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Chapter 2: THE STRUGGLE FOR KHITUS
record centuries ago has led to today’s covert war of
poisonings or subtle murder.
• Daragkarik Legend and Prophecy: In Gare Attessa
legends lie the order’s most closely guarded secret.
Yara Tass was the last Chronicler to interact with a
Dragon King. Just prior to his departure from Khitus,
Daragkark Tharcluun allegedly shared both the reason
for their departure and the time of their return with
Yara. How and where she recorded these is unknown,
though her writings do hint that there will be signs
that will reveal them “when the right souls enjoin.”
• Wedding Prophecy: The Exhalt and many senior
Chroniclers believe they will learn the date of the
Dragon Kings’ return at a wedding, which is why the
Chroniclers became the most common officiators of
weddings after local lords. They actively encourage
any weddings around them also for this purpose.
Rumors & Whispers
Of all the Khitan organizations, the people distrust
the Gare Attessa most fervently due to their order’s
mysteries.
• Most lay people regard Gare Attessa as witches who
curse everyone for little or no reason. Any Gare Attessa with one’s ruler poisons his mind.
• They also say the Gare Attessa can mate with any
race and produce appropriate offspring.
• Once your name is in a Gare Attessa register, folk
think your best days are at an end, so it is best to
avoid the Chroniclers.
• They utilize the strange sonic beetles to send messages
to one another over great distances (see Chapter 7).
• The Chroniclers claim comets appear when a Gare
Attessa has recorded particularly important data or
events, bringing a blessing down upon that family,
tribe, city, or region.
• Secretly, the Order suspects the Dragon Kings may
never return, but they never openly admit this. Instead, they slowly and calmly spread their influence
over all houses to rule Khitus covertly. Few but the
Exhalt know this as their true purpose, though many
both inside and outside the Order suspect it to be so.
Nyutu (The All-Seeing)
Transient acrobat entertainers welcomed across Khitus, the Nyutu channel and control the innate life energies in ordinary objects. Their powers are akin to those
of the Kuad Ahir followers of the Prophet, though much
more limited in scope.
Most claim ancestry from the Attite human tribe through
a sub-tribe of nomads called the Nyutra who dwindled out
in the early Classic Age. Also called the All-Seeing, they are
merely a loose brotherhood of skilled artists.
Ranks & Types
Nyutu wander through all human lands and are
known, if not always welcomed.
• Entertainer: All Nyutu are, almost without exception,
great acrobats, jugglers, and entertainers. Those too
old or infirm for the stage maintain equipment or
other tasks linked to their troupe’s activities.
• Ra-Skalim: Among them, the Ra-Skalim are the
master entertainers, as proclaimed by a regional
overlord, though the title holds no real significance
outside their own ranks.
• Cora: Only those called the Cora among them have
the Nyutus’ feared life-energy manipulation powers.
Nyutu Customs & Practices
While each troupe of Nyutu performers differs in terms
of its entertainments and skills, they do share similarities
that underscore their presumed tribal origins.
• Disdain for Authority: Nyutu tend to be suspicious
of authority.
• Reclusive Preparation: Nyutu only practice their
routines in private, never performing anything until it is ready and flawless.
• Life-Energy Exclusivity, Limitations, and Transference: Their impression of the Coras’ life-energy
manipulation is mystical, and they only teach that
it’s “in the blood” of the tribe.The Coras’ life energy
powers seem telekinetic in nature, affecting only
formerly living items (some say by drawing upon
their residual psionic or organic energy). Only
birth passes along the mystic abilities of the Cora,
although any Nyutu can become an entertainer
without such powers.
• Gifts: They traditionally make a gift of a ‘manipulated’ object, usually something edible like fruit,
to their current patron or benefactor at a show’s
climax.
• Aids to Harmonic Magic: Individually, they seek
wizards and aid them through their harmonic magic. In some instances, the Nyutu make the spell caster dependent on their harmonic magic abilities and
through that control them subtly. They are naturally
manipulative of wizards because they understand
their harmonic value to a wizard.
Rumors & Whispers
Many fear the Nyutu for a host of reasons, some of
which have merit.
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