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City, Dungeons & Dragons, Fantasy, Labyrinth Lord, Maps, OSR, RPG, Temple, Urban
Guerras-El-Essat is built up around a massive temple dedicated to the living (or unliving?) eight-armed vampiric deity-demon El-Essat who stalked the peoples living along the verge of the Blue Jungles since times beyond recorded history. In what was either a brilliant coup by the demon or by the priesthood (depending who’s stories you hear), she now lives within the jungle temple and is served blood sacrifices to keep her happy and in turn to keep the holy city and the lands along the blue jungles safe from her hunger.
The Holy City of Guerras El Estat
Multiple religious compounds have cropped up within the city since the “capture” of the demon – mostly dedicated to other traditional faiths of the Blue Jungle peoples, and a few subcults of El-Estat herself. The holy city also has just about everything you would expect of a major city of the jungle peoples – trading markets, outfitting stores, and many places to draw coin and trade goods from visiting tribesfolk while offering them relaxations and pleasures unavailable in their small towns and nomadic tribes.
It is also a strong trading hub in thellas bark, a bark similar to cinnamon in flavour and harvest, but that imparts mild euphoric and analgesic effects, and of emeralds mined deep within the blue jungles themselves.
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I really like the description of this City. I read the sentence “offering them relaxations and pleasures unavailable in their small towns” as the crreping influence of the demonic deity that slowly affects the Population. The pleasures are sinfull and wicked, the relaxations are sick and addictive and the cults and temples are twisted and demonic. What is the source of the blood for the ssacrifices? convicted criminals? Slaves? Or is there a monthtly ceremony where all citizens spend a Little bit of blood?
I really like it. 🙂
Dang. Now I wanna live there.
I found it evocative too. As you suggest, I expect the city has been largely corrupted by the demon, but that there are multiple factions ranging from those who want to use her as a weapon to those who want to destroy her to those who want to be her.
Visitors probably began to experience the corruption in their own minds after their first night there or possibly even before they arrive.
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