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JOB 41:4 (GLoG monster-as-class: Beithir)

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 The  Dragon , hated and hateful thing that it is, occupies a place of power in the mind; it is the ultimate adversary, a challenge which dynasties have proven or ended themselves against. Some would seek to become like them, to consume the enemy and steal its strength- one of many bad ideas. A very long time ago, when there was no one king and many Wizard-Kings did as they saw fit, one of these tyrants got the bright idea to reinvent the dragon; a beast of the Thunder , loyal to its Wise One as the dragons were loyal to theirs, powerful and terrible yet unable to surpass its masters. A cocodril's egg, injected with the blood of a sylph and the semen of the Wizard-King in question, birthed the first of these creatures: the Beithir . Beithir Naturally, like anything ever made by a Wizard, they escaped into the wild. Not only could they breed true, Beithirs could think- and want . They exist in small populations scattered across the world, hidden in wild places or displayed in ...
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ACE OF COINS (Morning Stars Treasures)

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Some things are valuable for their use. Others, for some unique facet of their very nature. Some are valuable because they are value made material. Here's twenty of them. Bonifacio Bembo Treasures Talents . Massive silver coins the size, shape, and thickness of a dinner plate. A handprint marks the center of the concave side, as if it was pressed into while still soft from the fire. These are said to have been given by the very first Wizard-King  to his favored servants, each one a mark of ascension through the ranks. To possess one of these so many centuries later is to borrow a piece of that original legitimacy.  200 SP  each, or 400 SP to a would-be Wizard-King . Sea-Gold . Pale electrum coins beaten crudely from small nuggets, worked cold; one face is engraved with numerous writhing sea creatures devouring each other, but the other is left blank. These rarely wash up on the shore, or are traded in isolated villages on the western coast; to carry these regularly marks ...
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PSALM 116:15 (Saints, Kings of the Days, and More)

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Joseph Mallord William Turner  There are numerous powers which observe and rule over the world from on high. The  PRIMEUMATON , PROVIDENCE and DENIAL , is the principle of creation and destruction, ruler of all that is and was; to be made by God is to be of God, and to die is to return to it. The Thunder Over the Mountain  orders the clouds and rain; its crown is the thunderhead, its sword the lightning. The Flesh of Stone  grows hollow organs in the earth; the Blood Stained Dancer reaches her hands into hearts and minds;  Apsinthion , the Bitter Star , brings sickness and health; and the sea, godless, is without order. These many deities, from the almighty First and Last  to the lowly fallen stars, are united by one principle: heaven does not speak, it acts. Who, then, carries down the word of the gods? Their servants, made for this very purpose. For the PRIMEUMATON , these servants are the Saints . (Note: Angels are not servants, but tools. To compare An...
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THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH (Morning Stars Directory)

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George Frederic Watts THE world and this—whatever other name men have chosen to designate the sky whose vaulted roof encircles the universe, is fitly believed to be a deity, eternal, immeasurable, a being that never began to exist and never will perish. What is outside it does not concern men to explore and is not within the grasp of the human mind to guess. It is sacred, eternal, immeasurable, wholly within the whole, nay rather itself the whole, finite and resembling the infinite, certain of all things and resembling the uncertain, holding in its embrace all things that are without and within, at once the work of nature and nature herself.  — Pliny, Natural History  Some years ago, I started posting about a world I wanted to run and play games in. It turns out, other people liked that, too. So, I posted more: a full array of classes, adventures, monsters, and the like. Simple fact is, I have a lot written down for Morning Stars, and I may as well collect as much as I can in ...
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