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Rakarian Customs
Most of what outsiders know of the Cozeners comes
either from direct experience or the writings or rumors
from freed Vezhika who recorded much of the evils they
witnessed.
• Personally Reclusive: Rakarth speak as little as possible and never touch anyone else directly unless a
spell demands such contact.
• Respectful Distance: Rakar never come close to
one another or exchange words, instead standing
at a distance and communicating magically or with
hand signals.
• White Clothing: The wizards wear clean, white
shrouds or white straps, and tend to wear kneehigh boots.
• Mehkblades: They use bone-splinter rapiers called
mehkblades, although apprentices beneath the Rakart
rank can only polish or carry them rather than wield.
• Elitist Sociopaths: They are dismissive of all other
wizards and have no regard for other life if it serves
their physical or magical needs.
• Disdain for Authority: On the surface, Rakarth
claim a desire to serve, though they have deep disdain for authority (unless it comes from their own
ranks).
• Decoy Users: The original Rakarth invested all their
love in pets—mainly felines and spiders—and found
wrathful magic directed its energies against these
animals; learning from this, they soon used decoys
hypnotized to think they deeply loved their Rakar
masters. Dark sorcery is fooled and directs its wrathful energies against the Vezhika innocents.
• Inevitable Rule Prophecy: The Rakar foresee a time
when they are the rightful rulers of Khitus.
• Emergent Leader Prophecy: They predict that
a Rakart child will emerge with unusually strong
powers and any who fall under its gaze will become
Vezhika…including dragons.
Rumors & Whispers
• The common folk are dreadfully cautious of the
Rakarth, terrified of becoming one of their zombielike Vezhika and unsure of exactly the methods by
which such slaves fall to them.
• Many fear the Rakarian Apple, a drugged bit of fruit
fed to new Vezhika to make them docile.
• Commoners are sure the Rakarth do unspeakable
things to their Vezhika before they are expended.
All hope against hope that Vezhika souls gather
somewhere to exact a terrible revenge against the
Rakarth one day.
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The Unknown
While Dramidge lays claim to the oldest magical college
on Khitus, there were far more in existence during the
Classic Age than common history remembers today. The
ever-shifting wastelands have buried or revealed more
ruins than most scholars can count over the past decades,
and only the brave who find such ruins may benefit from
knowledge and power previously lost to the ages.
• The Arklarn Door: Rumors persist of a small door,
seemingly carved of moonstone or ivory, appearing
on the White Spire (or other random buildings) in
Brokkan. Legends say that the right person’s touch
on the door sends her to the off-world College of
Arklarn. The Arklarni were a group of female wizards
and practitioners whose powers waxed and waned
with the moons. When a full moon sparkles, some
say Arklarn’s Door has opened to send a moonmage
back to help cure Khitus…though few dare venture
to Brokkan to see if any such healing is imminent.
