[17A] The Stoneskin

[Supremacy 3357]

Author/s: Lagomorphia

 

REGION 17: The Stoneskin

 

The Descendants of Urguan were a hearty people, sturdy in form and ideology. With this, of course, came those who were a tad too zealous for their own good. With a culture and lifestyle idolizing the mountains and rock, there came a group almost religious about their love and adoration for the peaks of stone that were about the lands. With this exaltation for the strong and grand, this group turned more passionate than expected; the loose collection of arcane artists within the cult gathered with the most devout and ardent to the order of Faith of the Mountain leaders with an idea that would further their works, believed to bring them to divination. They tried to make the perfect being… And after several decades of experimentation and testing, something was made.

The Faith of the Mountain produced numerous of these creations after their original birth, seen as the most true and correct embodiments of their emotions for the glorious mounds of compact perfection.

These supposed ‘supreme beings’ were far from the truth, but anyone may think what they will. In truth, these men made one of the first collaborations of the natural elements into an entity; an elemental. These beings are the true works of stone, masonry in its most primal and gruttal fashion. Morphs shaped of pebbles to boulders, these sentience lacking things were none the less exalted and glorified, called gods and avatars for their creative powers, able to format all things earthen. Although, they were correct in partial; they represented the mountains, the rocks, the unmoving and forever tough. And it was so, the Stonekin outlasted the children of Urguan. To this day they remain in the last shrine of the Faith of the Mountain, home the last trio of Stonekin, the beings forever locked away in their own tor, a crag made just for these three men of gem and subsurface grain.