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I see the bad moon arising
I see trouble on the way
Created on 2005-06-18 17:52:48 (#7470841), last updated 2005-06-19
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Basic Info| Name: | Sube Vachirjin uy Erseleng |
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Bio"...For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. The are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." ~ Henry Beston, "The Outermost House", 1928.
The war wizards of the Mongols have long been known for their ferocity and and barbaric ways. They are the sworn enemies of many dark beings, including the Teyirang, or demons. But, do not be deceived by their war against dark forces. They command spirits of the dead that they call the Ongghot, binding the ghosts to them as servants and shields, as well as making other dark alliances.
The equipment of the war wizard speaks to their true nature. Every Mongol wizard bears a mala of human bones, a flute carved from a young girl's tibia, an eating-bowl wrought from a human skull, and also a damaru, or drum, made from two skull-caps with human skin stretched over them. He wears a belt from which hangs at least one mirror, as many as nine. In these mirrors, they can see the future, the truth of the human soul, and in the distance of their most sacred mirror dwells their spirit steed, who is summoned forth to carry the wizard as fast as the sun moves through the sky, circling the world in a day. In addition to his wand, the wizard bears a sacred staff with the head of a beast carved on the top and the foot of the beast carved on the bottom. This, they often use instead of the traditional broomstick.
Among the specialties of the war wizard is the power to be immune to wounding; in a trance a wizard may be tested by running himself through with his own sword. Those that fail die, those that succeed draw their sword from their own breast unscathed. The wizard may create an artifact of dark power by entering into communion with the dead; locked in a cave with the corpse, he lies with it mouth to mouth until his own breath enters the corpse and it rises. The wizard grapples with the corpse and tears from it a trophy that contains the distillation of its death. The wizard can read the future in the cries of crows or the crack of a bone in the fire. For centuries, they have honed these barbaric skills.
The war wizard has no knowledge of good or evil, all he knows is power. He is considered to be a divine being among his people, for all that he uses the sacrifice of innocent children and dumb animals in his rituals. The families of the war wizards have become few over the centuries; a violent and feudal people, they have been known to war over a minor slight until the ground is barren and none survive on either side, all magic burned away in their fury. Those few who remain rarely mingle with the rest of the Wizarding world. One can only hope that their isolationism will lead to their eventual disappearance.
--Ortigan's Omnibus of the Obscure, 1890
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The war wizards of the Mongols have long been known for their ferocity and and barbaric ways. They are the sworn enemies of many dark beings, including the Teyirang, or demons. But, do not be deceived by their war against dark forces. They command spirits of the dead that they call the Ongghot, binding the ghosts to them as servants and shields, as well as making other dark alliances.
The equipment of the war wizard speaks to their true nature. Every Mongol wizard bears a mala of human bones, a flute carved from a young girl's tibia, an eating-bowl wrought from a human skull, and also a damaru, or drum, made from two skull-caps with human skin stretched over them. He wears a belt from which hangs at least one mirror, as many as nine. In these mirrors, they can see the future, the truth of the human soul, and in the distance of their most sacred mirror dwells their spirit steed, who is summoned forth to carry the wizard as fast as the sun moves through the sky, circling the world in a day. In addition to his wand, the wizard bears a sacred staff with the head of a beast carved on the top and the foot of the beast carved on the bottom. This, they often use instead of the traditional broomstick.
Among the specialties of the war wizard is the power to be immune to wounding; in a trance a wizard may be tested by running himself through with his own sword. Those that fail die, those that succeed draw their sword from their own breast unscathed. The wizard may create an artifact of dark power by entering into communion with the dead; locked in a cave with the corpse, he lies with it mouth to mouth until his own breath enters the corpse and it rises. The wizard grapples with the corpse and tears from it a trophy that contains the distillation of its death. The wizard can read the future in the cries of crows or the crack of a bone in the fire. For centuries, they have honed these barbaric skills.
The war wizard has no knowledge of good or evil, all he knows is power. He is considered to be a divine being among his people, for all that he uses the sacrifice of innocent children and dumb animals in his rituals. The families of the war wizards have become few over the centuries; a violent and feudal people, they have been known to war over a minor slight until the ground is barren and none survive on either side, all magic burned away in their fury. Those few who remain rarely mingle with the rest of the Wizarding world. One can only hope that their isolationism will lead to their eventual disappearance.
--Ortigan's Omnibus of the Obscure, 1890
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