  Furthermore the jawbone necklaces that all Wakwak wear is a rough reminder to eat or be eaten.

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The Nagini Twin Scars are honor-guards and sworn soldiers of the Nagini Empire.  They are chosen at a young age to become highly skilled fighters of a variety of martial weapons and are schooled in the arts of hebenon.  Some secrets of their training include having their youth exposed to powerful poisons to become immune overtime.  The Twin Scar becomes a scholar of poison their whole life and is allowed only to create poison he himself can endure when ingested, which gives them their monk like patience as it can take years to develop any kind of immunity.  As a rights of passage, the Twin Scar depend on their fighting skills as well as their accumulated knowledge of poisons to survive in the Dead Lands.  When or if they return, they coat their blades with their hebenon, joining the ranks as honored soldiers of the Empress.  Nagini Twin Scar is not boastful, highly disciplined, and extremely deadly; it is said that the Twin Scar is content if his poison is potent as it represents his whole being.  The Twin Scar’s enemy fear him because they offer two deaths, one of excruciating pain, or swift with a blade, and sometimes both.

The Visha Kanya are the matriarchal ruling class of the Nagini Empire.  Each Visha Kanya own land, ships, and command hundreds of Nagini soldiers under the Empress.  The Nagini were once the most sophisticated and ancient civilization in the noth, but now their temples are scattered in ruins from a devastating war with the Aswang.  What’s left of the Nagini cling  to old traditions and a few have hope for a rebirth of the old empire.  The Nagini Empire is in decline, but the reputation of Visha Kanya are not.  Deadly, with poisonous blood, and infaust if one lays his eyes upon hers is what stories slip from the mouth of villagers from allover.  The Visha Kanya display a graceful and agile style of fighting and can kill with just a scratch.  They wear a light scale armor for protection and keep two poison coated knives strapped to their forearms.  It has been quiet in the north, but rumors have it that the Visha Kanya are scouring the Dead Lands in hopes to find a way to resurect their empire to its former glory.

The wily Nuno have an unorthodox way of fighting.  Some Nuno bands will turn and jiggle their cheeks at caravans in hopes to lure them into deeper jungle to ambush and overwhelm.  However; the tactic doesn’t always work.

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The Asturi Vicars perform a kyrie to their hanged god before battle.  They say it protects them and their allies.

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