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Old 02-27-2013, 11:00 PM   #12
combatmedic
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Location: a crooked, creaky manse built on a blasted heath
Default Re: Bronze-Age city-states and the gifts of their gods

Obwyx delights in the creations of potters, perhaps because her city of Dossoth (Brick-wall) is built adjacent to some of the best clay fields and so she has grown used to recieving fine pottery as offerings.

Whatever is smashed against the doorstep of her house will be made whole and taken inside if she shows favor; not only pots but other objects and even living things. Living things may fly or crawl back out at a later hour, but inanimate objects almost never reappear (the few that do are deemed holy relics, for they would have remained broken if Obwyx found them ugly). If she finds the sacrifice wanting, she leaves it be. Crushed human infants, potsherds, broken staves, and other debris or rejected sacrifices are collected and recycled by her silent priesthood, a ragged brotherhood who dwell in low, plain, windowless houses built around the goddess two-level house of glazed bricks and terracotta tiles.

The infants dashed against her doorstep sometimes are taken in and made whole. Those that crawl out again invariably show a talent for building in brick, sculpting clay, and other tectonic or plastic arts. Not only that, but they often seem to mend faster from broken bones, cuts, and other hurts.

Rapid healing and an appropriate Talent in art or building, with routine sacrifices of pots or other items to be paid or else the talent will fade and the cursed one suffer some infirmity as his infant injuries reappear.

The bricklayers of Dossoth seal small animals into their walls, which they believe strengthens the wall. Humans were used in this fashion when the city wall foundations were laid.
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